Sunday, October 31, 2010

Short List: Pirate Songs

1. The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything - Veggie Tales

2. Rock the Plank- Mad Caddies

3. Professional Pirate - Tim Curry (Muppet Treasure Island)

4. Yo Ho, A Pirates Life for Me - Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean

5. Wishful Thinking - Rupa and the April Fishes

6. Pirate Song - Mary Martin's Peter Pan

7. Hook's Tango - Mary Martin's Peter Pan

8. Tarantella - Mary Martin's Peter Pan

9. Captain Hook's Waltz - Mary Martin's Peter Pan

10. The Captain's Wife's Lament - Paul and Storm

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Short List: Bullwhip Crack Sound Effect Songs

1. Minimum Wage - They Might Be Giants

2. Deliver Us - Ofra Haza (Prince of Egypt)

3. Rawhide - Frankie Laine

4. Hem of Your Garment - Cake

5. Ghost Riders in the Sky - The Ramrods

6. Blazing Saddles - Mel Brooks

Monday, October 25, 2010

Spelling Bee: Late and Little Impact

1. column
2. stratum
3. fluorescent / gestalt (I was the last to spell in the round, I could have had either)
4. breccia (I spelled it wrong)

#43

Sunday, October 24, 2010

Short List: Baseball-Themed Band Names

1. Fastball

2. The Outfield

3. Damn Yankees

4. Yo La Tengo

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Short List: Coldplay Songs Where Chris Martin Says "Singing" And Then He Sings

1. Sparks

2. Clocks

3. Trouble

4. Everything's Not Lost

5. In My Place

6. X&Y

Monday, October 11, 2010

#41

Spelling Bee: Give up Before Battle

1. grieve
2. retch
3. poussin

I gave up before the bee started, so I laid on the grenade for the newcomers.

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Short List: Robot Sex Songs

1. Automatic Lover - Teddybear Sthlm

2. Coin Operated Boy - The Dresden Dolls

3. Robots - TV on the Radio

Short List: Mustard Songs

1. Showtime - Electric Six

2. We Gotta Be Clean - Guster

3. Mean Mr. Mustard - The Beatles

4. They Got the Mustard Out! - Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Once More With Feeling)

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Spelling Bee: Good Enough

1. vicious
2. independence
3. echidna
4. kittel (spelled it wrong)

#40

Friday, October 1, 2010

Short List: My Life Is Good Right Now Songs

1. My Life is Good - Randy Newman

2. Life's Been Good - Joe Walsh

3. The Good Life - Kanye West