Request Line: Five Q’s and only two U’s and also Euro Open Thread

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. 

5 4 votes
Article Rating
Rikki-Tikki-Deadly
Law-abiding Raiders fan, pet owner, Los Angeles resident.
Subscribe
Notify of
172 Comments
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
BeefReeferLives

Whelp, that about does it for me. Thanks, as always, for the fun, RTD!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DhuwU6R39I

ArmedandHammered

Oh fuck yeah!

ArmedandHammered

I once again have been embraced by that MILF Mary Jane and am euphoric in repose!

ArmedandHammered

My new rap “Dope and Diet Coke” will be recorded by Cypress Mound.

ArmedandHammered

Please ignore all drivel I have just posted.

ArmedandHammered

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.

ArmedandHammered

Not in the bedroom, the party is in the living area of the suite.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Is Cypress Mound Lowratio’s tribute band?

Last edited 4 months ago by BrettFavresColonoscopy
ArmedandHammered

Why the hell not!

BeefReeferLives
BeefReeferLives
BeefReeferLives
BeefReeferLives
BeefReeferLives

Yup. This theme has been quite the

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ7z49weIE0

BeefReeferLives
BeefReeferLives
King Hippo

Screen Doorz? You got KNOCKED tha fuck out!

King Hippo

Can’t wait for these 4 minutes to fly by, so Hippo can have a lie down in advance of Sexy Sudamericano Friday.

BeefReeferLives
Senor Weaselo
King Hippo

Landon Donovan, still really fucking stupid.

SonOfSpam

Dynamic as fluoridated tap water

King Hippo

a damp squib of a spectacle, that

BeefReeferLives
BeefReeferLives
BeefReeferLives
BeefReeferLives
BeefReeferLives

Goddamn non-embedding videos…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU4qwyldW8s

Brocky

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.

Brocky

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

BeefReeferLives

Moi aussi. Never could get into them, even before they came out as contemptible greed-heads.

King Hippo

Froggies in teh Dustbin!! WHO YA GOT????

King Hippo

Man, you have been on a ROLL this month. Getting like, two-thirds of my audible DFO guffaws.

BeefReeferLives
BeefReeferLives
Gumbygirl
BeefReeferLives
Gumbygirl

They’re balling in the backseat
https://youtu.be/268C3N2dDYk?si=hcwRLkdLabB2baqP

BeefReeferLives
Brocky

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

Senor Weaselo

Yeah, I just ended up playing defensively due to the board layout.

Redshirt
Brocky

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”

BeefReeferLives
BeefReeferLives
2Pack

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.

BeefReeferLives

Chosen for both “velvet” & “Coyote”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-avfNWZuVp0

Sharkbait

3-1 now

BeefReeferLives

Chosen for both artist’s name and title:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75ZcJqr1kYc

SonOfSpam
SonOfSpam
King Hippo

It’s Springtime for Ragnick and Austria!!

King Hippo
BeefReeferLives
BeefReeferLives
BeefReeferLives
Game Time Decision

suggested sandwich based drink for today

https://twitter.com/Costco_holesale/status/1804188437807009891

BeefReeferLives
SonOfSpam
BeefReeferLives
BeefReeferLives
SonOfSpam

Random offramp in the desert or kinda emo song? YOU DECIDE.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p2Zfkx3C8Y&ab_channel=StoneSour

King Hippo

Huzzah, finally thunk up a song title. I am…not great at Scrabble.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BJDNw7o6so

Last edited 4 months ago by King Hippo