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Re: what am I?
Posted: 05 May 2009, 18:23
by sidguppy
Don McLean should be the Don then!
I miss the teeth clue however. but this is the guy singing about American Pie
is American Pie a meat pie? kidney's? yeurgh.
I eat almost anything, including fried insects and all, but I draw the line at kidneys, cause i flat out refuse to eat things that taste like piss.
for the same reason I don't drink Heineken
I thought American Pie was apple pie or something, the kind they stick their weener in, in that silly movie with the same title.
kidney's
brrrrrrr
Re: what am I?
Posted: 05 May 2009, 18:49
by panaque
aka starry night bristlenose.
Re: what am I?
Posted: 05 May 2009, 18:51
by panaque
panaque wrote: aka starry night bristlenose.
Because Don Mclean (toothpaste!) sang "Starry starry night" about a Vincent van Gogh painting. Too easy.
Re: what am I?
Posted: 05 May 2009, 18:55
by Marc van Arc
Too right!!
Your turn

Re: what am I?
Posted: 05 May 2009, 19:07
by panaque
I hope this one hasn't come up yet... (where is that list?)
I am in a bit of a rush so just one clue for now:
1) My common name tells you that my spines are short and also which country I am from.
Re: what am I?
Posted: 05 May 2009, 19:36
by sidguppy
good thing you ended our suffering Panaque!
I would never have guessed that one......not in a million years I wouldn't
I'm so NOT into modern art and I couldn't remember any name of a Vincent Van Gogh painting, even if they'd waterboard me in Gitmo Bay
never liked Van Gogh, I'm much more into older stuff when people still knew how to handle a paintbrush: Rembrant, Michelangelo, Rubens, old Roman fresco's, that kind.
Re: what am I?
Posted: 05 May 2009, 19:41
by Marc van Arc
- it has been used before btw, but that doesn't matter

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Re: what am I?
Posted: 05 May 2009, 20:21
by L number Banana
Here's the list and after that "artist" one, panaque, you can pick any fish your little heart desires, on the list or not. Glad you showed up!
Previously Listed Catfish
Sidguppy:
I would never have guessed that one......not in a million years I wouldn't
Ditto. Mclean's toothpaste was only around in my childhood and D. Mclean as an artist?

Famous songwriter/musician, yes. Artist?
Heard some of american pie once I think..., may have thrown a hammer at the radio though.
To each their own though

Re: what am I?
Posted: 05 May 2009, 20:44
by sidguppy
hehe
very understandable
I think it's a way of thinking, but for me music is music and art has to do with paint or sculpture or opera or something.
I prefer music over art anytime....
since all (no exceptions!) of my music is derived from blues and hence rock n roll; I don't view it as art.
art is elitist whereas rock n roll and all that evolved from it (from sinfer songwriters to the hardest satanic blackmetal) is quite the opposite
the only music that I can call artsy is jazz or classical music, both of wich I loathe.
now, yesterday me and a friend were watching the BBC (wich is better than anything the Netherlands can brew up on the telly), there was a big in depth documentary about the original Man in black; Johnny Cash
now THERE's someone that could be called 'artist', but personally I prefer to call him a 'rocker'.
I guess it's all in the nature of the beast

Re: what am I?
Posted: 05 May 2009, 21:10
by Richard B
sidguppy wrote: cause i flat out refuse to eat things that taste like piss.
for the same reason I don't drink Heineken

Ha ha ha ha ha, oh Sid, that did make me laugh

Re: what am I?
Posted: 05 May 2009, 21:35
by L number Banana
Sidguppy:
art is elitist

Do I sound elitist?

I listen to radio-free abattoir (german goth) for inspiration for my art. Only the germans can put hardcore and a xylophone in the same song
I must be a hybrid -aaaahhhh!!
I know what you mean though.
Re: what am I?
Posted: 05 May 2009, 21:51
by Marc van Arc
sidguppy wrote:I think it's a way of thinking, but for me music is music and art has to do with paint or sculpture or opera or something.
I personally think there's no objection calling performers artists, whether they make music, sculptures or paintings.
Afaik, Don Mclean's song Starry, Starry Night aka Vincent was not just about one painting but more about Van Gogh's life, specifically the last part.
I will now start looking for another artist for the next riddle

Re: what am I?
Posted: 05 May 2009, 22:39
by Marc van Arc
L number Banana wrote:Here's the list and after that "artist" one, panaque, you can pick any fish your little heart desires, on the list or not. Glad you showed up!
Previously Listed Catfish
Thank you for your faith in my correct answer. I'll wait till Panaque will confirm it and then..... it's artists again

Re: what am I?
Posted: 05 May 2009, 23:01
by L number Banana
Marc:
Thank you for your faith in my correct answer. I'll wait till Panaque will confirm it and then..... it's artists again


That's twice I've done that! Both times with your guesses!
it's artists again

Donatello the turtle - martial
artist 
Re: what am I?
Posted: 06 May 2009, 09:17
by panaque
Marc van Arc wrote: - it has been used before btw, but that doesn't matter

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You are, of course, correct.
Re: what am I?
Posted: 06 May 2009, 10:25
by Marc van Arc
Next fish.
1) you are looking for a band (artists!) whose name could (amongst others) mean a slang word for bathroom.
2) their most important record has a title made of 2 words. You'll need the second word to find the species name of the fish
3) knowing my preference, that won't be too hard

Re: what am I?
Posted: 06 May 2009, 10:52
by panaque
A quick search reveals that there are bands named The Loo, Bog Band and The Pisser but none appear to have a record that yields a species name. Hmmm
Re: what am I?
Posted: 06 May 2009, 11:06
by sidguppy
i found more than 8 different slang words for bathroom, but only 1 that reminds me of a band
the can, the head, the shit house, the asswipe, the ass gasket, the rain closet, the throne, the porcelain throne, the shit room, the shower, the bath, the rest room (although the last one ain't slang)
unless you're really gonna surprise me, I don't think that stonerrock from the 90's (The Heads) is in your music collection?
maybe the Talking Heads? but a talking head is a person on the telly reading the news, not a bathroom.....
but say, only half the bandname means bathroom, Talking Heads could be the band (and you do like them!)
hmmm
two word titles of a record
are we talking a single or a whole album here?
if singles count then Psycho Killer could be the one
are we talking of a common name again or are we talking latin this time?
edit, let's just take a huge gamble and assume that David Byrne & co IS the right band, that Psycho Killer is the record and hence 'killer' the term we're looking for and that it's the nature of the beast:
can't get anymore lethal than this ;)
Re: what am I?
Posted: 06 May 2009, 12:56
by panaque
The can! Of course, thanks Sid. The record would be Tago Mago then and the fish (an auchenipterid)
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Re: what am I?
Posted: 06 May 2009, 14:08
by sidguppy
The can is a band??
that must be some real obscure stuff then....

Re: what am I?
Posted: 06 May 2009, 14:13
by L number Banana
that must be some real obscure stuff then....

Yup. The Can -Tago Mago - 38 years ago, wow, I was probably listening to sesame street

Re: what am I?
Posted: 06 May 2009, 14:41
by panaque
sidguppy wrote:The can is a band??
that must be some real obscure stuff then....
Well, when you google "the can" the first hit is the band's wikipedia page. Can't be that obscure then. But, you didn't think I actually
knew that Tago Mago stuff did you?
Re: what am I?
Posted: 06 May 2009, 14:53
by Marc van Arc
panaque wrote:The can! Of course, thanks Sid. The record would be Tago Mago then and the fish (an auchenipterid)
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Correct

Your turn
Re: what am I?
Posted: 06 May 2009, 15:43
by Marc van Arc
Re: what am I?
Posted: 06 May 2009, 15:58
by sidguppy
the only band from Germany i know from that era is Sweet Smoke with their Just A Poke album.
1 album, 2 songs, each one a whole side.
most famous of those guys was the record cover, not the songs.
this band I would never have guessed, you can safely assume that.
wow, someone put a bit on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oyKKahQoDY
But, you didn't think I actually knew that Tago Mago stuff did you?
well, Marc did and he can't be the only one, I guess
BUt I gotta admit, of all the peeps I know, Marc has by far the biggest collection of weird, obscure, never-heard-of-in-my-entire-life-bands that I know of
the only German band that hits the speakers in here these days is RAMMSTEIN

Re: what am I?
Posted: 06 May 2009, 21:47
by panaque
Previously Listed Catfish
New one:
I am bad, really bad. Plain evil. Everyone says so. I don't know why. I just can't see.
Re: what am I?
Posted: 06 May 2009, 21:57
by Marc van Arc
Re: what am I?
Posted: 06 May 2009, 21:58
by torbanite
Re: what am I?
Posted: 06 May 2009, 22:01
by Marc van Arc
This one's probably better than my guess
Re: what am I?
Posted: 06 May 2009, 22:02
by panaque
Correct. That one was just too easy obviously. Your turn.