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23 Mar 10 - 04:05 PM (#2870248) Subject: BS: couplets : a parlor game From: mkebenn 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.
The answer would be
Extra points for Author
Extra points for recording other than author
extra points for singing the verse wanna play? Mike |
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23 Mar 10 - 04:30 PM (#2870272) Subject: RE: BS: couplets : a parlor game From: SINSULL 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 |
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23 Mar 10 - 04:33 PM (#2870274) Subject: RE: BS: couplets : a parlor game From: SINSULL 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 |
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23 Mar 10 - 04:35 PM (#2870275) Subject: RE: BS: couplets : a parlor game From: SINSULL 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 |
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23 Mar 10 - 04:37 PM (#2870277) Subject: RE: BS: couplets : a parlor game From: SINSULL Ford sang it. Who wrote it? New one: When from out the dead of night Come the stars a'shining bright |
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23 Mar 10 - 05:03 PM (#2870300) Subject: RE: BS: couplets : a parlor game From: Bill D "Little Red Caboose, chug, chug, chug.. Little red caboose behind the train, train, train train..." |
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24 Mar 10 - 01:15 AM (#2870530) Subject: RE: BS: couplets : a parlor game From: mkebenn Merle Travis.. Got nothin' on your second. Mike |
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24 Mar 10 - 02:31 AM (#2870540) Subject: RE: BS: couplets : a parlor game From: katlaughing Lately I've been gettin' the urge to roam Gonna go out and buy myself a motorhome |
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24 Mar 10 - 02:53 AM (#2870545) Subject: RE: BS: couplets : a parlor game From: Georgiansilver Every mornin' at the mine you could see him arrive, He was 6'6" and weighed 245. |
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24 Mar 10 - 05:10 AM (#2870594) Subject: RE: BS: couplets : a parlor game From: Dave the Gnome 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 |
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24 Mar 10 - 05:33 AM (#2870603) Subject: RE: BS: couplets : a parlor game From: Dave the Gnome 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 |
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24 Mar 10 - 01:45 PM (#2870900) Subject: RE: BS: couplets : a parlor game From: mkebenn "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. |
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24 Mar 10 - 02:57 PM (#2870939) Subject: RE: BS: couplets : a parlor game From: Jim Dixon 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. |
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24 Mar 10 - 04:49 PM (#2871003) Subject: RE: BS: couplets : a parlor game From: katlaughing Say goodbye to my pinochle club And my job at Sears |