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Message: 6116

Author: andrewbroad

Date: 08/04/2007

Subject: Re: Mondegreens as room-names

 

Daniel wrote:

>
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/manicminerandjetsetwilly/message/6071>
>
> So shall we see any new JSW rooms using any of these mondegreens in
> the name?
>
> Daniel

I have just added the following potential room-names to JSWideas.txt:
>>>
a mercy dispense
Rap City In Blue
a fireball existence
<<<

Other ideas in that file include (not just mondegreens):
>>>
House of Stairs [Toy]
The Silmarillion
Curious George and the High-Volt|age Fence
The Ning Nang Nong
The Other Side Of The Pillow [probably Toy]
Across The Universe
Sandy Shore
A Big HELLO /to/ Richard Hallas! [Toy]
Battle For Britton (The Letter) [Toy]
The Never-Never Land
The Magic Means of Astroflight
Ernie Johnson's Loo [Toy?]
The London School of Ecognomics
Land as fine as the rain
All The Madmen
The Tactful Cactus
The Devil may be here
Port of Amsterdam
The Secret Life of Arabia
A Heaven of Prophets and Clouds
The Bomb-Site Hop
Knee-deep in Jelvo
Mindless Maggot Glare
The Hounds of Paranoia
The Subway down to Hell
A Hundred Miles to Hell
Amlapura
Dead-Ring Ash of Extreme Defence
Nite Flights
Yellow Dime on High
Shallow Hole Blocked by Reality
How into this Mountain?
A Razor-Sharp Crapshoot Affair
Maybe this is a Rectum
Looking For Satellites
The Monty Hall Paradox
Nice Weather For Ducks
Pyramid Screen
Idioteque
English Country Garden [Toy]
Pretty Pink Rose [Toy]
The Spectroom [requires Spectrum graphic from Goodnite Luddite]
I'll be the Judge of that [requires Judge graphic from Ma jolie]
The Egg-Bola
that Itchy & Scratchy episode with an arrow and carbolic acid
I'm Like A Bird
The JSW Soaring Game
Paradise City (Guns 'N' Roses)
Assumpta est Maria in Coelum.
The Blue Screen of Death
/.-./.-./.-./.com
Atop the Sistine Chapel
Space previously occupied by Maria
Like Spinning Plates
The Urine-soaked Hell-Hole
My Way or the Highway
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
Wikipedia revert-wars
Red Bull gives you wings (PV: enable superjump when item collected)
Kwyjibo-attack (Simpsons: Bart The Genius)
The Sea Weed [verb]
Hyphenitis
Walking on imported air
<<<

I have also added "Manic Monday" to MMideas.txt (a great room-idea
this: the lyrics are full of imagery that should translate well to
MM/JSW graphics).

Other ideas in that file include (not just mondegreens):
>>>
Profit-Bloated Bloodsuckers
Blue Jean's Lair [Eugene]
The Sleep (Salvador Dalí)
Mountain of Needles
Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
Attack of the Nut-Chop Guitars
"Hey Baby" (No Doubt)
Manic Minerva
lemonescent
The Sun Machine is coming down [Eugene]
Quicksand
Moonage Daydream
Halfway Sadness
A Diamond Friendly
Is Small Life so Manic?
Fall Dog Bombs The Moon
Tamper-Evident Labels
Pigs Might Fly? (crash-landing pigs)
Dr Jones will never believe this (with Crumbly cells)
Angry Ombudsletters
<<<

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