Who put a novel twist on Isaiah 2:4, linking Run DMC, Tim Henman, an American predator (relatively speaking) and the German soccer team? His product is often promoted but always seems to display the same rank.
I was a little disappointed to fool everybody with this. There are easy bits and hard bits, I put the hardest bit first, so let's start at the end: often promoted but always showing the same rank? Three stripes on a heavily marketed product. Tim Henman and the German socer team are sportsmen who wear sponsored kit. Run DMC and sportswear? There can only be one answer: My Adidas
standin on 2 Fifth St. funky fresh and yes cold on my feet with no shoe string in em,
I did not win em I bought em off the Ave with the tags still in em
I like to sport em that's why I bought em
a sucker tried to steal em so I caught em and I thwart em
and I walk down the street and I bop to the beat
with Lee on my legs and Adidas on my feet
and now I just standin here shooting the gif me and D
and my Adidas standing on 2 Fifth
My Adidas..
My Adidas..
(verse 2, My Adidas, Run DMC from the album Raising Hell)
Adidas is the brandname of Adi Dassler's company. The top American predator is Felis concolor, the puma (a.k.a. mountain lion or cougar), which is the brandname chosen by Adi Dassler's brother Rudi. Adi Dassler was involved in sportswear production from the twenties, and had made Jesse Owen's shoes for the 1936 Olympic Games. In the immediate post-war period Adidas recycled rubber and canvas from military vehicles, a form of turning swords into ploughshares, as the Scripture has it.
Bald, Fat, Simple, Fair, Wise, Fool. What word comes next?
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Victorious. The reference is to Kings of France who were named Charles. Charles I, the Bald (840-877) Charles II, the Fat (884-888) Charles III, the Simple (898-929) Charles IV, the Fair (1322-1328) Charles V, the Wise (1364-1380) Charles VI, the Fool (1380-1422) Charles VII, the Victorious (1422-1461) Charles VIII, IX, and X didn't have any extensions to their names. |
Venky
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Demar
Whose first words were a request for a generous slug of hard liquor?
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Garbo's first words on screen in Anna Christie: “Give me a viskey, a little ginger ale on the side, and don't be stingy, baby!” |
Shekhar
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Alan
Where are these guys headed?
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L.A.'s Roxy Theatre From Cheech & Chong's movie Up in Smoke (1978). |
Demar
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What got into itself after nineteen years?
The Guinness Book of World Records.
Shekhar
Who painted this?
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti: My Lady Greensleeves, 1863. Model is Jane Morris, wife of William. |
Alan
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What nation declares Hinduism as its national religion?
Nepal. While India has far more Hindus it is a secular state with religious tolerance enshrined in law, theoretically, but then so is the USA...
Jim
Without using any words you would not expect to see on a kindergarten blackboard draw up ten English words for parts of the body that only contain three letters. Next, form them into the shortest possible collection of words of at least six letters that are also parts of the body, you can borrow extra letters if you need to but you must use up all the 30 letters.
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toe eye ear arm lip hip leg jaw gut rib fingertip ligament phalanges eyebrow jugular. |
Demar
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Arm, ear, eye, gum, hip, jaw, leg, lip, rib, toe. Add the seven letters D,D,E,I,N,N,S to make: diaphragm, eyelid, gristle, jawbone, perineum. |
Alan
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Two excellent efforts but I think The Master wins again, he's even put everything in alphabetical order.
Methodical or obsessive? You decide. ;-)
He sounds like a man, as he tells us how to get good results for our laundry, so why does Michael doubt it?
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But, he can't be a man 'cause he doesn't smoke The same cigarettes as me (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction by The Rolling Stones |
Demar
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The lad thought that the best plan was just to kill his daddy's nemesis while he had the chance. What was his father's evil alternative idea?
Dr. Evil: Scott, I want you to meet daddy's nemesis, Austin Powers
Scott Evil: What? Are you feeding him? Why don't you just kill him?
Dr. Evil: I have an even better idea. I'm going to place him in an easily escapable situation involving an overly elaborate and exotic death.
An old school dictionary falls open. Between a corpse-preying spirit and a comical facial adornment I find meaningless speech, a worthless ornament, a Malayan cloth pattern, the substance or meaning and a pointy stick for prodding. What two kinds of fairytale creatures might I find?
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Between ghoul and goatee you find gibberish, gimcrack, gingham, gist and goad. Plus a giant and a gnome. |
Alan
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Well goatees always make me laugh, quietly.
Who are these boys?
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The Lynyrd Skynyrd guitar lineup. Looks like (l.-r.) Hughie Thomasson, Rickey Medlocke, Gary Rossington, and Leon Wilkeson, but it's sometimes hard to tell under all that hair. |
Alan
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