The Intro Game!!

[Dance Demon]

Originally posted by Dreadful Scathe
nah

its an old Glasgow folk song about a pigeon called 'Dee' who fancied a male pigeon at the Barras who was called 'bowm'

[TheTramp]

Okie. Here you go. Round 2!!

Please remember the rules (Curtain ). PM me your answers to the 5 intros on the the attached file. 1 point for the song, 1 point for the group/singer. You have until 6pm tomorrow....

Steve

[TheTramp]

Seems that some people have had problems downloading the file (dunno why). Anyhow, going to extend the deadline until 4pm tomorrow to give them (and anyone else) a further chance to have a go.

Steve

[Tiggerbabe]

Nope! Sorry Steve still can't get it to play - maybe tomorrow after the Broadband Man's sorted me out

[DaveD]

Lucky Broadband man

[TheTramp]

OKie

So, here are the answers to round 2:

1. Jackson 5 - Blame it on the Boogie

2. Prince - Kiss

3. Santana - Smooth

4. Avril Lavigne - Sk8er Boi

5. Mousse T - Horny

Steve

[TheTramp]

And the scores for round 2:

David Franklin - 8
Lou - 8
Newby - 6
Sheepman - 6
David Y - 8
Dance Demon - 8
Debster - 8
Graham - 10

Well done for Graham getting the Avril Lavigne one. The only person to get that one right

Steve

[TheTramp]

And the scores after both rounds:

Wendy & Graham - 16
David Franklin - 16
DavidY - 12
Alfie (& family) - 8
Dance Demon - 8
Debster - 8
Lou - 8
Newby - 6
Sheepman - 6
Emma - 4
Ceroc Jock - 4
Chicklet - 2

Steve

Edited to update DavidY with the correct score, thanks to Graham's post below

[Graham]

Originally posted by TheTramp
Well done for Graham getting the Avril Lavigne one. The only person to get that one right

I can't take all the credit - as you acknowledged in the totals, it was a team effort - Wendy's really good at being able to sing the rest of the song from the intro, and it's a lot easier getting these from the chorus!

In my role as pedantic stats man I feel compelled to point out the inconsistency with both(!) the total scores you've reported for DavidY, neither of which align with the round 2 total you posted for him.

[Tiggerbabe]

And now that the broadband man has come and gone can I play?

[TheTramp]

Yes Sheena. You can play too.

In fact, here you go with Round 3. Answers in a PM to me please. By midday on Tuesday.

Steve

[Tiggerbabe]

At last, I get to play too - I've actually managed to download it this time.............now I just need to figure out the answers

[Sheepman]

This time I can't get it to download, I'm getting a Windows Media error "ClassFactory cannot supply the requested class" any (decent) suggestions?

Greg

[Dreadful Scathe]

Originally posted by Sheepman
This time I can't get it to download, I'm getting a Windows Media error "ClassFactory cannot supply the requested class" any (decent) suggestions?

Greg

yes, you dont have a codec for some reason or its broke .....

advice : download winamp from http://www.winamp.com , no one sensible uses media player for mp3s.... are you simply following the herd of clueless windows users?? baaaa

[Sheepman]

Originally posted by Dreadful Scathe
no one sensible uses media player for mp3s.... are you simply following the herd of clueless windows users?? baaaa

Well sort of, the short answer is this PC rarely gets used for music, and I'm not a fan of winamp either, the future is ipod.
Anyway it's unbroke now, but I'm struggling with these intros, must be getting too old for this, feels like I'm ramming a brick wall on a couple of them.

Greg

[DavidB]

Originally posted by Sheepman
This time I can't get it to download, I'm getting a Windows Media error "ClassFactory cannot supply the requested class" any (decent) suggestions?

It sounds like you are trying to play the file directly from Internet Explorer, using Windows Media Player. The problem could be either downloading it, the integration between WMP and IE, or playing it.

Try right-clicking on the link, and select 'Save Target As...'. Once it has downloaded, run Windows Media Player, and open the file you have just downloaded. At least then you will know what is causing the problems.

I'm not a big fan of Winamp either, although I would admit I haven't used it for a few years. I never liked the way you had to download so many different parts to get it to do anything. Media Player is ok - but I've only used it on PCs where I've just installed everything from scratch. I know several people who rate it as their favourite MP3 player. Personally I usually use Musicmatch - it does just about everything I need from an MP3 player.

The nice thing is you can try all of them out for free.

David

[Dreadful Scathe]

Originally posted by DavidB

I'm not a big fan of Winamp either, although I would admit I haven't used it for a few years. I never liked the way you had to download so many different parts to get it to do anything.

Must admit Ive never had that problem - download - install - play any type of music you like.... has been my experience. I always use media player for video though, the old version that is - later versions are horrible as microsoft seem to have the habit of overloading successful programs with 'features' that you don't use and would have a faster computer if they werent there.

Dont get me started on Windows XP - yuck

Franck - can we start an anti-microsoft and computer thread

[Dance Demon]

OK Trampie (drums fingers!!)

It's now 4.30pm on Tuesday.........so wheres the flippin answers eh??

[TheTramp]

Gimmee a break. I'm in the process of moving house. And it's not a pleasant experience.....

Especially when you've got no-where to move into, so it's into storage with all my worldly belongings

Anyhow, the answers are:

1. Grease - Born to Hand Jive
2. Commitments - Mustang Sally
3. Michael Jackson - Billy Jean
4. Enrique - Escape
5. Eva Cassidy - Wade in the Water

Steve

[TheTramp]

No-one got the Grease one then Do I get any points for winning?

Anyhow, points for round 3 are:

Sheena 8
Dance Demon 6
Graham 7
DavidY 6
Franck 7
Sheepman 5
David Franklin 7
Newby 4

Steve