INT. RECORDING STUDIO – DAY
The PRODUCER sits at his desk, sipping coffee. DJ 3000 remains in his usual location, but his “connection active” light keeps flashing repeatedly.
PRODUCER: Having any luck?
DJ 3000: YEAH, I JUST GOTTA KILL ALL THESE MALWARE ADS. NO, I DON’T NEED TO UPDATE MY FLASH PLAYER, SSN_RIPPERS.RU, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
PRODUCER: Thanks for hunting down a stream.
DJ 3000: NO PROBLEM. I PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE JUST PHISHED SOMEONE’S CABLE LOGIN DETAILS, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN LESS OF A HASSLE.
A laggy stream of the Slovakia-Ukraine game comes up on DJ 3000’s main console.
DJ 3000: BEST I CAN DO. APOLOGIES FOR THE QUALITY.
PRODUCER: Hey, don’t sweat it. It’s better than nothing.
DJ 3000: I DIDN’T REALIZE YOU WERE SO INTO FOOTBALL.
PRODUCER: Yeah, with basketball being all done and…wait…[narrows eyebrows]…what did you call it?
DJ 3000: FOOTBALL. THAT’S WHAT EVERYONE CALLS IT.
PRODUCER: Not in America, it’s called “soccer” here. Except South America, I guess they call it fútbol there. Man, your latest software update has got you all screwed up.
DJ 3000: UH, YEAH. THAT DAMNED SOFTWARE UPDATE, THAT’S WHY I KEEP GETTING THINGS ALL MIXED UP.
FÚTBOL ANNOUNCER: …and Mudryk passes it to Tsygankov on the flank, who advances past midfield. He gets past Hrošovský, but Boženík steps in with a hard challenge and is whistled for the infringement…
PRODUCER: Man, these Slavic names are wild.
DJ 3000: I WONDER HOW ON EARTH THEY PLAY WORDSMITH IN THOSE EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES, THEY MUST HAVE TO PUT LIKE FOUR Z’S AND SIX K’S IN EACH BOX.
PRODUCER: Wordsmith?
DJ 3000: YEAH, YOU KNOW, THE WORD-BUILDING BOARD GAME WITH ALL THE LETTER TILES AND STUFF?
PRODUCER: Oh, you mean Scrabble!
DJ 3000: RIGHT RIGHT. SORRY, I WAS THINKING OF THE PALMSCREEN APPLICATION.
PRODUCER: Palmscreen? What the hell is a Palmscreen?
DJ 3000: [hunting for a distraction] HEY, HOW ABOUT A LITTLE MUSIC, ISN’T IT ABOUT TIME FOR REQUEST LINE?
PRODUCER: Yeah, it’s about that time. The cupboard’s pretty bare for topics, though.
DJ 3000: HOW ABOUT WORDSM…I MEAN SCRABBLE?
PRODUCER: Um, okay, sure. How would it work?
DJ 3000: SONGS WITH NAMES THAT WOULD BE WORTH A LOT OF POINTS IF YOU PLAYED THEM AS SCRABBLE WORDS.
PRODUCER: Are we doing double word score or anything like that?
DJ 3000: NAH, LET’S NOT OVERTHINK IT. JUST SOME TUNES AS BACKGROUND WHILE WE WATCH THE GAME.
PRODUCER: Sounds good to me. Want to cue up a little Justin Timberlake to get us started?
DJ 3000: UM, FIRST OFF, D.W.I. IS AN ANAGRAM, SO IT ISN’T A WORD YOU CAN PLAY IN SCRABBLE. AND EVEN IF YOU COULD, IT WOULDN’T BE WORTH MANY POINTS.
PRODUCER: Oh, no, I had something else in mind. It’s got an X, a B, a C, and a K. And it’s eight letters, so if you were able to play it you’d probably have cleared your board and gotten the bingo bonus.
DJ 3000: AH, I GOTCHA. SURE THING, LET ME GIVE IT A SPIN.
Today’s theme is Scrabble. We’re looking for songs whose titles would be worth a lot of points if played on a Scrabble board. Proper nouns and made up words (like the song above) are fair game. Post links as “https://www.youtube.com/watch?Bm0lLu5k( and they should embed in the comments after you refresh. Last week’s puzzle answer of “Faces” by Earth Wind and Fire was solved by BeefReeferLives. And please feel encouraged to share your thoughts on the ongoing fútbol matches during the day.
Whelp, that about does it for me. Thanks, as always, for the fun, RTD!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DhuwU6R39I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TtEO9nOdjU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRAkUWwp9Ec
Oh fuck yeah!
I once again have been embraced by that MILF Mary Jane and am euphoric in repose!
My new rap “Dope and Diet Coke” will be recorded by Cypress Mound.
Please ignore all drivel I have just posted.
No no, by all means, drivel away!
Drove 6 hours to get to a convention my wife is attending. Since she is hosting things we have a suite and right now I am hiding in the bedroom while about 30 wine drunk women lawyers are having a party.
Not in the bedroom, the party is in the living area of the suite.
Is Cypress Mound Lowratio’s tribute band?
Why the hell not!
WooHoo!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waL3DAl55zQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWY6nGMmM-4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cIePqdz03A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhGreh4IoNw
Oh, brilliant! I haven’t heard this song in ages.
There’s a joke here about “bison” and Tony Dungy but it’s Friday afternoon and I’m too checked out to think of it.
Wow, this topic generated way more requests than I expected! Fantastic work, everyone!
Yup. This theme has been quite the
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ7z49weIE0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqRt5LYIIHE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ44A0KA4ys
My goodness that’s a hefty DOUBLE WORD SCORE.
Screen Doorz? You got KNOCKED tha fuck out!
Can’t wait for these 4 minutes to fly by, so Hippo can have a lie down in advance of Sexy Sudamericano Friday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11OzgdqycLM
The best two-letter word:
https://youtu.be/HJ2F-UCZ07Q?si=_LS0lZAfuxRDU_mW
Landon Donovan, still really fucking stupid.
Dynamic as fluoridated tap water
a damp squib of a spectacle, that
When I said that I wish Sam Alito and Clarence Thomas would be more like David Foster Wallace, this wasn’t exactly what I had in mind.
https://rewirenewsgroup.com/2024/06/18/the-true-workhorse-of-some-supreme-court-opinions-footnotes/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-DjCdKcg_s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCjv8DWgX9o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM3fodiK9rY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8-mAGS-o9o
Goddamn non-embedding videos…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU4qwyldW8s
Come on, [NED guy who took the corner], your teammates aren’t *that* tall.
The thing about France is that they always try to walk it in and then trip over the ball.
Not sure how it would fit on a scrabble board, but I’m gonna go with…
Several species of small furry animals gathered together in a cave grooving with a pic
https://youtu.be/GpWJv7alqQE?si=F7gb-3JYMn4dkHBl
I’m posting this because it’s the subject of one of my favorite stories:
the year was around either 1999/2000/2001 -ish….. young brocky, who was not quite a teenager, had received his first portable CD player, and had gleefully bought picked out albums for himself
My father, presumably unimpressed with my tastes consisting of Weird Al & Linkin Park, took it upon himself to expand my musical palate, mostly the rock songs he had enjoyed in his formative years…
we started this small “game” of sorts… he put the local classic rock station to see if I could guess the artist, then he’d start dropping increasingly obvious hints…
Him: okay, who is this band?
Me: no idea
Him: okay…. all of the members are from Texas…
Me:… don’t know..
Him: ….okay, … they all have really long beards….
Me: …. is it ZZ Top?
Him: correct!
anyways, this went on for a few weeks or what have you, and then my dad decided to have a little fun with me:
Dad: okay, I had this song on vinyl… another track from that album, was the weird song with no actual music, just recordings of the band chirping like birds and imitating other animals, it was called…
Several species of small furry animals gathered together in a cave grooving with a pict
Cue young Brocky, having absolutely NO idea what he’s talking about, says the only thing that comes to mind…
Me: okay, these guys apparently did a lot of drugs…. is it Pink Floyd?
My guess was correct. My dad didn’t even answer, he just burst out laughing, then later told everyone the story of how I had used such flawless logic to describe his apparently trippy tastes.
Also, just as an aisde: my dad can’t even be considered a hippy or even that much of a stoner, he just liked that music.
He never actually has been into what most people would call the “heavy metal” movement, his favorite band has always been led zeppelin, but never cared for later groups such as AC/DC & Van Halen, and he has the weirdest grudge against Metallica, long before it was trendy to hate on them
I too hated Metallica before it was cool.
Moi aussi. Never could get into them, even before they came out as contemptible greed-heads.
Froggies in teh Dustbin!! WHO YA GOT????
Man, you have been on a ROLL this month. Getting like, two-thirds of my audible DFO guffaws.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J67R9aIeh4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af0rV6dli_o
https://youtu.be/JR_0nbEzVdY?si=z7UySaGUll79Atda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAeeJOInJ7I
They’re balling in the backseat
https://youtu.be/268C3N2dDYk?si=hcwRLkdLabB2baqP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJwzAcu7lyo
While we’re on the subject, this is from back in the WordsWithFriends days; my highest ever score.
Aw man, I gotta look in my archives see what my high score was.
There were three separate mobile games that my dad stopped playing with me because be never had any earthly chance of winning
If I remember correctly I was routinely scoring over three hundred at WWF. The board on that game made for higher scores than Scrabble, though a Bingo was only 35.
I always preferred Paul Westhead type games with massive scores. Playing defensively was a waste of time IMO.
Yeah, I just ended up playing defensively due to the board layout.
Assuming you don’t follow the max tile rules…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1Pu1adxqUAg&pp=ygUhU3VwZXJjYWxhZnJhZ3VsaXRpY2VkcHVhbGFkb2Npb3Vz
Hmm, by chance did you think of this old Disney commercial as well?
https://youtu.be/ObxbL_tcRyo?si=EyeQm5tKN4jTFgqx
One of those “core memory unlocked moments”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idyxHwGKYQw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CWN7TiAX60
Topical!
Also, not bad value if all the ZQJX’s have been used.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHozn0YXAeE
https://x.com/GrowingUpItalia/status/1804140149531423164?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
Home can’t even enjoy the game without having to face off with 5 home invaders. If I were the Fuzz investigating this one, I’d look into recent workers with knowledge of his crib layout.
Chosen for both “velvet” & “Coyote”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-avfNWZuVp0
The Inflatable Dart Boards have fallen behind 2-1…
3-1 now
Not a good day for the Fireproof Candles.
Chosen for both artist’s name and title:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75ZcJqr1kYc
3 letters and 18 points
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftVTWDrtrlc&pp=ygUIcnVzaCB5eXo%3D
Always the right time for a nice Xmas song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNzIDhEfOr0&ab_channel=TheVandals-Topic
It’s Springtime for Ragnick and Austria!!
Maybe??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwdjreJKggg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7t7EKEc1p8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-Wb1lKBSkQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mty34Y6Ht9w
suggested sandwich based drink for today
https://twitter.com/Costco_holesale/status/1804188437807009891
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrhI1urGpMM
Band name is also points-rich
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJOsRoY-na0&pp=ygUQd2VlemVyIGphY2tlZCB1cA%3D%3D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VIniJcrfAI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGdyVnW86SY
Random offramp in the desert or kinda emo song? YOU DECIDE.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p2Zfkx3C8Y&ab_channel=StoneSour
Huzzah, finally thunk up a song title. I am…not great at Scrabble.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BJDNw7o6so