Count To A Million Thread!

6322 = 2 x 29 x 109

(Tell me why) I don’t like, I don’t like

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(Tell me why) I don’t like Mondays

6324 = 22 x 3 x 17 x 31

Tell me why I don’t like, I don’t like

6325

(Tell me why) I don’t like Mondays

6326 = 2 × 3163

Tell me why I don’t like Mondays

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I wanna shoo-oo-oo-oo-t the whole day dow-ow-ow-own.

[Final piano solo, and that ends it.

What’s next? That last one was mine, so it’s somebody else’s turn.]

6328 = 23 x 7 x 113

What was this allusion to Mary Ellen Carter about?

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[@Pardel-Lux , it’s a Canadian song by folksinger Stan Rogers, who is originally from Hamilton, Ontario. Thing is, that it’s about a Nova Scotia fishing vessel, the Mary Ellen Carter, that sinks in a storm. The owners don’t care; they got the insurance money. But the guys who worked on her loved her, and are trying to salvage the ship. It’s a story song.

Lyrics are easy to find online (azlyrics.com has the correct ones), and if you’d like to hear the song as performed by Stan Rogers himself, here’s a YouTube:

And if you want to know how I got my username, you can imagine how much fun I’ve had playing spoons to this. Rise again; let’s do the Mary Ellen Carter once more:]

She went down last October in a pouring, driving rain

6330 = 2 × 3 × 5 × 211

The skipper, he’d been drinking, and the Mate, he felt no pain

6331 = 13 x 487

Too close to Three Mile Rock and she was dealt her mortal blow

[Yes, that rings a bell. Now I must better my googling of “playing spoons to X” to make sense of your username. The Urban Dictionary sure is weird, that can’t be what you mean!]

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And the Mary Ellen Carter settled low

[@Pardel-Lux , yes, I know that there are a few meanings, not all of them family-friendly. But unexcitedly, all I do is hold a pair of spoons back-to-back, and hit them in rhythm with the music. In various ways, of course, as a number of YouTube videos of spoon players will attest, but to me, spoons are simply percussion instruments. Well, I guess I can use them to eat with too.

Fun Fact: my friends will absolutely not let me get anywhere near their kitchen’s everyday utensil drawers. Why? Because I’ll start rooting around for spoons that I can play.]

6333 = 3 x 2111

There were just us four aboard her when she finally was awash

[OK, now I got it. Makes more sense than some of the pictures Google planted in my mind :musical_note::spoon: :musical_note: :spoon: :musical_note:]

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We’d worked like hell to save her, all heedless of the cost

[@Pardel-Lux , you come to Canada, and I’ll be happy to demonstrate how to play musical spoons.]

6335 = 5 x 7 x 181

But the groan she made as she went down, it caused us to proclaim

[Thanks! May take a while, but I would not exclude the possibility.]

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[@Pardel-Lux . these are my go-tos for a normal night at the pub:

I have, of course other sets (spoon players do not call them “pairs”; they are “sets”) in sterling silver, and as dessert spoons, soup spoons, and other materials. Oneida silver plate is great! But those illustrated are my go-tos for a night out. Teakwood from Pakistan, and they play so well. Forget the “suitable for a beginner” stuff; these things are serious in the hands of a skilled player; someone who knows what he’s doing. And I know what I’m doing.]

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Oh! I forgot to add a verse:

That the Mary Ellen Carter would rise again

6338 = 2 × 3169

Well, the owners wrote her off; not a nickel would they spend

6339 = 3 x 2113

She gave twenty years of service, boys, then met her sorry end

6340

But insurance paid the loss to us, so let her rest below

6341 = 17 x 373

Then they laughed at us and said we had to go