Month: June 2016

questionWhy do we never get an answer…

…when we’re knocking at the door.

Moody Blues–1970

To those of you who didn’t try last week’s “Downsize, Maybe” Easy Squeezy Tuesday Music Trivia Quiz, shame on you! I told you the contest was easy. I told you that you didn’t even have to get the answers right to qualify for the prize. And I bet you would have known most of the answers anyway. Aren’t you sorry now you didn’t try? Fortunately, a lot of you DID try the quiz. Anyone who answered even one question,right or wrong, was entered in our prize drawing, except for the few of you who didn’t enter a return email address. Sorry about that, but you have to read the directions, folks! I bet the people who didn’t were all guys who throw out the directions before they put together IKEA furniture and then wonder why they have so many left over parts. (Alert, Alert—As I was writing the blog I heard about big IKEA recall–do you know where your dresser is?)

Anyway, for those of you playing along at home, here are the correct answers and a few unrelated comments:

  • Catfish and the Bottlemen (for those of us still listening to new music.)
  • Freddie and the Dreamers (how could anyone miss this?)
  • Florence and the Machine (overshadowed by Adelle, but still a great sound.)
  • Gladys Knight and the Pips (she was a winner on the Ted Mack Original Amateur Hour at age 7.)
  • Huey Lewis and the News (would “Back to the Future” be the same without them?)
  • Bill Haley and the Comets (sometimes called his Comets.)
  • Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (tied with Steven Tyler for least handsome rock star in history.)
  • Bob Marley and the Wailers (no, not the Whalers, I don’t think they have whales in Jamaica.)
  • Tommy James and the Shondells (Crimson and Clover, over and over.)

At least one hit record from each decade, 1950’s to the 2010’s, from that crew.

My favorite wrong answer was definitely “Florence and the Nightengales”–and that response came from a laboratorian, not a nurse. Way to go lab people! As for the best newly created name, I would call it a tie between “Randi Libido and the Friskies,” and “Dr. Stone and the Lithotripters.” You have to be involved in urology to love the latter, though.

Our winner has been notified and will soon have their Amazon Card. I don’t have permission yet to use their name here, but I will let you all know when I have the OK.

That’s today’s scoop. Back to the house or the wide, wide world on our next post. Until then, keep on rockin’, and don’t forget to subscribe. Just enter your email address in the box below and click “Create Subscription.” Who knows, you might become our next contest winner, or just enjoy some good summer reading.

Speaking of good reading, check out the blog post by fellow ChicagoNow writter Kerri Morris–it’s a very nice piece about life in our pathology lab. Thanks for the shout out, Kerri.

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