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Uncertain Principles

Physics, Politics, Pop Culture

Friday, December 19, 2003

Name That Tune

It's Friday, and tomorrow begins the annual holiday rampage around the Northeast, so I should probably post something frivolous to keep people entertained while I'm off gallivanting around New England. The obvious candidate would be something to do with That Movie That Just Came Out, but it's nearly impossible to say anything sensible about it without massive spoilers, and Blogger doesn't offer an easy way to do cut tags (that I know of), so I'll hold off for a few more days for the sake of those less geekish than Kate and myself, who won't see it until the weekend.

For lack of better inspiration, then, let me steer people to Skot Kurruk's Izzle Pfaff (which you ought to be reading anyway), and his "guess the song title based on two words" contest. The list of two-word phrases:

1. choking smokers
2. devil too
3. grey eyes
4. fruit cage
5. supple wrist
6. silver spoon
7. sixty-five degrees
8. watch dynasty
9. needs sweeping
10. halfway there
11. done died
12. god money
13. don't dance
14. face north
15. stand naked
16. baggage carousel
17. city walls
18. slicing up
19. loves horses
20. hickory stump
21. 'til touchdown
22. be double
23. lost myself
24. late September
25. be abused

For the record, I've got a solid idea for fourteen of these, and another half-dozen where I can almost hear the phrase in the song, but I can't come up with the title.

Colorful comments are available on Skot's site, along with more details on the contest. Or you can feel free to post guesses here, if you're bored on a pre-holiday Friday at work.

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