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I guess nobody wants Georgie boy there, and before you reply it doesn't make sense, I'll let you know I can explain the answer very well, but will spare you the long details so might be best not to say anything except George Jones sucks.
It is entirely possible to disagree with you for reasons other disliking George Jones.
Post by monkeymonkeyjoyjoy on Jan 15, 2010 20:23:31 GMT -5
K guys...what about this one! dallasphill posted this up in Headliner Rumors yesterday at 4:30-ish in the AM. "With all the Neil Young talk I was wondering what you guys make of this:
***Alright....I hope the link works. It's the happy holidays post on the Roo website...and yes it does say "decade (!!)". Could mean nothing, but what makes it kinda fun is that dallasphill's avatar is a grinning monkey, and Dallas is a warm place. Out of the monkeys here on Inforoo he is prolly the warmest (I'm in MN so I'm def not..hehe)! Man ~ I hope it is Neil Young! I can't figure out how the offspring part would fit though.
K guys...what about this one! dallasphill posted this up in Headliner Rumors yesterday at 4:30-ish in the AM. "With all the Neil Young talk I was wondering what you guys make of this:
***Alright....I hope the link works. It's the happy holidays post on the Roo website...and yes it does say "decade (!!)". Could mean nothing, but what makes it kinda fun is that dallasphill's avatar is a grinning monkey, and Dallas is a warm place. Out of the monkeys here on Inforoo he is prolly the warmest (I'm in MN so I'm def not..hehe)! Man ~ I hope it is Neil Young! I can't figure out how the offspring part would fit though.
That's really weird. It's a *completely* different line of reasoning than I used to arrive at the same conclusion. And, his post precedes the clue, as if djjd was responding to him. Yeah, that's interesting. But, dallasphill mentioned a lot of bands in other posts/offspring.
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And wow, you're like a walking, talking infomercial to turn people away from Pearl Jam and Ohio State, aren't you? Before you started posting here I quite liked Pearl Jam and was indifferent towards OSU, now I find myself wishing that Eddie Vedder falls down a mine shaft or that Columbus is infested with locusts
Here's a fresh idea: The one monkey & and his offspring could be Donkey Kong & Donkey Kong Jr, both arcade games and then the warmest part could mean fire.....Arcade Fire anyone?
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this is literally what i was thinking....except warmest monkey part was arcade fire and offspring was maybe a smaller band that they mentored or something.
Post by viciouscircle on Jan 15, 2010 22:04:16 GMT -5
The fact that the clue says "the one monkey" rather than just "the monkey" has been making me think there needs to be some specific numeric reference in the solution somehow. The only thing I've come up with is the song from Curious George that many of us used to sing in Kindergarten, Ten Little Monkeys. (There were ten monkeys in the bed, and the little one said "roll over, roll over") In that song, the only monkey left in the bed at the end is "the little one" and being the only monkey left in the bed would make him the warmest monkey. From that you could sort of get The Little Ones, if you stretched offspring to mean merely pluralising. Or it could be a band with Little (or a synonym) in the name. The only thing I could think of from that is Little Richard, with the offspring part being a reference to his being known as the Creator (as well as the Originator and the Architect) of Rock and Roll and thus half the bands booked could be considered his "offspring."
Anybody have any other ideas that could use the idea of the "little one" being the warmest monkey?
I guess nobody wants Georgie boy there, and before you reply it doesn't make sense, I'll let you know I can explain the answer very well, but will spare you the long details so might be best not to say anything except George Jones sucks.
It is entirely possible to disagree with you for reasons other disliking George Jones.
I agree. You have a reason?
Right now, I'm leaning toward Arcade Fire then George Jones, but I think once djjd gets back from his west coast swing we should hear some more or whether we need to stop posting theories.
Here's a fresh idea: The one monkey & and his offspring could be Donkey Kong & Donkey Kong Jr, both arcade games and then the warmest part could mean fire.....Arcade Fire anyone?
I was listening to Arcade Fire while driving home from work today and thought, How can I make Arcade Fire the answer to the clue? And this same thought came quickly. Not just DK Jr, but as an early arcade game, DK helped to spawn arcades in general, or at least as a widespread cultural thing. And it spawned Mario.
But then I decided it was too much of a stretch. I still like it, but I don't think it quite fits. I think using the Cecily G and the Nine Monkeys logic from yesterday makes more sense. I think the "one" monkey is an indicator that we should be using something that mentions monkeys by number, perhaps. So that or 12 Monkeys. How about a Bruce with offspring? Or a Brad with offspring?
Post by viciouscircle on Jan 15, 2010 23:06:18 GMT -5
I agree about the "one monkey" meaning we need to use something that mentions monkeys by number. I watched half of 12 Monkeys last night, though, and I couldn't find anything there.
Post by plasticpepper on Jan 15, 2010 23:28:15 GMT -5
I too think the one monkey is significant, but I don't know if we necessarily need a group of monkeys that's referred to by number. I do think a group of monkeys of some sort is likely though, but that could just be a band with a monkey name or something like that. Hmmm.
I feel like we have a few guesses that can be connected to each major word in the clue - monkey, warm, offspring - but that don't work with the clue as a whole once you consider the exact wording. I'm not sure about the Arcade Fire guess - it's definitely possible, but it's a bit of a stretch to consider that to make sense for the exact wording. But then, we don't know if it needs to fit EXACTLY - it's not as if "the chairman of the board after the birthday party" was an exact fit by any means.
One thing I keep thinking is that words like "warmest" and "offspring" are probably used in place of the more logical word. That is, if he meant hottest, he'd say warmest to muddle it up a bit. So I keep wondering if the use of "warmest" does mean that he specifically wants "hottest" or some other word. I'm not making much sense here, but warmest already refers to temperature, so if he meant temperature he'd be saying what he meant, and when does DJ JD ever do that?! But if he meant something else, especially something that was better represented by "hottest" or some other word, then him saying warmest instead would seem to make a lot of sense.
and oooomg that may have been the most ridiculous paragraph I've ever typed in relation to these clues. I don't know if anyone will understand what I'm getting at, but whatever.
I agree about the "one monkey" meaning we need to use something that mentions monkeys by number. I watched half of 12 Monkeys last night, though, and I couldn't find anything there.
Yep, for a bunch of them the right answer had been mentioned. Although in many of those cases we didn't know that we had it. Last year's clues are all still on my website if you wanna see them.
Edit: haha you guys are fast, I got beat to the punch twice over!
I too think the one monkey is significant, but I don't know if we necessarily need a group of monkeys that's referred to by number. I do think a group of monkeys of some sort is likely though, but that could just be a band with a monkey name or something like that. Hmmm.
I feel like I'm defending a losing proposition, but if Link Wray is the answer to "The one monkey that was the warmest," he's *the* missing link. Emphasis on the definite article.
I feel like I'm defending a losing proposition, but if Link Wray is the answer to "The one monkey that was the warmest," he's *the* missing link. Emphasis on the definite article.
I'm not positive I'm getting what you're saying so feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see how that makes that answer make sense for the thought that the word one is significant. The definite article was already there; I'm wondering if it's significant that the clue says "the one monkey" rather than "the monkey." I don't think the Link Wray guess would explain using the word one at all; it would make just as much sense if the word one wasn't there.
I think you guys think way too much into these clues. I wasn't paying attention to clues last year, but were they that in-depth? I don't think the Arcade Fire guess is correct, but I think that's how broad and general you have to think. It has to be something easily connected. The way you are trying to solve them, seems like you are thinking in circles and confusing yourselves. But, I don't know, as I said I don't have experience with these clues, so you would know better than I. PMO
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I feel like I'm defending a losing proposition, but if Link Wray is the answer to "The one monkey that was the warmest," he's *the* missing link. Emphasis on the definite article.
I'm not positive I'm getting what you're saying so feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see how that makes that answer make sense for the thought that the word one is significant. The definite article was already there; I'm wondering if it's significant that the clue says "the one monkey" rather than "the monkey." I don't think the Link Wray guess would explain using the word one at all; it would make just as much sense if the word one wasn't there.
The missing link is commonly considered a monkey, a singular monkey. The one monkey connecting primitive apes/monkeys to man in the chain of evolution. Also, a link is defined as "one" ring or loop of a chain.
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But if he meant something else, especially something that was better represented by "hottest" or some other word, then him saying warmest instead would seem to make a lot of sense.
