don't explain what it is that you've understood, or that will ruin game
In this case, that's not what the reference was, but it was close enough to RUIN MY CLUE.
This blog is going downhill. Nothing amazing ever happens here.
Oh, I'm just supposed to say "got it" without actually indicating the source?
Screw the honor system!
The other day I noted that a friend had Cash by Johnny Cash listed in their Facebook profile as their favorite book.
I had something to say about the difference between American and European cities, but I forgot what it was. I have it written down at home somewhere
1: Ogged's just trying to say, "don't forget to back that SAS up."
"Have you ever been in love?"
"No, I've been a bartender all my life."
Who the fuck is Parsimon?
(Not sure if that's the sort of reference you have in mind, but I'm trying, ogged.)
Sister will do the best she can, when mother is dead.
8: You're supposed to make an equally obscure reference, to indicate that you got the first one.
If you come at the king, you best not miss.
Now more absorptive and theatrical.
18: And I thought they smelled bad on the outside!
I can't believe I used to like these guys.
You're supposed to make an equally obscure reference, to indicate that you got the first one.
That's too confusing, but if you're moved to do it this way for any given one, fine.
Actually, no, not fine, because your obscure reference might give away the original.
15: got it.
do people even realize that the second half of 8 is a reference?
That's too confusing, but if you're moved to do it this way...
Smasher's already playing this way. It's not that you don't believe in us, Ogged, it's just that you think we're going to fail.
Well, you know, Mean Gene, any fulfillment obtained at the expense of normality is wrong, and should not be allowed to bring happiness.
22 is just a question of Who Shot First, right?
13: For 24 years I've been living next door to Parsimon.
Screw the honor system!
Very few Simpsons references are obscure.
"In fact, I just wrote an article for Redbook!"
also got 13.
These "got it" comments are really lame, I like Armsmasher's way better.
I can't come up with references on command! I am not a monkey!
I like Armsmasher's way better
But it ruins the scoring.
Cryptic Ned is the Queen of Harpies!
40: do you mean The Delayed Touch of Death?
This reads just like any Unfogged thread, you know.
39 was an easy target.
ObReference: I don't like men with too many muscles.
40: do you mean The Delayed Touch of Death?
Do you not understand the rules or are you being difficult? This is not a reference, but a question.
Shut up Armsmasher, you coward! You are the weakest individual I ever know!
I tried to get on board, but this turns out to be so boring that I'd rather go back to doing my work than to keep refreshing the page. Thanks, ogged!
52: You like big butts and you cannot lie.
Speaking of esoteria and Friday games, whatever happened to Botticelli? That used to be a reliable timekiller.
46: I've never see the play you think I'm referring to.
That's two contradictions of 36 thus far, Shooter.
51: Ogged, there are at least two sets of rules in play. If you want us to all play by your rules for the Purposes of Scoring, where everyone explicitly indicates the successful De-referencing of a Reference without adding a new reference at the same time, then I think you should, you know ... start Keeping Score.
53: You have made an excellent point.
Now you must die.
"Let's go to the Old Mill anyway. Get some cider."
55: Mismatched tires got my boys uptight - two Vogues on the left, Uniroyal on the right.
55 is too obvious.
Yes, my name is milk, but you can call me milky.
50: If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?
Willy's depot for my peoples. Get it while I got it.
51: Why do you say this to me, when you know I will kill you for it?
65: I'm known for my short stature, and predictable bitterness. (I often eat for free.)
Your parents are aliens! While you're at school, they shed their human skins and breathe dryer lint!
You like big butts and you cannot lie.
Speaking of which, H. Clinton isnt really helped when the camera is behind the candidates at these debates. Appearances really should not matter, butt.......
66: very good. For making this blog a less oppressive place to while away our worthless lives, I present you with this scented candle.
74: and 64 slices of American cheese.
"Back here live, at the Waterfront Village, with my friend the zombie..."
75: you mean lingonberry pfannkuchen?
Words build bridges into unexplored regions.
79: no, I'm saying, I just found a venue, you know, for my dance quintet. I'd love it if you came and gave me notes.
I ain't no monkey, but I know what I like.
If you come at the king, you best not miss.
Got it.
Dim mak.
Got it, I think.
81: but not the compromised second draft.
The in-jokes just add new deposits to the crust upon crust of those before, sticking at those points tenaciously to the pavement, and accumulating at compound interest
85: Right. That was me... and six other guys.
Was he a Georgia representative who some called "the Napoleon of the Stump"?
The good old family reunion, with the picnic under the maples, was very much like diving into the octopus tank at the aquarium...
I exercise this rare faculty frugally, reserving it for situations irksome beyond endurance, as when I want and drink and cannot get one, or fall among Gaels and cannot escape, or feel the pangs of hopless sexual inclination.
I got 54.
Spike loves his goldfish. His crayon too.
OT: Googling prior to my comment above got me to discover a new webcomic.
This strip is particularly funny.
Now everyone gets to tell me that they already knew about it and never said anything because they figured it was common knowledge.
92: Do you have to use so many cuss words?
be nice to people who are inferior to you.
100: This is what happens, when you fight a stranger in the Alps.
You're a good-looking riverboat.
"Birth is sorrow (a sorrow that may be canceled by intercession) but in the room where my birth took place I beheld with sorrow of my own a fat old woman in underpants."
102: She's not my special lady! She's my lady friend!
103: Don't ask me 'cause I won't tell.
107: What is that, like an Irish Monk?
102: give me the keys, you fairy godmother.
(but I didn't get yours, I googled).
By the way, everyone, my pseudonym here is an obscure reference which I don't think anyone has ever gotten. And now the Google results are so clogged with blog comments (and some guy's MySpace page) that nobody will ever find the few references to what it originally referred to!
"Artaud as the artist was a failed priest. Failed priests specialize in blasphemy. Blasphemy is aimed at a community of believers. In this case, what kind of belief? Belief only in intellect..."
99: It's only for a week so have no fear!
101 can only be grasped by a bunch of primitive screwheads...
Bad is when you're capable of beatin' the baddest. I've been workin' on it, ever since I came to this planet.
Got 101, 102.
There is no way out of entanglement. The only responsible course is to deny oneself the ideological misuse of one's own existence, and for the rest to conduct oneself in private as modestly, unobtrusively and unpretentiously as is required, no longer by good upbringing, but by the shame of still having air to breathe, in hell.
119: We've got help chopperin' in.
I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by googling.
Why are you named Chance?
My momma took one.
The link in 124 should have been this.
The dog's meat, have you seen it?
My motherfucker's so cool, when he goes to sleep, sheep count him.
121: What the fuck does Viet Nam have to do with anything?
111: nobody will ever find the few references to what it originally referred to!
Oh, naive Cryptic Ned. You've clearly never dealt with a professional researcher before. It took me less than 60 seconds.
It's all over between the two of us. I can't love a man with three hands.
131: Everybody needs money. That's why they call it money.
I'd wish you good luck, but you wouldn't know what to do with it if you got it.
If you ever want someone to make you dinner... or, dinner and breakfast...
Do I get double points if two people misinterpreted my reference? Sigh... we all know about the hooligan's game, but, you know, there is also the gentleman's game.
132: Obviously, you're not a golfer.
Fear not, Willy, doubtless you can make dozens of references to Belgian things which will stump us all.
And with that, I am going to watch the game in front of Hotel de Ville.
Re 34: "Parsimon? Who the fuck is Parsimon?"
This will come to pass by an improvement of sensual enjoyment.
134, BTW, not a reference, in case that wasn't obvious. A statement of fact.
Belgian things which will stump us all.
139: make that three people.
In honor of the other thread:
Son, don't ask me about the Democrats. I'm angry enough as it is.
A dizzying array of textures and moments.
134: And I'm not even a professional researcher. How's that sand between your toes feel, Ned?
Son, do you know what a 'quota' is? (Uh... 25 cents?)
I'm funny! At this very moment, Readers Digest is considering publishing several of my jokes.
"Same procedure as last year, Miss Sophie?"
"Same procedure as *every* year, James."
[Blume, I need you to come out of hiding for me for this one.]
I'm funny! At this very moment, Readers Digest is considering publishing several of my jokes.
Got it.
149: But you clearly have professional-level skills of enormous value to your employer, LB, and so should get an especially big bonus.
Ned, I wouldn't want to out you (though maybe you're not concerned about anonymity), but are you a fan of macabre children's books?
"On a superficial level, a glass of beer is a cool, soothing beverage. But in reality, a glass of beer is peepee dickie."
are you a fan of macabre children's books?
No.
Also, I don't want to be outed, if you've discovered who I am somehow.
I'm afraid I might have used an actual email address sometime a while back in the archives.
"Now good clean Gene McCarthy came down the other track
A thousand Radcliffe dropouts all massed for the attack...."
The table is set, the festivities have begun. But an uninvited guest has arrived and, this year, there will be no leftovers.
159: Based on your answer, I haven't figured out a thing.
135: Am I really the only person here who has seen this movie?
What they don't understand is that, me and God? We're like this.
nobody will ever find the few references to what it originally referred to!
The Goon Show?
Not at all. Friend of mine had one.
Nine-nine-nine-nine-nine-nine, and so on.
Play it? If I can figure out how to get its pajamas off...
Is the quote in 158 followed by a series of "suppressions?" Or am I getting that wrong?
172: Hey! Everyone else was supposed to be dazzled by the superior research skills of the few. Now I'm just like you mortals.
OT, but here's a definitive list of teenage death songs.
My complication had a little complication...
179: Not Smirnoff, if that's what you mean.
They're not horsechestnuts, they're rubber balls.
What about all the wild oats that you sowed?
In four years they'll be underground.
What did you see when you turned off the road?
I can't tell you but I think it drowned.
Late. Could care less, ya know.
I begin with this: you can turn on journaling, but you'd better watch your space.
Let's all kill this old dog!
max
['Perhaps manufacturers may want to use it with digital watches.']
187: The long-lost final verse to "A Little Help From My Friends?"
185: No, not Smirnoff. How can I make it clear what my guess is, without giving it away...
Does it involve a packed room, a small stage, and lots of sweat?
Hypothetical political lyrical miracle whip
"It's Sterculius, the Roman god of feces!"
193: One guy keels over dead. There's a Mensa member.
197: I think I'm thinking of something else, then. Damn it. And I feel like I at least know who it is, but ...
197: Is Nadia Comaneci somehow involved? Maybe I'm not remembering the whole thing.
198-9: You get half a point for P. T. Anderson.
200: I was thinking of an early Robin Williams stand-up routine. From the 80s. He goes for about an hour in a small club, looks like he's on crack.
But if I got it wrong, oh well.
160 is right, pretty much. That guy could write lyrics.
I liked Robin Williams better when he was on crack.
Too bad about his kid's dick being so small.
"It was the day my grandmother exploded."
"Is this the potato farm?"
"Yes. I am Alvar Potato."
If you can't be with the bitch you hate, hate the bitch you're with.
210 and 211 are easy. Got 'em both.
This really isn't much fun when no one guesses yours and you can't guess anyone elses--129 and 161 is obscure, but 57 and 147 are easy.
Non-film media edition:
"The Baron was one of the most powerful lords in Westphalia, for his castle had not only a gate, but even windows."
I do know 147 well enough that it rings a bell pretty clearly, but not well enough to actually identify it.
I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
The game apparently needs fine-tuning. Maybe a 20 questions format, with a set list of quotes to start off with.
I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison. And I went to pick her up, in the rain.
221: Got it. There's a pickup truck in there somewhere.
YAY! I win because I'm playing a different game, called cooperation.
"Are you the man you thought you'd be by the time that you turned 33, are you still a bullet in your daddy's gun?"
COOPERATE!
No one's gonna get that one. Ha.
Remember that time we played that game where you had to figure out what everyone's obscure reference was?
Yeah, but you only knew one letter of the name? That was boss.
221: Heebie, can I call you darlin', darlin'?
229: I'm assuming you're just making small talk. But yes you can.
Jack Handey is a friend of Al Franken's. I hope he writes some speeches for Al when he runs for Senator. Al really isn't at his best when he writes his own material.
I have complete confidence in B's snoods.
I'm Shock G! The one who put the satin in your panties.
A few years ago, this blog comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilised portion of mankind.
"These and all else were to me the same as they are to you,
I loved well those cities, loved well the stately and rapid river"
Who the hell do you think I am, Mr. Belvedere?
What's the bird's-eye lowdown on this caper, whatever that means?
Here's an easy one: "Venezuelan Beaver Cheese".
Wait, is 235 to 194?
Nope. But I wish it had been, now that I looked up 194.
Inspired by Heebie...
He drank pearl in a can and Jack Daniels black
Chewed tobacco from a mail pouch sack
Had an old dog that was trained to attack sometimes
He'd get drunk and mean as a rattlesnake
And there wasn't too much
That he would take from a stranger
241: It would have been easier if you'd kept the cat off it.
John Emerson was a mean ol' man, washed his face in a fryin' pan.
Alas, from the cancer of Ogged came a revolution which will ever be remembered, and is still felt by the nations of this earth.
'Cause I get stupid
I mean outrageous
Stay away from me if you're contagious
Loudmouth in the corner's gettin' to me...
A little lump leaveneth the loaf.
If you come at the king, you best not miss.
This is itself a reference to something else, isn't it?
As is: "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled is convincing the world he doesn't exist."
Knecht Rupert: Robert Schumann. I remember that one.
250: Ladies love me! Guys adore me! Even the ones who never saw me like the way that I rhyme on the floor.
251: Talking bout my earring and my hair.
Supper's over, dinner's cookin'
Ol' John Emerson just stands there lookin'
224: Actually, Heeb, you did win, according to Ogged's rules, unless a second person guesses.
Do you really have plagiostomi available for associating?
224: Actually, Heeb, you did win, according to Ogged's rules, unless a second person guesses.
And there was! Meet Knecht, in 229. I know, I thought he was just offering randomly, too.
Now that she's lost, heebie will just have to drink herself to sleeplessness. The way she always does.
If it were up to me, I would found a blog where any person could find instruction in any study.
Now that she's lost, heebie will just have to drink herself to sleeplessness. The way she always does.
And that's the tooth!
Why must you turn my office into a house of lies?
We'll fight to death, or else fold like umbrellas.
THEY SING WITHOUT FLUNGERS CAPDABBLERS OR SMENDLERS
After she returns with my toothbrush, of course. And information of her recent whereabouts.
It's swell, though they tell me I'm maladjusted.
153: Shit, I actually got that one. And I've never even seen it. (But I have quaffed it... )
260: You make a big impression for a Jake of your size.
"Me and my friends, we have this game. We call it Amtrak, some call it the train."
OK, I figure I've got a sure two points if only Ogged will admit to recognizing this one.
270/153: Never mind. Was thinking of a different obscure reference
153: yup! (Didn't anyone else read that Slate article?)
And 216, too.
I assume that everyone gets ogged's attempt?
I can't believe this thread happened while my internet was down and then I was out.
for posterity:
35, 46: Simpsons
57: Happy Gilmore
109: dubbing of Usual Suspects
129: Camus (end of The Rebel)
147: Philip Roth (Plot Against America)
161: "The Ruthless Cannonball" (song the press corps made up during the RFK campaign, posted solely in the vague hope that someone can teach me the other verses)
237: Whitman (Crossing Brooklyn Ferry)
239: A Tribe Called Quest (don't remember the name of the song)
Oh, and the correct title for this post is the comment I made vis-à-vis the first few sentences of Empiricism and Philosophy of Mind, to wit, that he does have Wittgenstein obviously in mind, but he's speaking through allusions, darkly.
"Through allusions, darkly" being the title, obvs.
274: Blume, my new blog-crush, comes through in the clutch!
So, who won?
You could put me over the top by copping to recognizing 272.
A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
I changed the conditions of the test.
280: Commentary on this thread disguised as an entry. Too meta!
So, posterity, eh?
I think the game didn't work properly because not everyone who recognized a given reference indicated that they recognized it. More people than just apostropher should have acknowledged "Fast and bulbous", for example. So we got credit for references that were recognized by multiple people, instead of just for references recognized by a couple.
31: WWF / Reflections in a Golden Eye
52: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension
54: Seinfeld
61: Sir Mix-a-lot
62: The Fall
103: Laura Nyro
125: Dark City
130: The Deadly Bees
etc., etc.
Good work everyone, especially NickS.
Reverend Gwyon and his son Wyatt would be all-time winners at this game.
For posterity...
151 Good Morning Vietnam
153 Dinner for One
206 Top Secret
216 Voltaire, Candide
243 David Alan Coe, "If That Ain't Country"
272 2LiveCrew, "We Want Some Pussy"
Anyone know if AWB has seen this yet?
Putney Swope; Repo Man; Firesign Theatre; Miranda Lambert; Monty Fucking Python: nothing.
Jim Morrison nailed.
Game needs fine tuning.
135: Really? Nobody's seen The Dark Backward? People people people. Not that you'll enjoy it.
180: Snakefinger
196: Beavis and Butthead
...and I screwed up 252 (which should have been "a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump"): 1 Corinthians 5:6.
272, ha!
243 was awfully familiar but I couldn't pull out the name... but 272 woulda been a better one to know.
272, ha!
243 was awfully familiar but I couldn't pull out the name... but 272 woulda been a better one to know.
doubleblume again. oops. [bans self from safari, which is only being used in the first place because I blocked unfogged from firefox so that I can actually write my dissertation.]
Y'know, I've been surprised to find Safari to be a truly shitty browser.
As any watcher of The Best Show On Television knows, Smasher's "If you come at the king, you best not miss." is The Wire.
Ogged's "Dim mak." I'm guessing is the Van Damme movie Bloodsport.
My 101 See this? This... is my boomstick! is Army of Darkness. A Bruce Campbell classic.
Since I guessed a Van Damme movie for Ogged's, my 127 is Hard Target. I'm not one to resist a movie that teams up Van Damme and Wilford Brimley.
Safari? Hmm... doesn't work on some websites, but it seems that they finally fixed the JavaScript engine that was responsible for most of the suckiness. Haven't had any issues with it.
As for posterity, mainly country music. Sadly I didn't count on the Heebie/Apo/Knecht triple team.
251: David Allen Coe w/ Longhaired Redneck, having just listened to 243 twenty minutes prior.
260: Old 97's, Big Brown Eyes
268: Reverend Horton Heat, Where In The Hell Did You Go With My Toothbrush
There are lots of things that don't work quite right in Safari, chief among them (for my usage) being the Movable Type interface. Also, the app hangs and has to be force quit a lot.
94 is from the Elmo's World theme song on Sesame Street. Not that I endorse Elmo.
I'd love to play, but I gotta go sleep with a freshman.
I've used Macs since the mid-'80s. Do they even make a Safari for Windows?
They do - I think it came out a little before the iPhone. Well... I don't know what to say. Safari 2 used to hang forever on any page doing mildly fancy Javascript due to a serious performance bug, but I haven't noticed that in Safari 3 (currently on 3.0.3).
Hmm, this machine still has 2.0.4. Looks like 3's still in beta, but I'm downloading it now. Thanks for the tip.
302: sounds like the genesis of a new superhero - Penis Man.
It's the most intimate and agreeable hour of the evening.
255: The way that I rhyme at a show
Ask me why?
Man, I don't know.
Oh, and Ogged...hop to it. This is a can't miss opportunity for you. I'm sure she'd love to live in SF:
http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/doc/w4m/428519375.html
Now, why is B posting in the DC personals?
302: Heh, I sent that to Gaijin Biker and Big Ben last night.
Well, the 3 beta is rendering pages much, much faster than the old version, but still disables the formatting buttons in MT. Grrr.
309: Pwned. My friend pulled off the road to take a leak, was spotted by a police helicopter, waved back, and then got a ticket when he arrived at the local biker meeting place a few minutes later. Which sucks, but not nearly as much as twenty thousand amps going through your cock. Or so I would assume.
There's also even more beta versions of safari at webkit.org if you are into that kind of thing.
Got 306.
It's a shame for folks to be throwing away a perfectly good whiteboy like that.
That's it, game over, man, game over!
Ah hate it when they ain't shaved.
max
['See, first he screws it, and then he sets it on fire...']
305: You correct that, and not "Ladies love me, girls adore me"?
Also, while I never saw The Dark Backward, apo, I did see the preview before it made its brief appearance in theaters. Come to think of it, that's why I never saw it.
226 was my parents, when I was little. It was their favorite word.
308: Gotta find someone to hook up with on the off chance I change my mind about going to DC over New Year's. And Ogged won't cooperate.
Ah hate it when they ain't shaved.
This is hardly your picture any longer.
261 was the only one of these that I got.
Except for the Simpsons ones, of course, on which see 36.
What's a Canadian farmboy to do?
This is hardly your picture any longer.
Grr.
This Felix is no other Felix
This Jack Crow is no other Jack Crow
max
['PARTS! I haven't tried PARTS!']
How perfectly Unfogged. Not reading everything, trying to pack to go on holiday (to the house in the bottom left hand corner), but just had to say that I sure do hope we can play this game at DCon! What larks!
315: That would have been superfluous.
153: Sadly, I get this - I can also quote the rest of the entire thing. I blame Denmark and new year's traditions.
This Felix is no other Felix
This Jack Crow is no other Jack Crow
Nice!
Re: 306, 313: We have french toast, french fries, and to drink...Peru!
17, 18, 22, 34, 38, 52, 153 "SKOL!!", 211, 221 "You don't have to call me darlin darlin", in re 293 I think the original bit about not missing the king is Machiavelli, 298 to 297 obvsly, and I think 312 "Nuke em from orbit it's the only way to be sure".
A. John Valuk is dead, he fell on his head.
B. Sadly, the cat dies.
C. Idiom, sir?
D. Parking cars, what else do you do in a car park?
E. Happy as rats they are, they tap dance not, neither do they fart.
F. Freunde, nicht diese Toene!
G. Got the disappearin railroad blues
H. Martel was angry. He did not even adjust his blood away from anger.
I. Is is not passing brave to be a king?
327:
A) History is made at night. Character is what you are in the dark.
B) May we inquire the name of the Person from Porlock?
C) "She's got huge... tracts of land..."
D) We apologize for the inconvenience.
E) I hate excess verbiage.
F) 'Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, except for the four assholes coming in the rear in standard two-by-two cover formation.
G) I'm the meanest man that ever had a brain, / All I scatter is aches and pains.
H) We were drunk with happiness in those early years.
I) What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?
DS, tell me this is you and not just the Google talking!
In re D, though, why the book and not the canonical radio presentation?
Surprisingly little Google needed, as it happens. Although with the Cordwainer Smith I have to admit to only being familiar with snippets I've read online. Which is awfully shameful.
With Twice Upon a Time, the version I'm familiar with is actually the rather obscure animated edition from the Eighties. (I think it was a Lucasfilm affair.) The "F.G.M." quote has always stuck with me as one of the funniest things ever.
Cordwainer Smith is good, good, good. But has always been a pain to find, which is why the two books that have survived all of my transoceanic wanderings do not get lent out. "Scanners" is one of the genre's immortal short stories, and there's really nobody else like him at all.
I was thinking about H2G2 on the "car park" vs "inconvenience." As far as I know, there is only the animated Twice Upon a Time, which is of course well beyond brilliant. I could geek out about that movie for far too long. Imagine a Lucasfilm that had done more on that level and not given the world ewoks and jarjar binks.
And I didn't quite get the Beethoven-Willis connection, but I think that's a result of having only seen the first of those movies a long time ago in a cinema far, far away.
Oh, whoops, you said "D" not "E." Yes, with Hitchhikers, I did love the radio dramas but imprinted on the books first, so that's where my brain just tends to go.
Die Hard and Beethoven: a moving rendition of "Ode to Joy" plays when Hans Gruber and his computer geek henchman Theo (of the "night before Christmas" quote) crack open the safe. I just remember it because the guy playing Theo was so consistently funny.
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