Warts 'n' all Posted September 6, 2020 Author Share Posted September 6, 2020 (edited) @Vergeltungswaffe You get six points for these. Sadly for you, I'd already used the great "Jumpin' at the Woodside" to open the competition. You also missed out on five bonus points. If you'd have used the Glenn Miller version of "American Patrol" rather than Shep Fields then you'd have uncovered my "Intro" music slot. So for people paying attention, there are still two pratfalls to avoid, and still bonus points for my "Splash" and "End of Battle" tunes. Edited September 6, 2020 by Warts 'n' all 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warts 'n' all Posted September 6, 2020 Author Share Posted September 6, 2020 Current standings 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vergeltungswaffe Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 That's funny, I never even looked at the song on the OP. Never could find Yanks across the Ocean on CMMODS. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warts 'n' all Posted September 7, 2020 Author Share Posted September 7, 2020 I must have hit the wrong button last night when I was updating the standings. Anyway you are up to 18 points. You wouldn't find any of my music mods on CMMODS, they are just for my own personal use. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongLeftFlank Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 14 hours ago, Warts 'n' all said: Current standings Hmm, Puritans aren't keen on participation trophies, are they? All those sumptuary laws and whatnot. Bugger.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warts 'n' all Posted September 7, 2020 Author Share Posted September 7, 2020 Hello Central, give me Dr. Jazz - King Oliver 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongLeftFlank Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 OK, totally pushing all boundaries and loopholes here, but desperate times demand desperate measures, and the truth must be attended by a bodyguard of lies! 1. Sing, Sing, Sing by Lou Prima 2. As Time Goes By, by Herman Hupfeld 3. Lili Marlene, by Norbert Schultze 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warts 'n' all Posted September 8, 2020 Author Share Posted September 8, 2020 @LongLeftFlank I can't give you any points for the songs as they didn't accompany a photo of US troops with trees or hedgerows. But, I will give you a special two point bonus for bare faced cheek. Or, should that be bare ... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongLeftFlank Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 4 hours ago, Warts 'n' all said: @LongLeftFlank I can't give you any points for the songs as they didn't accompany a photo of US troops with trees or hedgerows. But, I will give you a special two point bonus for bare faced cheek. Or, should that be bare ... Ah ha, just as expected, the Lord Protector is now caught in a subtle schoolmanly dodge! worthy of his august grandsire (who looks strangely like Rumpole of the Bailey, but isn't so nice). THE ARGUMENT 1. You didn't explicitly say the images had to be still photos. And is not a film, by definition, really just a collection of still images? 2. You haven't debarred newsreel stills, nor recoloured photos, nor heavily staged non-combat shots (e.g. the OP photo is clearly some REMFers tough guying over a kid someone else killed). 3. So now we reach the crux of my Clever Knot: in the pre-CGI 1970s where hand-drawn animation was prohibitively costly, iconoclastic director Ralph Bakshi* made extensive use of rotoscoping, the (often garish) overdrawing and recolouring of live film footage to create animations. A good deal of the combat sequence above is recoloured period newsreel. 3. Trees (albeit leafless) appear repeatedly with the GIs, e.g. 0:08, 0:13, 0:21 (Sing, Sing, Sing), 1:23 (As Time Goes By), 3:10 (Lili Marlene -- well, it looks like some kind of vine or potted plant above the piano anyway if you squint) 4. This entire sequence is clearly the Metz-Aachen period (dragons teeth being a dead giveaway), ergo legit for CMBN. 5. If you declare this is all mere cant and sophistry, and gives you a headache so please shut up, you are clearly also against transgender people peeing in whatever lavatories they please, and therefore a horrid person subject to being canceled, and also having your corpse defaced. Oh, wait.... 6. Being a bottom feeder, and not a proud man, I also claim a fractional credit for putting you on to Lucille Bogan. * btw, also the source of my own avatar, which looks nothing whatsoever like me 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warts 'n' all Posted September 8, 2020 Author Share Posted September 8, 2020 @LongLeftFlank Hahaha. You've obviously not studied the Eisenhowerplatz variant rules. They clearly state that what I say goes regarding what is, and isn't an eligible picture. As for "putting" me "on to Lucille Bogan", it was a job in music distribution that did that, many years ago. But, it was a nice try. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warts 'n' all Posted September 9, 2020 Author Share Posted September 9, 2020 Current standings Vergeltungswaffe -18 Points Warts 'n' all - 16 Points Falaise -4 Points LongLeftFlank - 4 Points altipueri - Minus 5 Points So with just a couple of days to go and bonus points still up for grabs can Noddle Head cheat his way to victory? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vergeltungswaffe Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 It could happen to you - Dorothy Lamour Somewhere in France with you - Vera Lynn On the Sunny Side of the Street - Tommy Dorsey I couldn't sleep a wink last night - Frank Sinatra 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warts 'n' all Posted September 10, 2020 Author Share Posted September 10, 2020 Oh dear, and you were doing so well. Your first three attempts gained you six points. But, then you fell into our Mafioso Frank pratfall and lost five. Still you are now up to 19 and with just one full day of competition left I don't think anyone will catch you. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vacillator Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 9 minutes ago, Warts 'n' all said: Oh dear, and you were doing so well. Your first three attempts gained you six points. But, then you fell into our Mafioso Frank pratfall and lost five. Still you are now up to 19 and with just one full day of competition left I don't think anyone will catch you. I think there might be one person who could catch him . Apologies for the lack of input in this round, opted for some time out after my unrelated video was penalised in the previous competition. Rules are rules of course, even if they are made up as you go along . 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vergeltungswaffe Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 I had a feeling Frank might be a bad idea, but I loved that picture. C'est la vie. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falaise Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 what suspense !!! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warts 'n' all Posted September 10, 2020 Author Share Posted September 10, 2020 9 minutes ago, Vergeltungswaffe said: I had a feeling Frank might be a bad idea, but I loved that picture. C'est la vie. I love that picture too. It is one that I've looked at at lot recently. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warts 'n' all Posted September 10, 2020 Author Share Posted September 10, 2020 3 hours ago, Vacilllator said: I think there might be one person who could catch him . Apologies for the lack of input in this round, opted for some time out after my unrelated video was penalised in the previous competition. Rules are rules of course, even if they are made up as you go along . I don't think anyone has asked about the "Eisenhowerplatz" variant. So I will now add an extra bonus in addition to the "Splash" 10 points, and the "End of Battle" 15 points which are still on offer. Anyone who can tell us where "Eisenhowerplatz" was located during WW2 gets 20 points. And in the same way as Noddle Head can't get points for the previous bonuses he can't get any points for it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vacillator Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 (edited) Google tells me it's Grosvenor Square https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grosvenor_Square in London for those not in the know, but perhaps the use of Google is prohibited ... Edited September 10, 2020 by Vacilllator Typo again! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warts 'n' all Posted September 10, 2020 Author Share Posted September 10, 2020 Oh dear. You missed again. The clue was in the award of 20 points. The correct answer was No.20. Grosvenor Square. The place Dartford Mick was going to storm in 1968, but he decided to go to the corner shop, buy Marianne a Mars Bar, and go home and write "Street Fighting Man" instead. Personally I was more interested in the European Cup Final, than what was going on in the streets. In my defense, I was only six at the time 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warts 'n' all Posted September 10, 2020 Author Share Posted September 10, 2020 Hitler Blues - Florida Kid ... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vacillator Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 Oh well, never mind. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warts 'n' all Posted September 10, 2020 Author Share Posted September 10, 2020 Updated standings @Vergeltungswaffe - 19 Points Warts 'n' all - 18 Points All other scores remain unchanged. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umlaut Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 Two songs - in one pic:Tommy Gun and Guns on the Roof - by the Clash 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warts 'n' all Posted September 11, 2020 Author Share Posted September 11, 2020 As much as I love El Clash Combo, the only way troops could've heard those tunes during WW2 is via the TARDIS. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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