BS: couplets : a parlor game

Subject: BS: couplets : a parlor game
From: mkebenn
Date: 23 Mar 10 - 04:05 PM

I have game to play, if it already exists I want to have it. I call it Couplets. I only have one friend who could play, but there would be many at the 'cat Howevever, there would have to be a gentleman's(or ladies) agreement about using the net or the DT for answers. Here is how I see it.

Question:

"Some people say a man is made out'ta mud.
a poor man is made out'ta muscle and blood"

The answer would be
"Muscle and blood, skin and bone
a mind that's weak, and a back that's strong"

Extra points for Author

Extra points for recording other than author

extra points for singing the verse

wanna play? Mike

Subject: RE: BS: couplets : a parlor game
From: SINSULL
Date: 23 Mar 10 - 04:30 PM

Tennessee Ernie Ford

I was born one morning when the sun didn't shine
Picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine
I loaded sixteen tons of Number Nine coal
And the straw boss said
"Well bless my soul.
You load sixteen tons

Subject: RE: BS: couplets : a parlor game
From: SINSULL
Date: 23 Mar 10 - 04:33 PM

And what do you get?
Another day older and a deeper in debt
St. Peter don't you call me cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store.


I was born one morning in the drizzlin rain
Fighten and trouble over my middle name
I was raisin the Cain

Subject: RE: BS: couplets : a parlor game
From: SINSULL
Date: 23 Mar 10 - 04:35 PM

Just like an old poppa lion
No high tone woamn make me walk the line

You load

If ya hear me a-comin' ya better step aside
A lotta men din't an' a lotta men died
With one fist of iron an' the other of steel
If the right one don' getcha then the left one will.

You load

Subject: RE: BS: couplets : a parlor game
From: SINSULL
Date: 23 Mar 10 - 04:37 PM

Ford sang it. Who wrote it?


New one:
When from out the dead of night
Come the stars a'shining bright

Subject: RE: BS: couplets : a parlor game
From: Bill D
Date: 23 Mar 10 - 05:03 PM

"Little Red Caboose, chug, chug, chug..
Little red caboose behind the train, train, train train..."

Subject: RE: BS: couplets : a parlor game
From: mkebenn
Date: 24 Mar 10 - 01:15 AM

Merle Travis.. Got nothin' on your second. Mike

Subject: RE: BS: couplets : a parlor game
From: katlaughing
Date: 24 Mar 10 - 02:31 AM

Lately I've been gettin' the urge to roam
Gonna go out and buy myself a motorhome

Subject: RE: BS: couplets : a parlor game
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 24 Mar 10 - 02:53 AM

Every mornin' at the mine you could see him arrive,
He was 6'6" and weighed 245.

Subject: RE: BS: couplets : a parlor game
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 24 Mar 10 - 05:10 AM

Can we get the rules first please? From the OP I don't think it's just getting the singer or author. In the opening example the 'answer' is the second half of a verse - hence, I guess, the name 'couplets'. There are extra points for author etc.

Don't think you'd be able to 'market' the game as couplets though. Stricly speaking a couplet is two lines and the opening example is a quatrain. If anyone is remotely interested it is a quatrain on the AABB model! How about a nice pedantic title like 'I'll give you the first half of a verse and you give me the second half. Extra points for singer and author..' Just slips of the tougue doesn't it:-D

Enjoy it anyway

DeG

Subject: RE: BS: couplets : a parlor game
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 24 Mar 10 - 05:33 AM

Actualy - couplets could make sense if you stick to the AA BB meter - Treat each half of the verse as a seperate couplet and it restricts the answers to anything that will fit in that meter -

Go for it!

DeG

Subject: RE: BS: couplets : a parlor game
From: mkebenn
Date: 24 Mar 10 - 01:45 PM

"Kinda broad un the shouldes, narra' in the hips

and everybody knew you didn't give no lip"

Jimmy Dean, and no idea if anyone else sang it.

Subject: RE: BS: couplets : a parlor game
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 24 Mar 10 - 02:57 PM

I once devised a similar game, or quiz. The questions consisted of quotes from songs:

1. Who's gonna shoe your pretty little foot? Who's gonna glove your hand?

2. Granny, does your dog bite?

3. Work your fingers to the bone, what do you get?

The answers also must be quotes from the same songs:

1. Papa's gonna shoe my pretty little foot. Mama's gonna glove my hand.
(Actually, I think several answers are possible, depending on which version you quote.)

2. No, child, no.

3. Bony fingers!

Trouble is, I could only find about a dozen or so questions. I think I've lost my original list.

Subject: RE: BS: couplets : a parlor game
From: katlaughing
Date: 24 Mar 10 - 04:49 PM

Say goodbye to my pinochle club
And my job at Sears