Hi Guys Happy Post-Thanksgiving ,
(American day thereof anyhoo). I've just finished up with all family activites, including the largest shopping day of the year - Thank Heavens the 'Mall' - made up to look like a National Park Lodge, very rustic , peeled-post furniture etc.,; thankfully had a
Brookstone gadget store to satisfy my shiney metal gadgets 'raccoon' in me; an
Eastern Mtn. Sports to get me dreaming of winter outings, and a
Discovery Channel store (so fascinating
jjD2...lol..) 'cause among other things they
HAVE MAPS ! oh man oh man that Visa AND Mastercard are
SCORCHING hot in my wallet...lol... .
The Ladies (notably minus one very important Lady to me this year, its true its very hard at the Holidays - but my and extended branches of the family used the 'keep me so busy I won't have time to get morose..' ploy....it almost worked ...) in the family and a number of the guys went hogwild on Christmas, whereas I dwelled in the aforementioned stores, and then languished with a smoothy by the fake Rock precipice and flowing-over waterfall on it, into a limpid pool full of dream-filled pennies and up to quarters - ( the price of a simple dream must be succumbing to inflation...lol..)
OK well to answer one of the important things here on THE GAME
is I am just starting to review the aswers this evening, allthough I intercepted
Mende's Q229 and Q235 late early Thursday morning in the wee hours by Mtn std time, when I got this all posted new.
jj you asked a very pertinent
question 'How many/are any left of Q's ?' . Well my plan was overly ambitious in the middle of the Holiday to post an X-file every 3 submits or so, which I will do shortly here. but for the moment, by my perusal, and initial notes to feed into the Gord Lyrics Game cruncher, I show:
2 Q/CLUE's left, Q226 AND Q234, and 2 ambigs subject to review - Q228 AND Q230 with little doubt of correctness, but to be determined this evening.... so I hope that helps, again:
Q226 .... in the rain
&
Q234 Trouble don't .... remain outstanding in the field - - and upon quick scan
all the others LOOk right but I will hedge my response until all verified by the cruncher, lyrics, etc.
I believe three of you...lol...
GOBBLED-UP The Watchman's Gone correctly; but
Mende (Joveski) was the first to post back on page (27?), in any event the previous page. Popular song. Kudo's to all three of you. Thank you
Jesse Joe for politely bringing this to the next page's attention unobtrusively - I appreciate it
Nice to see you back in the game
formerlyLavender ! Thanks !
Ron ,
interesting observation you made on thread 'views' qty.; one thing I have noticed all along is a mildly interesting fact - the ratio of views-to-plays has been fairly consistently 10 views to every one play for the first couple months, recently the ratio has changed somewhat to disproportionately many more views, vs the number of plays. I've also, while noticing the ratio, observed that other threads very commonly experience the 10:1 ratio as well. And for this thread, that changed recently. The all-to-quick answer I have to ponder is for some reason fewer ppl that 'look-in' play by proportion, therefor I assume unqualified that something is less appealing. I won't drive myself nuts trrying to figure that out. Safe to say I am busy trying to keep up with you guys whenever I post ten new ones.
And.... I will, after finishing the more rigorous eval of all the submits to maintain fairness, will finish this evening if I can with 10 NEW SONGS ! if timer/freezer/things permit 
Linda, glad to hear your Tuscan trip was fun; in one week's time, I am not sure what I was thinking when I wondered if it was in pursuit of the more prolific graduate degrees in Haute Cuisine these days; safe to say it sounds like a good time, with time to enjoy the local color ! One thing, from my last berage of questions - was, with Tuscan in mind, did you guys prep with watching the 'Under The Tuscan Sun' DVD I think was the name with Diane Lane ? - and the other movie at any point 'Indian Summer' with her in it too- among my top 10 favourite movies with Big Chill.
My poor daughter Mamie, managing an Anne Taylor fancy woman's clothing store had to work after Turkey Dinner last night from about 8PM to 8AM this morning.....go home for 4 hours shleep !@#$, then RETURN to the store to work another 2 - 10 PM!@#$% . She's got a good MidWestern Work ethic, but Retail is unfair murder ! She works on the premise you can't ask PPL to work throught the night before to prep for the day, and not do it herself, too... (She is right.....arguably, in any event it elicits respect IMO).