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Will
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May 24, 2009 10:35AM
See, this is how I get behind. I refreshed, clicked "next page" and I see nothing new, so I think I'm caught up, but I find later I'm not. Have fun. I'm leaving for the heliport and onto the airport and home today.
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Now I'm gun shy of assuming I'm caught up. It looks like nothing has happened here for days.
We're waiting on you, Will. You came closest & Marco gave up, turning it over to you.
Thing: 1. Made famous in a song
2. Air Line
3. World class chef
4. Luxury
Sorry. Here yah go.
Huh? No, but that one threw me. I know nothing of Klondike bars. Thing:
1. Made famous in a song
2. Air Line
3. World class chef
4. Luxury
5. "Speed"
Mod
I think I ate one once, but have no idea what its origins are. Hint: Confused with a Silver Meteor, actually.
Thing:
1. Made famous in a song
2. Air Line
3. World class chef
4. Luxury
5. "Speed"
6. Confused with meteor, Silver Meteor
7. Chubby and Johnny did fiddle tune.
The Orange Blossom Special?Chubby Wise & Johnny Cash both did the song. The train had super food, was luxurious & fast. I don't get the 'Air Line' clue though. Is that a type of car?
the Orange Blossom Special.........????is that a tea?
Ive never heard of it.
Mod
Operated by Seaboard Air Line Railroad; a red herring. No, it's not a tea, silly, it was luxurious but the common misconception was that it was fast. When Chubby Wise thought he was seeing the Orange Blossom Special he probably saw the Silver Comet, which had streamlined coaches. Orange Blossom Special, with its great old Pullman cars, carried passengers from New York to Florida in luxury but not with speed. Manuel, you really must hear the song someday. I can't do it but when done well the fiddle sounds like a train whistle. WAAaaaaak, WAAAAaaaaaak, ding, ding. CHOO, choo, Choo, choo, ding, ding. Wahhhhhhh. It's that Orange Blssom Special, bring' my baby back, do dah, do dah....
Jim, you're back in the saddle again.
I love learning new things from you guys......thanks!!!!!!
Intersting side note, at least to me; I'm not sure why "Air Line" was in the name of the company, but it may have been the air cushion used in the bumpers between cars. Halliburton, for whom I worked and is now quite despised by many Democrats, owned a company named "Freightliner" and their principle products were those air-charged bumper-cushion shock absorbers.
Mod
I thought you were talking about a food at first, Will. Hence the Klondike bar. I've heard Chubby Wilson playing with Scruggs & Flatt. What a combination! I'm about tone deaf & have no sense of rhythm, but even I can appreciate that team. Thanks for bringing up such an interesting piece of Americana. It's a shame we don't have decent passenger train service any more.
Person1. Family wealthy & influential
2. Revolution
3. Wife died of Yellow fever
4. Murders & atrocities were OK
Actually we do have some decent train service in some areas, but nothing like the old luxury lines of old; but what is as well-done as in times-gone-by, now? What we don't have are songs that make us proud of what we have as we used to have. Do I sound like my parents? Revolution? I wonder whose revolution? American? Hmmm....
Person1. Family wealthy & influential
2. Revolution
3. Wife died of Yellow fever
4. Murders & atrocities were OK
5. Grand Tour, Napoleonic Times
Not de Sade.Person
1. Family wealthy & influential
2. Revolution
3. Wife died of Yellow fever
4. Murders & atrocities were OK
5. Grand Tour, Napoleonic Times
6. Wealth from sugar & mines
I thought for a moment it might be Flaubert because of the "Grand Tour" but he never married.
Not Flaubert.Person
1. Family wealthy & influential
2. Revolution
3. Wife died of Yellow fever
4. Murders & atrocities were OK
5. Grand Tour, Napoleonic Times
6. Wealth from sugar & mines
7. Hero for liberation, but much income came from slaves & "serfs" (known by another name).
Person1. Family wealthy & influential
2. Revolution
3. Wife died of Yellow fever
4. Murders & atrocities were OK
5. Grand Tour, Napoleonic Times
6. Wealth from sugar & mines
7. Hero for liberation, but much income came from slaves & "serfs" (known by another name).
8. His sister married their uncle.
Person1. Family wealthy & influential
2. Revolution
3. Wife died of Yellow fever
4. Murders & atrocities were OK
5. Grand Tour, Napoleonic Times
6. Wealth from sugar & mines
7. Hero for liberation, but much income came from slaves & "serfs" (known by another name).
8. His sister married their uncle.
9. Died of TB
Mod
Susanna, your hat is a good place to guess from. You got it!!! Your turn!
Mod
1. Studied to be a kindergarten teacher.
2. Married an army officer.
3. Worked in a circus.
4. Body given to medical science; the head was embalmed.
My hat's not where I usually pull my guesses from.
Mod
A person:
1. Studied to be a kindergarten teacher.
2. Married an army officer.
3. Worked in a circus.
4. Body given to medical science; the head was embalmed.
5. Worked as an artist's model.
Mod
1. Studied to be a kindergarten teacher.
2. Married an army officer.
3. Worked in a circus.
4. Body given to medical science; the head was embalmed.
5. Worked as an artist's model.
6. "Lady MacLeod."
Mod
1. Studied to be a kindergarten teacher.
2. Married an army officer.
3. Worked in a circus.
4. Body given to medical science; the head was embalmed.
5. Worked as an artist's model.
6. "Lady MacLeod."
7. Bride by mail.
Mata Hari? This sounds familiar. A few of the clues fit her.
Mata Hari does fit, Jim. I never understood why they saved her head; she was executed with a bullet in the head/brain, wasn't she? I'm not sure it was for science, though; more for preservation of a legend. I have no idea how "Lady McCleod" applies.
Mod
"Lady MacLeod" was her circus name.
Everyone should have a circus name...
Thing1. Oldest still around
2. Edinborough
3. Around 1770
4. Moved to US early 1900's
Mata Hari was an interesting lady. In another decade or so, the French should unseal the records of her trial. It will be interesting to see if she was really guilty of espionage or not.
Mod
Sorry about the spelling. Yes, Edinburgh, Scotland. No, the park isn't the thing.Thing
1. Oldest still around
2. Edinburgh
3. Around 1770
4. Moved to US early 1900's
5. Now has 3 main sections
Is it auld Mrs McGlashen's vast collection of sporrans?Started in Leith in the mid 1600's; there are indeed about 1800 of them; moved to Boston when one of her descendants stole them and fled Scotland after an arguement over a will; now split into hairy sporrans/dress/casual sporrans.
Go on, it is isn't it?
Nope, not purses, hairy or otherwise! (I had to look that one up. No idea what a sporran was.)
Maybe this next clue will help...
Thing
1. Oldest still around
2. Edinburgh
3. Around 1770
4. Moved to US early 1900's
5. Now has 3 main sections
6. Retains British spelling
I had no idea what a sporran was until I looked it up a few minutes ago.Very interesting.
I made that up...Meg McGlashen wasn't married and collected spurtles...
OK, I made that up as well.
LOL......BarbarossaI cant imagine anyone lining up to see a collection of old man-purses, historical or otherwise.
I think there are actual spurtle collections though, there is certainly a porridge stiring world championship:http://www.goldenspurtle.com/home.htm
Thing1. Oldest still around
2. Edinburgh
3. Around 1770
4. Moved to US early 1900's
5. Now has 3 main sections
6. Retains British spelling
7. Sears Roebuck once owned it.
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