Daily puzzles/problems.

[MarkBastable]

Not Lassie. Seriously, dude, would you consider me so low as to employ a pun like that? Who do you think I am? Mick?

[billl]

Well, with Mick, it would've been be a generous stooping. This turned out to be a trap.

[Calidore]

#11 wouldn't be Holly from Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side," would it?

[prendrelemick]

The dog is Droopy I think.

So we have droopy snoopy and sloopy - we need another oopy


EDIT:

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.

[MarkBastable]

#11 wouldn't be Holly from Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side," would it?

Nah - she was heading east.

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.

[prendrelemick]

Well, with Mick, it would've been be a generous stooping. This turned out to be a trap.

I stoop to concur.

[MarkBastable]

I stoop to concur.

Now that one I'd claim.

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

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.

.

[prendrelemick]

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?

Oh 4 groups of three!! Thats about two weeks of my life wasted then.


GG, what about Atlanta - carried west on the back of a bull?

[MarkBastable]

Oh 4 groups of three!! Thats about two weeks of my life wasted then.


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.

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.

[prendrelemick]

Brown Sugar?

I really hope it isn't that, as it just complicates the groups situation.

[billl]

Ruby Tuesday was heading for the new day (off in the West, presumably), but was she tempting?

[MarkBastable]

Brown Sugar?

I really hope it isn't that, as it just complicates the groups situation.

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.

Still, I'd settle for it.

[prendrelemick]

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

[Gilliatt Gurgle]

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?