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. 

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King Hippo

We really need a Hairdresser Marshall Plan for Central and Eastern Europe.

BeefReeferLives

Seems apt, triple word score & love this version…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T88fbHOmvRk

LemonJello

Not to be confused with the Solar Fleshlights.

BeefReeferLives
BeefReeferLives

Hmm. Original post is stuck in approval limbo. Take 2:

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

BeefReeferLives
BeefReeferLives
Fronkenshteen

Genesis “Abacab”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suCNZe3Gwkw

[is arrested by DFO police for match-fixing]

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Also for Blair Witching

Fronkenshteen

Shit! Also, would that actually be a valuable Scrabble word? I don’t play, but it would be peak “me” to Blair Witch and fuck my own joke up simultaneously. I suck.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

I’ll build off of someone else’s S and get 18 + 50 for the bingo

https://youtu.be/i7Q_8q3XXrQ?si=GjJQ5ct4AEgxBUUw

Game Time Decision

not even sure if this is a valid scrabble word, and don’t care.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmohPsN2mRg

Gumbygirl
BeefReeferLives
King Hippo

Hell of a cross from Austria’s Black guy!

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Whatever makes Hitler angry in hell

King Hippo

they won’t even let you sing the Horst Wessel song smgdh!!11111

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Some of us have been keeping to 8 letters or fewer…..

2Pack
BeefReeferLives
BeefReeferLives
Fronkenshteen

Well, there’s a song I have on an old Robert Fripp “dance music” side project CD called “League of Gentlemen” currently residing in the crawl space under my house that has a track on it called “Thrang Thrang Gozinbulx”, but on the YouTube, I can only find it as “Inductive Resonance”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMuLp2MUQYA

SonOfSpam

Saw the Stones on the Steel Wheels tour. It was, as the kids say, rockin’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loNey3n6uuE&pp=ygUdcm9sbGluZyBzdG9uZXMgbWl4ZWQgZW1vdGlvbnM%3D

Gumbygirl

I saw them on the European leg of that tour, it was called Urban Jungle there.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Is that so you don’t see who’s railing you from behind?

SonOfSpam

“Now you tell me”

Lot’s wife, feeling salty

BeefReeferLives
BeefReeferLives
BeefReeferLives
Horatio Cornblower

Liz Phair, (pretty good score with her name alone). X-ray Man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97KK473Nxbg

Gumbygirl

That may be the puzzle song!

Horatio Cornblower

If it is I claim victory.

SonOfSpam
BrettFavresColonoscopy

Dont be crabby, you could be less shellfish with hints

BeefReeferLives
BeefReeferLives

Woo! The B & C around the word “mollusk” was quite clever.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

And lots of swimmers

BeefReeferLives
SonOfSpam

Puzzle song? If not, at least it’s Ween.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nZmVy3g3CE&ab_channel=Ween-Topic

SonOfSpam

Well, it’s Ween so that;’s good.

Gumbygirl

I really should scroll more.

Redshirt

Supreme Court upholds law barring domestic abusers from owning guns in major Second Amendment ruling | CNN Politics

To be fair, I think the 8-1 ruling was less “Common Sense Gun Rights” and more “Screw You, Justice Thomas!” Either way, good job being on the good side for one and crossing the egregiously low bar Chief Justice Roberts, Justice White Thomas, Justice Stereotypical Old White Guy, Justice Disgrace-to-Alcoholics-Everywhere and Justice Shame-to-Coneys-Everywhere!

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Can I get a quadruple word score?

https://youtu.be/NMNgbISmF4I?si=Wta2xoOh9rS2Nbg_

BrettFavresColonoscopy
King Hippo

Ukraine…LESS weak?

Redshirt

“Будьте терпеливы, товарищ. Мы над этим работаем!” В. Путин-Москва

BrettFavresColonoscopy
Horatio Cornblower

If we’re not bound by the 7-letter Wordsmi.…Scrabble rules, I will take The Who and Quadrophenia.

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

Horatio Cornblower

I think that’s 27, not accounting for various multipliers, and the fact that I’d clearly be cheating my ass off to land that in an actual game.

ballsofsteelandfury

This has to be worth some points:

https://youtu.be/_z9l1Lg_0do?si=OnMiCnb6TqTywz-2

ballsofsteelandfury

24, according to the Internet!

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Katmandu (assuming a bingo) would be 15+50

https://youtu.be/wd3Mt8JBBBg?si=ESljorivuElSvEg6

BugEyedBoo
BrettFavresColonoscopy
BrettFavresColonoscopy

Oh so are we not bound by the number of tiles on the board?

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Oooh 19 points to make fun of Phil Mickelson

https://youtu.be/w9CWWSW7bfM?si=PcTMM-2dualGBuYz

BrettFavresColonoscopy
BrettFavresColonoscopy

Is this the puzzle song (by using SQUEEZE for 25 points)?

https://youtu.be/nbx_6gavLno?si=5j9AoJ0SsT8J3aID

BugEyedBoo
BugEyedBoo
Game Time Decision
WCS
Sharkbait

Thanks for subbing in Rikki. This sinus infection has fucked me up this week. It’s thrown off my balance all well. It’s like I’m drunk but without the fun.

Game Time Decision

enough cold and sinus meds and you can feel drunk or high
-other other other hippo.

BeefReeferLives