Well, this is obviously not an easy one, but it was a well-known band--kinda, and the lead singer ended up in a, um, "facility"--not for drugs.

This is not the first time--though I am a newbie-- that I have received an "Eeeeeew" reply. But I must protest slightly in this case, given the poster, that it is in fact a arguably poetic allusion, unsavory as it may be.

But, please keep thinking of it, or add your own. And I will offer another.

"Slum goddess from the lower east side, someday I'm gonna make her my bride" is the lyric. Who's the band. This was a bigger band, known for such hits as "The Swinburn Stomp" and "Sunflower"

Flat

On my computer: Nancy Griffith "Other Voices, Other Rooms" and Kelly Willis "Translated From Love"

Ditto for MalWareBytes. I've used most of them and a lot of them might work--disable system restore as suggested, though MWareBytes is not an anti virus program per se, it's the best new one I've used. AVAST is also a good free AV program.

All general statements are false, including this one.

I did better than I expected, I got the "Mary" one, but I have to thank lots of years of watching Groucho's quiz show and listening to that "Who's buried in Grant's tomb" question, or it would have thrown me.

One Final One: Your walking thorough the desert, and you see a tortoise lying on its back. What do you do?



Answer: "What's a tortoise"

The Unforgiven--Malcolm in The Middle--One Hundred Years of Solitude

Historian Will Durant, who, along with his wife Ariel, wrote the definitive history of the world, which covered many volumns. He also penned a slim volumn he titled "The Lessons of History" which summed up some of his own thoughts after devoting most of his life recording the lives and thoughts of others.

"Nothing," Will said, "Is often a clever thing to do, and always a clever thing to say."

"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy" was not originated by Tom Waits or WC Fields. It was first said by American poet (and member of the Algonquin Wits) Dorothy Parker

Now, I'd always attributed this great line to Tom Waits because I heard him deliver it to Martin Mull on the America2Night show, which was a series saterizing late night shows, with Fred Willard as second bannana. But I am not surprised it was Dorothy Parker. Dorothy also said this, which I also treasure:

"I always enjoy a martini, but only two at the most. After three I'm under the table, after four I'm under the host."

I've got a couple of these of my own, but I will share my favorite, whcih happened, for real, to a person I worked with. He was an intelligent young man, and actually within one question of becoming one of those three-time winners on Jeopardy which would have allowed him to engage in the big brain winners showdown episodes. He stumbled on the disco singer Donna Summer, incorrectly calling her Donna "Summers" This is his story as told to me.

He was at the time the father of an infant child. He, like many of us, was eating his dinner on a metal tv tray while watching TV. He was eating a turkey and gravy TV dinner at the time. His wife was within a few feet, changing their infants diaper. The diaper, as are all contemporary diapers, of the disposable variety. The type you quickly slide from beneath the soiled infant, and dispose of in a sort of practiced, sweeping motion.

He noticed, he said, a bit of the mostly clear, but barely brown gravy had sloshed from his TV dinner to the tray and he reflexively sopped it from the tray with a slice of bread, put it in his mouth, and began to chew. I mentioned he was bright. Within a few chews he realized the near clear yellow brownish "gravy" was in fact a wayward splash of what had only moments before been exlusive to the diaper.

I asked him the obvious: How did it taste?

He said it was relatively tasteless, but somewhat chalky.

"Some predict recession has ended."

That's a good guess, but incorrect. Flat

"Well the snot has caked against my pants, it has turned into crystal." opening line (No Googling)