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You mean as opposed to the usual ones..:tongue:?

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:rotfl:
I'll explain when you've got it ;)

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Just great, that big cat looks familiar (not from "real life encounters" though :wall:) but I can not reproduce the name of the species :rotfl:
I'll just focus on the piano and the concert hall then ;)

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I'll help you out it's a Poema :biggrin:

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:bonk:

I knew it was familiar! I have a friend who's crazy about puma's, both the brand as the animal :lol9:

Ok, I'll implement that in the search :arms: Thank you Neija!

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You might also want to try the other common names for them such as Cougar and Mountain Lion though ;)

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Searching for it yesterday, I was pretty sure it's a cougar but I see now in Wikipedia that 'puma', 'mountain lion' and even 'panther' are all names used for it, which of course nicely broadens the field we have to research....:biggrin:.

By "a piece of music" I assume we need to find a generic name, like "symphony" or "rondello", rather than a specific title? Not that I can think of any yet that has some catlike associations.

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Piano??? Concert hall??? Ooops, I'm still looking at version 1.0 :rotfl:

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OK, that helped: we are looking at a puma/cougar/mountain lion in or on top of Carnegie Hall in New York! Though that may still just mean 'cat and concert hall'....

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You've made a good start :)

And we also seem to have another image super-sleuth!

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Ok, what about Alexander Scriabin's Prométhée, le poème du feu. Not that poeme is anything like puma, but I'm a bit at loss here :silly:

I did find this though:
So could it be the Looney Tune? :whistling

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Hel, you have identified the reason I changed the clue image. (sorry for any confusion caused)
No SF, not a looney tune, maybe next time ;)

All but one (important) word has been posted already :)

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HUGE (puma) or minor/little (piano) ?!

Hmmm... Ow, this one would be nice: The Hall effect - Aim at Me.
To explain my train of thought: the effect of the hall is that one thing seems small, the other major. And the song is called "aim at me" as ... well, the puma is obviously sniffing something out :tongue:

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At this point I have to jump in and mention John Cougar Mellencamp...though I don't know as he's ever done anything I'd call "a piece of music" - unless you want to count "Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First)" - at least the word "Intermezzo" implies something classical-like.

Or he has a song called "Wild Night" - and one called "Walk Tall" - hmmm.

I figure I'm way off base, but the Cougar tie-in just intrigued me. :)

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The scale is not important as a clue. The piano is simply in the photo and is not a hint.
It's a no to both the last two guess.
'piece of music' should point you away from anything rock/pop etc ;)

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:lol: I found his name as well, but I still have a lot more to go through... (wiki):

"The cougar holds the Guinness record for the animal with the highest number of names, presumably due to its wide distribution across North and South America. It has over 40 names in English alone."

try and link all those to "Carnegie".... some steel band perhaps :biggrin:?

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Hahaha, great fact about the cougar names!
I'm looking to use part of one of those names, a common one.

Don't overthink this one, it's really very simple - no plays on language or anything like that.

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Okay, where, in very simple terms are we? What is shown out of place? Name that (select one of 40 :P) maybe lateral think that name a little (not much, I promise).

This is a well know piece of music, if you don't know what it is called I am sure you have heard it. It's a classic as far as I am concerned.

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I'm trying to pronounce "Carnegie Hall" in such a way that it sounds like "carnival", so we can go for Le Carnaval des Animaux by Saint-Saëns, but I can't get it done...besides, no play on words you said ;).

I also liked the idea of 'poem' in stead of poema, but I suppose that name is too Dutch....

No luck with the puma otherwise, nor with the cougars, so I guess I might try one of its peers. In the mean time, like SF, I found a nice cartoon to pass the time :biggrin::

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Trying not to sound excited by a later word...
No play on words, not really. Honestly, it is simple (well aren't they all once you know).
All English words.

And I think you might know and you're playing, or you really did accicentally post a clue I was gonna do?

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Let's just say that up to "...cougars" was what I had accomplished before your previous post.... ;)

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He's given you a couple of clues there SF :)
Now I can't get the Inspector Gadget theme tune out of my head, it's replaced the one I had in mind for this, funny that.

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OK, I didn't have an image and I wasn't sure if I could do anything today, so I thought that I might as well leave it open for the others (the other :rotfl:?) to find the answer as well..;).

I'm online after all, so here is the answer: it's by Edvard Grieg from Peer Gynt, Suite No. 1, Op. 46, the final piece (originally composed as a sort of "background" music to Henrik Ibsen's play):

In the Hall of the Mountain King

I have to admit I didn't know it...:embarasse but it does sound familiar. Maybe because apparently it is used quite often in movie(trailer)s, video games etc., as well as ads
It was also the inspiration for the Inspector Gadget theme song ;)

Next: a new image in a new category

Historic Event

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As usual, Hel tells you all (well, SF and occasionally Rosie) all you really need to know. I think the word you needed to add SF, was king, as in king of beasts :)
I got a pack of cassette tapes when I was in my early teens (yes, that long ago) and that piece stood out for me along with the last minute of the 1812. It blew away my conceptions that classical was airy-fairy, lightweight music that couldn't capture vibrancy.
(not that I would have used words like vibrancy when I was 13 :silly:)
And I never realised it was the inspiration for Inspector Gadget, theme music I have always thought was fab :)

As you may have already concluded, Helanren is correct :lol:
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Oh wow, interesting twist in the category ;)
EDIT: I can't see the happy/sad difference unless it's happy cos they are going up and therefore the opposite. Could be simply water. I assume the different tint in the background is so it works with the yin yang symbol, but that would be white. I'm sure the fact that N and F are beckoning/calling/signalling to each other is a clue, otherwise why draw it. B looks surprised/shocked by their actions, indicating peacemaker/mediation (also with the balance of seeing both sides)
Historical events between countries, sadly usually mean war. So far I've found (1672) King Louis XIV of France invaded Netherlands; sluices opened in Holland to save Amsterdam from French. Stuff about the Grand Alliance to but that was mainly so we could all fight the French!
If it is about language, I'll be at a disadvantage, being English, I of course speak nothing else and, frankly, I'm not very good at that :P Might also struggle to recall historical events involving 'not UK' - though I credit Hel with being aware of this and being inclusive to our little circle of players... as you can tell, I am using SF's 'typing out loud' technique and am actually stumped so far.

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As far as whether they're "beckoning/calling" to each other...I'm voting for "signalling" as it seems to resemble a certain one-finger salute I've seen now and then... :tongue:

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Yes, some knowledge of languages helps in solving it :lol:!

Luckily, no need yet to explain the word 'cassette' to this audience :biggrin:!

No, it's more that they had to be different anyway, and that part of the image was 'borrowed' from a previous pictionary, though not with the exact same meaning ;).

Again, borrowed from a previous image, but subtly changed. The ladies seem to be more susceptible to that, I wonder why...:)!

Yep, the Anglophones amongst you are likely at a disadvantage, but I think you can probably still figure it out... besides, the event is definitely as well known in the UK as it is overhere!

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Got a pm from Jimbo saying I was well placed to give this new image a go. (assuming cos I'm from Belgium :silly:)

Had a look and quite frankly, I only have one clue.
I would like to think I know Belgian history well enough to remember such a thing, but clearly I don't.
Should be an event after 1830, cos we only officially exist since then.

But made me think of The Threaty of Verdun

'Belgium' got divided between France and the Netherlands, the river the Schelde was the border.
Would make sense with the water symbols.

Can't think of anything else that comes close otherwise.

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Actually, the French recognition, by saluting John Paul Jones and the USS Ranger, didn't happen until 1778; the Dutch had already saluted the USS Andrew Doria on 16 November 1776 at St. Eustatius ;). Though Morocco and The Republic of Ragusa (learn something new every day!) seem to have some claims on being the first as well....:lol:.

The fact that you speak Dutch (and French, presumably) is more helpful than the fact that you are from Belgium (but to reassure Jimbo: lots of words are the same in English and Dutch....) as it is not specifically "Belgian history" ;). There is a link to Belgium though.

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Okay, how about this? There's a place, located on the 'linguistic border' between French and Dutch which is know as a wet pasture which is certainly a historic event - Waterloo.

If it is, it was my first thought but didn't know why :bonk:

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:thumbsup: the Battle of Waterloo it is !:thumbsup:

To be fair, it was a bit more difficult for you, as it relies a bit on knowing the "proper" pronounciation (either Dutch or French will do :)) of the word Waterloo... so I would have expected the Dutch to get it first. Your intuition got you there allright though, even if it seems you didn't get the water/l'eau part.



So, hats off :notworthy and over to you :jossun:

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But you were already the first to solve that part :):It was supposed to suggest a battle (of words here, as it turns out). I copied the stickman from the Colossus pictionary and just changed the position of the finger (didn't want to draw it all over again ;)).

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Aaah, should have seen that one cos of the languages!

But I focused too much on a battle between France and the Netherlands, (they had help from the UK, Prussia, Austria, Russia and us) so dismissed Waterloo.
Also cos of this
Think about everyone in Belgium would bet you differently, only a link ?!
That's about the biggest event during the French period.
I would like to think Waterloo is a big part of Belgian History.

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True, but that remark was in response to your earlier comment "Should be an event after 1830, cos we only officially exist since then" and after all, the 'Belgians' fighting at the time were either Dutch (or, I suppose, French) ;).

:lol: The UK, Prussia etc. might disagree with you there, about just giving some help to the Dutch...:lol:

I had started a version with flags of all nations involved in the background, but I thought that would make it too easy, and ruin the water/l'eau effect.

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Thank you :)
One of the first things I did was look at the translations for wet water rain tear... :)
But the Water/L'eau is a lovely play :)
(yep, I'd say mainly a anglo-prussian thing, so would Wellington :P)

I'll get back to you as soon as I can with a new one!
So, in the spirit drawing something quickly and to welcome all those who think you have to be any good, I give you, ages of thinking and 40 seconds of drawing :P
One of my favourite bands, if CD count, counts.
Get ready to be soooooo happy when you find it
Song:

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Looks like a piece of string and an eraser to me ;). There is a UK band called Eraser, which is a tribute band to Erasure, but I'm not sure why you would buy too many of their CD's, let alone those of a tribute band...

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That idea of "eraser" immediately brought the following song into my head:
Erase/Rewind - the Cardigans
I could totally understand why you would have their CD's :arms: :biggrin:

:Sing: 'cause I've been changing my mind :Sing:

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I think it's an eraser as well, made me think of Erasure but can't really find a matching songtitle.
Have thought about Inspiral Carpets as well, cos of the spiral, but agian no song comes to mind.

But one of the band members of Erasure, played in Depeche Mode as well, they have a song that's called 'Wrong' so there for perhaps 'erase' to make it right again.

Wondering if us being 'soooo happy' when finding the answer is a hint to the song though.

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:lol: I thought that as well (sounds like something repeated in a chorus :)), but it's not exactly a very distinctive text to use in a lyrics search....