WordWolf

It was indeed "Ashes to Ashes", by David Bowie. This one should be "DEACON BLUE," by Steely Dan.

This is the thread for "obvious" being "correct."

My family is a multilingual family. I'm still learning Spanish. Once I've learned Spanish, I'm going to work on German- which sounds a lot like English compared to the "Romance" languages that descended from Latin. The Mrs is fluent in English and Spanish, and knows some French and a little German. She studies other languages for fun, here and there. Wordpup is fluent in English and Spanish. When he was tiny, we taught him both from Day 1. Experts say that, if you do that, 2 things will happen. One, it will delay his speaking slightly overall. Two, he will learn not only the languages, but how to learn languages, so his brain will process translation faster and take faster to learning other languages. I think they're correct. He's studying Portuguese in school, and French outside of school here and there. Sometimes when I speak in Spanish, I have to think "Spanish", and sometimes it seems automatic. Sometimes I'm not aware when I'm thinking in Spanish for a bit. Also, if you're translating languages out loud, you really DO have to be careful which language you use to which person. Yes, you can end up speaking the wrong language to the wrong person, in both directions. In most situations, I think the unspoken rule is that people will switch to the language of a speaker, if they know that language. Sometimes that's subconscious, sometimes that's intentional.

"My mother says, to get things done, you'd better not mess with Major Tom. My mother says, to get things done, you'd better not mess with Major Tom. " "Funk to funky, we know Major Tom's a junkie."

This is NOT easy, but it definitely got airplay, just not recently. (I got TIRED of hearing it, once.) Here's much of the lyrics to make it less difficult. "Rendezvous on Champs-Élysées. Leave Paris in the morning on TEE." "In Vienna we sit in a late-night café. Straight connection, TEE." "From station to station back to Düsseldorf City Meet Iggy Pop and David Bowie." I will take EITHER the title OR the artist- or both if you're feeling really confident.

It was about time my subconscious gave up that answer. Ok, the next song. I'm probably going to go with something Wordpup likes, let's see....

*checks* Aw, fudge. I read that one in the late 1970s, IIRC.

Um Corey Hart's "NEVER SURRENDER"????

"My mother says, to get things done, you'd better not mess with Major Tom."

I don't think I've heard that song. Well, my turn now, let's see....

That first quote reminds me of something I read in a commentary of "The Art of War" (Sun Tzu's book.) I'll paraphrase from memory. The essence of the story was that a student observed a country that lost in a war, and asked his teacher what led to their defeat. "Repeated victories in repeated wars." He was confused- didn't victories make you stronger? Not in this case. Repeated wars weakened the country (wars tax their resources.) Repeated victories made them cocky and arrogant. Put the two together and that's a recipe for defeat in the next conflict.

You were right the first time.

"The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain."

"GALAXY QUEST", which poked fun at Star Trek and Trekkie fandom.

Star Trek!

Correct! Stallone's hotel room was under Travolta's in the hotel room when they were filming "Staying Alive", and commented how Travolta kept in better shape than Stallone during Rocky- because he was dancing at all hours, and Stallone could hear it through his ceiling, so he could prove it. As for "Bananas," , Stallone played a subway mugger who robbed Fielding Mellish. (I included a screenshot of that in another thread once.) In GotG2, he played Stakar.

CORRECT! In 1902, there were 2 cars in the state of Ohio. They collided!

AFAIK, they were not. If they were, I guarantee that's not what's notable about these 2 specific cars.

Definitely not. But this actor's been mentioned as having been connected with both movies, at least on this messageboard. And he was indeed in all 3 movies.

YES, and yes.

Staying Alive Bananas Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2

Too bad. Hollywood could probably use more Katherine Isabelle. I know I wouldn't mind terribly..... Ok, I need the next round, let's see.....

In 1902, there were two cars in the entire state of Ohio. That's not the notable part. What's so notable about the 2 cars?

"We meet at a crossroads in history. No longer will the wrong roads be taken." "Now back to Gene Krupa's syncopated style." "I would say he has quite a few problems. His energy seems to go in the wrong places. When I walked in and I saw you two sitting there, I could just tell by the way you were both relating that there was no connection whatsoever. And I felt when I walked in that there was something between us. There was an impulse that we were both following. So that gave me the right to come in and talk to you. Otherwise I never would have felt that I had the right to talk to you or say anything to you. I never would have had the courage to talk to you. And with him I felt there was nothing and I could sense it. When I walked in, I knew I was right. Did you feel that way?" "June twenty-ninth. I gotta get in shape. Too much sitting has ruined my body. Too much abuse has gone on for too long. From now on there will be 50 pushups each morning, 50 pullups. There will be no more pills, no more bad food, no more destroyers of my body. From now on will be total organization. Every muscle must be tight. " "May 10. Thank God for the rain which has helped wash away the garbage and trash off the sidewalks. I'm working long hours now, six in the afternoon to six in the morning. Sometimes even eight in the morning, six days a week. Sometimes seven days a week. It's a long hustle but it keeps me real busy. I can take in three, three fifty a week. Sometimes even more when I do it off the meter. All the animals come out at night - whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal. Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets. I go all over. I take people to the Bronx, Brooklyn, I take 'em to Harlem. I don't care. Don't make no difference to me. It does to some. Some won't even take spooks. Don't make no difference to me." "Loneliness has followed me my whole life. Everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There's no escape. I'm God's lonely man. June 8. My life has taken another turn again. The days can go on with regularity over and over, one day indistinguishable from the next. A long continuous chain. Then suddenly, there is a change." "I called Betsy again at her office and she said maybe we'd go to a movie together after she gets off work tomorrow. That's my day off. At first she hesitated but I called her again and then she agreed. Betsy, Betsy. Oh no, Betsy what? I forgot to ask her last name again."

Both being able to pass on genes at that age while appealing to women who can still have a kid is probably more notable about passing on than being the last descendant of John Tyler (if he actually had been, of course, since that wasn't exactly the answer.) I need to think of something interesting, if possible.