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Mattb · Post by **Mattb** » Mon May 15, 2006 12:37 pm

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

Weyland · Post by **Weyland** » Mon May 15, 2006 1:28 pm

Aha! I think I know this one... "Pretty Woman" and "You Got It"?

Mattb · Post by **Mattb** » Mon May 15, 2006 1:51 pm

Got one half Weyland. 'You Got It' was released shortly after his death, in 1989. One more to get! Released in 1992.

MAtt

Weyland · Post by **Weyland** » Mon May 15, 2006 2:06 pm

Was it solo, or something he did with the Travelling Wilburys?

Mattb · Post by **Mattb** » Mon May 15, 2006 2:07 pm

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

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Mon May 15, 2006 2:09 pm

is it drove all night. i know cyndi lauper did a woeful version, maybe O re-released it?

Mattb · Post by **Mattb** » Mon May 15, 2006 2:27 pm

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

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Mon May 15, 2006 2:39 pm

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

Cardinal Sin · Post by **Cardinal Sin** » Mon May 15, 2006 2:59 pm

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!

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Mon May 15, 2006 3:05 pm

that is five, three to go

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Tue May 16, 2006 10:52 am

come along diedres, it's really not that hard

Cardinal Sin · Post by **Cardinal Sin** » Tue May 16, 2006 11:13 am

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 *

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Tue May 16, 2006 11:17 am

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.

Cardinal Sin · Post by **Cardinal Sin** » Tue May 16, 2006 11:25 am

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?

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Tue May 16, 2006 11:55 am

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.