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Post by moonlaurel on Jan 20, 2010 17:09:19 GMT -5
Sorry about all the posts, but I was thinking...going with the idea that he was saying the clue with an almost Spanish accent...if you said to someone, who speaks Spanish natively, to spell 'meal' they may spell it 'mill' or 'mil' because the i is pronounced as a long e...? maybe?
Meal and mill are homonyms, if you emphasize the "i" in mill like you would the "ea" in meal. Just as hearing "monkey" in the other clue led us to the Monkees. Since the clue was spoken with an accent, I think that's entirely possible.
OH, how I long for the days of "Janis Joplin's preserves reserved".
HA!
Maybe there will be on easier than that one this time.
The Robert Plant/mudfish talk that followed was probably in jest, but I think DJJD might be serious in saying that one of these clues will be easier than it should be. DJJD was also saying something about dropping two clues today... it would make sense that one of them might be an easy one.
Meal and mill are homonyms, if you emphasize the "i" in mill like you would the "ea" in meal. Just as hearing "monkey" in the other clue led us to the Monkees. Since the clue was spoken with an accent, I think that's entirely possible.
But the clue says misspelled not misheard.
See the post that preceded yours for the logic behind that:
Sorry about all the posts, but I was thinking...going with the idea that he was saying the clue with an almost Spanish accent...if you said to someone, who speaks Spanish natively, to spell 'meal' they may spell it 'mill' or 'mil' because the i is pronounced as a long e...? maybe?
I'm pretty sure he was entirely just joking about all that (the LZ/mudshark/etc)
(and on a completely non-clue-related note, I thought someone confirmed that WAS true?)
I'm paraphrasing, but in clue2 djjd says, "let them eat mudshark." Mudshark is a myth according to Zappa. Replace mudshark w/cake. Man, there's a red herring somewhere: www.snopes.com/music/artists/mudshark.asp
Last Edit: Jan 20, 2010 18:08:27 GMT -5 by RBRR - Back to Top
Post by kkrrissttinnaa on Jan 20, 2010 17:56:36 GMT -5
Ahem... my opinionated two cents:
Someone mentioned "grind" as a synonym for mill, and if we're thinking the clue was "a perfect ending to a misspelled meal" instead, as it *was* read in an accent (probably to be misleading), then... okay, I don't know how to work in the perfect ending part, but I want Grinderman.
Seems like Cake is right for 3. DJ seems pretty clear there. I'm thinking that Buddy Holly is NOT the direction we want for #2, regardless of the song....
Holly's life story inspired a Hollywood biographical film, The Buddy Holly Story. The movie was widely criticized by the rock community and Holly's friends and family for its inaccuracies. This led Paul McCartney to produce and host his own tribute to Holly in 1985, titled The Real Buddy Holly Story.
I also found this... In the Red Hot Chili Peppers' music video for Dani California, in which the band take on several sub genres of Rock, Buddy is one of the first to be represented.