More Songs Quiz

Here are more song titles and lines from songs with certain word blanked out.  Can you supply the hidden words.

Left click your mouse and drag the cursor over the blank to reveal it.

My adobe hacienda

My dreams are getting better all the time

I only have eyes for you

Isle of Capri

It don’t mean a thing if you ai’n’t got that swing

It had to be you No other would do

It looks like rain in cherry blossom lane

It only hurts for a little while

It’s a big wide wonderful world

I’m Blue and broken hearted

I found my thrill on Blueberry Hill

Bluebird of happiness

The moon and you and Blue Hawaii

Blue tailed fly

Body and soul

Born free

Born again

Big bouquet of roses

The girl from Ipanima

Give my regards to Broadway

Yes, sir, that’s my baby

You took the part that once was my heart so why not take All of me

Do nothing ‘til you hear from me

I Don’t get around much anymore

Don’t let the stars get in your eyes

Saint Louis blues

don’t sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me

Let’s go where the lights are shining..Downtown

Embrace me you swseet embraceable, you

Enjoy yourself it’s later than you think

Everybody loves somebody sometime

Everything is coming up roses

Georgia on my mind

Barney Google

Georgie girl

Get me to the church on time

I left my heart in San Francisco

Give me a little kiss, will ya huh>?

 

Tags: Song quiz

Silly Similies

I'd like to get in on the word game fun that is going around.

Here: make up a simile, the sillier the better, by filling in the blanks.

A BLANK BLANK without a BLANK BLANK, is like a BLANK BLANK without a BLANK BLANK.

Feel free to change the "without" or "with". 

A MODERN TEEN-AGER without a CELL PHONE is like a LEG O'LAMB without MINT JELLY

No, it doesn't make sense.  That is part of  the fun.

A STARBUCKS CUSTOMER without a LAP TOP is like a PIZZA DELIVERYMAN without a GLOBAL POSITIONER.

Even sillier.  You can do better. 

Tags: simile game

Trade Secret

I'm going to let you in on a "trade secret".  Trouble is, everyone already knows it.

Hewlett-Packard sells a color printer, with scanner included for $49.  What? How s that possible. A  color printer...and it can be used as a copy machine, even without the computer.  How do they do that> 

Here's the not-so-secret secret.  You have to buy ink in their cartridges... at their prices,  A black and white cartridge, and a color cartridge come packaged together for nearly SIXTY dollars.  And.... and..... and just a few pages later the computer tells you "The ink is low."

The cartridge holds a minuscule dab of ink.  I  figure that my ink costs are going to be two or three hundred dollars a year... for the little dab of printing that I do. They ought to PAY ME to use their printer. The cartridges are packed in Somalia, or somewhere,  They must use an eye dropper to put in the ink.

Here's a thought: maybe gasoline companies ought to sell cars... of the old fashioned fuel guzzling variety, for ten bucks apiece, and then sell gasoline at the prices they have now.  They'd get richer than they are already.

Tags: You want to buy some toothpaste?

Groundhog Day

"My day" sort of sneaked up on me this year.  I have always had an affinity for Groundhog Day, Feb. 2.

    It was the day I got out of the service... in 1946. 

   Grandfather Groundhog was my favorite character when reading stories to my children.  He was clever, with common sense, and homespun humor.

   When I studied "hibernation" in science, groundhogs were the principal test creatures. The professor in charge later switched to chipmunks which hibernate just as well and because...well, he said, "Do you know just how much poop a laboratory full of groundhogs can produce?"

   I like groundhogs because they are perverse... like me.  If the ground hog sees his shadow, that means more winter.  You'd expect the opposite.  You'd think if it was overcast when he pops out of his burrow, he'd think that meant more winter.

   And most of all, Groundhog Day means that days are going to be getting longer, warmer, and no matter what he sees, the worst of Winter is past.  Spring is on the way. 

   Groundhogs are sometimes called Woodchucks.  Have you ever even seen a Woodchuck, Chuck?  No.

   I've seen Prairie Dogs though.  How come they don't have their own day?  They live in burrows and come out in the spring.  Let's declare March 2 as Prairie Dog Day.

Tags: Prairie Dog Day, Groundhog Day, Silly Seasons

PPM WYSIWYG, M&M

PPM...pages per minute.  I bought a new printer because it promised a phenominal number of pages per minute.  Well, it prints FAST.  But...it takes l-o-n-g breaks leading the document.  Much slower over-all than old antique printer I was using.

So PPM doesn't mean anything.

WYSDIWYG. What you see is what you get.  Not often.  Recently got email about a new DVD that sounded interesting... about astronauts on the moon.  It offered a pre-release price of $19.99 with free shipping..  I could do that.  So I tried to navigate the site.  Well, with all the punching and clicking and filling out of forms, I managed to order. 

However, when the confirmation came, via email, I had committed myself to over $35.  Huh?  Well, I punched the purchase order button twice

I had ordered two... but the purchase price was NOW $14.99 times two PLUS shipping and handling.  But who needs TWO?

So I called up the order blank, canceled the order for two, and reordered ONE...back at $19.99 plus shipping and handling.  Took half an hour of typing to do that, having to type address and credit card into over and over and over. 

Now I'm going to get ONE, but it is going to my old apartment number... I just hope the FedEx guy can find me.

WYSIWYG... doesn't mean anything.

M&M.  Straight forward, is iy not, candy that melts in your mouth, not in your hand... according to the slogan.   Well, they WILL melt in your hand if you hold them too long... but no one does that..they pop 'em in their mouth. So the slogan is true.  They melt in your mouth.  Love 'em.

What I am wondering is...can anyone let an M&M melt in his mouth, or will he surrender to temptation and CRUNCH it before it melts.  I'll bet you can't let an M&M melt in your mouth... all the way.  You just can't

Tags: slogans

Kollege of Musical Knowledge

Remember Kay Kaiser’s Kollege of Musical Knowledge? Or Remember Name That Tune?

Here’s your chance. Here are lines from songs. See if you can fill in the missing words.

Left click your mouse and run the cursor over the blank to reveal it.

You made me love you.

I’ll never smile again.

Tuck me to sleep in my old Kentucky Home.

Two cigarettes in the dark.

Fiddler on the roof.

In the cool cool cool of the evening.

Three little words

Have I told you lately that I love you?

Love is lovelier the second time around.

April in Paris.

Never on Sunday.

Aint we got fun?

Allegany Moon.

I’m gonna sit right down and write myself a letter.

Somewhere over the rainbow blue birds fly.

You and the night and the music.

I get no kick from champagne but I get a kick out of you.

We were rough and ready guys, but Oh how we could harmonize

I’m in the mood for love.

Good night, Sweetheart

Good night, Irene

Good night, Ladies

You gotta have heart.

In the blue, blue blue of the evening

You always hurt the one you love

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Sixty Years Later

In 1948 the streets were flooded with little cars, VW's.  They were so tiny compared with 'normal" cars that we called them "bugs".

The Bug was praised as the People's Car.  It was cheap to build and buy, and economical to run.  The promise of a "City Car" in every garage was made.  And we said, "Now why can't Detroit do that?  Make a little utilitarian vehicle?"

Meanwhile Japan did, France and Italy did.  Even Korea did.

Today scooting home from the market, I saw parked at the curb, a brand new bug.  Made by a U.S. manufacturer..Behold, it was a new Chevrolet, and it looked just like a VW. I don't know the name of the model.

We finally did it.  The U.S. has made a "city car".  Good idea.  And it only took sixty years to catch up. 

Tags: Bug, Chevy