Transcript 04/01/2008 Don Rommel (carryover contestant)

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Transcript 04/01/2008 Don Rommel (carryover contestant)

#1 Post by BBTranscriptTeam » Tue Apr 01, 2008 8:44 pm

Don Rommel
Pocatello, ID


Can juggle, sing all four parts of a barbershop quartet, and ride a unicycle.


$8000- Often affecting older adults, atherosclerosis is defined as the hardening of the what?
A. Arteries B. Joints
C. Liver D. Lungs

$16,000
Which of these European countries has a capital city with a one-syllable name?
A. Finland B. Czech Republic
C. Poland D. Hungary


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50/50: Don says he has an idea, but after the 50/50 left B and D he said his idea is gone. He then guesses out of the remaining two and was correct.


$25,000
What song is commonly played on the radio every Thanksgiving because it was inspired by events that occurred on that day in 1965?
A. Alice's Restaurant Massacree B. Leaving On a Jet Plane
C. American Pie D. Last Train to Clarksville


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Don says he was a DJ for twelve years. Meredith says this means he must know it. However Don says he does not have an idea.


PAF: Jerry asks for choices to be repeated quickly with six seconds left! Then is saying American Pie as time runs out.


Don decides to go with Jerry, and finishes with $1000.




Answers
$8000- A. Arteries
$16K- B. Czech Republic
$25K- A. Alice's Restaurant Massacree


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#2 Post by Snaxx » Tue Apr 01, 2008 8:56 pm

$25,000
What song is commonly played on the radio every Thanksgiving because it was inspired by events that occurred on that day in 1965?
A. Alice's Restaurant Massacree B. Leaving On a Jet Plane
C. American Pie D. Last Train to Clarksville

Don says he was a DJ for twelve years. Meredith says this means he must know it. However Don says he does not have an idea.

PAF: Jerry asks for choices to be repeated quickly with six seconds left! Then is saying American Pie as time runs out.

Don decides to go with Jerry, and finishes with $1000.


I was really surprised someone who was a DJ for that long would not be able to eliminate American Pie!





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#3 Post by ontellen » Tue Apr 01, 2008 10:46 pm

I immediately eliminated American Pie - Feb. 3/59.

Does anyone know what the Alice's Restaurant Masacree was?

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#4 Post by silvercamaro » Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:09 pm

ontellen wrote:I immediately eliminated American Pie - Feb. 3/59.

Does anyone know what the Alice's Restaurant Masacree was?
Nobody was killed. That was Guthrie's sarcastic description of getting arrested for littering. Not too long thereafter, he was rejected by the draft because of his criminal record, such as it was. Since he was strongly anti-war (Vietnam days, remember), this was fine and dandy with him.

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#5 Post by ulysses5019 » Wed Apr 02, 2008 12:20 am

Nobody was killed. That was Guthrie's sarcastic description of getting arrested for littering. Not too long thereafter, he was rejected by the draft because of his criminal record, such as it was. Since he was strongly anti-war (Vietnam days, remember), this was fine and dandy with him.

Don't forget how the "song describes to ironic effect the arresting officer's frustration at the judge being unable to see the "27 8-by-10 color glossy pictures with the circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one was to be used as evidence against us.""
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Re: Transcript 04/01/2008 Don Rommel (carryover contestant)

#6 Post by NellyLunatic1980 » Wed Apr 02, 2008 3:45 am

$25K: I could eliminate "American Pie" as well (1959). No clue about the other three songs. PAF.

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#7 Post by gsabc » Wed Apr 02, 2008 5:56 am

ontellen wrote:I immediately eliminated American Pie - Feb. 3/59.

Does anyone know what the Alice's Restaurant Masacree was?
It's better known as just "Alice's Restaurant", and is the reason that Arlo Guthrie became famous as more than just Woody's kid. He first performed it at the Newport Folk Festival in 1967 (year may be off). It was an instant hit, and even became a decent movie.

The song itself is just a small part. The rest is a story of how he was arrested for littering one Thanksgiving after celebrating with Alice Brock, owner of a restaurant in Stockbridge MA at the time. When he was later drafted, he filled out the forms and admitted he had been arrested, and was rejected because of it. "You mean to tell me that I'm sitting here on the Group W bench, with the mother rapers, father stabbers and father rapers, and you're telling me that I'm not moral enough to burn villages and kill men, women and children because I'm a litterbug?" (The quote is probably not quite accurate, but close enough.) The story is very anti-draft and anti-war, which was, of course, a popular view in 1967.

That synopsis does not do it justice. I highly recommend finding a copy and listening. It's hilarious. There are later versions, one where he theorizes that "Alice's Restaurant" is the main reason for the gap in the Nixon Watergate tapes. He has also recorded it with his son.

This was my dream question from yesterday. You would have seen my molars from the grin I would have had. We listen to it every year on our drive to wherever the family's Thanksgiving celebration is. Many of the area radio stations play it at least once during the day. We finally got tired of fading signals, and bought our own copy to listen to. We've worn one out, hard to do with a CD.

It may be a regional thing, since the setting is Massachusetts. With Don being from Idaho, I was fairly certain he was a goner. But why did he call the other DJ, when they'd worked together for years and he was therefore just as unlikely to know it?

You can get anything you want
At Alice's Restaurant.
You can get anything you want
At Alice's Restaurant.
Walk right in, it's around the back,
just a half a mile from the railroad track.
You can get anything you want
At Alice's Restaurant.
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Re: Transcript 04/01/2008 Don Rommel (carryover contestant)

#8 Post by earendel » Wed Apr 02, 2008 6:27 am

BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Don Rommel
Pocatello, ID

Can juggle, sing all four parts of a barbershop quartet, and ride a unicycle.
All at the same time?? No wonder he was chosen to be on the show!

$8000- Often affecting older adults, atherosclerosis is defined as the hardening of the what?
A. Arteries B. Joints
C. Liver D. Lungs
BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$16,000
Which of these European countries has a capital city with a one-syllable name?
A. Finland B. Czech Republic
C. Poland D. Hungary

50/50: Don says he has an idea, but after the 50/50 left B and D he said his idea is gone. He then guesses out of the remaining two and was correct.
So what was he thinking? Finland - Helsinki; Czech Republic - Prague; Poland - Warsaw; Hungary - Budapest.
BBTranscriptTeam wrote:$25,000
What song is commonly played on the radio every Thanksgiving because it was inspired by events that occurred on that day in 1965?
A. Alice's Restaurant Massacree B. Leaving On a Jet Plane
C. American Pie D. Last Train to Clarksville

Don says he was a DJ for twelve years. Meredith says this means he must know it. However Don says he does not have an idea.

PAF: Jerry asks for choices to be repeated quickly with six seconds left! Then is saying American Pie as time runs out.

Don decides to go with Jerry, and finishes with $1000.
My reasoning was as follows - only A and C are based on historical events (although it turns out that B was inspired by an actual occurrence, sort of - John Denver wrote it because a flight out of Washington DC was delayed), and "the day the music died" was in February, so that leaves only A. I remember seeing "Alice's Restaruant" when I was younger but nothing specific about Thanksgiving.
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Re: Transcript 04/01/2008 Don Rommel (carryover contestant)

#9 Post by MarleysGh0st » Wed Apr 02, 2008 6:48 am

earendel wrote:
BBTranscriptTeam wrote:Don Rommel
Pocatello, ID

Can juggle, sing all four parts of a barbershop quartet, and ride a unicycle.
All at the same time?? No wonder he was chosen to be on the show!
Yeah. I don't think they said what his regular job is, but this MAWG is at least an amateur What Else.

Needless to say, that $25K question wasn't quite a "dream question" for me. :P

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#10 Post by Appa23 » Wed Apr 02, 2008 6:57 am

ontellen wrote:I immediately eliminated American Pie - Feb. 3/59.

Does anyone know what the Alice's Restaurant Masacree was?
Ah, this brings back fond college memories of Big E Bailey. :lol:


This song is called Alice's Restaurant, and it's about Alice, and the
restaurant, but Alice's Restaurant is not the name of the restaurant,
that's just the name of the song, and that's why I called the song Alice's
Restaurant.

You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant
You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant
Walk right in it's around the back
Just a half a mile from the railroad track
You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant

Now it all started two Thanksgivings ago, was on - two years ago on
Thanksgiving, when my friend and I went up to visit Alice at the
restaurant, but Alice doesn't live in the restaurant, she lives in the
church nearby the restaurant, in the bell-tower, with her husband Ray and
Fasha the dog. And livin' in the bell tower like that, they got a lot of
room downstairs where the pews used to be in. Havin' all that room,
seein' as how they took out all the pews, they decided that they didn't
have to take out their garbage for a long time.

We got up there, we found all the garbage in there, and we decided it'd be
a friendly gesture for us to take the garbage down to the city dump. So
we took the half a ton of garbage, put it in the back of a red VW
microbus, took shovels and rakes and implements of destruction and headed
on toward the city dump.

Well we got there and there was a big sign and a chain across across the
dump saying, "Closed on Thanksgiving." And we had never heard of a dump
closed on Thanksgiving before, and with tears in our eyes we drove off
into the sunset looking for another place to put the garbage.

We didn't find one. Until we came to a side road, and off the side of the
side road there was another fifteen foot cliff and at the bottom of the
cliff there was another pile of garbage. And we decided that one big pile
is better than two little piles, and rather than bring that one up we
decided to throw our's down.

That's what we did, and drove back to the church, had a thanksgiving
dinner that couldn't be beat, went to sleep and didn't get up until the
next morning, when we got a phone call from officer Obie. He said, "Kid,
we found your name on an envelope at the bottom of a half a ton of
garbage, and just wanted to know if you had any information about it." And
I said, "Yes, sir, Officer Obie, I cannot tell a lie, I put that envelope
under that garbage."

After speaking to Obie for about fourty-five minutes on the telephone we
finally arrived at the truth of the matter and said that we had to go down
and pick up the garbage, and also had to go down and speak to him at the
police officer's station. So we got in the red VW microbus with the
shovels and rakes and implements of destruction and headed on toward the
police officer's station.

Now friends, there was only one or two things that Obie coulda done at
the police station, and the first was he could have given us a medal for
being so brave and honest on the telephone, which wasn't very likely, and
we didn't expect it, and the other thing was he could have bawled us out
and told us never to be see driving garbage around the vicinity again,
which is what we expected, but when we got to the police officer's station
there was a third possibility that we hadn't even counted upon, and we was
both immediately arrested. Handcuffed. And I said "Obie, I don't think I
can pick up the garbage with these handcuffs on." He said, "Shut up, kid.
Get in the back of the patrol car."

And that's what we did, sat in the back of the patrol car and drove to the
quote Scene of the Crime unquote. I want tell you about the town of
Stockbridge, Massachusets, where this happened here, they got three stop
signs, two police officers, and one police car, but when we got to the
Scene of the Crime there was five police officers and three police cars,
being the biggest crime of the last fifty years, and everybody wanted to
get in the newspaper story about it. And they was using up all kinds of
cop equipment that they had hanging around the police officer's station.
They was taking plaster tire tracks, foot prints, dog smelling prints, and
they took twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy photographs with circles
and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each
one was to be used as evidence against us. Took pictures of the approach,
the getaway, the northwest corner the southwest corner and that's not to
mention the aerial photography.

After the ordeal, we went back to the jail. Obie said he was going to put
us in the cell. Said, "Kid, I'm going to put you in the cell, I want your
wallet and your belt." And I said, "Obie, I can understand you wanting my
wallet so I don't have any money to spend in the cell, but what do you
want my belt for?" And he said, "Kid, we don't want any hangings." I
said, "Obie, did you think I was going to hang myself for littering?"
Obie said he was making sure, and friends Obie was, cause he took out the
toilet seat so I couldn't hit myself over the head and drown, and he took
out the toilet paper so I couldn't bend the bars roll out the - roll the
toilet paper out the window, slide down the roll and have an escape. Obie
was making sure, and it was about four or five hours later that Alice
(remember Alice? It's a song about Alice), Alice came by and with a few
nasty words to Obie on the side, bailed us out of jail, and we went back
to the church, had a another thanksgiving dinner that couldn't be beat,
and didn't get up until the next morning, when we all had to go to court.

We walked in, sat down, Obie came in with the twenty seven eight-by-ten
colour glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back
of each one, sat down. Man came in said, "All rise." We all stood up,
and Obie stood up with the twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy
pictures, and the judge walked in sat down with a seeing eye dog, and he
sat down, we sat down. Obie looked at the seeing eye dog, and then at the
twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with circles and arrows
and a paragraph on the back of each one, and looked at the seeing eye dog.
And then at twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy pictures with circles
and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one and began to cry,
'cause Obie came to the realization that it was a typical case of American
blind justice, and there wasn't nothing he could do about it, and the
judge wasn't going to look at the twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy
pictures with the circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each
one explaining what each one was to be used as evidence against us. And
we was fined $50 and had to pick up the garbage in the snow, but thats not
what I came to tell you about.

Came to talk about the draft.

They got a building down New York City, it's called Whitehall Street,
where you walk in, you get injected, inspected, detected, infected,
neglected and selected. I went down to get my physical examination one
day, and I walked in, I sat down, got good and drunk the night before, so
I looked and felt my best when I went in that morning. `Cause I wanted to
look like the all-American kid from New York City, man I wanted, I wanted
to feel like the all-, I wanted to be the all American kid from New York,
and I walked in, sat down, I was hung down, brung down, hung up, and all
kinds o' mean nasty ugly things. And I waked in and sat down and they gave
me a piece of paper, said, "Kid, see the phsychiatrist, room 604."

And I went up there, I said, "Shrink, I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I
wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and
guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill,
KILL, KILL." And I started jumpin up and down yelling, "KILL, KILL," and
he started jumpin up and down with me and we was both jumping up and down
yelling, "KILL, KILL." And the sargent came over, pinned a medal on me,
sent me down the hall, said, "You're our boy."

Didn't feel too good about it.

Proceeded on down the hall gettin more injections, inspections,
detections, neglections and all kinds of stuff that they was doin' to me
at the thing there, and I was there for two hours, three hours, four
hours, I was there for a long time going through all kinds of mean nasty
ugly things and I was just having a tough time there, and they was
inspecting, injecting every single part of me, and they was leaving no
part untouched. Proceeded through, and when I finally came to the see the
last man, I walked in, walked in sat down after a whole big thing there,
and I walked up and said, "What do you want?" He said, "Kid, we only got
one question. Have you ever been arrested?"

And I proceeded to tell him the story of the Alice's Restaurant Massacre,
with full orchestration and five part harmony and stuff like that and all
the phenome... - and he stopped me right there and said, "Kid, did you ever
go to court?"

And I proceeded to tell him the story of the twenty seven eight-by-ten
colour glossy pictures with the circles and arrows and the paragraph on
the back of each one, and he stopped me right there and said, "Kid, I want
you to go and sit down on that bench that says Group W .... NOW kid!!"

And I, I walked over to the, to the bench there, and there is, Group W's
where they put you if you may not be moral enough to join the army after
committing your special crime, and there was all kinds of mean nasty ugly
looking people on the bench there. Mother rapers. Father stabbers. Father
rapers! Father rapers sitting right there on the bench next to me! And
they was mean and nasty and ugly and horrible crime-type guys sitting on the
bench next to me. And the meanest, ugliest, nastiest one, the meanest
father raper of them all, was coming over to me and he was mean 'n' ugly
'n' nasty 'n' horrible and all kind of things and he sat down next to me
and said, "Kid, whad'ya get?" I said, "I didn't get nothing, I had to pay
$50 and pick up the garbage." He said, "What were you arrested for, kid?"
And I said, "Littering." And they all moved away from me on the bench
there, and the hairy eyeball and all kinds of mean nasty things, till I
said, "And creating a nuisance." And they all came back, shook my hand,
and we had a great time on the bench, talkin about crime, mother stabbing,
father raping, all kinds of groovy things that we was talking about on the
bench. And everything was fine, we was smoking cigarettes and all kinds of
things, until the Sargeant came over, had some paper in his hand, held it
up and said.

"Kids, this-piece-of-paper's-got-47-words-37-sentences-58-words-we-wanna-
know-details-of-the-crime-time-of-the-crime-and-any-other-kind-of-thing-
you-gotta-say-pertaining-to-and-about-the-crime-I-want-to-know-arresting-
officer's-name-and-any-other-kind-of-thing-you-gotta-say", and talked for
forty-five minutes and nobody understood a word that he said, but we had
fun filling out the forms and playing with the pencils on the bench there,
and I filled out the massacre with the four part harmony, and wrote it
down there, just like it was, and everything was fine and I put down the
pencil, and I turned over the piece of paper, and there, there on the
other side, in the middle of the other side, away from everything else on
the other side, in parentheses, capital letters, quotated, read the
following words:

("KID, HAVE YOU REHABILITATED YOURSELF?")

I went over to the sargent, said, "Sargeant, you got a lot a damn gall to
ask me if I've rehabilitated myself, I mean, I mean, I mean that just, I'm
sittin' here on the bench, I mean I'm sittin here on the Group W bench
'cause you want to know if I'm moral enough join the army, burn women,
kids, houses and villages after bein' a litterbug." He looked at me and
said, "Kid, we don't like your kind, and we're gonna send you fingerprints
off to Washington."

And friends, somewhere in Washington enshrined in some little folder, is a
study in black and white of my fingerprints. And the only reason I'm
singing you this song now is cause you may know somebody in a similar
situation, or you may be in a similar situation, and if your in a
situation like that there's only one thing you can do and that's walk into
the shrink wherever you are ,just walk in say "Shrink, You can get
anything you want, at Alice's restaurant.". And walk out. You know, if
one person, just one person does it they may think he's really sick and
they won't take him. And if two people, two people do it, in harmony,
they may think they're both faggots and they won't take either of them.
And three people do it, three, can you imagine, three people walking in
singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and walking out. They may think it's an
organization. And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day,I said
fifty people a day walking in singin a bar of Alice's Restaurant and
walking out. And friends they may thinks it's a movement.

And that's what it is , the Alice's Restaurant Anti-Massacre Movement, and
all you got to do to join is sing it the next time it come's around on the
guitar.

With feeling. So we'll wait for it to come around on the guitar, here and
sing it when it does. Here it comes.

You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant
You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant
Walk right in it's around the back
Just a half a mile from the railroad track
You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant

That was horrible. If you want to end war and stuff you got to sing loud.
I've been singing this song now for twenty five minutes. I could sing it
for another twenty five minutes. I'm not proud... or tired.

So we'll wait till it comes around again, and this time with four part
harmony and feeling.

We're just waitin' for it to come around is what we're doing.

All right now.

You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant
Excepting Alice
You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant
Walk right in it's around the back
Just a half a mile from the railroad track
You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant

Da da da da da da da dum
At Alice's Restaurant

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