# The dread Literati Rock game **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 9, 2004, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dread-literati-rock-game/254264 "2004-07-09T10:31:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Coelacanth\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Coelacanth\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coelacanth_Soup)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2004, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dread-literati-rock-game/254264/41 "2004-07-09T19:35:46Z")
> [@](#): > > **Originally posted by gonzoron:** > G6: In the verderous landscape, the silent verderous landscape, the monarch of said landscape slumbers on this eve. > > G7: He is a magically endowed competitor of mechanical entertainment devices, assuredly there is a clandestine explanation for his skills. He is a magically endowed competitor of mechanical entertainment devices, possesing carpal structures of an extremely sinous nature. **G6:** In the jungle the mighty jungle the lion sleeps tonight. . . **G7:** He’s a pinball wizard there’s got to be a trick, he’s a pinball wizard, he has such a supple wrist. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2004, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dread-literati-rock-game/254264/42 "2004-07-09T19:35:59Z")
> [@](#): > > G6: In the verderous landscape, the silent verderous landscape, the monarch of said landscape slumbers on this eve. > > G7: He is a magically endowed competitor of mechanical entertainment devices, assuredly there is a clandestine explanation for his skills. He is a magically endowed competitor of mechanical entertainment devices, possesing carpal structures of an extremely sinous nature. G6: “In the jungle, the quiet jungle, the lion sleeps tonight”. G7: “He’s a pinball wizard, there’s got to be a twist, pinball wizard’s got such a supple wrist.” ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2004, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dread-literati-rock-game/254264/43 "2004-07-09T19:37:14Z")
> [@gonzoron](#): > > G5 Wherefore do you erect me, infant ranunculus bulbosus? Merely to dissappoint, and disorder my being! Why do you build me up, butterbup, baby, just ot let me down, and mess me around ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2004, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dread-literati-rock-game/254264/44 "2004-07-09T19:38:35Z")
WM10: I am trying to increase my sense of peckishness, and am therefore looking to participate in conjugal union between the hours of 1pm and 5pm. Employing primitive fire-making tools can be effective and when I harken back to previous conjugal unions, I am left with an accelerated heartrate and a galvanic skin response that registers higher. I’ve forgotten most of the words, but is this _Afternoon Delight,_ by the Starland Vocal Band? ---
**Author:** ![Coelacanth\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Coelacanth\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coelacanth_Soup)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2004, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dread-literati-rock-game/254264/45 "2004-07-09T19:38:39Z")
> [@](#): > > MS2- Awaken me before departing, refrain from allowing me to dangle like a child’s circular plaything > > MS3- She calls herself that which runs from mountains to the sea, and she cavorts terpsichoreally to music on the silica-laden seashore. **MS2:** wake me up before you go-go, dont leave me hanging on like a yo-yo. . . **MS3:** Her name is Rio and she dances on the sand. . . ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2004, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dread-literati-rock-game/254264/46 "2004-07-09T19:44:07Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > We do not desire examples of poorly-illuminated wordplay in institutions of education and must insist that the children therein not be disturbed by their educators. > > What is the number of causeways down which an adult male must perambulate before the pronoun used to describe him becomes accurate? No dark sarcasm in the classroom, teacher leave them kids alone! How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man? ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2004, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dread-literati-rock-game/254264/47 "2004-07-09T19:48:00Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > There is no person who is aware of the experience of being a nefarious and melancholy individual with a pair of cerulean ocular lenses positioned in front of them. No one knows what its like to be the bad man, to be the sad man behind blue eyes. Behind Blue Eyes, The Who ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2004, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dread-literati-rock-game/254264/48 "2004-07-09T19:51:40Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > There is no person who is aware of the experience of being a nefarious and melancholy individual with a pair of cerulean ocular lenses positioned in front of them. > > We do not desire examples of poorly-illuminated wordplay in institutions of education and must insist that the children therein not be disturbed by their educators. > > What is the number of causeways down which an adult male must perambulate before the pronoun used to describe him becomes accurate? _Behind Blue Eyes – The Who_ We don’t want no education. Leave those kids alone --Pink Floyd How many roads must a man walk down before you call him a man? --Bob Dylan, Blowin’ in the Wind. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2004, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dread-literati-rock-game/254264/49 "2004-07-09T20:03:15Z")
Hmmm. DPap1: My lifelong profession involves doing a physical exam on individuals I meet – including an ophthalmic assessment, an indirect examination of their hands, and a psychiatric evaluation. DPap2: Shiny people with shiny heads roll shiny balls on a shiny floor – make this happen! DPap3: What was demonstrated after the team tried to continue their game in the third quarter, but couldn’t due to all those damn musicians? ---
**Author:** ![Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9dc877/32.png) [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2004, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dread-literati-rock-game/254264/50 "2004-07-09T20:12:58Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > DPap3: What was demonstrated after the team tried to continue their game in the third quarter, but couldn’t due to all those damn musicians? The players tried to take the field, the marching band refused to yield; do you recall what was revealed… - Don McLean, _American Pie_ ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2004, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dread-literati-rock-game/254264/51 "2004-07-09T20:13:29Z")
**AskNott** and **CSoup** - yep, WM10 is the Starland Vocal Band - “Thinking ‘bout working up an appetite, looking for a little afternoon delight, rub the sticks and stones together watch the sparks ignite and the thought of lovin’ you has got me so excited…” AskNott - WM7 is not Donna Summer, sorry. WM9 Superfreak is correct. I have two unsolved - WM5: Therefore I perambulate by hugging tightly to terra firma, and please maintain secrecy, because it must be clandestine WM7: I have little save an affection for the concept of emotional and psychological attraction to another, but that, in and of itself, is not the act whereof I speak Answer: Dpap3 = When the players tried to take the field, the marching band refused to yield, do you recall what was revealed the day the music died - Don McLean, American Pie ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2004, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dread-literati-rock-game/254264/52 "2004-07-09T20:59:41Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > Hmmm. > DPap2: Shiny people with shiny heads roll shiny balls on a shiny floor – make this happen! Take the skinheads bowling!-Camper van Beethoven ---
**Author:** ![Coelacanth\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Coelacanth\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coelacanth_Soup)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2004, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dread-literati-rock-game/254264/53 "2004-07-09T21:03:05Z")
**Wordman** - I’m stumped - I have tried everything on those two - either I just can’t get them or I dont know the song. Here are lyrics as I imagine them: WM5: So I walk around with my feet on the ground, but please keep it down, cause. . .?. . . WM7: I ain’t got nothin’ but love for love but that’s not what I’m speaking of This one of mine is still unsolved - I think its pretty easy though: **CS2:** Bestow upon me paltry specie – I welcome it in any measure. Hereupon auscultate as I concuss and convulse my specifically complexioned half hidebound hoop of timber with tintinabulum. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2004, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dread-literati-rock-game/254264/54 "2004-07-09T21:13:11Z")
[QUOTE=Coelacanth Soup **CS2:** Bestow upon me paltry specie – I welcome it in any measure. Hereupon auscultate as I concuss and convulse my specifically complexioned half hidebound hoop of timber with tintinabulum.[/QUOTE] Give me money, I’ll take anything. Now listen while I play…my green tambourine. ---
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2004, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dread-literati-rock-game/254264/55 "2004-07-09T21:29:32Z")
> [@AskNott](#): > > Why do you build me up, Buttercup, just to let me down? close enough, but **scotandrsn** got it exactly. My G4 is still unguessed. But the rest have been gotten. G4: Awaken my inner being. Proclaim my moniker and rescue me from the lack of illumination. Beckon my sanguinous fluids to flow hastily, 'ere I become disengaged. I know CS2 is somehing about a tambourine, but I don’t think I know the song… (this is fun!) New ones: G8: Signor Galilei’s cranium was situated on the execution platform. The felony was examining the heavens for veracity. G9: Currency will not be accepted, nor will the adultation of the populace. You will not require a magnetized polymer placard to travel aboard this locmotive. G10: My solitude is annihilating me. It’s neccessary for me to concede, my belief persists. When you and I are not coexistant, I surrender to psychosis. Provide some indication to me. Strike me physically, my love, on a single additional occaision. ---
**Author:** ![Lao\_Tsu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lao\_Tsu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lao_Tsu)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2004, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dread-literati-rock-game/254264/56 "2004-07-09T22:02:00Z")
G10 is: “My loneliness is killing me. … Hit me, baby, one more time.” By Britany Spears LAO1 Prithee we shall be bouyant towards the lunar orb, affirmative, Prithee we shall ascend against the periodic increase. ---
**Author:** ![Lao\_Tsu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lao\_Tsu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lao_Tsu)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2004, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dread-literati-rock-game/254264/57 "2004-07-09T22:05:22Z")
BTW G9 is: “Don’t need money, don’t take fame, Don’t need no credit card to ride this train” Huey Lewis and the News Power of Love Heaven help me. ---
**Author:** ![Coelacanth\_Soup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Coelacanth\_Soup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coelacanth_Soup)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2004, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dread-literati-rock-game/254264/58 "2004-07-09T22:05:25Z")
> [@](#): > > G9: Currency will not be accepted, nor will the adultation of the populace. > You will not require a magnetized polymer placard to travel aboard this locmotive. Don’t take money, don’t take fame, don’t need no credit card to ride this train. -Hewy Lewis ---
**Author:** ![Lao\_Tsu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lao\_Tsu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lao_Tsu)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2004, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dread-literati-rock-game/254264/59 "2004-07-09T22:07:17Z")
Good job, Coelacanth. Now you post one. ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2004, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dread-literati-rock-game/254264/60 "2004-07-10T01:07:32Z")
Answer: **G4: Awaken my inner being. Proclaim my moniker and rescue me from the lack of illumination. Beckon my sanguinous fluids to flow hastily, 'ere I become disengaged.** Wake me up inside. Call my name and save me from the dark. Bid my blood to run, before I come undone… _Bring Me To Life - Evanescense_ New quote: **LotV1** : Thus, our globe rotates in repeated circles accompanied by the totality of your lifetime’s knowledge. Others proclaim that the atmosphere many miles up is the color of a sea in the Western Hemisphere.\* - I posted this song (not quite the same wording, though) in a previous thread on this topic, and it never got answered. ☹ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dread-literati-rock-game/254264.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-dread-literati-rock-game/254264.md?page=4)