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| Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>: Mar 04 11:52AM > Gareth Owen: >> Battery?? > Interesting guess. Yeah, I kind of realised that after I posted it. Truthfully I got confused by the song "New York New York" (the one from "On The Town", not the Sinatra one[0]) > In your mind, how many boroughs does NYC have, and how many of them > can you name? Well, I own a Beastie Boys album called "To The Five Boroughs"[2], so I'd say five. Which are, if I gave it full thought -- Queens Greatest Hits, No Sleep Till Brooklyn, Manhattan Transfer, South Bronx, err ... The Harlem Shuffle?[3] (I'd have included 3rd Bass's terrific "Brooklyn Queens" with the "Coming To America" sample but that would just confuse matters) I've only been to New York once, and its the only place in the world I've ever been robbed in the street. I prefer the Boston or the West Coast, man. [0] "The Bronx is Up and the Battery Down, The people ride in the hole in the ground" - that one[1] [1] Everything I know in life I learned from popular music [2] See [1] [3] See [1] |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Mar 04 02:55PM > Manhattan Transfer, > South Bronx, > err ... The Harlem Shuffle?[3] Well, it's not your fault that Staten Island is too boring for people to write songs about (although I am pretty sure it is mentioned in at least one song). > I've only been to New York once, and its the only place in the world > I've ever been robbed in the street. I prefer the Boston or the > West Coast, man. Boston is anarthrous. -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>: Mar 04 04:17PM +0100 > Well, it's not your fault that Staten Island is too boring for people > to write songs about (although I am pretty sure it is mentioned in at > least one song). Yup, there is a song where Staten Island features on Joni Mitchells album "Hejira". (More precisely, the song is "Song for Sharon", but I had to look that part up.) -- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, esquel@sommarskog.se |
| tool@panix.com (Dan Blum): Mar 04 03:52PM > Yup, there is a song where Staten Island features on Joni Mitchells > album "Hejira". (More precisely, the song is "Song for Sharon", but > I had to look that part up.) There's also "Manhattan": "I'll take Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island too..." -- _______________________________________________________________________ Dan Blum tool@panix.com "I wouldn't have believed it myself if I hadn't just made it up." |
| Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>: Mar 04 04:16PM > Yup, there is a song where Staten Island features on Joni Mitchells > album "Hejira". (More precisely, the song is "Song for Sharon", but > I had to look that part up.) I didn't know Staten Island, but I can name a song its at least mentioned in - Hard Times in New York Town by Bob Dylan "If you got a lot of money you can make yourself merry, I've you've only got a nickel it's the Staten Island Ferry" I have Hejira (of course - I'm not a philistine), but the only songs I could quote from off the top of my head are Furry Sings The Blues, Amelia, Hejira and the wonderful Coyote. |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Mar 04 02:17PM -0600 Gareth Owen: > Yeah, I kind of realised that after I posted it. Truthfully I got > confused by the song "New York New York" (the one from "On The Town"...) Ah, that would do it. The Battery is actually the southern tip of Manhattan, which was once fortified and is now a park. Harlem is a large section of Manhattan, more or less at the other end. -- Mark Brader | In order that there may be no doubt as to which is the Toronto | bottom and which is the top ... the bottom of each msb@vex.net | warhead [will] immediately be labeled with the word TOP. --British Admiralty regulation, c.1968 |
| "Peter Smyth" <smythp@gmail.com>: Mar 05 12:09AM Calvin wrote: > 1 Which colour is traditionally associated with Protestantism? Orange > 2 Which fictional character's published diaries include "The > Wilderness Years" (1993) and "The Cappuccino Years" (1999)? Adrian Mole > 3 What is the SI unit of acceleration? metres per second per second > 5 Which 1987 Steven Spielberg film is largely set in a Japanese > internment camp during WWII? > 6 "Sandy" is most commonly a diminutive of which male forename? Alexander > 7 Which poem traditionally attributed to Homer deals with the events > surrounding the Trojan War? The Iliad > 8 Which four-letter colloquial term describes a parliament where no > single political party (or bloc of allied parties) has an absolute > majority of seats? Hung > 9 "Canucks" is a slang term for natives of which country? Canada > 10 The Brooklyn Bridge connects Brooklyn to which other New York > borough? Manhattan Peter Smyth |
| Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>: Mar 05 07:11AM > The Battery is actually the southern tip of Manhattan, which was once > fortified and is now a park. Harlem is a large section of Manhattan, > more or less at the other end. Please give your answer in the form of a song title .... :) |
| Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com>: Mar 05 07:29AM > Harlem is a large section of Manhattan, > more or less at the other end. Across 110th Street? |
| msb@vex.net (Mark Brader): Mar 05 02:52AM -0600 Mark Brader: > > Harlem is a large section of Manhattan, more or less at the [north] end. Gareth Owen: > Across 110th Street? Here's one opinion of its boundaries: http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/~/media/ArtsEdge/Images/LessonArt/grade-3-4/harlem-map.ashx I see I was mistaken to describe it as "at the north end"; I assumed that since the Harlem River forms the northern boundary of Manhattan, the area called Harlem must extend more or less that far. But in fact the island of Manhattan continues much farther north than the area seen on that map. If the numbered streets continued, more or less evenly spaced, into the narrow bit at the end, the last one on the island would be 221 or 222 St. And then, because the Harlem River was once rerouted for the convenience of ship traffic, the borough of Manhattan actually continues for a few more blocks onto the mainland, to where the river used to be, almost to 230 St. I guess I took the same attitude, looking north from midtown Manhattan in my mind, as is seen looking west on this famous New Yorker cover: http://flavorwire.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/mag7.jpg -- Mark Brader|"But how can we do something about something that isn't happening?" Toronto |"It's much easier to solve an imaginary problem than a real one." msb@vex.net| --Lynn & Jay: "Yes, Prime Minister" (2013) My text in this article is in the public domain. |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Mar 04 11:08PM -0800 Dan Blum wrote: > <answer 1> Orthodox Church, part of the Oriental Orthodox communion > and the largest Christian church in northern Africa. (There is also a > <answer 1> Catholic Church, but it is much smaller.) Coptic > into the flower, although the flower of the legend may not be the > modern flower of the same name (certainly none of the common colors > look like blood to me). narcissus > 3. This name was originally applied to a society founded by Adam > Weishaupt, a professor at the University of Ingolstadt, but today is > used much more generally. Illuminati > US but died out when longer movies (and the desire for greater comfort > while viewing them) became prevalent. In current usage <answer 7> is a > proper noun in a different but related context. nickelodeon > like "half," and the former theory is just folk etymology based on the > similar-sounding names. If you had two of them you could buy a young > goat. shekel ?? > different in appearance from their summer coats - so much so that one, > the stoat, has often been known by a different name in that coat. What > is it? ermine -- Dan Tilque |
| Don Piven <don@piven.net>: Mar 04 04:39AM -0600 On 3/3/17 23:34, Mark Brader wrote: > you name the "be-" word. Note: only the correct part of speech > will be accepted for full points. > 1. Verb, meaning to elaborate or expound an argument excessively. Belabor > 2. Adjective, meaning engaged to be married. Betrothed > 3. Verb, meaning to lament; express regret or sorrow. Bemoan > 4. Verb, meaning to initiate amicable relations. Befriend > 5. Adjective, meaning intellectually or morally ignorant. Benighted > 6. Verb, meaning to plague or afflict. Beset > 7. Verb, meaning to scold, rebuke, criticize. Berate > 8. Adjective, used for goods made to order, especially clothing. Bespoke > 9. Adjective, meaning under an obligation or debt. Beholden > 10. Adjective, used of a sailing ship deprived of wind and thus > unable to move. Becalmed > system can similarly become unable to move if they stop exactly > on a discontinuity in the third rail. What adjective -- no, it > does *not* start with "be-" -- describes that situation? Screwed. > * C. Sports: Major League Soccer > Name the city for each of these MLS teams. > C1. Earthquakes. Los Angeles > C2. Fire. Chicago > * D. Canadiana: Largest Cities by Area > D1. The 4 largest Canadian cities by area are found in which > province? Quebec > D2. Which provincial capital is largest by *area*? Edmonton > * E. History: Italian City-States > E1. Name the city which was the seat of power for the Medici > family. Florence > E2. In 1525, Milan came under the control of the Hapsburg line -- > of which country? Austria > * F. Literature: Fictional Cities > F1. Name the largest city and capital of the planet Dune. Arrakeen > F2. Name the fictional New York (state) city that's the > setting for a number of Kurt Vonnegut novels, including > "Slaughterhouse-Five", "Cat's Cradle", and "Player Piano". Ilium |
| "Peter Smyth" <smythp@gmail.com>: Mar 05 12:23AM Mark Brader wrote: > you name the "be-" word. Note: only the correct part of speech > will be accepted for full points. > 1. Verb, meaning to elaborate or expound an argument excessively. Belabour > 2. Adjective, meaning engaged to be married. Betrothed > 3. Verb, meaning to lament; express regret or sorrow. Bewail > 4. Verb, meaning to initiate amicable relations. Befriend > 5. Adjective, meaning intellectually or morally ignorant. Befuddled > 6. Verb, meaning to plague or afflict. > 7. Verb, meaning to scold, rebuke, criticize. > 8. Adjective, used for goods made to order, especially clothing. Bespoke > 9. Adjective, meaning under an obligation or debt. > 10. Adjective, used of a sailing ship deprived of wind and thus > unable to move. Becalmed > system can similarly become unable to move if they stop exactly > on a discontinuity in the third rail. What adjective -- no, it > does not start with "be-" -- describes that situation? Gapped > A2. "All My Children". > * B. Geography: African Capitals > B1. Name the capital city of Malawi. Lilongwe > B2. Name the capital city of Burundi. Bujumbura > * C. Sports: Major League Soccer > Name the city for each of these MLS teams. > C1. Earthquakes. San Francisco > C2. Fire. Chicago > * E. History: Italian City-States > E1. Name the city which was the seat of power for the Medici > family. Venice, Naples > E2. In 1525, Milan came under the control of the Hapsburg line -- > of which country? Austria > F2. Name the fictional New York (state) city that's the > setting for a number of Kurt Vonnegut novels, including > "Slaughterhouse-Five", "Cat's Cradle", and "Player Piano". Peter Smyth |
| Joshua Kreitzer <gromit82@hotmail.com>: Mar 05 01:31AM msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote in news:ELCdnY4_l4ZKzCfFnZ2dnUU7- > you name the "be-" word. Note: only the correct part of speech > will be accepted for full points. > 1. Verb, meaning to elaborate or expound an argument excessively. belabor > 2. Adjective, meaning engaged to be married. betrothed > 3. Verb, meaning to lament; express regret or sorrow. bewail > 4. Verb, meaning to initiate amicable relations. befriend > 5. Adjective, meaning intellectually or morally ignorant. bereft > 8. Adjective, used for goods made to order, especially clothing. bespoke > 9. Adjective, meaning under an obligation or debt. beholden > * A. Entertainment: Soap Operas > For each of these soap operas, what city is it set in? > A1. "The Young and the Restless". Llanview > A2. "All My Children". Llanview > * B. Geography: African Capitals > B1. Name the capital city of Malawi. Bujumbura > B2. Name the capital city of Burundi. Bujumbura > * C. Sports: Major League Soccer > Name the city for each of these MLS teams. > C1. Earthquakes. San Jose > C2. Fire. Chicago > * D. Canadiana: Largest Cities by Area > D1. The 4 largest Canadian cities by area are found in which > province? Quebec; British Columbia > D2. Which provincial capital is largest by *area*? Winnipeg; Regina > * E. History: Italian City-States > E1. Name the city which was the seat of power for the Medici > family. Venice; Milan > E2. In 1525, Milan came under the control of the Hapsburg line -- > of which country? Austria > * F. Literature: Fictional Cities > F1. Name the largest city and capital of the planet Dune. Arrakis -- Joshua Kreitzer gromit82@hotmail.com |
| Jason Kreitzer <jk71875@gmail.com>: Mar 04 10:36PM -0800 On Saturday, March 4, 2017 at 12:34:21 AM UTC-5, Mark Brader wrote: > you name the "be-" word. Note: only the correct part of speech > will be accepted for full points. > 1. Verb, meaning to elaborate or expound an argument excessively. Belabor > 2. Adjective, meaning engaged to be married. Betrothed > 3. Verb, meaning to lament; express regret or sorrow. Bemoan > 4. Verb, meaning to initiate amicable relations. > 5. Adjective, meaning intellectually or morally ignorant. > 6. Verb, meaning to plague or afflict. Beset > 7. Verb, meaning to scold, rebuke, criticize. Berate > Name the city for each of these MLS teams. > C1. Earthquakes. > C2. Fire. Chicago |
| Dan Tilque <dtilque@frontier.com>: Mar 04 10:46PM -0800 Mark Brader wrote: > you name the "be-" word. Note: only the correct part of speech > will be accepted for full points. > 1. Verb, meaning to elaborate or expound an argument excessively. belabor > 2. Adjective, meaning engaged to be married. betrothed > 3. Verb, meaning to lament; express regret or sorrow. bewail > 4. Verb, meaning to initiate amicable relations. befriend > 5. Adjective, meaning intellectually or morally ignorant. benighted > 6. Verb, meaning to plague or afflict. bedevil > 7. Verb, meaning to scold, rebuke, criticize. berate > 8. Adjective, used for goods made to order, especially clothing. bespoken ?? > 9. Adjective, meaning under an obligation or debt. > 10. Adjective, used of a sailing ship deprived of wind and thus > unable to move. becalmed > * C. Sports: Major League Soccer > Name the city for each of these MLS teams. > C1. Earthquakes. San Jose > C2. Fire. Chicago > * D. Canadiana: Largest Cities by Area > D1. The 4 largest Canadian cities by area are found in which > province? Alberta > D2. Which provincial capital is largest by *area*? Winnipeg > * E. History: Italian City-States > E1. Name the city which was the seat of power for the Medici > family. Florence > E2. In 1525, Milan came under the control of the Hapsburg line -- > of which country? Spain > * F. Literature: Fictional Cities > F1. Name the largest city and capital of the planet Dune. Arakeen -- Dan Tilque |
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