OT: Test #389B

[wire chief]

14..Famed international; airline ran from 1930 to 1982?

15..I wandered lonely as a cloud. Who?

16..The..? side by side on the table sat.

17..If you're careless with your kisses, find another turtle dove.

18..Pop-pop, fizz-fizz...

19..The desert that preceded "Storm"?

20..Claggert was not his Best Budd. Explain.

21..A clothespin, a bike & a playing card?

22..In 2006 they(?) took the World Series from the Yanks.

23.."It's hard to believe we need a place called hell."

24..This enterprise(?) is in the process of adding (from St. Joe's) enough acreage
to own nearly 2% of Florida.

25..A lettered ball replaces keys on the _________ __________.

These tests may be a relative rarity in-season, so your heightened focus is warrented.

 

[Zorro]

14..Northwest? Actually, now that I think about it, Braniff

15..Wordsworth

16..The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat

17..Riccochet Romance

18..Oh what a relief it is!

25. IBM Selectype.

 

[rbny1]

20. In the Melville seafaring novel Billy Budd, Claggart wrongly accuses Billy of mutiny. Billy hits Claggart and kills him. Bill is hanged from the yardarm for murder. The story was made into an opera and a movie, both of which are as grim as the novel.

 

[DriveLH]

14. PanAm

 

[geordi]

12. TWA
18. "Oh, what a relief it is" -- Alka Seltzer, Speedy's theme song to be precise
19. The Great Arabian Desert
20. Claggart is the protagonist in Melville's Billy Budd
21. You clip a playing card or baseball card to the spokes of your bike's wheel with a clothespin and it sounds olke a motorcycle - or at least made noise
22. The Diamondbacks ???
24. Gotta be Disney, doesn't it???

 

[pinotbear]

15. Dickinson?
25. electric typewriter, I think.

 

[JRRRJ]

14..TWA

15..No clue, but it sure sounds like Joni Mitchell.

18..If you meant "plop-plop", that'd be Alka-Seltzer. If not, I've no idea.

21..=A satisfying noisemaker thwapping against the spokes.

25..IBM Selectric. I'm guessing about 1965? Secretaries loved them, 'cause they didn't jam.

 

[wire chief]

Well, geordi, I know you didn't claim "easiness" here, but I'll mention there

is something wrong with 5 answers.

 

[geordi]

Easy is as easy does

 

[wire chief]

Easy is as easy does

A Gumpism, I'll wager. BTW, did you audition for the part?

 

[VAUConnFan]

14. Pan Am
18. I believe it was actually plop, plop, fizz, fizz(Oh what a relief it is) Alka Seltzer.
22. Arizona Diamondbacks
25. electric typewriter

 

[wire chief]

When I typed "pop-pop", both JR & VAUC advised me that I could go to "L".

 

[wire chief]

22..These guys float, rather than sidewind in a desert.

19..Think Kuwait

23..Singers named with 4 capital letters.

24..The Book of ______, now playing on your local stage.

 

[pinotbear]

24. Mormon

 

[johnnyc]

19. Shield

 

[DriveLH]

23. NRBQ ?

 

[VAUConnFan]

19. Shield
24. The Mormon Church

 

[hoopingcrane]

22.."These guys float, rather than sidewind in a desert."

If you're thinking Marlins, it wasn't 2006. Maybe 2003?

 

[Zorro]

2006 was the Cards and Tigers.

 

[wire chief]

14..In this case second thoughts work well for zorro--Braniff.

15..It is a Wm Wordsworth production, zorro 2 for 2 now.

16..Not zorro again?!! Hogging cyberspace with THE GINGHAM DOG AND THE CALICO CAT.

17..Therese Brewer hit RICHOCHET ROMANCE, and you know I must type zorro again.
I simply can't recall any past sequence of 4 answers provided by the same, solitary, lone,
isolate poster. The guy owns this segment.

 

[wire chief]

18..See geordi here. (I grow weary of typing that other guy's name)

19..Post-hint we have JC & VAUC with Shield.

20..You can't do better than to read rbny with this one.

21..A bit of pop culture in the 50's, described by geordi & JR

 

[wire chief]

22..Hey I got the 2006 citation from a crossword puzzle. They are NEVER wrong, those crossword puzzles! Zorro flogging this non-fan.

23..Better hint..."Every single one of has the _____ ______."

24..The Mormon Church taking over America! VAUC, with a Pinot assist.

25..The blanks should have yielded the "Selectric Typewriter". Zorro & JR are closest.

Finish 23 to say "Be gone wirechief".

 

[pinotbear]

23. INXS?

 

[Zorro]

14..In this case second thoughts work well for zorro--Braniff.

15..It is a Wm Wordsworth production, zorro 2 for 2 now.

16..Not zorro again?!! Hogging cyberspace with THE GINGHAM DOG AND THE CALICO CAT.

17..Therese Brewer hit RICHOCHET ROMANCE, and you know I must type zorro again.
I simply can't recall any past sequence of 4 answers provided by the same, solitary, lone,
isolate poster. The guy owns this segment.

He must be a genius, eh?

 

[wire chief]

23. INXS?

Yup, anybody with the title?