Silliness Quiz - Page 419

issybird · 03-24-2012, 08:41 PM

Back in The USSR
Georgia on My Mind
Wish They All Could Be California Girls
Nothing Could Be Finer than to be in Carolina
Pennsylvania 6-5000

Hamlet53 · 03-24-2012, 08:47 PM

Kansas City
Francis Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle
Detroit City
Sweet Home Chicago

SneakySnake · 03-24-2012, 08:48 PM

I wish I was back home in Derry (before Edmund FitzGerald)
Hills of Tyroll
Brisbane Waters
Brisbane Ladies (based on Spanish Ladies)
Augathella Station
Lachlan Tigers
Flash Jack from Gundagai
Road to Gundagai (originally Bundaberg)
I've been to Bali too
I've been everywhere man (does everywhere count?)

issybird · 03-24-2012, 08:49 PM

White Cliffs of Dover
Bristol Stomp
The Last Time I Saw Paris
Istanbul not Constantinople
My Own Private Idaho

SneakySnake · 03-24-2012, 08:51 PM

Galway Girl
City of Chicago
Mull of Kintyre
Loch Lomond - oops beaten by hamlet

issybird · 03-24-2012, 08:58 PM

A Foggy Day in London Town
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square
Men of Harlech
On, Wisconsin
Philadelphia Freedom
St. Louis Blues

issybird · 03-24-2012, 09:08 PM

I'll Take Manhattan
Arkansas Traveler
City of New Orleans
Rule Britannia

Shayne Parkinson · 03-24-2012, 10:04 PM

Chattanooga Choo Choo
Everything's Up to Date in Kansas City
Meet Me in St Louis
From Russia With Love

Four Kiwi ones:
God Defend New Zealand
Tea in Te Kuiti
Taumaranui on the Main Trunk Line
By the Dog Dosing Strip at Dunsandel

issybird · 03-24-2012, 10:39 PM

Turkey in the Straw.

maianhvk · 03-25-2012, 02:50 AM

New songs from youngster

Landing in London - 3 Doors Down
Europe's Skies - Alexander Rybak
Casablanca - Bertie Higgins
Vienna - Billy Joel
Hotel California - Eagles
White America - Eminem
London Bridge - Fergie
American Idiot - Green Day
Atlantic - Keane
American Honey - Lady Antebellum
Hollywood - Michael Bublé
Atlantis is calling - Modern Talking
Turkish March - Mozart (is this a song...?)
Arabian Nights - Bruce Adler
Mombasa - Hans Zimmer

Stitchawl · 03-25-2012, 03:20 AM

We are truly blessed... we have such popular numbers as that world-wide chart buster; By the Dog Dosing Strip at Dunsandel (lets give it an 8... ruff words but you can dance to it!) And that ever popular Bristol Stomp by the Dovells from 1961!!

Kids in Bristol are sharp as a pistol when they do the Bristol Stomp! Really somethin when they join in jumpin when they do the Bristol Stomp!

And Orlok hasn't even clocked in yet, but he might well get shut out by Anh with her Hotel California!

Stitchawl

Bookpossum · 03-25-2012, 04:32 AM

(Back from a couple of days at the beach house.) Here are some more Aussie ones:

Five Miles from Gundagai (the polite version is that the dog sat on the tuckerbox, but it actually did something much worse in the food container!)
The Streets of Forbes
Cockies of Bungaree
Van Diemen's Land
Eubalong Ball
Linger Longer at Yarrawonga (yes, really!)

and then there's:

The Marseillaise

Stitchawl · 03-25-2012, 06:25 AM

Is "Five Miles from Gundagai" different from "The Road to Gundagai?" I'd hate to not give credit where it's due, but need to be careful about doubles.

And we need a ruling on Issybird's "Turkey in the Straw." I think that if we can allow Orlok's "Eve of Distruction" we should permit "Turkey in the Straw" however bad the pun...

And no one has even mentioned the wonderful oldie by Les Paul and Mary Ford! Or the song recorded in 1954 by Kaye Ballard, or the 1958 pop song by English singer Laurie London. Come on, folks. I'm waiting....

Stitchawl

Bookpossum · 03-25-2012, 07:35 AM

Five Miles from Gundagai

I'm used to punchin' bullock teams across the hills and plains.
I've teamed outback for forty years through bleedin' hail and rain.
I've lived a lot of troubles down, without a bloomin' lie,
But I can't forget what happened just five miles from Gundagai.

'Twas getting dark, the team got bored, the axle snapped in two.
I lost me matches and me pipe, so what was I to do?
The rain it was coming on, and hungry too was I,
And me dog shat in me tucker-box five miles from Gundagai.

Some blokes I know have stacks of luck, no matter where they fall,
But there was I, Lord love a duck, no bloody luck at all.
I couldn't heat a pot of tea or keep me trousers dry,
And me dog shat in me tucker-box five miles from Gundagai.

Now, I can forgive the bleedin' team, I can forgive the rain.
I can forgive the damp and cold and go through it again.
I can forgive the rotten luck, but 'ang me till I die,
I can't forgive that bloody dog, five miles from Gundagai.

This is different from "The Road to Gundagai", which I shall have to post separately.

Bookpossum · 03-25-2012, 07:37 AM

There's a scene that lingers in my memory –
Of an old bush home and friends I long to see –
That's why I am yearning
Just to be returning
Along the road to Gundagai –

There's a track winding back
To an old-fashioned shack
Along the road to Gundagai –
Where the blue gums are growing
And the Murrumbidgee's flowing
Beneath that sunny sky –
Where my daddy and mother
Are waiting for me
And the pals of my childhood
Once more I will see.
Then no more will I roam,
When I'm heading right for home
Along the road to Gundagai.

When I get back there I'll be a kid again –
Oh! I'll never have a thought of grief or pain –
Once more I'll be playing
Where the gums are swaying
Along the road to Gundagai –

I vote that Issy's "Turkey in the Straw" should get points - I love it!

03-24-2012, 08:49 PM	#6274
issybird o saeclum infacetum Posts: 20,226 Karma: 222235366 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: New England Device: H2O, Aura One, PW5	White Cliffs of Dover Bristol Stomp The Last Time I Saw Paris Istanbul not Constantinople My Own Private Idaho Last edited by issybird; 03-24-2012 at 08:51 PM.

03-24-2012, 08:58 PM	#6276
issybird o saeclum infacetum Posts: 20,226 Karma: 222235366 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: New England Device: H2O, Aura One, PW5	A Foggy Day in London Town A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square Men of Harlech On, Wisconsin Philadelphia Freedom St. Louis Blues Last edited by issybird; 03-24-2012 at 09:01 PM.

03-25-2012, 07:35 AM	#6284
Bookpossum Snoozing in the sun Posts: 10,137 Karma: 115423645 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Melbourne, Australia Device: iPad Mini, Kobo Touch	Five Miles from Gundagai I'm used to punchin' bullock teams across the hills and plains. I've teamed outback for forty years through bleedin' hail and rain. I've lived a lot of troubles down, without a bloomin' lie, But I can't forget what happened just five miles from Gundagai. 'Twas getting dark, the team got bored, the axle snapped in two. I lost me matches and me pipe, so what was I to do? The rain it was coming on, and hungry too was I, And me dog shat in me tucker-box five miles from Gundagai. Some blokes I know have stacks of luck, no matter where they fall, But there was I, Lord love a duck, no bloody luck at all. I couldn't heat a pot of tea or keep me trousers dry, And me dog shat in me tucker-box five miles from Gundagai. Now, I can forgive the bleedin' team, I can forgive the rain. I can forgive the damp and cold and go through it again. I can forgive the rotten luck, but 'ang me till I die, I can't forgive that bloody dog, five miles from Gundagai. This is different from "The Road to Gundagai", which I shall have to post separately. Last edited by Bookpossum; 03-25-2012 at 07:37 AM.

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03-24-2012, 08:41 PM	#6271
issybird o saeclum infacetum Posts: 20,226 Karma: 222235366 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: New England Device: H2O, Aura One, PW5	Back in The USSR Georgia on My Mind Wish They All Could Be California Girls Nothing Could Be Finer than to be in Carolina Pennsylvania 6-5000

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03-24-2012, 08:48 PM	#6273
SneakySnake I'm watching you! Posts: 6,113 Karma: 22344652 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Sunny Coast Qld, OZ Device: Sony PRS-900(unused lately) iPadAir2, want me Kindle Oasis	I wish I was back home in Derry (before Edmund FitzGerald) Hills of Tyroll Brisbane Waters Brisbane Ladies (based on Spanish Ladies) Augathella Station Lachlan Tigers Flash Jack from Gundagai Road to Gundagai (originally Bundaberg) I've been to Bali too I've been everywhere man (does everywhere count?)

03-24-2012, 08:51 PM	#6275
SneakySnake I'm watching you! Posts: 6,113 Karma: 22344652 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Sunny Coast Qld, OZ Device: Sony PRS-900(unused lately) iPadAir2, want me Kindle Oasis	Galway Girl City of Chicago Mull of Kintyre Loch Lomond - oops beaten by hamlet

03-24-2012, 09:08 PM	#6277
issybird o saeclum infacetum Posts: 20,226 Karma: 222235366 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: New England Device: H2O, Aura One, PW5	I'll Take Manhattan Arkansas Traveler City of New Orleans Rule Britannia

03-24-2012, 10:04 PM	#6278
Shayne Parkinson Author Posts: 1,532 Karma: 5447804 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: New Zealand Device: Samsung Galaxy Tab	Chattanooga Choo Choo Everything's Up to Date in Kansas City Meet Me in St Louis From Russia With Love Four Kiwi ones: God Defend New Zealand Tea in Te Kuiti Taumaranui on the Main Trunk Line By the Dog Dosing Strip at Dunsandel

03-24-2012, 10:39 PM	#6279
issybird o saeclum infacetum Posts: 20,226 Karma: 222235366 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: New England Device: H2O, Aura One, PW5	Turkey in the Straw.

03-25-2012, 02:50 AM	#6280
maianhvk whimsical Posts: 2,779 Karma: 88193939 Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: in darkness Device: current: PPW 4. brick: K3 & Voyage.	New songs from youngster Landing in London - 3 Doors Down Europe's Skies - Alexander Rybak Casablanca - Bertie Higgins Vienna - Billy Joel Hotel California - Eagles White America - Eminem London Bridge - Fergie American Idiot - Green Day Atlantic - Keane American Honey - Lady Antebellum Hollywood - Michael Bublé Atlantis is calling - Modern Talking Turkish March - Mozart (is this a song...?) Arabian Nights - Bruce Adler Mombasa - Hans Zimmer

03-25-2012, 03:20 AM	#6281
Stitchawl Opsimath Posts: 12,344 Karma: 187123287 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand Device: Sony PRS-650, iPhone 5, Kobo Glo, Sony PRS-350, iPad, Samsung Galaxy	We are truly blessed... we have such popular numbers as that world-wide chart buster; By the Dog Dosing Strip at Dunsandel (lets give it an 8... ruff words but you can dance to it!) And that ever popular Bristol Stomp by the Dovells from 1961!! Kids in Bristol are sharp as a pistol when they do the Bristol Stomp! Really somethin when they join in jumpin when they do the Bristol Stomp! And Orlok hasn't even clocked in yet, but he might well get shut out by Anh with her Hotel California! Stitchawl

03-25-2012, 04:32 AM	#6282
Bookpossum Snoozing in the sun Posts: 10,137 Karma: 115423645 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Melbourne, Australia Device: iPad Mini, Kobo Touch	(Back from a couple of days at the beach house.) Here are some more Aussie ones: Five Miles from Gundagai (the polite version is that the dog sat on the tuckerbox, but it actually did something much worse in the food container!) The Streets of Forbes Cockies of Bungaree Van Diemen's Land Eubalong Ball Linger Longer at Yarrawonga (yes, really!) and then there's: The Marseillaise

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03-25-2012, 06:25 AM	#6283
Stitchawl Opsimath Posts: 12,344 Karma: 187123287 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand Device: Sony PRS-650, iPhone 5, Kobo Glo, Sony PRS-350, iPad, Samsung Galaxy	Is "Five Miles from Gundagai" different from "The Road to Gundagai?" I'd hate to not give credit where it's due, but need to be careful about doubles. And we need a ruling on Issybird's "Turkey in the Straw." I think that if we can allow Orlok's "Eve of Distruction" we should permit "Turkey in the Straw" however bad the pun... And no one has even mentioned the wonderful oldie by Les Paul and Mary Ford! Or the song recorded in 1954 by Kaye Ballard, or the 1958 pop song by English singer Laurie London. Come on, folks. I'm waiting.... Stitchawl

03-25-2012, 07:37 AM	#6285
Bookpossum Snoozing in the sun Posts: 10,137 Karma: 115423645 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Melbourne, Australia Device: iPad Mini, Kobo Touch	There's a scene that lingers in my memory – Of an old bush home and friends I long to see – That's why I am yearning Just to be returning Along the road to Gundagai – There's a track winding back To an old-fashioned shack Along the road to Gundagai – Where the blue gums are growing And the Murrumbidgee's flowing Beneath that sunny sky – Where my daddy and mother Are waiting for me And the pals of my childhood Once more I will see. Then no more will I roam, When I'm heading right for home Along the road to Gundagai. When I get back there I'll be a kid again – Oh! I'll never have a thought of grief or pain – Once more I'll be playing Where the gums are swaying Along the road to Gundagai – I vote that Issy's "Turkey in the Straw" should get points - I love it!