Questions and Answers, 61-90

Bazooka.

100?

And a "Hearty Hi Yo Silver"

and then added

And now more of a rationale:

"The Lone Ranger! "Hi Yo Silver!"
A fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty "Hi Yo Silver!" The Lone Ranger. "Hi Yo Silver, away!" With his faithful Indian companion Tonto, the daring and resourceful masked rider of the plains, led the fight for law and order in the early west. Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear. The Lone Ranger rides again!

Incendiary Engine (= Fiery Horse). Note it does not read Incendiary Injun which might be Tonto makeing a fire.

1.8time 10^12 furlongs per fortnight (=speed of light in odd units)

a cloud of dust (literal)

and a hearty Hi Yo Silver.

http://members.tripod.com/~ClaytonMoore/

To be *exact*, it's because they don't like it in there -- Chiquita told me:

"I'm Chiquita banana and I've come to say - Bananas have to ripen in a certain way- When they are fleck'd with brown and have a golden hue - Bananas taste the best and are best for you - You can put them in a salad - You can put them in a pie-aye - Any way you want to eat them - It's impossible to beat them - But, bananas like the climate of the very, very tropical equator - So you should never put bananas in the refrigerator."

http://www.chiquita.com/discover/osjingle.asp

Dobie Gillis

That is the James Joyce statue in Dublin, Ireland.

and followed it up with

Taken in front of Cafe Kylemore.

http://www.spectrumcolourlibrary.com/eire/81AA10125.jpg

Vladamir I. Lenin

and then

Ben Zimmer posted at 13 Aug 2002 16:56:04 -0700

Did he pick up an Irish accent from Speakers Corner?

http://www.speakerscorner.net/web/index.php?view=article&id;=17

If those nice young lads are Quicksilver Messenger Service, they recorded "Happy Trails" by Dale Evans.

A vertically endowed male poultry animal associated with a port on the Huangpu.

"Oh don't you remember sweet Betsy from Pike"

Who'll go Waltzing Matilda with me?

"Inspector Sands, Inspector Sands, Call Control Please."
"Sands" as in what you might throw a bucket of on a fire.

It's an automatic announcement information station staff that there is a fire alarm in the station. A further automatic announcement will order the evacuation of the station a few minutes later, if no one intervenes to stop it (because they've checked out the problem). Or so it has been said in various threads in uk.transport.london.

You could call it a triple rhyme, with the three stressed vowels at the end of each line being long a, long e, and long i. (I won't venture rendering the Early Modern English diphthongs into ASCII IPA.)

The "at sign" (@).

http://www.netlingo.com/right.cfm?term=at%20sign%20or%20%40

In German, it is frequently called Klammeraffe, 'spider monkey' (you can imagine the monkey's tail), though this word also has a figurative sense very similar to that of the English 'leech' ("He grips like a leech"). Danish has grisehale, 'pig's tail' (as does Norwegian), but more commonly calls it snabel a, 'a (with an) elephant's trunk', as does Swedish, where it is the name recommended by the Swedish Language Board. [etc.]

San Francisco, night, warm

SAN FRANCISCO NIGHTS
(Burdon/Briggs/Weider/Jenkins/McCulloch)
ERIC BURDON & THE ANIMALS - 1967
Cop's face is filled with hate
heavens above he's on a street called love
when will they even learn
old cop young cop feel alright
on a warm San Francisco night

The 40s.

In midtown Manhattan, statues of Atlas and Prometheus can be found in the 50s, while Athena (Minerva) and Hercules can be found in the 40s.

http://www.thecityreview.com/rock.html

http://www.thecityreview.com/grandcen.html

Coconut

Alma Mahler.

Husbands: Gustav Mahler, Walter Gropius, and Franz Werfel. Sung about by Tom Lehrer.

The ambassador and his wife, Ms. (maiden name).

http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/15742.pdf

Rod Stewart?

The Eyes

Harry S. Truman

http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v02/v02p137_Weber.html

turdblossom Karl Rove

http://nationaljournal.com/about/njweekly/stories/2002/0426nj1.htm

"Bush's other nickname for Rove is "turdblossom," a flower that grows out of a cowpie"

Tralfamadorians. And the Tralfamadorians themselves are described as being:

". . . two feet high, and green, and shaped like plumber's friends. Their suction cups were on the ground, and their shafts, which were extremely flexible, usually pointed to the sky. At the top of each shaft was a little hand with a green eye on its palm." (p. 26). http://www.quinnell.us/literature/reviews/vonnegutperlman.html

IMINT Image Intelligence

http://www.intbranch.org/engl/intntbk/int02.html

Flashman.

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak.

Thomas Pynchon's "V".

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/v/alpha/x-z.html

then Richard Maurer posted at 15 Aug 2002 06:29:31 GMT

In case it is a question of matching the "Totally Official" answer rather than the correct answer, I will put in

        Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow"

I have been bitten the other way twice so I will try this way once.

rzed posted at 14 Aug 2002 18:39:50 PST (According to Google)

and

Ben Zimmer posted at 14 Aug 2002 18:40:27 PST (According to Google)

Surnames all mean "smith".