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Johnny Dickshot Jun 09 2006 08:59 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jun 09 2006 09:26 AM

* avi. I'm a retard Kwiz cancelled

seawolf17 Jun 09 2006 09:19 AM

A: Six people who have never been in my kitchen. P.S. Weird: A Google image search for "cliff claven" (no quotes) yields this image as the nineteenth image on the page: (It's because of an espn.com Page 2 article that mentions Clavin, but it still comes across as odd.)

soupcan Jun 09 2006 09:20 AM

A: All made their ML debuts in September?

Yancy Street Gang Jun 09 2006 09:21 AM

Bradford's presence on the list makes it all the more puzzling. All of the others were position players who spent at least a few years with the Mets. Bradford's a pitcher who's only been around for a little while.

Johnny Dickshot Jun 09 2006 09:25 AM

Stop guessing.

soupcan Jun 09 2006 09:27 AM

You are retarded. Tommy Tutone would be ashamed of you. Not to mention Jenny.

Yancy Street Gang Jun 09 2006 09:29 AM

Now this is even more intriguing. Carter, Backman, Kranepool, Bradford, Floyd, Jefferies. None of them were born in Guam. Could that be it?

Elster88 Jun 09 2006 09:31 AM

What were you going for?

metirish Jun 09 2006 09:32 AM

I think Dickshots kid is keeping him up late at night, Johnny is not himself it seems.

soupcan Jun 09 2006 09:37 AM

Sheesh, you guys are dense. 867-5309

Johnny Dickshot Jun 09 2006 09:43 AM

Soup wins!!!! Heard that song on the radio this morning

Elster88 Jun 09 2006 09:45 AM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Jun 09 2006 09:45 AM

What?

Yancy Street Gang Jun 09 2006 09:45 AM

I thought it might have something to do with uniform numbers, but when I strung the numbers together I got something that didn't mean anything to me. Now that I see that phone number, above, it still doesn't.

Yancy Street Gang Jun 09 2006 09:48 AM

Okay, now I know Never heard of the song. That's why I didn't do well in the song parody contest last year.

soupcan Jun 09 2006 09:50 AM

That's cause Mr. Mets-by-the-numbers screwed it up. The players he listed, in order, are 8,6,7,53,30,9. He threw the extra '3' in there. If he used Steve Henderson instead of Bradford, then it works out.

Johnny Dickshot Jun 09 2006 09:52 AM

Yancy Street Gang wrote: Okay, now I know Never heard of the song. WHAT?

metirish Jun 09 2006 09:55 AM

Great, now that song will be playing in my head all day.....cool quiz though and good job by soup.

soupcan Jun 09 2006 09:58 AM

Johnny Dickshot wrote: ="Yancy Street Gang"]Okay, now I know Never heard of the song. WHAT? Yancy spent the '80's reading comic books with the radio off.

Yancy Street Gang Jun 09 2006 10:04 AM

I spent the 70's reading comics with the radio off. I only listen to music in the car (and now, not even then) and in 1982 I was listening to oldies on WCBS-FM. There was only a brief period of time when I listened to Top Forty radio (in the final few years of WABC) and that was the only time I was hip to popular music. So no, I've never heard of that song.

MFS62 Jun 09 2006 10:37 AM

I used to listen every Monday night to the new top 40 list on WABC. Years later, when I was on my honeymoon, I met Cousin Brucie (Morrow) who was emceeing a rock-and-roll show in the hotel where we were staying. Later

Vic Sage Jun 09 2006 11:59 AM

] I spent the 70's reading comics with the radio off. I read my comics in the 70s with the radio ON. But that was the last period of time i listened to top 40... Elton John, America, Billy Joel, Meatloaf, Harry Chapin, Foreigner, Boston, Styx, Kansas, Yes, Jackson Browne. But I hated the inescapable disco sound on the radio of the era, and so i mostly listened to my older brother's LPs --- British rock (Beatles, Who, Pink FLoyd, Tull, Kinks), folk-ish, country-ish rock stuff (Simon & Garfunkel, CCR, Dylan & The Band, CSN, Cat Stevens, Jim Croce, Randy Newman), R & B (Motown, Ray Charles, early Steve Miller, Van Morrison), Springsteen and Elvis --- and dad's jazz vocalists (dinah washington, sarah vaughn, ella, tony bennett), and mom's showtunes. When i went to college (1978 - 1982) at SUNY Stony Brook, i stopped listening to radio almost entirely. The only new music i heard was from the LPs i hoisted from the Concerts Committee slush pile (they got promotional LPs from all the record labels). So I was listening to a variety of eclectic stuff that i never would have heard otherwise, because they weren't on mainstream radio stations... Laurie Anderson, T-Bone Burnett, George Winston, Kitaro, Pat Metheny, Robert Fripp, Renaissance, Brian Eno, Tom Waits The campus concert series exposed me to other stuff as well (Cyndi Lauper, Bangles, Go Gos, Stray Cats, Prenders, Talking Heads, King Crimson). And Zappa played there every year, attendance to which became a ritualized experience. There was also a local band called The Good Rats, which i liked alot. The more mainstream radio stuff of the period that i did like included Dire Straits, Peter Gabriel, Blondie, The Clash, Queen, The Police, Prince. and the Doors were in the midst of a big revival at that time. After college, i didn't like the haircut bands and silly brit-pop and euro-dance crap i heard everywhere (except for Eurythmics, which i liked alot), and "punk" (which I didn't like, but at least had a personality) had morphed into the pointlessly generic "new wave", so i reverted even more into exploring 60s rock and my other earlier faves. A few new acts have slipped under the radar over the years...Warren Zevon, Suzanne Vega, Tracey Chapman, Enya, some others. But i've managed to largely avoid the disco era, euro-dance music, heavy metal, the entire grunge era, alternative (to what?) bands, and rap/hip-hop. Instead, I've expanded my interest in earlier forms (classical, rag, jazz instrumental, celtic) and continue to mine the backlists of favorite artists. But at this point, i have no idea whats going on in the top-40 pop music field, and every time i hear the newest DJ-Killdabitch, or the next Britney Spears, or the next American Idol, i realize im not missing much.

Edgy DC Jun 09 2006 12:09 PM

]There was only a brief period of time when I listened to Top Forty radio (in the final few years of WABC) and that was the only time I was hip to popular music. That's why not knowing of it is remarkable. There was nothing hip about hearing 867-5309. It was just sonic wallpaper for a year. It was played between innings at Shea. It came with credit card applications. Planes would fly overhead dragging it on a banner at the beach. Admittedly there are records people reference as having been ubiquitous for a time during my sentience and I have no idea what they're talking about. I wouldn't know "I've Never Been to Me" if it sat me down and showed me pictures of us together.

Johnny Dickshot Jun 09 2006 12:09 PM

Still play the Island a few times a week

Vic Sage Jun 09 2006 12:50 PM

Does the lead guy still strut around playing air guitar on a baseball bat? I love RAT CITY IN BLUE. you have a picture of that one?

Johnny Dickshot Jun 09 2006 12:56 PM

goodrats.com

G-Fafif Jun 09 2006 02:41 PM

="soupcan"]Sheesh, you guys are dense. 867-5309 We would have also accepted "the No. 284 song of all-time". (I only bring it up since Dickshot's been exposed to my Top 500 list.)

Edgy DC Jun 09 2006 02:47 PM

Funny, I have the Good Rats' "Takin' It to Detroit" at 284.

Johnny Dickshot Jun 09 2006 02:49 PM

You should post the top 500.