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Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 12:37 pm
by Mattb
Another musical question from me. Whatever i'm listening to at the usually spraks it off, and this is true here.
Roy Orbison (legend that he is!
) had 2 posthumous top 10 hits in the UK. Can you name them both? One was in the late 1980's, the other in the early 1990's.
Matt
Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 1:28 pm
by Weyland
Aha! I think I know this one... "Pretty Woman" and "You Got It"?
Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 1:51 pm
by Mattb
Got one half Weyland. 'You Got It' was released shortly after his death, in 1989. One more to get! Released in 1992.
MAtt
Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 2:06 pm
by Weyland
Was it solo, or something he did with the Travelling Wilburys?
Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 2:07 pm
by Mattb
It was a solo piece that he recorded shortly before he died. Its featured on the album 'King Of Hearts' which is a Jeff Lynne produced album of unreleased stuff he did.
Matt
Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 2:09 pm
by Istenem
is it drove all night. i know cyndi lauper did a woeful version, maybe O re-released it?
Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 2:27 pm
by Mattb
It is yes. 'I Drove All Night' was released in 1992, and reached number 7. It's a fantastic song, and was what i was listening to when i posed the question
Over to you!
Matt
Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 2:39 pm
by Istenem
okay, according to british law, after you die you can have your body disposed of in one of seven ways.
i'll start you off: cremation
Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 2:59 pm
by Cardinal Sin
Right. I'll get the easy ones out the way, then let the rest of you get to work on the tricky answers.
Burial in the ground.
Buried at sea
Cyrogenically frozen?
Shot on a rocket into outerspace?
Er... I'll not bother thinking of another question to set anytime soon!
Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 3:05 pm
by Istenem
that is five, three to go
Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 10:52 am
by Istenem
come along diedres, it's really not that hard
Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 11:13 am
by Cardinal Sin
There's nothing quite like getting called a misspelt girl's name to spur one into action.
So far there's cremation, burial, sea burial, rocket and cryogenics.
...
What about sending your body off to another country to be disposed of?
And is there not some sort of scheme that turns your body into compost?
What about evaporation? * sound of barrel being scraped *
Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 11:17 am
by Istenem
cardinal richelieu wrote:
And is there not some sort of scheme that turns your body into compost?
in a roundabout way yes. you can be fed to livestock you own. i guess when nature takes its course you do become compost so i'll give you that one.
two to go.
Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 11:25 am
by Cardinal Sin
I thought that was 6...
1. Burial
2. Burial at sea
3. Rocket
4. Cryogenics
5. Fed to the pigs
6. Frozen
...
Er, liquefied? Pureed? Blown to smithereens?
I'm sure I saw a telly programme once where they made corpses into building blocks for houses, but that might have been newspapers.
Any clues?
Posted: Tue May 16, 2006 11:55 am
by Istenem
my bad. maths never was my thirty-nine.
okay a clue it is not mummification/embalming as that's illegal.
if you died in oxford or cambridge and it was graduation day there is a cracking student ruse which may see your body involved in all manner of japery.