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On:10-13-2008, @ 06:09 AM Thread post #407
From: charlene
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from your hints I'm wondering if this is right!
He did it on stage - Ian and Sylvia show..not one of my fave songs..
??????????????

Q170
TURPENTINE
From: Knotty Pine
Lyric line: She's my knotty pine, she leans with the wind,
She cries turpentine.

(one of the oddest words he uses in a song..lol )

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Char, just thinking about your comment on turpentine, and how odd it is to use in a song by Gord, it struck me as: thats funny, seems to make sense to me that he sings "she cries turpentine" when he seemingly is comparing a tree to his girlfriend, or a metaphor between the various combinations there lol.. and he mentions turpentine coming out of the tree, as if it (she) were crying...made sense to me in context, -however unappealing for a prosaic song element lol...because thats where turpentine as a classic thinner comes from, typically, older uses for paint thinning, and uniquely I think from the balsam in your neck of the woods - a variation that dries like glass, comes from: trees -(one of several sources, trees, certain bushes, and synthetic "petro-based turp", but notably . one variation that I recalled from Lumber days (THATS why it seemed predictable in a song about trees...) is the Canada Balsam, hopefully not boring, but of brief interest given your nationality, from WIKIPEDIA:

Canada balsam, also called Canada turpentine or balsam of fir, is a turpentine which is made from the resin of the balsam fir tree (Abies balsamea).

and maybe two more sentences from WIKI is bearable lol :

Some uses include:
in optical technology to glue together optical elements such as two prisms to form a beam splitter, or two lenses;
to fix scratches in glass (car glass for instance) as invisibly as possible.

Mr. Science Wizard: that....is AMAZING ..lol.... not... but thought the Canada Balsam would catch your Patriotic side
BTW, isn't that a weird optical illusion, when you combine red & white, with a blue background, the red seems to lift off the screen higher than the white...Not all people see it, I mentioned it once to Jesse Joe, but I don't think he saw my post, which I did maybe a month after his. Do you see it ? The concept, believe or not (groan) has been used in Cartography for years on glossy media, and you WANT the red map element to be prominent. AMAZING ! sound of -pin dropping- clink....sorry

-oh well. science show...maybe if we are all good they'll play more tomorrow from Mr. Science Wizard, one of my heros as a child, as was the professor on Gilligan's Island - boy did I like that Marianne..... ayyyee

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re-iterating Char's submission:

Q170
TURPENTINE
From: Knotty Pine
Lyric line: She's my knotty pine, she leans with the wind,
She cries turpentine.

Clue as submitted:Q170 TURPENTINE
Clue,per database:Q170....like turpentine
Song submitted:Knotty Pine would take it if it worked with clue as an ambig, but:
Lyrics as submitted:She cries turpentine doesn't incoporate "like" turpentine...
....REMAINS UNANSWERED - I'm sorry Char - remember the "like turpentine" , and at the end of the lyric verse - you might have the 1986 versus 23 years earlier clues mixed backwards as you think of it - hope that helps.... off of the head is hard on ones like that, but that "like" is pivotal, as is 1963 +/-

SO:

NOTE: X MEANS ALLREADY WON & DONE !

Q161....glass....

Q162....evergreen

Q163....ten dollars....

Q164 Whisper..... X Won correctly by Ron !

Q165....pyre....

Q166 Bells.......... X Won correctly by formerlylavender

Q167....tin.......... X Won correctly by CHAR !

Q168....throng....

Q169....friendly, when your

Q170....like turpentine REMAINS UNANSWERED

Thanks for playing !