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Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 12/16/11 at 1:03 pm
Ten days from now, is December 26th, the day after Christmas!
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/16/11 at 1:10 pm
December 26th, the day after Christmas, is know as Boxing Day.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 12/17/11 at 12:44 pm
Boxing Day does not refer to the sport of boxing, rather it refers to packaging...as in placing items in boxes.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/17/11 at 12:45 pm
Boxes can be made from cardboard.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 12/17/11 at 1:23 pm
Cardboard boxes are very common in today's world. They are used for packing and shipping, as well as for storage. You can also recycle them, especially when they get old and worn out.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/17/11 at 2:36 pm
Worn out, that is how I fell right now.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 12/17/11 at 7:26 pm
Right now I am feeling kinda disappointed because I have not received any Christmas cards yet, but maybe next week they will finally get here.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/18/11 at 12:15 am
"Get Here" is a pop ballad written by American singer/songwriter Brenda Russell which became an international hit via a 1990 recording by Oleta Adams.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 12/18/11 at 3:51 pm
Oleta Adams also lent background vocals to Tears For Fears' 1989 release The Seeds Of Love. Her backing vocals can be heard on the tracks "Sowing The Seeds Of Love" and "Woman In Chains".
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/18/11 at 3:52 pm
"Chains" is a song composed by the Brill Building husband-and-wife songwriting team Gerry Goffin and Carole King and was a major hit for Little Eva’s backing singers, The Cookies (#17 U.S. Pop, #7 R&B), and later covered by The Beatles.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 12/18/11 at 3:54 pm
The Beatles also recorded a cover of "Twist And Shout", which was a hit for them in 1964, but it was originally recorded by the Isley Brothers, who released their version in 1962.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/18/11 at 3:55 pm
1962 was a common year that started on Monday.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 12/18/11 at 3:56 pm
A common year that started on Monday was also 2007. The next such year will be 2018, which will have Ash Wednesday on Valentine's Day and Easter Sunday on April Fools Day!
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/18/11 at 3:58 pm
April Fools Day is fun day to be online.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 12/18/11 at 4:01 pm
April Fools Day is fun day to be online, especially on this site, because there is usually some funny prank played, like the altering of our usernames. :D
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/19/11 at 2:32 am
Names are what we call ourselves online.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 12/19/11 at 3:10 pm
Online chats can be lotsa fun.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/20/11 at 2:03 am
"Fun, Fun, Fun", written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love, was a hit single by The Beach Boys that was released in 1964 on the band's album Shut Down Volume 2.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 12/20/11 at 2:23 am
2 plus 2 is 4; and 2 times 2 is 4.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/21/11 at 3:45 am
Four Weddings and a Funeral is a 1994 British comedy film directed by Mike Newell. It was the first of several films by screenwriter Richard Curtis to feature Hugh Grant.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 12/21/11 at 1:10 pm
Grant Cardone (born March 21, 1958) is a motivational speaker, and author, and host of the National Geographic television show, 'Turnaround King'.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/21/11 at 3:51 pm
King Creole is a 1958 American film directed by Michael Curtiz and produced by Hal B. Wallis. The story was adapted from the Harold Robbins novel A Stone for Danny Fisher (1952) and featured Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones, and Walter Matthau.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 12/21/11 at 7:29 pm
Walter Matthau costarred with Jack Lemmon in a number of films, including the "Odd Couple" series, the "Grumpy Old Men" series, as well as "Out To Sea."
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/22/11 at 1:19 am
Sea level is a measure of the average height of the ocean's surface (such as the halfway point between the mean high tide and the mean low tide); used as a standard in reckoning land elevation.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 12/22/11 at 1:21 am
"Elevation" was a minor hit for the Irish rock band U2 a decade ago, from their album All That You Can't Leave Behind.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/22/11 at 1:23 am
Behind the Mask is a 1958 British drama film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Michael Redgrave, Vanessa Redgrave, Ian Bannen and Lionel Jeffries. It portrays the life of a surgeon in a busy hospital.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 12/22/11 at 1:24 pm
In a busy hospital, you often can't get taken care of right away.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/23/11 at 2:33 am
"Away in a Manger" is a Christmas carol first published in 1885 in Philadelphia and used widely throughout the English-speaking world.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Indy Gent on 12/23/11 at 8:39 pm
The English-speaking world also uses several other classics like "Silent Night", "The First Noel", and "What Child is This?"
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/24/11 at 1:39 pm
"This Is It" was a planned series of fifty concerts by Michael Jackson to be held at The O2 Arena in London.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 12/25/11 at 3:33 pm
London Tipton was a famous fictional character on the "Suite Life" series on Disney Channel; first on "The Suite Life of Zack & Cody", which ran for three years, and then on its spinoff sitcom, "Suite Life On Deck", which ran for another three years; she was played by Brenda Song.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/26/11 at 4:23 am
Brenda Song (born March 27, 1988) is an American actress, film producer, and model. Song started in show business as a child fashion model. Her early television work included a role in the show Fudge.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 12/26/11 at 12:43 pm
The show "Fudge" is not one that I am familiar with; I will have to look it up online somewhere.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/26/11 at 12:49 pm
Somewhere in Time is a 1980 romantic science fiction film directed by Jeannot Szwarc. It is a film adaptation of the 1975 novel Bid Time Return by Richard Matheson, who also wrote the screenplay.
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Written By: Dude111 on 12/30/11 at 1:10 am
Screenplay 12334 was done VERY WELL.. So good i wanted to see it again :)
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 12/30/11 at 2:14 pm
"Again" was the name of an early 2000s hit song by Lenny Kravitz; at the 43rd annual Grammy Awards, it won the award for best Male Rock Vocal Performance; it was the third straight win for Lenny in that category; he won another such award a year later for his song "Dig In."
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: Philip Eno on 12/30/11 at 4:17 pm
"In the Bleak Midwinter" is a Christmas carol based on a poem by the English poet Christina Rossetti written before 1872 in response to a request from the magazine Scribner's Monthly for a Christmas poem.
Subject: Re: Fantastic word game
Written By: nally on 12/31/11 at 12:47 am
A Christmas poem I know well is "'Twas The Night Before Christmas"...when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.