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Humbugardy: Anagram Lines for 800

2005-10-14 21:16

by Score Bard

This is round 2 of Humbugardy. I'm your host, Alex Scorebard.

His TV show brought together a man who wrote an anagram of
"Live long, gunman"
with a man who was one

Note: In this round, searching the web is allowed.

Numb3r5	Sudoku	6th Degree Quotes	What and Where	Anagram Lines	Subjective
200	200	200	200	For The Turnstiles	200
400	For The Turnstiles	400	400	Joe	400
600	600	600	600	600	600
800	800	800	800	argosy	800
1000	1000	1000	1000	For The Turnstiles	1000

Comments

2005-10-14 22:09:13

1. jmoney

This is purely a wild guess, but how about Harold Pinter?

2005-10-14 22:21:54

2. Joe

Who is Tom Warburton?

2005-10-14 23:00:22

3. For The Turnstiles

another guess
Who is Gene Autry?

2005-10-14 23:17:47

4. argosy

Who is Gene Kelly?

2005-10-14 23:22:16

5. Jen

Who is Chuck Connors?

2005-10-15 00:21:14

6. Cliff Corcoran

Thankfully just one more anagram after this. I love the Anagram of the Day. Hate this category.

Who was Johnny Cash?

2005-10-15 01:20:52

7. Bob Timmermann

Darn it, I figure it out on my own only to see that someone else got it. Drat!

But I will put in my guess of
Who was Clark Jones?

2005-10-15 09:56:27

8. Score Bard

No one has it yet.

2005-10-15 10:28:16

9. Bob Timmermann

1. I can't guess again
2. I can't for the life of me figure out why a certain person is wrong

2005-10-15 11:42:02

10. Joe

Who do you think is right, Bob?

Before I picked my guess, I narrowed it down to my answer, your's and argosy's.

2005-10-15 11:51:20

11. Score Bard

Well, I suppose it's possible that there's more than one correct answer to this. Email me your explanation, and if I buy it, I'll give it to you.

2005-10-15 12:22:11

12. Score Bard

Bob sent me his explanation, which I'll accept, which means that argosy deserves the points.

I wrote an ambiguous sentence, hence the confusion. I meant the word "one" to refer back to the word "anagram", not to the word "gunman". The answer I was looking for was Dick Cavett.

Bob's explanation:
Anagram "Live long, gunman" is "Van Lingle Mungo" which leads you to Dave Frishberg.

Dave Frishberg did some music for "The Funny Side". One of the regulars on the show was Burt Mustin, who on often played old guys in
Westerns. The show was hosted by Gene Kelly (argosy's guess) and directed by Clark Jones (my guess).

2005-10-15 13:03:52

13. Score Bard

argosy may choose the next answer...

2005-10-15 16:47:42

14. argosy

Wow, ok. Um, hurray for technicalities, I guess. (Thanks, Bob). So what was the actual answer supposed to be?

Alex, I'll take 6th degree quotes for 200. (BTW, I was actually on Jeopardy. This is MUCH harder.)

2005-10-15 16:56:12

15. Bob Timmermann

The actual answer as quoted in 12 was "Dick Cavett" and I have no idea why that would be the answer.

2005-10-15 17:30:28

16. For The Turnstiles

Frishberg and Van Lingle Mungo (the man who was the anagram) appeared together on the Dick Cavett show, as recounted here.
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/poetry/vanlinglemungo.shtml

I interpreted the clue the same way everyone else did, but I'm a bit chagrined that I couldn't at least figure out the anagram - I had been using "VanLingleMungo" as my password on baseballtoaster! (I have changed it so I could post this, of course).

2005-10-15 17:40:43

17. Bob Timmermann

Argosy topped that bit of esoterica with even more esoterica!