Bonus points if you can guess and sweep the Category:
damage the surface, barely passing grade; sound a mean dog makes, sound a patient makes
Harrison played him, necklace baubles; “That Touch of Mink” actress
Murderous computer, french water, “Pure Guava” band
Another guy Harrison played, freshly created, sound a crow makes
slang for joint ; double pirate exclamation; road usage payment, relative
J.R.R. Tolkien
I don’t know the others, but:
damage the surface, barely passing grade; sound a mean dog makes, sound a patient makes
Mardi Gras
damage the surface, barely passing grade; sound a mean dog makes, sound a patient makes
Mardi Gras?
Murderous computer, french water, “Pure Guava” band
Halloween.
Scott Adams
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Microsoft Windows
(You don’t, BTW, propel a canoe by rowing–you paddle. Yes, there’s a difference, and we canoe freaks won’t let you forget it. 
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1 - Mardi Gras.
3 - Halloween.
Grrr…crap on the rest. Need to sleep on them.
Q.E.D. Yep
Kat You got it (told you I was a geek)
Balance yep on Adams, and sorry about the canoe. That occured to me after hitting submit 
As for Chef Troy’s challenge:
Holidays:
And one more (part is slightly morphing pronunciation):
–not less, male ; credit at a bar, vase, 2/5ths of a bit ; river with a bridge over it, like um.
Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Wait… that’s seems like it must be right but something’s wrong. The fourth note is “fa” not “la”.
Wow. You get the hat trick plus one, sciguy!
Yeah, I goofed there. I did want “La”, which is the fifth note, not the fourth. Mea culpa*.
Very good! And I appreciate your taking the time to write out the answers in “invisible idiot” format before translating them - I was going to ask people to start doing that. My only quibble is that “french water” is eau, not aux - but they’re pronounced the same so I can see how you made that mistake.
I got yours but I see someone else already posted it. Here’s a few more and another category:
view, window ledge; commercial, verbal hesitations
vertical drop; sticky dirt, auto ID number
little filly’s mom, sick, bed & breakfast; imitation; ointment, relative
so is the fifth note; la is the sixth. Oh, and I fixed your coding on mea culpa so no one has to know. wink
Probably too easy:
ocean, window part, proboscis, leather punch
Damn, now I have that The Sound of Music song stuck in my head. And thanks for the coding fix. Damn hamsters.
view, window ledge; commercial, verbal hesitations
See sill ad ums -> Cecil Adams
(I swear I didn’t see your post before I posted!)
Cecil Adams.
Aw, hell yours are hard: p
Thank’s Q.E.D., my brain scares me sometimes (can’t believe I got “pendents”)
On preview: Holy cow, more posts! Guess I spent a bit more time on these then I thought. Whee, can answer them too!
Category: People who know a lot of pointless things 
vertical drop; sticky dirt, auto ID number
Cliff Clay-VIN (Cliff Clavin)
little filly’s mom, sick, bed & breakfast; imitation; ointment, relative
Mare-ill-inn faux(?) salve-aunt (Marilyn vos Savant).
I wasn’t sure on the last one, because I’ve always pronounced the ‘s’.
And away I go again. I’ll try to make these harder just for Chef Troy
[Category]
>ocean, window part, proboscis, leather punch
sea-sill nose-awl = Cecil knows all
>vertical drop; sticky dirt, auto ID number
? ? VIN
How about these:
social grace, library sound
Chicago train, compared to; price, convey, sneaky
bread, intellectual’s game; chest apparatus, weekday abbreviations
70s TV exclamation; espy; 80s guitarist; “What’s Happening” character; Bolivian affirmative
Santa’s marker, rent
Hint:
stone; hotel; tumble; walkway; from; renown
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[spoiler]
Ah-nuld movies
And his best work: she, pool stick, meadows; fair ball; current; original Darrin [/spoiler]