Nope, still cant think of anything!



MTF.xx

Morning all



Only thing I can think of, so far:



EINSTEIN A GO GO - Landscape



Back later



Tortie x

Twisted - Joni Mitchell



Willy the Shake

x

Good Morning Simon, Team and Blogpoppets



My (already tweeted) suggestions:



BETCHA BY GOLLY WOW by the Stylistics



EINSTEIN A GO-GO by Landscape



HOW DO YOU DO IT by Gerry and the Pacemakers



EMPIRE STATE OF MIND by Alicia Keys



BRILLIANT MIND by Elvis Costello



BLOW YOUR MIND by Jamiroquai



WINDMILLS OF YOUR MIND by Noel Harrison



MAGIC MIND by Earth Wind and Fire



Must dash - I'm late...



Deebee ~X~

Good morning MTF and everyone



I can't think of anything other than a genius has a brilliant mind!



MIND GAMES ~ John Lennon



BRILLIANT DISGUISE ~ Bruce Springsteen



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Good Morning Again -



Obvious Suggestions –



EINSTEIN A GO GO - Landscape



BRILLIANT MIND - Furniture



GENIUS OF LOVE – Tom Tom Club



SHE BLINDED ME WITH SCIENCE - Thomas Dolby

DIDN’T I BLOW YOUR MIND THIS TIME – Delfonics



AMAZED – Lonestar

You may be right - Billy Joel.



MTF.xx

Morning Lucies Mum and indeed everyone else too.



MTF.xx

SMARTY PANTS - First Choice



THE GIFT - INXS



WE CAN WORK IT OUT - Beatles

Good morning all - blinks in the early (for me) morning light.



Much too early for any brainwaves re choons but good hunting for all who can think this early (is there a limit on the word early? as well as exclamation marks). off for tea to help thought processes.



God bless Steve Jobs.



Queen Jennie

#9 Hi again MTF



I said good morning to you in my first post because when I looked at the blog you were the only person I saw but in the time it took to press send, another five or so messages had appeared at the same time!



A couple more



READ MY MIND ~ Killers



AMAZING ~ Aerosmith



SO AMAZING ~ Luther Vandross

Hi Simon and bloggers



What happened there...my post disappeared!



Still dont know what corpsing means? Awwww thanks for the Radio 1 memories such happy days.



My Iphone is adorning a black hairband today (well until it is tied up in my hair that is!) RIP Mr Apple!!



Now to get clever:



1. EINSTEIN A GO GO - Landscape

2. E=MC2 - Big Audio Dynamite

3. SHE BLINDED ME WITH SCIENCE - Thomas Dolby

4. BRILLIANT MIND - Furniture

5. MIND GAMES - John Lennon

6. NEW SENSATION - INXS

7. WE CAN WORK IT OUT - The Beatles

8. WORKING MY WAY BACK TO YOU - Detroit Spinners

9. IMAGINATION - Belouis Some

10. THIS TOWN AINT BIG ENOUGH FOR THE BOTH OF US - SPARKS



Back later for a mooch folks.



Have a nice geniotic day!



Mandy ;)

Off topic, but watching 'Lorraine' on ITV I can see Jodie Marsh complete with muscles and tattoos and amongst the clutter of tattoos on her upper arm I can see a hammer and a coat hanger .... I wonder why a girl would want a hammer and coat hanger tattooed on her arm....

2+2 = 5 Radio Head



PARTICLE MAN - They Might Be Giants

We can work it out - Beatles.



MTF.xx

Not sure if this fits the theme....



MY MIND'S EYE ~ Small Faces

Confessions of a mind - Hollies.



MTF.xx

Good morning Simon, team and lovely blogging folk



Methinks it is a difficult feem today after yesterday's abundance of suggestions.



But let's try these toons -



HE'S MISSTRA KNOW IT ALL - STEVIE WONDER



THE BEST - TINA TURNER



GENIUS - KINGS OF LEON



YOU'RE THE BEST THING - STYLE COUNCIL



and one that defo won't be played but fits perfectly ...



THERE AIN'T HALF BEEN SOME CLEVER B****** - IAN DURY AND THE BLOCKHEADS



Hope good days are had by all.



Jx

Mad Professor Blyth - The Holllies.



MTF.xx

Good Morning Simon, Driveteam and Constructors

:^D



And a big hello to my fellow blogpopsters. Great theme today. Twitter has been awash with suggestions or at least an hour ...



Not sure if these have made it to the screen yet but I'd like to hear:



I'M THE MAN - JOE JACKSON



MAN OF THE WORLD - FLEETWOOD MAC

Morning All,



'Book of Brilliant Minds' Simple Minds



Have a good day everybody

Morning All,



Missed confession yesterday. Going to Iplayer now so I can experience Noisy corpsing.



Nothing springs to mind for today's theme. Shall have a thunk.



Too early for three worder? Mine would be:-



Sloe Gin Made



Maybes Laters



A.

'Nobody Does It Better' Carly Simon

If you could read my mind - Gordon Lightfoot.



MTF.xx

Few more ..



WHIZZ KID - MOTT THE HOOPLE



THE WINDMILLS OF YOUR MIND - DUSTY SPRINGFIELD



YOUNG GIFTED AND BLACK - BOB & MARCIA

Mornin Simon, all the Team and Drivetimers everywhere!



I didn't buy in to the whole Apple thing, but do recognise the marketing genius behind the brand. As for tunes, try these:



A DESIGN FOR LIFE - MANIC STREET PREACHERS



WIRED FOR SOUND - CLIFF RICHARD



ONE VISION - QUEEN



All chosen to mark the effect Mr Job's compay has had on our lives.



Have fun all,



- Paul.

#23 Alice - Me too. I've just listened to yesterday's Confession - about 38 minutes in.

:^D



I shall award just the ONE EXCLAMATION MARK !



And maybe THREE STARS for hilarity ★★★



What is clear, however, was that Matt was in full-throated mirth mode even before Simon started reading the story ..

#27 Paul from Milton. Excellent choice 'Design For Life - Manics'

:^)

Good morning everyone.



Nothing springs to mind for the theme except the Ian Dury song already mentioned.



Be back later when I've done a little work.

Maybe I'm amazed - Wings.



MTF.xx

@28 - KatyMac, just listened and while I didn't find the confession particularly funny, listening to Matt and Simon did make me smile.

Morning all! (There's my one exclamation mark)



Genius? Only one in the world and that's Him upstairs.



But a couple of tunes spring to mind, can I endorse Brandon's choice of Simple Minds "Book of Brilliant Minds" and my U2 tune of the day "Magnificent".



GB

Cant get it out of my head - ELO.



MTF.xx

'No Doubt About It' Hot Chocolate

P word of the day.....



PERSISTENCE!!!!



Quite prepared to be modded for that.



BTW, Welcome to our new GENIUS that has taken over former genius, Peta Wombles job. Still no name yet?



MTF.xx

#19 & #30 did think Ian Dury's Clever Trever also wouldnt get an airing

P word for the Day...



Phooey



A.

Muck spreading JPA ?



MTF.xx

Only song I can think of but don't know who sang it -



Little green apples. I think it was an American country-type singer.



So much for the thinking powers of tea! Must do better.



QJ

Hello all,



How about:



'The impossible dream' by Luther vandross. The lyrics seem appropriate.

Morning All,



Bit late to the party today, but still some possibilities:



SO DAMN CLEVER - Plain White T's



WHATEVER'S CLEVER - Beverly Knight



OLD AND WISE - Alan Parson's Project



YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE OLD TO BE WISE - Judas Priest



EXPERT AT EVERYTHING - Don Williams

#40 Little green apples - Roger Miller



QJ

Greetings all, hope the day is being good to you.. :-)



Bryan Adams *Only the strong survive*



BLTD

Morning all,

DT team, bloggers, poppets and the tittering DT Dude.

I believe it was the Cyril Fletcher impressions that started the 'corpsing' orf - that, and boys being boys...a friend at school had the MOST infectious laugh - the source of her amusement did not matter, she cracked us up!

Choons I have suggested on Twooter, so won't clog up on here, suffice to say, I now know having heard 'Kissing with confidence' on Ken Bruce just now, that choon researchers must be plundering the gold that lies in our blog seams...keep it up folks

Good Morning All :)



Oh heck, I use far too many exclamation marks, it's like an illness with me, I must try and stop it.



RIP Steve Jobs, President Obama said that perhaps his greatest legacy was that most people would have first heard about his death on one of the devices he invented. I did. My 'fruity' device goes everywhere with me, and I suspect that is the same for millions of other people too. Not a bad legacy to leave behind, to have made something which is so useful to so many people.



I have to say that the first song that popped into my head was 'There ain't half been some clever barstewards' by Ian Dury and the Blockheads, but it's not really DT friendly :D



Oldie suggestions...



THE FOOL ON THE HILL - THE BEATLES (Because Paul McCartney wrote it about someone that everyone thinks is a fool, but who is actually very wise)



CLOUDBUSTING - KATE BUSH (She wrote it about the philosopher Wilhelm Reich and his son)



EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD - TEARS FOR FEARS (Well the evil geniuses in Bond films do anyway!)



Oops I may have used an exclamation mark :-S I need to work on cutting down gradually, I think.



I missed doing an O word (Oops!) will ponder on a P word (ponder isn't it!) see, I just can't stop with the !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

How about a song about a particular genius?



VINCENT by DON McLEAN



Now, exclamation marks! One of my regular customers, a well known author and journalist/editor, tells me that the exclamation mark is the sign of the amateur. Personally, I think that if it aids comprehension, why not use it?



My P-word (or two):



First one is paludification because it is a favourite of mine since my archaeology days, and I do think a long pandiculation gets the day off to a good start.

#46 Good morning Zoe, feeling better?

Orba Squara - Perfect Timing (it's a very tentative Genius link but it's poignant)

I would love to hear Vincent, Harry. Top toon.



MTF.xx

A couple more -



EYE [i] IN THE SKY - ALAN PARSONS PROJECT



i SAW THE LIGHT - TODD RUNGREN

Hi again - coffee break time. Some excellent suggestions today, the NYM is going to have his work cut out. I'd like to second Paul's Manics suggestion and Alex H's Alan Parsons, both of which I've heard on t'wireless recently (the latter on DT on Simon's birthday)



Daughter's gone back to Uni today, against our better judgement - would have preferred her to stay until at least the weekend. But she says she's getting better, and she certainly looks it. So I'm thinking (hoping) that maybe it isn't glandular fever after all. I just hope she's sensible about allowing herself enough time to recover. But you can't tell the young, can you...



My P word is Posh



I might just have to borrow some headphones and listen to the confession at lunchtime - better make sure I eat first though or it could all go horribly wrong...



~X~

Something to get your toe's tapping......



Maxine Brown *One in a million*



top tune



BLTD

Oops sorry forgot to say......



My P word= Positivity



Laters

BLTD

Julia40 - just read back over last nights late blog #275. I live in the south of the county, not a million miles away from the town with the longest (and most boring) pier in the world.



Not that I am an Essex girl born and bred. I have moved steadily eastwards from being born in Henley-on-Thames. I'll end up in Belgium if I'm not careful.



QJ

Forgot 'p' word - pootle as in "pootle round the garden doing some gentle weeding"

Hi all,



Three of us working in the same Dept of a company based in Reading have decided to pool our collective efforts and place them under this username. We will return with some tunes for consideration.



Cheers folks :o)

EINSTEIN by Gabriella Cilmi

GENIUS OF LOVE by Tom Tom Club

IF YOU'RE SO SMART, HOW COME YOU AIN'T RICH? by Louis Jordan

MAN SMART, WOMAN SMARTER by Robert Palmer

OOH LA LA by Wise Guys

Morning all...............bit chilly and windy here............busy day today.............so not much time to blog............ ;o(



Can only think of one tune today....................but it is by one of my favourite artist......







Clever Trevor - Ian Dury and The Blockheads







3 word Thursday







HAIR WIND NOOOOOOOO !







Have a good day everyone...............try and refrain from using too many punctuation marks!



Dougal x

#52 Deebee, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Lionel Jefferies comes to mind again:



"Port out, starboard home,

Posh with a capital P, O, S, H, posh"



:-D

Morning,



Brilliant mind - Furniture



Didn't I blow your mind this time - The Delfonics



Thank u - Alanis Morissette



Best of you - Foo Fighters



That's Entertainment - The Jam



Perfect - Fairground attraction



Don't let me be misunderstood - Nina Simone

Going to be slightly cheeky and add two more tune requests before I return to the other 'stuff'.........................



Expert at Everything - Don Williams



Expert Rites - Elvis Costello



Oh....make that three............



Working Class Hero - John Lennon





Really going now..........................................



Dougal x

Leonard Cohen......



Everybody knows.



I'm your man.



Or One of us cannot be wrong.



MTF.xx

Good morning all, a bit late as per sual on a Thursday on account of classes.



Like to add my votes to



HE'S MISSTRA KNOW IT ALL - STEVIE WONDER



&



DIDNT I BLOW YOUR MIND THIS TIME - DELFONICS



& add





I KNOW - BOB MARLEY



BLINDED BY THE LIGHT - MANFED MANNS EARTH BAND



Enjoy the day

The younger [and fuller] Steve Jobs always reminded me of Greg Lake. So I'm going to request:



THE SAGE - EMERSON LAKE & PALMER





I was going to ask for King Crimson's EPITAPH but probably a tad too long ..

Good Morning Each!



Genius?



'Paul' by Rita Pavone



'There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bast***s' by Ian Dury and the Blockheads



'Brightest Star' by The Kaiser Chiefs



'A Free Thinker' by Laura Nyro

50th POST SCARF FOR MTF

:^)



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#48 Thanks Harry, I'm feeling much better today & off to have my hair done in an hour :)



I thought of another oldie suggestion, because the record label this song was released on was Apple, and it kind of fits the theme...



IMAGINE - JOHN LENNON

Further thoughts



ROCK ME AMEDEUS - FALCO



ROLL OVER BEETHOVEN - CHUCK BERRY or ELO

My 'P' word is Potentiometer, a word I had often typed during my years working on a nuclear power station and I've no idea why, but I have liked it ever since!



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#68 Zoe... pleased that you're feeling much better today!



x

INTO THE VALLEY - SKIDS



COMPUTER LOVE - KRAFTWERK





¸.•*¨*•♫♪★

Glad you are feeling better Zoe.



I'm off out too - going to lunch with a friend while our husbands battle it out on the golf course. All sounds very grand but I can assure you it's not!



I might need some of those stretchy strap things to hold my crown on, as it's very blowy out there and I don't want to lose it.



See you later.



Queen for one more day.

einstine a go go-landscape



e=mc2-big audio dynamite

'Master Of The Universe' by Hawkwind (Quite long)



'Smarter Than You' by The Undertones (Quite short)

Its feeling like a soup day so...



A bowl of lobster bisque with a crunched up packet of tomato ketchup crisps thrown in for good measure.



Decadent or what?



MTF.xx

.....and comes in at under 250 cals!



MTF.xx

Just thinking, maybe my P-word should have been:



Pedant or, perhaps, Pendant ;-)

star treking-the firm(you can not change the laws of physics)



wired for sound-cliff richard



computer love-kraftwerk

A couple more tunes





COMPUTER LOVE ~ Kraftwerk (part of this song is in 'Talk' by Coldplay)



PUSH A LITTLE BUTTON ~ The BBC licence fee song (Tony Hatch?)

Hi Simon & Blogsters,



Great suggestions so far! But, how about this, from the Weird Science Soundtrack...



WEIRD SCIENCE - OINGO BOINGO



If anyone can create Kelly Le Brook from an 80s computer - that's got to be genius!!

Has anyone seen these song lyrics before, based on 'American Pie'

It may be too long for the blog.... but let's try it!



A long, long time ago,

I can still remember how those programs

Used to make me smile.

And I knew if I had my chance,

That I could make those users dance

And maybe they'd be happy for a while.

November breezes made me shiver

With every upload I'd deliver

Bad news on the desktop

I couldn't make the text stop.

I can't remember if I cried

When I read about our faltered pride

But something touched me deep inside

The day the Two-E died.

So, bye, bye to my Apple II pie

Hooked my RamFAST to the SCSI

But the SCSI was fried

And hackin' boys drank Mountain Dew and sighed,

Typin' "This'll be the day that I die.

This'll be the day that I die."



Do you know your Apple's core?

Do you have faith in Woz's lore

If the Red Book tells you so?

Do you believe in ROR and ROL

Can BASIC save your mortal soul

And can you tell me why Pascal runs so slow?

Well, I know you love that Lisa hack

'Cause I saw you mousin' in the back

Well, MacWrite was big news

But AppleWorks got great reviews, oooh

I was a twenty-something computer fan

With a loaned assembler and some program plans

But I knew I'd be just an "also-ran"

The day the Two-E died.



I started singin'

Bye, bye to my Apple II pie

Hooked my RamFAST to the SCSI

But the SCSI was fried

And hackin' boys drank Cola Jolt and sighed,

Typin' "This'll be the day that I die.

This'll be the day that I die."





Now for twelve years we've been on our own

The software comes on my telephone

But that's not how it used to be

When ol' Steve Jobs planned a brand new box

With designs he borrowed from Xerox

And the cash, well it came from you and me

Oh, and while our Woz was looking down

Steve Jobs stole his designer's crown

The III plan was adjourned

No money was returned

And while Wagner wrote "Assembly Lines"

We liked our BASIC programs fine

And most thought ProDOS was divine

The day the Two-E died.



We were singin'

Bye, bye to my Apple II pie

Hooked my RamFAST to the SCSI

But the SCSI was fried

And hackin' boys drank Dr. Pepper and sighed,

Typin' "This'll be the day that I die.

This'll be the day that I die."





HUFFIN, PUFFIN, move files with MUFFIN

Single drive, lots of disks I'm stuffin'

Eight piles high, and fadin' fast...

With Macs out landing in the grass

The Pirates tried for a forward pass

Moving Two-E to the sidelines, in a cast

Now, the IIc Fair was sweet perfume

And "Forever!" was our marching tune

We all got up to dance

Oh, but we never got the chance

'Cause the Mac-heads tried to take the field

Our Apple II's refused to yield

Do you recall what was revealed

The day the Two-E died?



We started singin'

Bye, bye to my Apple II pie

Hooked my RamFAST to the SCSI

But the SCSI was fried

And hackin' boys drank Diet Pepsi and sighed,

Typin' "This'll be the day that I die.

This'll be the day that I die."





And there we were all in one place

An online conference lost in space

With no bucks left to start again

So come on, Tom be nimble, Tom be quick

Uncle-DOS made all our Apples tick

'Cause Merlin is the hacker's only friend

Oh, and as I watched him on the stage

My hands were clenched in fists of rage

No one that I could tell

Could break that Sculley's spell

And as the flames climbed high into the night

To light the sacrificial rite

I saw Sculley laughing with delight

The day the Two-E died



He was singin'

Bye, bye to my Apple II pie

Hooked my RamFAST to the SCSI

But the SCSI was fried

And hackin' boys drank lemon tea and sighed,

Typin' "This'll be the day that I die.

This'll be the day that I die."





I met a girl who sang of Blues

And I asked her for some Apple news

But she just smiled and turned away

I went to the computer store

Where I'd seen the Apple years before

But the man there said the Two-E couldn't play

And in the schools the children screamed

The teachers cried and the hackers dreamed

But not a file was open

The disk drives all were broken

And the news mags that I'd liked the most

Softalk, inCider -- were all toast

They'd grabbed the last train for the coast

The day the Two-E died



And they were singin'

Bye, bye to my Apple II pie

Hooked my RamFAST to the SCSI

But the SCSI was fried

And hackin' boys drank Snapple soda and cried,

Saying, "This'll be the day that I die.

This'll be the day that I die."



They were singin'

Bye, bye to my Apple II pie

Hooked my RamFAST to the SCSI

But the SCSI was fried

And hackin' boys drank Snapple soda and cried,

Saying, "This'll be the day that I die.

This'll be the day that I die."

Well that surprised me as the other day I tried posting a message and some of it was cut off!

I like #24's suggestion -- Carly Simon, Nobody Does It Better. Perfect!

Greetings Of Nice Ter The Mayo & ALL Blog Operatives...



Bingo Star 'ere...



THREE WORD THURSDEE:



"Goot severe wind!!!!!"



Tatty bye!

Take it easy out there Bingo.



MTF.xx

#60 Harry - I believe that originated from the time when the white rulers from the East India Company were sent from England to India. The instruction was for the cabin placements so they didn't get the fierce sun going there or coming back.



#64 Vilden - Yes! Blinded by the light was my ARFO suggestion & I totally agree.



If no one has suggested it how about:



TOGETHER IN ELECTRIC DREAMS - PHIL OAKEY & GEORGIO MORODER.



Just watching the horizontal rain in Horsforth.

#87 Lady_s, I meant to comment on your post from this morning (from yesterday’s blog):



“Just ridden my 14 miles in to work - very cold in West Yorkshire”



............ I had this image of you on a white horse for some reason. LOL

#60 Haha! Yes, Harry that's me - and the nautical reference is relevant as well.



#68 Glad you're feeling better, Zoe. And a visit to the hairdressers will make all the difference too, I'm sure.



#74 and #79 Hi blackberry bob. You look strangely familiar... ;o)



#85 TMI, Bingo... nice to see you over here though.



Just listened to yesterday's confession. I did eat my lunch first, and it was just as well. Also just as well nobody else was in the office.



~X~

Hi and welcome to the blog "blackberry bob"

;^)

A few more tunes have occurred to me...



'You're The Inspiration' by Chicago



'Leader Of The Pack' by The Shangri-La's.

I keep thinking of rather inappropriate puns for todays' theme -

Y'know - the type that circulate via text messaging before the poor bloke's been laid to rest ...

Afternoon everyone. I'm late today so just catching up on the posts so far.



Glad you're feeling better Zoe. And glad your daughter is feeling better too Deebee.



Simon, I know you're right -but I'm with Zoe - I do like my !!!!! so I will have to try harder. (I put two at the end of that sentance and erased them - so I really am trying.)

What is this in the news regarding cut backs at the Beeb. Radio 2 spending less on their headline presenters? Does this mean wage cuts, or cuts in the range of services offerred by those presenters shows? No more shows in a field for Evans? No more Pop Master with K.B.? And should I be reading between the lines of this blog, what with the departure of Peta, and all?



Worried, a bit, of Sheffield.

Late again. And late again.



YOU'RE UNBELIEVABLE - EMF

#94 This gives a bit more detail https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15186116 I'm comforted by the 'Daytime programmes safeguarded' bit...



~X~

Struggling a bit with this - so many good ones already.



KEEP THE CUSTOMER SATISFIED - Paul Simon

Test

Thanks for the scarf Katymaty.



Going to need it today, its chilly out there.



MTF.xx

Hat would go nicely to?



Hee hee.



MTF.xx