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Solving => Today's Puzzles => Topic started by: magus on March 05, 2015, 09:04:28 AM
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THEME: chain stores
GOOD ONES:
Mobile setting: Abbr. ALA [the city not the switch]
Gets into a seat ELECTS
Spare pieces? RIBS [I thought RIMS]
Price number ARIA [Leontyne, the singer and if one considers an aria a number, which is usually a pop song]
They catch busses at stadiums KISS CAMS [busses is obs. for kisses]
Took courses at midnight? ATE LATE [wonder if there are night schools that run so late --- maybe on the web]
BTW:
Ryder Cup chant USA USA ["there's no chanting in golf"]
SHE'S A LADY is a bad memory both in sound and lyric.
RATING: ;D ;D
Three grins = Loved it; Two grins = Enjoyed it; One grin = A bit bland for my taste; One teardrop = Not much fun
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She's A Lady was written by Paul Anka, who also wrote a 1959 hit for Annette Funicello, It's Really Love. Anka later reworked the melody and it became the theme song for The Tonight Show.
"Buss" as a synonym for kiss is believed to be either a blend of the French baiser and the Middle English verb kissen or an adaptation of the 16th-century Scottish Gaelic word bus, which meant "mouth or lips" and is also the word from which we derived "puss" as a slang word for a person's face.
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So now I know why I also hated The Tonight Show theme. Paul Anka! (But I have to admit I did like "My Way.")
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Yes, but which My Way did you prefer, Frank Sinatra's or Elvis Presley's? Elvis's version, released two months after he died in 1977, got to #22 on the Billboard Hot 100 and Sinatra's original peaked at #27 in 1969. Elvis's version also reached #2 on the country chart.