Alter a song title with high fallutin English - Thread Two.(Credit Fenris)

[Screaming Lord Byron]

I have been apprehended for larcenous behaviour.

[Whitacre D_WI]

1. Been Caught Stealing.

Engaged in Criminal Behavior

[dolo amber]

2. Breakin' the law

This evening, after sunset.

[a_random_joel]

3. The totality of all expirations thou performs.

by the Gendarme

[Whitacre D_WI]

4. Don't you mean "respirations?"

[a_random_joel]

6. Oh... a wise guy.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=expiration

[Dogmudgeon]

13. Every (Out-) Breath You Take

"Respirations" it is.

--bkl

[a_random_joel]

17. Yeah but "expirations" sounds better In E Minor,

and it would have been too easy a clue.

[a_random_joel]

5. The saccharine enclosures that belong to me.

[dolo amber]

7. (My) Sugar Walls

[a_random_joel]

9. Cowabunga

Dude.

[a_random_joel]

8. Female who engages in or otherwise practices Santeria

[grannylib]

11. Black Magic Woman

[grannylib]

10. OK here are some more:

1) Amorous Feeling in a Device to Move One from Floor to Floor
2) Cease to Venture Into This Area At Any Time
3) Losing One's Balance at No Cost
4) Traveling in a Subterranean Direction Enveloped in a Fireball of Self Adulation
5) Elongated Ivory Protruberance of a Large Mammal
6) The Humans of Exceedingly Attractive Physical Appearance
7) Female Parental Units, Forbid your Offspring to Become Young Male Herders of Female Bovines
9) Nonsense and More Nonsense (is The Sum Total of What I Wish To Verbally Convey to You)

[a_random_joel]

14. some answers

1. Love in an elevator
5. Tusk
6. Beautiful People?
7. Mothers Don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys

[grannylib]

27. Yup you got those...but it's "Mamas" just to be picky, not "Mothers"

[southpaw]

16. Let's do it

1. Love in an Elevator
2. Don't Come Around Here No More
3. Free Falling
4. (Shot Down in a) Blaze of Glory (?)
5. Tusk
6. The Beautiful People
7. Mamas, don't let your cowboys grow up to be presidents
8.

[grannylib]

30. *lol* excellent so far!!

[Dogmudgeon]

18. You're a granny?

1. Love In An Elevator (Aerosmith)

2. Don't Come Around Here No More (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)

3. Free Fallin' (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)

4. Journey to the Center of the Mind (Amboy Dukes (Nugent))

5. Tusk (Fleetwood Mac)

6. Shiny Happy People (REM)

7. Mothers, Don't Let Your Sons Become Cowboys (An oldie!)

8. (here is no #8)

9. Da-doo-doo-doo, Do-da-da-da (Police)

--bkl

[grannylib]

32. Ah shoot, did I misnumber them? Sorry! And no, sorry on #4.....

Someone else got it though...
And yes, I am a gran...7 year old grandson and 8 year old granddaughter, the lights of my life...

[PVnRT]

12. I resisted the lawful authorities

and the lawful authorities were victorious in the end.

[Dogmudgeon]

19. I Fought The Law (and The Law Won)

--bkl

[southpaw]

20. I Fought the Law....

Similar:

I struggle against the powers that be... the powers that be ceaselessly prevail (mellencamp)

[PVnRT]

21. Well, not really

That would be a line from the song "Crumblin' Down," but it does not match the title.

[southpaw]

24. the Song is actually called "The Authority Song"

[PVnRT]

28. I'm thinking of the wrong one

Oopsie, my bad.

[PVnRT]

15. Ceraphim with the corpuscle-encrusted avian appendages

n/t

[grannylib]

36. Angels With Bloody Wings?

[PVnRT]

Very, very close

n/t

[a_random_joel]

22. Glacier, glacier infant.

Ok, now I'm getting ridiculous.

[a_random_joel]

40. Is this just too easy...

or too embarrassing...

[southpaw]

42. To quote our beloved Will Pitt

"Fish... Barrell... Boom."

[Screaming Lord Byron]

23. I'll try again.

This point in our relationship is comparable to the final defeat of a European Emperor (where he did surrender)

[southpaw]

25. Waterloo by ABBA

[Screaming Lord Byron]

31. I had every faith in you, Southpaw.

[southpaw]

33. Always a pleasure!

[PVnRT]

26. Adolescent frontal lobe surgery

n/t

[southpaw]

29. Teenage Lobotomy!

Joey Lives...

[PVnRT]

34. Dammit, people are guessing mine

Suffering From a Severe Mental Disorder in the Vicinity of the Medulla Oblongata.

[southpaw]

35. Insane In The Brain?

Insane in the Membrane...

[PVnRT]

37. Damn you

n/t

[southpaw]

39. Bring It On!

Said in a good natured way... fer sure

[a_random_joel]

38. Hey!

I did that one in the other thread!

And Southpaw got it right there as well!

No fair.

[Dogmudgeon]

41. A Sixties List

1 and 2 are fairly obscure.

1. Issues of which I would be interested in expressing

2. Frozen confections on sticks and frozen runoff water

3. Deep red color and Melilotus spp. or possibly Trifolium spp.

4. Freestyle terpsichorean activities in the public thoroughfare.

5. 475 nm upon 475 nm

--bkl

[July]

161. #3

Crimson and Clover?

That's all I've got.

[PVnRT]

43. Below sea-level nostalgic depression

n/t

[Dogmudgeon]

46. Subterranean Homesick Blues

Even though you can be underground and far above sea level.

--bkl

[a_random_joel]

44. I discharged a projectile in the direction of the chief enforcer.

[PVnRT]

47. But I did not discharge it at the assistant enforcer!

C'mon, we all know that one

[a_random_joel]

52. LOL!

Ok, gotta start making them more challenging.

[Dogmudgeon]

48. I Shot the Sheriff

Either that or you grossed out AG Ashcroft.

--bkl

[Dogmudgeon]

54. The Seventies

1. Young women of poor behavior.

2. Extremely mentally ill felon who terminally dispatches his or her victims.

3. Subjective experiencing during REM sleep -- and drop the "g".

4. Quartely procession of climatic changes within the metaphorical embrace of the Earth's central stellar object. (HINT: The original version was in French.)

5. The young men have returned to the small metropolis.

--bkl

[PVnRT]

61. 5

is The Boys Are Back in Town

is #1 Bitch?

[Dogmudgeon]

69. Bitch -n- Boys

#5 - Correct!

#1 - Nope.

Everybody else seems to have been punked out by my lists.

--bkl

[grannylib]

71. Hmm ok...

1. Stupid Girls (Stones)
2.
3. something 'Dreamin' obviously...

4. The Four Seasons? (Vivaldi)
5. Boys are Back in Town (Thin Lizzy)

[southpaw]

76. a try

1. Bad Girls
2. Psycho Killer
3. Dreamin'
4. Seasons in the Sun
5. ...someone already got this one

[Dogmudgeon]

80. In the words of that great Italian-American Philosopher ...

... Arthur Fonzarelli, "Exectamundo, Cunningham!"

--bkl

[Screaming Lord Byron]

45. Obsidian alloy at the period of crisis.

Ha!

[a_random_joel]

49. Damn wrong place.

[a_random_joel]

50. Nativity at the focal point of a thermonuclear attack.

[Dogmudgeon]

55. Christmas at Ground Zero

--bkl

[PVnRT]

51. Supersonic lead-based projectile

with appendages strikingly similar to Lepidoptera.

HA

[southpaw]

53. Bullet With Butterfly Wings

I miss Billy...

[a_random_joel]

59. DUP

[Fenris]

56. Upon What Occasion Should I Assume Is Presently?

As Expected, I Am In Isolation Once More

Make Love To Officers Of The Law

I Am Acheiving It

You Illuminate The Time Which I Have To Live

Judith Is A Juvenile Delinquent

A Concrete Structure Spanning A Body Of Liquid That Is Not Content

Lunar Negativity Is Emerging

Heated Feces

An Staggered Incline Plane That Extends Toward Celestial Paradise

My Mother Gave Birth To Me In A Laundry Facility

[Screaming Lord Byron]

60. What Time Is Now?

Alone Again, Naturally
You Light Up My Life
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Bad Moon Rising
Stairway to Heaven

The others I know not.

[Fenris]

65. Actually, How Soon Is Now?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

72. Shit, that's what I meant. I was listening to the KLF last night.

On edit - Their song is What Time Is Love?, so I guess I mixed the two up.

[a_random_joel]

77. You mean what time is love?

Not to correct you, I just love the freaking KLF.

They are rarely mentioned. I had to respond.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

79. Yeah, I clarified the point. I merged the two songs in my head

for some reason.

[a_random_joel]

89. Understood.

Did somebody say KLF?

[a_random_joel]

67. How Soon Is Now.

[Fenris]

101. Answers

How Soon Is Now?
Alone Again, Naturally
Makin' It
You Light Up My Life
Judy Is A Punk
Bridge Over Troubled Water
Bad Moon On The Rise
Hot Poop
Stairway to Heaven
(I Was Born In A) Laundromat

[dolo amber]

105. You forgot

FUCK THA POLICE!
(Make Love To Officers Of The Law)

:D

[Fenris]

106. Crap! Thanks dolo! That was the one that made me laugh the most!

[dolo amber]

112. Oh yeah...rap titles are the best!

I say! Rapidly approach the entertainment spectacle as one who has fallen on unfortuante financial circumstances!

Unelected personage residing on the throne of any of a various number of geological formations, the three types of which are igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic.

The firearm I prefer and in fact own, has a mass of roughly 2000lbs.

Heeeeeee!!

Fenris, you've created a monstah!! :D

[PVnRT]

57. The Firearms of a Noted London Nightclub

I will stump people, dammit!

[Fenris]

58. Guns of Brixton

[PVnRT]

62. FUCK

n/t

[a_random_joel]

63. Ok, I am throwing down the gauntlet here. Bring it on!

Either having a foul or displeasurable smell or possessing pleasing rhythmic qualities that incite rhythmic contortions, simultaneously being arctic; this is how I would describe a holy city on the Arabian peninsula.

[Fenris]

66. Funky Cold Medina

[a_random_joel]

70. Curses.

Foiled again.

[grannylib]

73. Funky Cold Medina

[a_random_joel]

75. Circumnavigate, scarlett North American avian, circumnavigate.

[grannylib]

82. Fly Robin Fly??

[a_random_joel]

87. Yes.

[grannylib]

64. Some more to try:

1) Visual Organs of a Green Hue Normally Associated with Gemstones
2) Cherished Thoughtful, Unhasty Action
3) Manual Digits of Amorous Emotion
4) It's True that I am In Your Posession
5) Strike My Person Using Your Length of Wood that can Keep a Beat
6) Go For A Stroll Where It Is Not Tame
7) Does Your Personal Creed Include Physical Existance Following A Feeling of Intense Affection and Desire?
8) I Make My Living Cutting Down Trees, And I Am Acceptable
9) Using Emulsion Transform the Hue of This Portal to Reflect the Absence of Color
10) Cease to Have Nighttime Visions of An Event Being Terminated

[Dogmudgeon]

74. Most of 'em

1) Visual Organs of a Green Hue Normally Associated with Gemstones
Emerald Eyes.

4) It's True that I am In Your Posession
Baby, I'm Yours

5) Strike My Person Using Your Length of Wood that can Keep a Beat
Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick

6) Go For A Stroll Where It Is Not Tame
Walk On The Wild Side

7) Does Your Personal Creed Include Physical Existance Following A Feeling of Intense Affection and Desire?
Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor On The Bedpost Overnight?

8) I Make My Living Cutting Down Trees, And I Am Acceptable
I'm A Lumberjack and I'm OK

9) Using Emulsion Transform the Hue of This Portal to Reflect the Absence of Color
Paint It Black

10) Cease to Have Nighttime Visions of An Event Being Terminated
Don't Dream, It's Over

--bkl

[grannylib]

81. Pretty Close! #4 and #7 are not what I had in mind; those are

You Really Got Me and Do You Believe in Life after Love?

[southpaw]

83. number 7 is "Do You Believe inLife After Love?"

[grannylib]

90. Yup it sure is...

[southpaw]

68. some to play with

1. Miniscule biological appendage that generates lift and thrust.

2. Excessive rainfall in the lone star state

3. Suspended from an undefined but presumably short span of time (by Lifehouse)

4. Infant, Infant, avoid becoming impaled upon my person

5. _________ Nicholson & _________Keaton

6. Employ rapid, bipedal locomotion to higher ground.

[Dogmudgeon]

78. Check 'em out

1. Little Wing

2. Rainin' In Texas

3. Hanging By A Moment

4. Baby, Haby Don't Get Hooked On Me (Mac Davis)

5. Jack and Diane

6. Running Up That Hill (Kate Bush)

--bkl

[Fenris]

84. 2 is Texas Flood

[southpaw]

86. Fenris Got #2

#6 is Run To The Hills (Iron Maiden) but Kate works for me!

[grannylib]

88. OK let's see:

1. Little Wing
2. Texas Flood
3. Hanging by a Moment??
4. Baby Baby Don't Get Hooked On Me
5. Jack and Diane
6. Run For The Hills? Climb Every Mountain?

[a_random_joel]

85. Fabricating the documents that report the occasions I am not punctual.

Have at it.

[grannylib]

92. Oh man, I may be way off, but is this a Gordon Lightfoot song????

[a_random_joel]

93. No.

:shrug:

[grannylib]

96. Hmm ok....bending brain...hmmm

[Dogmudgeon]

94. Paper Late

Maybe.

--bkl

[a_random_joel]

98. I was trying to be clever, but can't do this without Dr. Who references.

Never mind...

[grannylib]

91. Cherished, Thoughtful Unhasty Action

[southpaw]

95. Subdued, breathy vocalization

unencumbered by worries...

[Dogmudgeon]

99. Careless Whisper

--bkl

[southpaw]

102. WE HAVE A WEINER!!!

[Dogmudgeon]

103. Hot (diggity) Dog!

--bkl

[Dogmudgeon]

97. Come ON, People! It's the SIXTIES!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x843977#844242

--bkl

[southpaw]

100. Maintain it's unlighted state.

hint: genesis

[dolo amber]

104. Female dogs from the netherworld

:D

[southpaw]

107. Bitches from Hell?

Never heard of it... just my translation

[dolo amber]

109. Wow, southpaw

I had no idea you were a Swedish techno fan! :D

(Sorry, listening to a Thomas Krome mix, that's his *signature* tune...;))

[grannylib]

108. OK this is long:

In The Event That I Were To Verbally Convey To You That I Find Your Physical Form Highly Attractive, Might You Place Said Physical Form In Contact With Mine?

[southpaw]

110. If I Said You Have a Beautiful Body...

Would You Hold It Against Me?

Always loved the double meaning

[grannylib]

111. That's the one....I love that kind of wordplay and 'punny' stuff too

[XNASA]

113. 'To Accomodate Thy Metacarpus is My Ambition'

[Fenris]

114. I Wanna Hold Your Hand

Nice one!:thumbsup:

[XNASA]

115. "My bretheren and I will exscind any attempt to be deluded anon"

Here's one for you Fenris.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

116. Won't get fooled again?

[XNASA]

117. Are you asking or telling?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

118. I know you are, but what am I?

[XNASA]

120. "I know you are, but what am I? INFINITY!!!!"

[Screaming Lord Byron]

121. ""I know you are, but what am I? INFINITY!!!!""

times infinity.

[XNASA]

122. """I know you are, but what am I? INFINITY!!!!"".....................

....times Infinity......FOREVER!!!!!!"

[Screaming Lord Byron]

123. It wasn't me, it was Whitacre.

[XNASA]

124. Well, in that case, yes...you were correct.

The answer is "(We) Won't Get Fooled Again"

[southpaw]

119. Just for fun...

Infant drinking vessel (as referred to by the infant) and a Fox news bully with built in spin!

[Fenris]

125. Baba O'Riley!

[southpaw]

126. It could be none other!

[grannylib]

127. OK I'm still waiting for someone to figure out

'Cherished, Thoughtful Unhasty Action....'

and some more just for fun:
1. Bend and Vocalize Vociferously
2. Farewell, Pathway of Buttercup-Hued Pavers
3. Have No Trepidation Regarding the One Who Harvests
4. An Equine Creature Lacking a Moniker
5. Ethereal Weather Condition Large Rocky Landscape Feature 50s Dance
6. The Docile Fleece-bearer Reclines on the Great White Way
7. Melodies Emanating From the Forested Area

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

131. Two answers

2. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
4. Horse With No Name (I did that one in thread 1)

[Fenris]

137. Answers 6/7

1. Bend and Vocalize Vociferously

Twist and Shout

2. Farewell, Pathway of Buttercup-Hued Pavers

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

3. Have No Trepidation Regarding the One Who Harvests

Don't Fear The Reaper

4. An Equine Creature Lacking a Moniker

Horse With No Name

5. Ethereal Weather Condition Large Rocky Landscape Feature 50s Dance

OH! Misty Mountain Hop. Took me a minute. GOOD ONE!

6. The Docile Fleece-bearer Reclines on the Great White Way

Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

7. Melodies Emanating From the Forested Area

This one, I have no clue

[grannylib]

153. Well done! #7 is 'Songs from the Wood' (Jethro Tull) and the first one

(Cherished Thoughtful Unhasty etc) is 'Dear Prudence'
(on edit)

[Jade Fox]

128. "Maids of the Relm Merely Desire a Bit O' Merriment!"

Whence concludes the term of duly required labors
Maids of the relm merely desire a bit of merriment
Thus, verily are they satisfied anon

Another one:
I Require a Paramour Who Refrains From Agitating Me to the Point Where I
Display Symptoms of Psychosis

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

134. Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

129. "An object that keeps being a source of photons indefinitely exists"

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

130. (misplaced)

ack.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

132. "Poorly Spelled Final Resting Place of Domestic Animals"

[Fenris]

135. (I Don't Wanna Be Buried In A) Pet Cemetary

Ramone!

I do believe Morrissey misspells it to on "Cemetary Gates." I'm too lazy to look it up.

[Jade Fox]

136. Pet Sematary....was that a song?

[Fenris]

138. Yes. By the Ramones. On "Brain Drain" LP if I'm not mistaken.

[Jade Fox]

141. Uh-oh, looks like I'm Ramones-challenged........n/t

[Fenris]

142. GET THEE TO A RECORD STORE!

[Jade Fox]

146. They do that "never gonna give you up..." song, don't they?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

148. Better - the old Spiderman cartoon theme song! (not in that album though)

eom

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

133. My unanswered ones from the first thread...

1. Oscillate While Moving Around a Time Tracking Mechanical Device
2. Musical Manifestation Belonging to a Person Who Is Not a Native of the Country He or She Resides In.
3. Programming Language Construct Used To Execute Code Upon a Condition
4. Terrain Covered by Decorative Plants But Otherwise Devoid Of Any Objects
5. Region Whose Name Resembles An American State But Is Located In Eastern Europe
6. The Occasion In Which Everything Is In A Satisfactory State
7. Young Man Coming From a City With a Less Than Average Population
8. I Belong To A Group Of People Who Finished a Competition in First Place
9. Conceive Scenarios That Don't Actually Exist
10. Exhaustive Appearance In All Kinds Of Mass Communication Media
11. Combinations of Light Frequencies in Accordance to Reality
12. Onomathopaic Description of the Detonation of an Explosive Device
13. Motion Picture Designed to Put Audience in a State of Tension
14. Hard Substance Formed By Atoms In Perfect Alignment

[Screaming Lord Byron]

139. 1. Rock around the Clock

2. Immigrant Song
5. Georgia on my mind
8. We are the Champions
13. Thriller

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

144. Only 5 is wrong: hint: no lyrics.

[Kenneth ken]

156. I'll have a go at these

1. Rock Around The Clock (Bill Haley & The Comets)
2. Immigrant Song (Led Zeppelin)
(I borrowed both of those form whoever answered them earlier)
3. If (Bread)
4. Empty Garden? (?)
5. ?
6. Alright Now (Free)
7. Small Town? (John Cougar Mellencamp)
8. ?
9. Dreamweaver (Gary Wright)
10. ?
11. ?
12. ?
13. Thriller (M Jackson) also borrowed that one
14 Crystal (Fleetwood Mac)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

158. Mixed resilts

1, 2, 13 - borrowed

3, 4, 14 - OK (Although I was thinking of New Order's "Crystal")

6 - applies but I was thinking of another

7, 9 - wrong

[Screaming Lord Byron]

140. A dark alloy at the moment of tension.

[Fenris]

143. Okay, Byron, this one is pissing me off

Seriously.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

145. Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos - Public Enemy.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

147. "Monarch of an Island Located in the Western Atlantic"

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

149. Try: "Twenty-four hour periods marked by precipitation ....

and/or namesaked for the moon invariably create in me a state of dejection."

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

150. Rainy Days and Mondays (Carpenters)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

151. "Place of Nutrition Owned by Man Named After Doubting Saint"

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

152. Other...

"Town Where Unsavory People Will Appoint Their Leader, Town Where Unsavory People Will Appoint Their Leader"

[grannylib]

154. New York New York??

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

159. Yea! (nt)

[grannylib]

155. Try these:

1) There Exists on This Date a Miniscule Imperfection Lacking in Color on Our Solar Body
2) The Capital of England Attempting to Make A Telephone Communication
3)Bland Midwest Grain Cereal Young Female
4) Male IRS Agent
5) The Situation is Totally Correct
6) Porcine Creatures (In Triplicate But Not Identical)
7) Written Communication Encapsulated Within a Glass Beverage Vessel
8) This Is An Outstanding Period of Time Following Sunset In Which To Perform Lunar Rhythmic Body Motions to Music
9) An Excess of Consecutive Precipitation-filled 24 Hour Periods
10) The Existance of Any Being In This Place With The Exception of We the Female Barnyard Fowls is Denied

(edited for a typo sorry)

[Kenneth ken]

157. I'll see if I have a better go at these

1. Little Black Spot On The Sun Today (Sting or The Police - I never know which, since I'm not a fan of either)
2. London Calling (The Clash)
3. Cornflake Girl (Tori Amos)
4. Tax Man (The Beatles)
5. It's All Good (Martha Stewart) :evilgrin:
6. Piggies (The Beatles)
7. Message In A Bottle (Sting (see above) )
8. It's A Marvelous Night For A Moon Dance (Van Morrison)
9. Too Many Rainy Days (?)
10. Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens (?)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

160. I think 6 is actually "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" by Pink Floyd