5 would be "Time Warp" from Rocky Horror.
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5 would be "Time Warp" from Rocky Horror.
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Originally Posted by Calidore
Because the hint was a bit misleading, I feel bound to say that that's very nearly right. It's the 'she' that matters.
^It must be Columbia - also in Sth Carolina.
So is that now 4 South Carolina's?
Number 13 could be Jennifer with skin like cinnamon.
Hang on Sloopy, wikis up one Dorothy sloop. Also the state of Ohio.
Okay, this isn't generating quite the maelstrom of fun and interest that perhaps I'd hoped. I can't have pitched it well.
However, let me have one last shot at keeping it alive by telling you what you've got right so far. I've also changed a couple to make them (I hope) a bit easier.
1. An impromptu festival to lose the smog. (You're looking for a song.)
2. The state of swamp cabbage. The Palmetto State (South Carolina)
3. Girl told to let her hair down, regardless of her father's occupation. (You're looking for a song.) Sloopy.
4. "I’m the hero," the dog says lassitudinously.
5. She was evilly winked at by a snake of a guy. (You're looking for a song.) Columbia
6. "Will you be my friend?" is his spirited request. Casper
7. Once gastronomically tipped on Wilshire and North Vine.
8. Flighty Florence and Myrtle. (Airports in) South Carolina
9. "Good grief!" he says roundly. Charlie Brown
10. His opening line: It was a dark and stormy night... Snoopy
11. A tempting metaphorical heroine heading west. (You're looking for a song.)
12. A lopazoo on the coast. Charleston
13. A southern girl with two left feet. (You're looking for a song.)
To recap the goal - the answers form four groups of three, with one over. What is the odd answer?
4. Lassie.
Not Lassie. Seriously, dude, would you consider me so low as to employ a pun like that? Who do you think I am? Mick?
Well, with Mick, it would've been be a generous stooping. This turned out to be a trap.
#11 wouldn't be Holly from Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side," would it?
The dog is Droopy I think.
So we have droopy snoopy and sloopy - we need another oopy
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Or not, I've just found "Woodstock" by Joni Mitchell and the lyrics fit the smog thing. (No. 1)
so we have Woodstock, Charlie Brown and snoopy.
Nah - she was heading east.Quote:
Originally Posted by Calidore
Actually, now you mention it, I think she was from Miami, and she hitchhiked her way 'across the USA' which would imply west. But she ends her journey in New York. So - not for the first time - Lou has been a bit lazy on the lyric there.
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Originally Posted by billl
I stoop to concur.
Now that one I'd claim.Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
I put a little thought into number 11...
“The Unsinkable Molly Brown” a heroine of the Titanic. Tempting - ? difficult to tell due to the unrevealing protocol of fashion in that time. Titanic headed west (only)
Song – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulRpS-HE_W4
Any takers?...
OK, this one has to be it; “Isis”. She looks pretty tempting based on images the ancient Egyptians left behind. Worship of Isis spread “westward” to the Greco-Roman empire.
Song - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq2Z5...eature=related
Hmmm…nothing still?
Got it! - How about “Venus”? – The planet “moves westward” across the sky. Foxy [strike]virgin[/strike] {edit} (Virgo crossed my mind), still Venus is hot = tempting. Associated with military victory, among other things = heroine.
Song – “Venus” by Shocking Blue - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LhkyyCvUHk
Man, I’m good!......what!?, unhand me, you cannot refute Venus.
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Oh 4 groups of three!! :frown5: Thats about two weeks of my life wasted then.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
GG, what about Atlanta - carried west on the back of a bull?
I really thought this was one of the easier ones, especially for Brits of a certain age. Mick - '...metaphorical heroine...' - come on.Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
Here's a weird thing, though. If GG's first guess from his last post were what I'd meant, it would be right.
Three left to get.... Just to check myself, I've tried Googling combinations of the key words or phrases, without giving any thought at all to the sense or context of the clues. Within a couple of tries, the answers came up on the first returned page, except for #13, which I've now made easier. (It really sounds like I'm desperate to help you now, doesn't it?)
1. An impromptu festival to lose the smog. (You're looking for a song.) Woodstock
2. The state of swamp cabbage. The Palmetto State (South Carolina)
3. Girl told to let her hair down, regardless of her father's occupation. (You're looking for a song.) Sloopy.
4. "I’m the hero," the dog says lassitudinously. Droopy
5. She was evilly winked at by a snake of a guy. (You're looking for a song.) Columbia
6. "Will you be my friend?" is his spirited request. Casper
7. Once gastronomically tipped on Wilshire and North Vine.
8. Flighty Florence and Myrtle. (Airports in) South Carolina
9. "Good grief!" he says roundly. Charlie Brown
10. His opening line: It was a dark and stormy night... Snoopy
11. A tempting metaphorical heroine heading west. (You're looking for a song.)
12. A lopazoo on the coast. Charleston
13. It ain't her sister - it's a southern girl with two left feet. (You're looking for a song.)
I'll give this a couple of days, then fill in the remaining answers so that you can do the groupings.
Brown Sugar?
I really hope it isn't that, as it just complicates the groups situation.
Ruby Tuesday was heading for the new day (off in the West, presumably), but was she tempting?
Brown Sugar really isn't that metaphorical, I don't think. I mean, 'Brown Sugar - how come you taste so good? Just like a black girl should'. It's all he can do not to swap out 'taste' for what he really means - but he sings it like he means what he means.Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
Still, I'd settle for it.
Oh gawd, just found another Brown.
No.13. Sweet Georgia Brown.
I m sure Brown Sugar is a metaphor for SOMETHING.
I only hope Gordon Brown wasn't gastronomicly tipped anywhere in LA
I put a little more thought into no. 11.
Looking at heroine in terms of a drug led me to "Molly" or "Brown Molly" and somehow made my way to "Golden Brown"... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_51bEKfOfw
There's a line in there about heading west. Will that one work??
That means there's still a chance that "Isis" could be the odd one out, right?
Yep, Golden Brown is right. One left.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle
1. An impromptu festival to lose the smog. (You're looking for a song.) Woodstock
2. The state of swamp cabbage. The Palmetto State (South Carolina)
3. Girl told to let her hair down, regardless of her father's occupation. (You're looking for a song.) Sloopy
4. "I’m the hero," the dog says lassitudinously. Droopy
5. She was evilly winked at by a snake of a guy. (You're looking for a song.) Columbia
6. "Will you be my friend?" is his spirited request. Casper
7. Once gastronomically tipped on Wilshire and North Vine.
8. Flighty Florence and Myrtle. (Airports in) South Carolina
9. "Good grief!" he says roundly. Charlie Brown
10. His opening line: It was a dark and stormy night... Snoopy
11. A tempting metaphorical heroine heading west. (You're looking for a song.) Golden Brown
12. A lopazoo on the coast. Charleston
13. It ain't her sister - it's a southern girl with two left feet. (You're looking for a song.) Sweet Georgia Brown
7. Once gastronomically tipped on Wilshire and North Vine.
If you Google:
"Wilshire" "North Vine"
the first returned page is this.
So now, if any reader yet gives a flying one, all you have to do is arrange them in four groups of three in order to identify the one left over.
I read about a a pioneer family that left Atlanta heading west to Oregon. They used a bull to carry their belongings including Grandma Atlanta.Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
Can't find the correct song, so we'll go with this....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRXRH...eature=related
Is this the correct order?...Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
Woodstock - Charlie Brown - Casper = animated characters
The Palmetto State - South Carolina - Charleston = Relative to South Carolina
Sloopy - Droopy - Snoopy = "oopy"
Golden Brown - Sweet Georgia Brown - Brown Derby = "Brown"
Odd one out "Columbia" - completes the third airport in the list of clues, but not part of the answer list
Nope. Apart from anything else, 'The Palmetto State' and 'South Carolina' would appear to be the same answer stated two ways. Did you mean 'Tha Palmetto State' and 'Florence and Myrtle'? In which case, what makes Columbia the odd one out?Quote:
Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle
Uh...yeah?...maybe?Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
(aside) No, couldn't be Columbia. Why Columbia? Why not Charleston? Charleston has an airport too. Florence was in the Brady Bunch, but that was filmed in California. Myrtle...oh the hell with it!
Prendrelemick where are you? someone, anyone.
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I can't really help you, Gilliat, but I'll list my hunches--such as they are--in the hopes they will possibly assist someone more capable than myself in solving this [strike]blasted puzzle[/strike] maelstrom of fun:
1. I'm not sure Charleston and Columbia match up very well with either of the South Carolina answers; I'm thinking the third answer to complete that grouping may be Casper (as in Casper, Wyoming) for 'U.S. Cities beginning with the letter C'.
2. Sloopy, Droopy and Snoopy, almost certainly.
3. Charlie Brown, Golden Brown and Sweet Georgia Brown.
...which leaves Woodstock, the Palmetto state, the Brown Derby, and (Airports in) South Carolina; two of which seem to go together, but I can't for the life of me figure out which of the other two would join them. Anyone?
Thinking out loud..
I suspect Casper is the odd one out, as all the other seem to go together, though not in the right grouping.
There's a "oo" group,
a South Carolina group,
a Peanuts group,
and a Brown group.
and Casper.
These are all overlapping and would easily make three groups of four (dropping the peanuts group)
GG spotted there may be a cartoon group - but that would leave Sloopy high and dry (or odd one out?)
The other thing that works is "names of towns that are also names of characters" group
Woodstock
Casper
Columbia
Then the oopies
Droopy
Sloopy
Snoopy
Then the Carolinas
Palmatto
Airports
Charleston
Then the Browns - but there are four of them, any could be odd one out, but "Brown Derby" isn't a person so I would say that one...
Nope. You may or may not have more than one group right - but I'll give you one for sure. The 'oopies' are right.Quote:
Originally Posted by prendrelemick
Okay - I obviously failed to attract popular interest here. My apologies. I wanted to come up with thirteen items that suggested multiple possible groups, so that the actual correct one left over would be inarguably so only when all four groups of three slotted together in a way that was solidly and satisfyingly self-evident. I might have made that too rubbery.
Last giveaway before I give it all away...
The odd-one-over is Woodstock. So what are the four groups of three? 'Oopies' is one of them.
Maybe I should change my name to "Stretch Armstrong"...
Sloopy - Droopy - Snoopy = "oopy"
Charlie Brown - Golden Brown - Casper = Songs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UnPzp2lmNk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_51bEKfOfw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlyR9U1pQ70
(Airports in) South Carolina - Columbia - Charleston = airports in SC
Sweet Georgia Brown - Brown Derby - The Palmetto - restaurants
(btw - I've been to Sweet Georgia Brown a few times for some down home south Dallas Soul Food)
Woodstock = one leftover (extra song)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF_XB5xrHS4
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So, as I understand it, your argument is that Woodstock is the odd-one out because it's a song that you haven't included in the group of, er, songs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle
A fitting response would be; “good grief!” I see your point.Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkBastable
(quick damage control)...
Uh…what I meant is…it’s the only song that begins with a “W” and…and therefore it’s the odd one out since it is the fourth song in alphabetical order?
(Let me quickly rearrange the other three, so this argument makes sense)
Casper - Charlie Brown - Golden Brown - Woodstock
No, no…I didn’t mean song. I meant to say it is the odd one out because it represents an event rather than a song, airport, oopies or restaurants. That has to be it, right?
That’s it for me; Prendrelemick?...Basil?...someone?
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Casper is pure white. Woodstock had brown acid. So three browns, and Casper left over.
EDIT: a bare 10 seconds of checking my idea over reveals that there'd be at least five browns if brown were a category.
I think I may have discovered the missing link:
1. Sloopy, Droopy, Snoopy - the oopies
2. Golden Brown, Sweet Georgia Brown, Brown Derby - the brownies
3. The Palmetto State, Florence and Myrtle, Charleston - South Cackalacka
4. Casper, Charlie Brown, Columbia - all names used by NASA for Apollo mission Command Modules
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Originally Posted by Basil
Yep. I feel a bit guilty that this one proved difficult to the point of being tiresome.
Might've been pretty satisfying for Basil at the end, though.
My only complaint about this one (and my limited participation ended up silencing me on the issue) was that I never understood about the South Carolina thing, and the two cities, or was it airports, or was it the state of South Carolina itself that might be a member of something else, or what--I'm not so good at this type of puzzle usually, so having this confusion spread over a couple pages and a few attempts sort of scared me off.
Otherwise, it looked to be an appropriately devilish one with several layers to deal with. This thread has been sort of low on steam for a couple months or so, and I think that's probably why this one went so long. Our habitual dedication got pummeled by a couple strange ones or something (I can only vaguely remember).
I felt it went "Charleston, the airports and 'the Palmetto State' are all associated with South Carolina." But you're right - you could argue that 'South Carolina' was both the clue and the answer, which was arguably a category error and it did cause me some sleepless minutes. But by the time I'd come up with all those deliberately misleading cross-references for the whole thirteen first-level answers, I was exhausted.Quote:
Originally Posted by billl
Great job Basil and Mark.
I didn't find it tiresome at all, in fact the longevity turned out some interesting responses, which made the whole experince enjoyable. billl beat me to the punch on the (airports in) South Carolina point, but alas I hear the ah so sad tune of a violin.
I'm still working on a better bull carrying Atlanta heading west response. I'll save it for the family though.
My research for this one taught me that "The Charlie Brown" was a dance move, but not a dance in itself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REKU1...elated#t=2m40s
Of course, the song is by DJ Casper...
But wait, does this qualify as a dance?:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5IGo...eature=related
I admit to some admiration of Mark. I would've crumbled and given the answer weeks ago.