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Open Water => Fun and Games => Games and Jokes => Topic started by: goat starer on May 02, 2007, 11:50:38 AM

Title: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: goat starer on May 02, 2007, 11:50:38 AM
Snappy title eh!  ;D

Not seen this elsewhere on here (apologies if I missed it). This is your opportunity to help answer some of those troubling questions that have appeared in song over the years. Give the Lyric and the next person answers the question (wittily or accurately) and poses another teaser from song. To get you started.....

Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
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Post by: beagle on May 02, 2007, 12:03:32 PM
I was, but my Alfa ran out of gas on the way.


Are You Ready for the Country?
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Post by: goat starer on May 02, 2007, 12:18:05 PM
No but bring on the Western!



How Soon is Now?
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Post by: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on May 02, 2007, 02:30:21 PM
Now is so five minutes ago.


Do you really want to hurt me?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: goat starer on May 02, 2007, 02:32:34 PM
not hurt as such - more sort of tickle  :o

Where do you go to my lovely?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Aggie on May 02, 2007, 02:35:01 PM
Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to work we go....

(hah!  answered in song too)

Do you have the time to listen to me whine?
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Post by: Swatopluk on May 02, 2007, 02:43:33 PM
You see I'm walking out the door, ignorin' the plea of thine.

Wo ist der Kaiser? (Where's the emperor?)
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Post by: Kiyoodle the Gambrinous on May 02, 2007, 02:46:04 PM
Some friends and I in a public house

::)

I said, are you gonna be my girl?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on May 02, 2007, 03:39:23 PM
I'm not a girl, not yet a woman.   ;D

(I can answer in song too!)



The old black rum's got a hold on me; will I live for another day?
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Post by: Swatopluk on May 02, 2007, 07:39:56 PM
I fear it's going not to be to my honest dismay.

Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And never brought to mind?
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Post by: Aggie on May 02, 2007, 07:49:22 PM
I know i'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know i'll often stop and think about them


What would you do if I sang out of tune?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: beagle on May 02, 2007, 08:25:32 PM
Could you please oblige us with a Bren gun?

(answer and question).
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 02, 2007, 09:38:47 PM
The 4th form took it from the observation post together with the radio equipment

I wonder, what happened to him?

Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Kiyoodle the Gambrinous on May 03, 2007, 01:01:02 AM
White- bare naked in the night



What keeps mankind alive?
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Post by: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on May 03, 2007, 01:18:43 AM
Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens,
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens


How do you solve a problem like Maria?
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Post by: The Meromorph on May 03, 2007, 03:17:25 AM
Guns and Roses...      (sort of musical answer)


Does anybody really know what time it is?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Griffin NoName on May 03, 2007, 04:58:35 AM
Time I was asleep.

Why the gods above me
Who must be in the know
Think so little of me
They allow you to go ?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Kiyoodle the Gambrinous on May 03, 2007, 08:31:24 AM
Oh sisters let's go down
Down to the river to pray


Don' t you know that Rome wasn' t built in a day?
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Post by: Swatopluk on May 03, 2007, 08:40:59 AM
But now it lies in ruins where farmers're making hay.

Where have all the flowers gone?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Kiyoodle the Gambrinous on May 03, 2007, 10:50:49 AM
They grew down the river, all bloody and wild


Will you give me your loss and your sorrow?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 03, 2007, 11:47:01 AM
Or is there some money I could borrow?

What is a nice girl like me doing in a place like this?
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Post by: Kiyoodle the Gambrinous on May 03, 2007, 11:53:12 AM
Drinking beer and wine.


Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz ?
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Post by: Swatopluk on May 03, 2007, 01:09:26 PM
No, the Lord prefers Toyota these days, it seems.

Who has rolled the cheese to the railway station?
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Post by: Kiyoodle the Gambrinous on May 03, 2007, 10:36:27 PM
Probably Jerry.


Don't you want to know how we keep starting fires?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Aggie on May 03, 2007, 10:41:47 PM
ok now take an old beer bottle
fill it up with gasoline
some paint thinner for good measure
and a sprinkle of maganese
now stuff a sock into the top
with a zippo you'll be king



Have you ever walked through a room
But it was more like the room passed around you
Like there was a leash around your neck that pulled you through?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Kiyoodle the Gambrinous on May 03, 2007, 10:54:50 PM
From there I got away, me spirits never falling,
Landed on the quay, just as the ship was sailing.


Where are we runnin'?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: goat starer on May 03, 2007, 11:43:58 PM
generally away from the devon Goat sniper and the Chupacabra (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chupacabra)

are you gonna go my way?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on May 04, 2007, 05:01:55 AM
Gotta save up the air miles first.


When I was just a little girl
I asked my mother:


What will I be?
Will I be pretty?  Will I be rich?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Sibling Chatty on May 04, 2007, 07:10:24 AM
Que sera, sera..

Who'll stop the rain?
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Post by: beagle on May 04, 2007, 07:33:14 AM
Appointing a Minister for Drought normally does the trick.

Mother, should I trust the government?
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Post by: Kiyoodle the Gambrinous on May 04, 2007, 10:10:43 AM
We don't need no education.
We don't need no thought control.


Who the F*** is Alice?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 04, 2007, 12:19:30 PM
The phone company's ad girl blocking my view to the East.

Was(!) you ever at Cape Hoorn?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on May 04, 2007, 02:25:14 PM
No, but my donkey was.




Why do we always send the poor?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 04, 2007, 03:06:00 PM
The dead cost nothing.

How shall I receive you?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on May 04, 2007, 03:21:47 PM
five by five, hopefully (or "wall to wall and treetop tall" if you're a CBer)



What child is this?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Aggie on May 04, 2007, 03:32:59 PM
The kid is not my son. ;)

Ok, here's a big multi-parter (block of lyrics from same song):


What am I doing here?
Who is this girl in my bed?
What is this sh*t on my face?
My God, what is that awful smell?

:drunk:
:barf:
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Post by: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on May 04, 2007, 03:58:56 PM
I think question 2 answers question 1, and question 3 answers question 4.

This leaves us question 2 (answer: I have no clue) and question 3 (answer: you said it.  It's sh*t).

;D



Where is that large automobile?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 04, 2007, 09:27:49 PM
at the long-house

Say, have you seen my true love in Oranienburg?

Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Kiyoodle the Gambrinous on May 05, 2007, 01:33:14 AM
My true love is sitting on a pile of stones


Erinnerst du dich an das erste Mal?
(Do you remeber the first time?)
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Sibling Chatty on May 05, 2007, 05:10:53 AM
It was 20 years ago, today...



And it's ONE TWO THREE, what are we fightin' for?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Aggie on May 05, 2007, 05:18:28 AM
The act you've know for all these years.  ;)




Isn't it good?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 05, 2007, 12:05:30 PM
The basket of Little Red Riding hood

Why does it always rain on a Sunday?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Kiyoodle the Gambrinous on May 05, 2007, 08:04:10 PM
Sunday, bloody Sunday


How long must we sing this song?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: beagle on May 05, 2007, 09:24:23 PM
Until Bono can afford to buy the whole Caribbean?


Is she really going out with him?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 05, 2007, 09:52:05 PM
No, it's her twin sister.

O Paddy dear, and did ye hear the news that's goin' round?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: beagle on May 06, 2007, 03:18:09 PM
The Lib Dems desperately need you back. (Obscure Brit politics joke).


Wot's, uh the deal?

(Obscure Scottish politics joke).
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Post by: Bluenose on May 06, 2007, 03:24:00 PM
I'll swap you two jars of quandong jam for three kippers and glass of scotch

Do you know the way to San Jose?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: beagle on May 06, 2007, 04:00:39 PM
Left at the silicon wafer fabrication plant, right at the silicon wafer fabrication plant, straight on past the silicon wafer fabrication plant...


What Shall We Do Now?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: The Meromorph on May 06, 2007, 04:56:06 PM
We're living in a powder keg and giving off sparks...


How am I supposed to live without you?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Sibling Chatty on May 06, 2007, 05:28:23 PM
Alone again, naturally.

What's new, pussycat?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 06, 2007, 08:13:36 PM
The milk has a new flavor

Whereto? Whereto?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: beagle on May 07, 2007, 01:07:19 PM
Over the hills and far away?


Hey Hey, What can I do?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on May 07, 2007, 01:37:30 PM
You brush your teeth (ch-ch-ch-cha ch-ch-ch-ch-cha-cha)

:woot: for Raffi.  Or was that Fred Penner?



How can I be sure in a world that's constantly changing?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 07, 2007, 01:41:22 PM
By adding in and ance of course. That way you can at least be sure not to see your money again.

José, can you see?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: The Meromorph on May 08, 2007, 01:22:06 AM
Something about an Army of Juan in the Land of the Spree and the Home of the Knave...


Why am I so starry eyed?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Sibling Chatty on May 08, 2007, 07:05:57 AM
Been hanging out with Vincent again??

As Golde said to Tevye...

Do you love me?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 08, 2007, 11:00:48 AM
Honesty be cursed or in tears you may well burst.

Do you fear me?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on May 08, 2007, 01:20:17 PM
Seasons don't fear the reaper, nor the wind, the sun and the rain.  Come on baby, we can be like they are.




What good is music, what good is melody, if it ain't posessing something sweet?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 08, 2007, 01:25:34 PM
Does classic or modern music have the higher caloric value?

Horch, was kommt von draußen rein?
(Listen, who is coming in?)
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on May 08, 2007, 02:08:29 PM
If they're marching, perhaps it's the Saints.




Where do I stop?  Where do I begin?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 08, 2007, 09:42:14 PM
I am in a loop.

Oh why, oh why can't I?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on May 08, 2007, 09:58:15 PM
Perhaps you aren't bendy enough.


Why, why, why, Delilah?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 08, 2007, 10:17:16 PM
I'll make a whig out of it, Samson.

Was wissen Schweine und Männer von Liebe?
(What do men and pigs know about love?)
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: The Meromorph on May 09, 2007, 02:02:01 AM
Sag mir, wo die Männer sind,
zogen fort, der Krieg beginnt.




Wann wird man je verstehn,
wann wird man je verstehn?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: beagle on May 09, 2007, 07:31:52 AM
Im jahr 2525?


Mackie welches war dein Preis?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 09, 2007, 07:51:11 AM
 Und wenn kein Zaster war, hat er mich angehaucht;
da hieß es gleich: Du, ich versetz' dir deinen Ring!
Ein Ring, ganz gut; aber ohne geht's auch.

Hat denn der Himmel mich verlassen?
(has heaven forsaken me?)
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: goat starer on May 09, 2007, 02:06:26 PM
ya! du bist ein dumpfkopf! (if my 'Victor!' German works)



would you like some sweets willy?

Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 09, 2007, 03:25:57 PM
Never take sweets from a stranger!

How much wood does a woodchuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood?
(I at least believe that I have heard that sung)
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Post by: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on May 09, 2007, 03:34:32 PM
Forty-two.

;D


Whose bed have your boots been under?
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Post by: Swatopluk on May 09, 2007, 03:49:06 PM
Not under mine cause it does not stand on legs.

Where is the horn that was blowing?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: beagle on May 09, 2007, 08:46:28 PM
It got confiscated. Siegfried with the horn got on the God's nerves.

My child, what shall we say now?

(It's German composer night...)
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 09, 2007, 10:15:47 PM
Winterstürme wichen dem Wonnemond, im linden Lichte leuchtet der Lenz
(it's spring)

Who nicked the coconut?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Aggie on May 09, 2007, 10:29:37 PM
Bruder bought a coconut, he bought it for a dime,
His sister had anudder one she paid it for de lime.


Who stole the money from the house fund?
Was it the coconut man?*



*Hugs if you can get the correct answer!
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Bluenose on May 10, 2007, 02:16:17 AM
I really have no idea, but I do have a loverley bunch o' coconuts

Did you hear the drums, Fernando?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Griffin NoName on May 10, 2007, 02:26:21 AM

I shoulda learned to play them drums

Goodness me could this be Industrial Disease ?

Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: The Meromorph on May 10, 2007, 03:13:58 AM
You put the lime in the cocout and drink it all up...


Oh Doctor! Can you cure this belly  ache?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on May 10, 2007, 04:41:27 AM
Sure... a quick belly-ectomy and it won't hurt a bit.   ;D

Who's the greatest band around, makes the cats jump up and down?  Who's the talk of Rhythm Town?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: beagle on May 10, 2007, 07:45:28 AM
Yes hep cats, it's Gordon Brown! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_brown)


Is there life on Mars?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 10, 2007, 09:13:52 AM
According to tons of cartoonists, Osama bin laden is hiding there.

Do you see in the East the red dawn?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Kiyoodle the Gambrinous on May 10, 2007, 09:43:27 AM
Sun is shining, the weather is sweet


Do ya, do ya, do ya, do ya
Know what ya doing, doing to me?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 10, 2007, 10:14:38 AM
Yes, I am answering your question ;D

...are we just simply spiralling coils
Of self-replicating DNA?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on May 10, 2007, 01:25:13 PM
I've heard a paleontologist describe all life as a mechanism to evolve various styles of teeth. 




Did you write the Book of Love, and do you have faith in God above?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: The Meromorph on May 10, 2007, 03:17:33 PM
I'm just a cartoon drawing, and I don't believe you're reading me.


Are these guitars all yours?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 10, 2007, 03:21:08 PM
No, this is a Geiger counter not a guitar player.

Who's always last to know? Who fills the air with cries? Whose sanity is blasted, and then who usually dies?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: goat starer on May 10, 2007, 03:56:51 PM
er.... that would be me i think  ::)


who ate all the pies?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on May 10, 2007, 04:03:25 PM
I gave them to the truckers.  Sorry.   :-[



We've got a great big convoy; ain't she a beautiful sight?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Aggie on May 10, 2007, 04:56:47 PM
Diesel aluminum cruising like drain-o!


Short fuse, got to dismantle
Code red: what's your handle?



*Consolation prize hugs to Bluenose, and bonus-bonus hugs to Mero for spotting the preceding answer song. 
Correct answer: F*ck the coconut man!
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: goat starer on May 11, 2007, 10:12:23 AM
It is more a sort of knob than a handle  :-[


Can I see your tongue?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 11, 2007, 11:41:35 AM
No, it's firmly in my cheek.

Kann denn Liebe Sünde sein?
(Can love be a sin?)
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on May 11, 2007, 01:12:20 PM
No, it's more of a cos.  Or maybe a arccot.

(hooray for trigonometry humour!)



Who do they think they are?

... and where did they get that car?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 11, 2007, 02:03:46 PM
1) Polish car thieves
2) From Germany
Heute gestohlen, morgen in Polen

Gnädige Frau, wo war'n sie gestern?
(Where were you yesterday madam?)
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: The Meromorph on May 12, 2007, 02:44:14 AM
Breakfast in Paris,
Lunch in Berlin,
Luggage in Cairo!

Is this burning an eternal flame?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 12, 2007, 12:46:20 PM
No, the gas will run out soon (or the money to pay for it).

Weißt du wieviel Sternlein stehen an dem blauen Himmelszelt?
(Do you know how many little stars stand on the blue canopy (German lit:tent) of heaven?)
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: beagle on May 12, 2007, 07:19:42 PM
No, but there's one less big one, (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6633609.stm)

Won't you sign up your name, we'd like to feel you're acceptable, respectable, presentable, a vegetable?

Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 12, 2007, 11:49:04 PM
Tie him to a stake, and if he is a vegetarian to a piece of celery!

Is there anybody out there?

Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: goat starer on May 13, 2007, 12:45:23 AM
no people. its all goats in spacesuits.



is this what we've waited for? Is this it boys? is it war?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 13, 2007, 12:48:35 AM
We waited for girls in peace.

Isn't there a white knight upon a fiery steed?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: The Meromorph on May 13, 2007, 02:30:31 AM
(K)Nights in White Satin, maybe...  :P


Hello, I love you, won't you tell me your name?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 13, 2007, 09:15:52 AM
My number is in the phone book and my name stands right next to it.

Where is the man with the hammer?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: beagle on May 13, 2007, 09:47:31 AM
hammer sandwich? Fawlty Towers. Ask for Manuel.

Do you remember, the bills you have to pay?
Or even yesterday?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 13, 2007, 09:58:36 AM
I put them all in a bonfire.

Is there no god?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Griffin NoName on May 13, 2007, 11:41:04 AM
Searching for you everywhere
Some find the way

Is it today Lord ?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: beagle on May 13, 2007, 03:57:57 PM
God only knows.


Wouldn't it be nice?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: The Meromorph on May 13, 2007, 04:39:53 PM
Do you really want to hurt me?




Will no-one tell me about her, the way she lied?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 13, 2007, 09:13:44 PM
That is not dead which can eternal lie.

Why does the Zebra have so many stripes?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Sibling Chatty on May 13, 2007, 10:31:58 PM
Ask these people. http://urzebra.net/zebra.html

Who Are These People?

( http://cdbaby.com/cd/troutmusic5   cut 4)
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: goat starer on May 14, 2007, 09:34:58 AM
I would imagine they are fishermen


who made snails and whales and quails?


Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 14, 2007, 10:12:31 AM
Someone who had too many ales at the garage sales.

Who must bow and kneel and scrape and slave all day[...]?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: goat starer on May 14, 2007, 12:03:41 PM
the proletariat (until they throw off the chains of oppression!)



how do we tell the people in the white coats enough is enough?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on May 14, 2007, 03:51:52 PM
You can't.  Just block out their brain-waves with your tinfoil hat.




Don't you know, you fool, you never can win?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 14, 2007, 04:04:36 PM
How should the fool know?

Who rides so late through wind and night?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: beagle on May 14, 2007, 08:19:28 PM
It's not really night yet, just Goethedammerung.

(Isn't poetry cheating, or is there a Eurovision song contest version of it?).


Where is my mind?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 14, 2007, 10:04:47 PM
Quote from: beagle on May 14, 2007, 08:19:28 PM
It's not really night yet, just Goethedammerung.

(Isn't poetry cheating, or is there a Eurovision song contest version of it?).
There are several song versions of it, among them those by Loewe and Schubert. According to wikipedia there is even a version by Rammstein.

Quote
Where is my mind?

Dwindling

---

What woman is this, all furtive and misshapen?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on May 14, 2007, 10:14:54 PM
Don't worry - the blow-up doll just sprung a leak.




How come every time you come around my London London Bridge want to go down like London London London?


(Ah, Fergie... modern-day Chaucer, IMO)  ::)
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 14, 2007, 11:52:26 PM
It's ye turning my crank, not me.

What is this about your daughter marrying my Wilbur?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: beagle on May 15, 2007, 12:59:47 PM
Quote from: Swatopluk on May 14, 2007, 10:04:47 PMThere are several song versions of it, among them those by Loewe and Schubert. According to wikipedia there is even a version by Rammstein.

Whatever next? Aerosmith "Wandering lonely as a cloud", Metallica's "Rime of the Ancient Rocker"?
We demand demarcation in the "Arts".


Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 15, 2007, 01:17:17 PM
Wer klopft so gräßlich an der Tür?
(Who knocks so ghastly at the door?)
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: beagle on May 16, 2007, 07:35:40 AM
Bob Dylan?


How long has this been going on?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 16, 2007, 11:43:24 AM
Since May 02, 2007, 02:50:38 AM

Is their cringing quite sincere?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on May 16, 2007, 02:13:14 PM
Sincerity can be faked.



Who's that whisperin' in the trees?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 16, 2007, 02:27:40 PM
The wind in the leaves (or a Mi-Go)

What does the mouse on Thursday do?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: The Meromorph on May 17, 2007, 03:23:02 AM
Party like it's 1999!


Is this all there is?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 17, 2007, 10:15:45 AM
Is the world not enough?

Will you go to the rolling of the stone?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on May 17, 2007, 01:41:59 PM
Like a complete unknown, with no direction home?  No thank you.



How does it feel?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: beagle on May 17, 2007, 08:01:01 PM
Comfortably Numb.



Can you tell a green field from a cold steel rail?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on May 17, 2007, 08:21:19 PM
Not without my glasses or contacts.  In my natural state, I'm as blind as a bat.


Who wrote the Book of Love?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Sibling Chatty on May 18, 2007, 03:33:40 AM
Definitely not me.

Who put the Bomp in the Bomp a Domp a Domp? Who put the Ram in the Ramla Ding Dong?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 18, 2007, 09:21:08 AM
The woodchuck while not chucking wood, I think.

...do people simply tell you what they think you want to hear?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: goat starer on May 18, 2007, 12:14:56 PM
if they do then they have got me all wrong!

would you rather be a pig?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 18, 2007, 01:19:42 PM
Boar ey!

This one (or five) is for the goat:
Wer schafft das Gold zutage?
Wer hämmert Erz und Stein?
Wer webet Tuch und Seide?
Wer bauet Korn und Wein?
Wer gibt den Reichen all ihr Brot
und lebt dabei in bittrer Not?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: beagle on May 18, 2007, 01:37:50 PM
(well at least they still have their cake - Last Marie Antoinette (allegedly) Post. Oops, wrong forum).
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on May 18, 2007, 06:15:49 PM
Quote from: Swatopluk on May 18, 2007, 01:19:42 PM
This one (or five) is for the goat:
Wer schafft das Gold zutage?
Wer hämmert Erz und Stein?
Wer webet Tuch und Seide?
Wer bauet Korn und Wein?
Wer gibt den Reichen all ihr Brot
und lebt dabei in bittrer Not?
Not sure where the Goat's gone to, so I'll hazard a guess: the Stonecutters?

Recycling songs is eco-friendly:

Was you ever in Quebec
Launching timbers on the deck
Where you break your bleedin' neck
Riding on a donkey?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: beagle on May 18, 2007, 09:15:15 PM
On Friday's he's usually up the old Sea Dog.
(Recycling Blackadder jokes is eco friendly too).
Don't encourage his Marxist ways, because it's only just a phase.


Was you ever in Quebec?
Je ne me souviens pas.


Is this the role that you wanted to live?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 18, 2007, 09:15:39 PM
'tis still better than Cape Horn (where the weather is never warm).

Which side are you on?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: beagle on May 18, 2007, 09:32:16 PM
Port out, starboard home of course.


"Young man," quote Abdul,"has life grown so dull
That you wish to end your career?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 18, 2007, 10:14:28 PM
To end it I would have to have one in the first place.

What have we done?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: beagle on May 19, 2007, 08:41:19 AM
The Wall Street Shuffle


Where will we be, when the summer's gone?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 19, 2007, 10:38:30 AM
Fallen like the autumn leaves

Who day and night must slumber in R'lyeh, wave his tentacles, having nasty dreams?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Kiyoodle the Gambrinous on May 19, 2007, 11:09:28 PM
The squidlings...


What's a woman when a man
Don't stand by her side?
What's a woman when a man
Has secrets to hide?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 20, 2007, 09:36:57 AM
independent and suspicious

Who must live in ignorance until the day
they find they've read too many nasty books?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: beagle on May 20, 2007, 07:14:00 PM
The Jeffrey Archer Fan Club?

Had this dream stopped?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 21, 2007, 08:54:12 AM
If that's reality, I want some better dreams.

Byakhee byakhee what can I do to go for a ride with you?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: beagle on May 21, 2007, 08:45:00 PM
Get my name right for a start. It's pronounced to rhyme with regal.


How can you expect to be taken seriously?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 21, 2007, 10:11:22 PM
The pointy head has a big WIZZARD on it.

Don't you reckon that I'd get more done, if I were a Deep One
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Kiyoodle the Gambrinous on May 22, 2007, 12:05:31 AM
As long as you're not deep throat...


Have you seen
My sixteen year old tattooed woman?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 22, 2007, 12:15:43 AM
No, I took her for a mad virgin.

Who would add foul shapes to my dreams?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on May 22, 2007, 04:48:05 PM
The Lucky Charms leprechaun, that's who.



How did we get from saying "I love you" to "I'll see you 'round some day"?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: beagle on May 22, 2007, 08:07:18 PM
It was the cross-dressing. No need to swear just because the dress doesn't fit any more.



Did she get tired or did she just get lazy?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 22, 2007, 10:11:54 PM
Being the first to long leads inevitably to the latter.

But what about Wilbur?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Griffin NoName on May 23, 2007, 12:54:41 AM
Devoted to Charlotte.

Anybody seen a knight pass this way ?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 23, 2007, 08:13:19 AM
Not by day :D

How can I hope to make you see my way?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Griffin NoName on May 24, 2007, 12:20:20 AM
Come back when you see my way.

Anybody hear of plague in this town ?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 24, 2007, 01:07:10 AM
You see and smell, not hear it.

Don't you know she's destined for his fearsome older brother?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Griffin NoName on May 24, 2007, 01:23:55 AM
At least she didn't ride the whole six hundred ;)

Why can't God touch me with a sign ?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: beagle on May 24, 2007, 08:11:18 AM
God's away on business.


Well I just wonder, did you ever?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 24, 2007, 12:49:15 PM
No, if I am correct about what you mean.

Entendez-vous dans les campagnes mugir ces féroces soldats ?
(Do you hear in the fields the howling of these savage soldiers?)
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: beagle on May 24, 2007, 01:04:45 PM
(I think Ms Sinatra was deliberately vague about what she meant).

As for the soldiers they're drowned out by the genetically engineered giant field mice around here.

Isn't that interesting? (Tom Lehrer, almost ceratinly talking about the Periodic Table)
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 24, 2007, 02:02:28 PM
Looks like I am not the only one to mistype certain as ceratin ;D Must be the inner insect.

Lebt denn der alte Holzmichel noch?
(Is the old Woodmichael still alive?)
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on May 24, 2007, 04:26:37 PM
No, the dogs got him.




Who let the dogs out?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 24, 2007, 11:02:24 PM
The one who cried havoc.

Which side are you on?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Griffin NoName on May 25, 2007, 12:56:00 AM
I'll stick with the union.

And didn't you know that I'm not the world's strongest man ?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: beagle on May 25, 2007, 07:30:36 AM
Won't get fooled again.


Is this the way it has always been?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 25, 2007, 10:17:01 AM
No, there was a time before TV.

What shall we do with the drunken sailor?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: beagle on May 25, 2007, 08:42:14 PM
Same as last week, but this time remember to cover up the CCTV camera.



Is that the diamonds from the mine?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on May 25, 2007, 09:02:02 PM
If you've got a cheque, sure they are.   ;)



It's paradise, my dear, on Coconut Island
But how am I gonna pay for this Coconut Island tan?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 25, 2007, 09:56:58 PM
go-go dancing until the shoes break down.

Nanu, Besuch so früh am Tage?
(visitors so early in the day?)
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Griffin NoName on May 25, 2007, 11:31:20 PM
The neighbours think you want their cactus for breakfast.

Can't you see the towers of mine ?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 26, 2007, 11:14:02 AM
No, they were toppled by that shiplaunching face.
(Btw, nice that the last question was recognized)

Charlie, who has paid those? (vultures)
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Griffin NoName on May 26, 2007, 04:25:50 PM
Take the easy prey, while hunters take the prize!

Wondering just what these young hot-heads want of us ?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 26, 2007, 10:21:40 PM
A bucket of water to cool down.

Hey, what are the doing there?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: beagle on May 27, 2007, 03:11:45 PM
Stealing letters, or possibly whole words.


So I look too, and what do I see?

Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Kiyoodle the Gambrinous on May 27, 2007, 05:37:57 PM
Stop spying at me, while I'm in the bath tub, you pervert!


Und wer wird sich um mich kümmern?
(And who will take care of me?)
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 27, 2007, 07:23:26 PM
Die Pi-Pa-Polizei!

Wer soll das bezahlen, wer hat soviel Geld?
(who shall pay for that, who has that much money?)
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: beagle on May 27, 2007, 07:59:08 PM
The man who sold the world?



Look at the sky, look at the river
Isn't it good?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 27, 2007, 08:42:58 PM
Sky is grey and river brown (and often full of foam).

Wer hat soviel Pinke-Pinke, wer hat das bestellt?
(Who has so much dough, who has ordered that?)
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Griffin NoName on May 28, 2007, 02:58:46 AM
Father Rheine it seems. But will it flow for ever?

Wasn't it a good year ?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: The Meromorph on May 28, 2007, 03:45:14 AM
The years and years were good back then,
and all our dreams were growing.


Isn't it strange?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 28, 2007, 12:26:20 PM
Never take weed from a stranger.

Why is it so hard to show my feelings?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Kiyoodle the Gambrinous on May 28, 2007, 07:24:48 PM
Probably because you didn't take the weed...


Where have all the flowers gone?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 28, 2007, 09:18:05 PM
Deflorated?

How many roads must a man walk down?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Griffin NoName on May 28, 2007, 10:28:47 PM
None, if you call him a man. Are women that easy to manipulate?

What made him leave his mother for a gun ?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 28, 2007, 11:10:59 PM
With a gun he can have a legal relationship.

How many years can a mountain exist
Before it's washed to the sea?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: beagle on May 31, 2007, 08:46:46 PM
Do you have time for a brief chat about oceanic ridges, plate tectonics, subduction zones and erosion? Might be a few tensors and a passing reference to Theseus' paradox as well.
I worked it all out once before but it got blown away in a sudden gust of wind.


Why must the show go on?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on May 31, 2007, 09:14:44 PM
Because if we have to refund all these tickets, it's coming out of your salary.


How much is that doggie in the window?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on May 31, 2007, 09:35:47 PM
5000 Taler

Wein oder lach ich?
(Do/should I cry or laugh?)
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Kiyoodle the Gambrinous on May 31, 2007, 11:24:02 PM
Why not laugh so hard that tears come out?


Why it has to be like this?
I'm asking you why
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Aggie on June 01, 2007, 12:06:09 AM
I told you you'd be sorry for inventing that machine.

How did the cat get so fat?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on June 01, 2007, 08:46:35 AM
And where are the goldfishes and the hamster and the...

Götter, was mach ich?
(Gods, what shall I do?)
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on June 01, 2007, 01:52:37 PM
Put the cat on a diet.




Pardon me boy, is that the Chattanooga Choo-Choo?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on June 01, 2007, 02:43:41 PM
Nein, der Sonderzug nach Pankow.

But what if [insert name] full of tears pleads with me to keep her?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: beagle on June 01, 2007, 10:54:50 PM
Explain you make it a rule never to marry on a first date.


Well can you put your hands in your head?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Griffin NoName on June 01, 2007, 11:49:29 PM
Only when my ears are open.

Won't you bend my ear again ?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on June 02, 2007, 07:32:49 AM
Only if it is made of tin

Is there anybody out there?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on June 03, 2007, 05:06:37 AM
Here we are, born to be kings, we're the princes of the universe.

Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on June 03, 2007, 09:24:54 AM
Sincerely Yours!

Will denn das Verderben mich erfassen?
(is the bad fate going to take me?)
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: beagle on June 03, 2007, 07:13:28 PM
That will teach you to save a few bob by making your own cartridges.


As the days fly past will we lose our grasp
Or fuse it in the sun?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Griffin NoName on June 03, 2007, 10:32:23 PM
Dream on.

Did she wake you up to tell you that
It was only a change of plan?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on June 04, 2007, 08:38:36 AM
No, it was the sound of automatic fore that told me that plan A had failed.

Weißt du, wie viel Wolken gehen weithin über alle Welt?
(Do you know how many clouds are travelling all over the world?)
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Kiyoodle the Gambrinous on June 04, 2007, 11:15:52 AM
Is it more than three?


Could it be, could it be
That you're joking with me?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on June 04, 2007, 01:25:38 PM
Not at all. I am dead-pan.

Weißt Du wieviel Mücklein spielen in der heißen Sonnenglut?
(Do you know how many little gnats play in the sun's hot glow?)
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on June 04, 2007, 02:23:00 PM
Not too many when there's a magnifying glass involved, I reckon.


Should I bring him down?
Should I scream and shout?
Should I speak of love,
Let my feelings out?
I never thought I'd come to this.
What's it all about?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on June 04, 2007, 02:39:26 PM
All about fornication and financial lubrication both may bring you adoration.

Wer hat das erste Lied erdacht?
(who thought up the first song?)
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on June 04, 2007, 06:21:59 PM
My guess is Mel Torme.



Have you heard?  I married an angel.
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Kiyoodle the Gambrinous on June 04, 2007, 08:53:06 PM
I envy you. Are there any left for me?


What did you just give me?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on June 05, 2007, 08:58:40 AM
Don't ye recognize a stick of dynamite, doc?

Which witch?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on June 05, 2007, 02:22:04 PM
The wicked witch?





Whaddya mean it's last call?  I just got here.
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on June 05, 2007, 02:49:42 PM
Attention, Attention! Corruption Airways is calling for all passengers to Rio de Janeiro to check in immediately.

Wer ist bekannt als schönster Mann im Staate?
(who is known as the best-looking man in the country?)
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Kiyoodle the Gambrinous on June 05, 2007, 05:59:41 PM
I would vote for myself. ;)


What about Breakfast at Tiffany's?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on June 05, 2007, 06:12:18 PM
Tiffy broke my heart quite fast ;D

Who is this king?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: beagle on June 07, 2007, 08:51:02 PM
Dunno, looks all shook up.


Can you picture what will be , So limitless and free?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Griffin NoName on June 08, 2007, 12:34:36 AM
When one door closes, another opens.

Driver, where you taken' us?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on June 08, 2007, 08:59:46 AM
On the highway to hell.

Siehst du den Mond dort stehen?
(Can you see the moon standing there?)
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Griffin NoName on June 08, 2007, 10:39:48 AM
The moon is opposing Jupiter. Don't get invovled. It's their problem. Jim Critchfield

Who will give, not take away ?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on June 08, 2007, 01:20:27 PM
The boxer, if he is good.

Wer hat sie dahin gestellt?
(Who has put them [flowers] there?)
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Kiyoodle the Gambrinous on June 08, 2007, 02:48:12 PM
Wasn't me.


Where do you go when you're lonely?
Where do you go when you're blue?
Where do you go when you're lonely, I'll follow you
When the stars go blue?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on June 08, 2007, 03:49:19 PM
When stars go blue it means they are moving towards us fast. Time to run.

Wann wird's mal wieder richtig Sommer?
(When will it be a true summer once again?)
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Bruder Cuzzen on June 13, 2007, 07:30:35 AM
With global warming, it'll always be summer .


Who will stop the rain?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on June 13, 2007, 08:50:29 AM
The drought

Were you ever in Cantone?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Bruder Cuzzen on June 14, 2007, 08:13:46 AM
Spent  three years there one afternoon.

Did I disappoint you? Leave a bad taste in you mouth? (BTW I'm liking this game very much,it's genius )
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on June 14, 2007, 09:20:53 AM
You follow an oral tradition.

Wer hat da an der Uhr gedreht?
(who has meddled with the clock?)
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: beagle on June 14, 2007, 01:04:16 PM
Now that's definitely because you blinked. But you may have to wait for 1969, or Dr Who German runs, to get the full story. Beware the weeping angels.


Do you remember, your president Nixon?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on June 14, 2007, 03:49:59 PM
His head is in a jar as Futurama watcher know.

Hat man nicht mit seinen Kindern 100000 Hudelei?
oh yeah, such problems with the kiddies ;D
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Kiyoodle the Gambrinous on June 15, 2007, 01:31:41 AM
Never been in the presence of 100.000 kids, so I can't really say...


How blue can you get?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on June 15, 2007, 06:43:35 AM
Depends on degree of nobility and oxygen content of the atmosphere

Wie oft sind wir geschritten auf schmalem Negerpfad?
(How often have we tread on narrow jungle trails?)
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Bruder Cuzzen on June 15, 2007, 08:23:30 AM
Never,I don't recall ever going camping with you,I don't even know what you look like.

Are the stars out tonight ?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on June 15, 2007, 08:42:07 AM
No, they are on but behind the clouds.

Who Threw the Overalls in Mistress Murphy's Chowder?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: beagle on June 21, 2007, 08:02:03 AM
She's a messy eater. It saved time.

Beautiful Soup, Who cares for fish, game or any other dish?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on June 21, 2007, 08:42:37 AM
Evr'rything can get soupified.

Who or why, or which, or what,
Is the Akond of Swat?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: beagle on June 22, 2007, 08:01:16 AM
He's a tall, sofa-sitting,young, cold coffee-drinking,whistling, fez-wearing, i-dotting, letter-smudging,revolution-inducing, populace-shooting, tea-drinking, fuss-making,boat-hating, bow-tie-wearing, ex-wife-beater. Thought everyone knew that. But at least  he's better than his predecessor.


Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, won't you join the dance?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on June 22, 2007, 09:13:11 AM
Eh, no. I do not dance.

Who killed Cock Robin?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Bruder Cuzzen on June 23, 2007, 01:02:12 AM
The Joker ? The Penguin ? , The Riddler?

When will I be loved ?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on June 23, 2007, 09:20:12 AM
When you meet your mother?

What is the matter with Mary Jane?
She's crying with all her might and main,
And she won't eat her dinner - rice pudding again -
What is the matter with Mary Jane?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Bruder Cuzzen on June 23, 2007, 09:04:45 PM
Nothing to worry about...Peter Parker or Spiderman always make it through to save the day .


Did I ask to much ?

Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: goat starer on June 24, 2007, 06:31:48 AM
not nearly enough old bean. I had an essay waiting for you.

why is rod hull alive and getting paid as well?

(he was when the song was written)
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on June 24, 2007, 09:46:35 AM
Would only sink, if it were rotten hull.

Who can sail without the wind,
Who can row without an oar,
Who can leave behind a friend,
Without just one tear to pour?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Sibling Chatty on June 30, 2007, 10:01:20 AM
Captain Cronan??

And now I wonder, wonder,really wonder,
WHO?
Who wrote the Book of Love?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on June 30, 2007, 10:22:28 AM
Not the pope, I assure you. He's more into prawn.

Where are the lads who stood with me
When history was made?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Kiyoodle the Gambrinous on June 30, 2007, 11:41:24 AM
They're having their well-deserved beer in the pub...


What is love?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on July 01, 2007, 09:23:13 AM
A four letter word.

Who, who, who's your lady friend?
Who's the little girlie by your side?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on July 01, 2007, 07:05:00 PM
Quote from: Swatopluk on July 01, 2007, 09:23:13 AM
Quote from: Kiyoodle the Gambrinous on June 30, 2007, 11:41:24 AM
What is love?
A four letter word.
Another four letter word?
:mrgreen:
---
Carry on.
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: The Meromorph on July 02, 2007, 02:02:23 AM
That's my Hoosier Lady Friend!


How would I know,
Why should I care?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on July 02, 2007, 11:54:29 AM
Curiosity and empathy

Which is the bow that has no arrow?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Griffin NoName on July 03, 2007, 12:08:42 AM
The one I got on ebay.

Why D'Ya Do It?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Sibling Chatty on July 03, 2007, 05:36:07 AM
Meh, why not??

Is that all there is?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on July 03, 2007, 08:51:15 AM
No, but for more the fee is higher.

Why weep ye by the tide, ladie,
Why weep ye by the tide?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: goat starer on July 04, 2007, 12:52:21 AM
fer me wee plastic boatie's gaen floatin awai wi ther tide!

How can you stay with a fat girl wholl say :
Oh ! would you like to marry me ?
And if you like you can buy the ring
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Kiyoodle the Gambrinous on July 06, 2007, 11:00:40 PM
Can't say. Never tried...


Walk tall, why ever run?
When they move if I ever come?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on July 07, 2007, 10:32:48 AM
Is that, eh, innuendo?

Can you make me a cambric shirt,
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme,
Without any seam or needlework?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Pachyderm on July 07, 2007, 03:18:26 PM
Fraid not. Fresh out of thyme, you see.

Whatever became of Hubert?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on July 08, 2007, 09:34:51 AM
Became a hunter and rode away.

Who is Sylvia?
What is she?
That all our swains commend her?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Bruder Cuzzen on July 23, 2007, 09:24:24 AM
 I think I saw her in a wet dream , but I'm not certain .



If a picture paints a thousand words

Then why can't I see you ?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Kiyoodle the Gambrinous on July 23, 2007, 01:27:46 PM
Because I'm not the one you're looking for...


Angie, angie, when will those clouds all disappear?
Angie, angie, where will it lead us from here?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on July 23, 2007, 03:04:04 PM
The forecast calls for this fog to lift by tomorrow.  You should be able to see the road sign then.



So 10:30 the other night I go out into my yard, and there's the Worster kid looking up in a tree.  I say "what're you lookin' for?"  Says "I'm lookin' for my burrow owl."  I say "jumpin' Jesus on a pogo stick!  Everybody knows that the burrow owl lives in a hole in the ground!  Why do you think they call it a burrow owl anyway?!"
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: The Meromorph on July 23, 2007, 04:40:52 PM
He said. Sumbuddy burrowed it from me dad!

Oh where, oh where has my little dog gone?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Pachyderm on July 23, 2007, 05:26:46 PM
Not a clue.

If, however, you wish to mount a rescue search:


Send the Marines
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on July 25, 2007, 01:48:16 PM
Where's the question?

Where is the goat? It's time for milking
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Kiyoodle the Gambrinous on July 25, 2007, 10:17:46 PM
The goat is recovering from a fight with an elephant.


What else is there?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on July 26, 2007, 04:42:58 PM
Der Abwasch!

Will you come to the bower o'er the free boundless ocean
Where the stupendous waves roll in thundering motion,
Where the mermaids are seen and the fierce tempest gathers,
To loved Erin the green, the dear land of our fathers."
Will you come, will you, will you, will you come to the bower?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: The Meromorph on July 26, 2007, 07:28:33 PM
Thank you for the kind invitation, but I get very seasick...

Will ye go, lassie, go? And we'll all go together,
to pull wild mountain thyme, all around the purple heather,
will ye go, lassie, go?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Kiyoodle the Gambrinous on July 26, 2007, 07:57:29 PM
Lassie goes home, not with you, you little pervert... ;)



Who let the dogs out?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Sibling Lambicus the Toluous on July 26, 2007, 08:24:32 PM
Nobody.  They finally developed opposable thumbs and got the door open on their own.  Now we're all screwed.

Who do that voodoo that you do so well?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Kiyoodle the Gambrinous on July 27, 2007, 12:58:29 PM
The Master of Puppet does that...


Where is the what if the what is in why?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on July 27, 2007, 04:56:34 PM
Wheels of why whereing in the who.

Wha wadna fecht for Charlie?
Wha wadna draw the sword?
Wha wadna up and rally
At the royal Prince's word?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: The Meromorph on July 27, 2007, 05:05:59 PM
I like Princess Diana's approach better. (a true Stewart, I had such hopes...  :'( )

Will ye no come back again?
Will ye no come back again?
better loved ye couldna be,
Will ye no come back again?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Scriblerus the Philosophe on July 27, 2007, 08:02:01 PM
Old folk song, right? Sounds like it to me.

While I'm clocking in as a temp boy look at them run
It is too late now to affect the whole world, or is it just dated now?
They could care less who invaded now.
Really am I silly with the dreams of the milli'?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on July 27, 2007, 08:19:30 PM
Better avoid Milli Vanilli.

What shall I call
My dear little dormouse?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Sibling Chatty on August 04, 2007, 02:51:17 AM
Eek-a-_____?

What kind of fool am I
That never fell in love?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Kiyoodle the Gambrinous on August 06, 2007, 10:06:56 PM
Sorry to hear that you've never fallen in love, it's a beautiful feeling, you should try in once. I fall in love every two or three minutes... :P


Where's your head at?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Pachyderm on August 06, 2007, 11:20:13 PM
Perched on top of my neck, in the traditional place, thankfully.

Who's next?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Kiyoodle the Gambrinous on August 07, 2007, 01:38:20 AM
It could be anyone.


Bad boys, bad boys
Whatcha gonna do, whatcha gonna do
When they come for you?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on August 07, 2007, 09:26:33 AM
Time to polish that old battleaxe again
Give them an experience of pain.


Which is the bow that has no arrow?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Kiyoodle the Gambrinous on August 16, 2007, 02:37:05 PM
And what is an arrow without a bow?


Who shot the go go dancer?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Swatopluk on August 16, 2007, 02:54:47 PM
The one who also shot Cock Robin

"What's the news? What's the news?
O my bold Shelmalier,
With your long-barrelled gun of the sea?
Say what wind from the sun
Blows his messenger here
With a hymn of the dawn for the free?"
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Griffin NoName on May 02, 2009, 11:16:26 PM

News of Swine Flu is not my idea of a Hymn.

Who knows where the time goes?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Opsa on May 03, 2009, 03:27:20 PM
We cant return, we can only look behind
From where we came
And go round and round and round
In the circle game



Shall we dance?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Aggie on October 23, 2009, 04:11:37 AM
Let's dance!  Put on your red shoes and dance the blues...

After all this is gone,
Who'd you rather be
The Beatles or the Rolling Stones?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Opsa on October 23, 2009, 08:24:43 PM
"I'd rather be dead than wet my bed." -Harry Nilsson

How can people be so heartless?


Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: pieces o nine on October 24, 2009, 08:31:48 AM
How can people be so heartless?
How can people be so cruel?
Easy to be hard
Easy to be cold.
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Opsa on October 28, 2009, 06:49:52 PM
game rules:

Quote from: goat starer on May 02, 2007, 11:50:38 AM

Not seen this elsewhere on here (apologies if I missed it). This is your opportunity to help answer some of those troubling questions that have appeared in song over the years. Give the Lyric and the next person answers the question (wittily or accurately) and poses another teaser from song. To get you started.....

Are you going to Scarborough Fair?

Hey Pieces! Yer fergot ter put in a new lyrical questshun...
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: pieces o nine on October 29, 2009, 04:13:12 AM
Arrrgh!!! Me hedde be bowed in shayme, agin.   :-[
Oi be suckin at thee gaymes threads.


...How about...
Where were you when I needed you?
Title: Re: The Great Toadfish Rhetorical Questions in Song Answer Game
Post by: Opsa on October 29, 2009, 03:14:57 PM
"Here I am baby, signed, sealed, delivered, I'm yours!"
-Stevie Wonder

Are you reelin' in the years?