Joveski,jj, RM, formerlyLavender, and others, regarding
Q100. I gave you an unprecedented clue for a couple of qualities about it, and new forms of clues as addendums, however cryptic. What will be maddening to you when you see the answer, is how easy it is; whats hard is interpreting my evidently poorly-stated clues ! And thats not fun. If you want; I'll nuke it. But for one last shot, I'll line-up the original
clues plus subsequent clues for it,
see if it comes to mind for you all, if not; I'll nuke it and go to the next 6, so we're having fun !
Q100 clues thus far:
clue 1.... ("dots" before the clue means it is NOT the start of a "sentence". That's been the norm so far, until this one, where:
clue 2 "There"...... - I pointed out not only the novelty of
no dots before the clue word, and the capitalization of the the clue word's fist letter, indicating its the start of a sentence, not just a proper noun, as there are no dots before the clue.
clue 3 "There".... a normal type of clue thus far in this regard- dots after the clue word(s), indicating the clue words) is/are NOT the end of the sentence, which would be indicated by one dot only ( has not happened yet. Like regular sentence structure.
clue 4 "There" being a common word, by no means unique, a characteristic of clues intended to be the case so far, makes the need for additional clues a minimum gesture.
The word, capitalized, no dots to the left of it, we know by virtue of those facts that is the start of a sentence, and I'll add now maybe even the start of the song.
clue 5 I added a second word (or, phrase) for you quietly at the end of my evaluation of Joveski's 3-word triple-play, at the bottom of my post congratulating him, and referred to that second word in the "what is now a clue phrase" in the following post by me, to draw attention again. And that second word, in proper position, as given before, is Q100: There was.... (again we know this is the start of the sentence); self evident by capitalization of a non-proper noun - "There". Knowing as well in this post for the first time that it not only is the first part of a sentence in the song, the unprecedented clue of it "maybe the start of the song". So, if
the song starts with: "There was..." - ? !
You know it well, very well.
clue 6 - The clincher. thus far we know "There was...." probably starts the song, and
I gave the uhm..er... words describing a sound pertinent to the song's subject matter, which could only be inferred to be the case... by the otherwise meaningless statement I'd hope would stand out where I said in reference to the song "
toot-toot ! -
the toot-toot! being a new and unprecedented form of clue so far the game that falls in the category of, well here is the reduced , relevant webster's definition"
bottom line of the definition:
"onomatopoeia" - the noun form ; rarely used that I have heard
"
on·o·mato·poe·ic" the adjective - common form - the quality of a word simply
when the word "sounds" like the noise that the word is to describe, such
as the word "hiss". The sound a snake makes sounds like the word "hiss", so the word is therefor on·o·mato·poe·ic
Relevance to clue in Q100 - 'toot-toot"! is on·o·mato·poe·ic; eg what makes the sound "toot-toot ?" - and
apply that to the likely song name subject,
not the starting words necessarily at all. This a BIG clue.,plus the likely start of the song
"There was..... ( starting a song about something that goes toot-toot!" (and the song is about something that makes the sound 'toot-toot'.
Its far simpler than you're imagining..... and [the song] is very defining for Lightfoot. If you don't get it from that. s'OK, we'll nuke it and go to Q's 103 -108
OK guys...
what goes "toot-toot!" - Q100 Nuke that mother. Last hint:
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read this only if you are totally lost) -
This song is almost always blown in concert by some newbie, with good intentions, that does not know to NOT clap at the great "pause" before the "last sentence". It seperates those who know his music from those who don't. Its THAT big of a song. BIG.
If you don't get it by now, I will go outside and , well, mutter something self-deprecating, and then likely apologize to you and ceremoniously hand-over the symbolic "deal" and let someone better-spoken than myself give clues ! lol
lol..lol..
more blah-blah from the dictionary
Main Entry:
on·o·mato·poe·ia
Pronunciation: \ˌä-nə-ˌmä-tə-ˈpē-ə, -ˌma-\
Function: noun
1 : the naming of a thing or action by a
vocal imitation of the sound associated with it [steve's note: "it" is the word that has on·o·mato·poe·ic qualities, as show in the adjective usage in 2:, next, such as words such as: (as buzz, hiss)] [steve's note2 - words that sound like the noise that what they describe makes, such as the word "splat" which sounds like something making the noise "splat", or "umph" when someone is hit]
2 : the use of words whose sound suggests the sense
— on·o·mato·poe·ic \-ˈpē-ik\ or on·o·mato·po·et·ic \-pō-ˈe-tik\
adjective [ as steve described above in yellow in 1 :]
— on·o·mato·poe·i·cal·ly \-ˈpē-ə-k(ə-)lē\ or on·o·mato·po·et·i·cal·ly \-pō-ˈe-ti-k(ə-)lē\ adverb
OK ok lol thats all anyone including me would ever want to digest for one song, including me. I hope you still like the song after this ! 