'NMG/r13q7/A/Aaron S/Mon May 5

[Aaron Solomon]

We're back from Question #7 of 'NET MATCH GAME!
(is everyone keeping track? :) )

Just to refresh your memory, here was the question:

"Apple Aaron had a scary experience this afternoon, when his
Macintosh computer gave him the 'dead Mac' icon when he tried
to start it up. But what scared him the most were the 'death
chords' it chimed, which he initially mistook for <BLANK>!"

Let's go to our 33-person panel....

(Charles Atkins)
So many good answers just came into my head...I know, a first for
me.....anywho, I will say, one of the Stone and Stanley show themes, ie
The New Shop til you Drop!

Aw, ya shoulda gone with one of the good answers...

(Dameon Welch)
Um... I can't think of anything good here. I'll say the chimes for NBC.
You, know, the network with the peacock. Heh heh, he said cock. ;-)

Huh-huh, you also said pea.
Good answer... will anyone match it, though?

(John Venturini)
I am clueless... I'll say.. SWANS DYING.

Hm....and if a swan dies in the woods, do you hear it?
Furthermore, does a dead Macintosh bear a striking resemblance?

No matches yet.

(Aaron Morris)
WINDOWS 95 STARTUP CHIMES!

Frightening. Though I'd rather have heard that than a dead Mac,
all things considered.

(David Prins)
The Micro$oft sound (Windows 95/NT)

DING! That's a match!
(or was that the sound of Windows 95 starting up?)

(Adam Marchese)
The Hanson boys' singing!

Who??? Are they anything like the Nelson twins?

(Jim Ellwanger)
"Taps."

Great movie. Starred Gregory Hines, as I recall.
But will it match?

(Michael Klauss)
I'm going to give another cruddy answer. He initially mistook the
death chords for the "You have e-mail" music.

Please don't throw rotten tomatoes at me. :)

I wasn't aware that there was music associated with e-mail.
Perhaps you're referring to the Eudora chime, "doo-DOO-doo"?

(Jason Block)
The losing chords to the Price is Right game.....

That's a good answer. And a sick sense of humor, if that
was what the Mac engineers installed as the default sound.

(Stan Ryckman)
Hmmm...
<A DIRGE>

Good answer, good answer.

(Jay Lewis)
The wedding march!
:)

Is that the same as dirge?

<looks to Ira Skutch. Long pause>
BZZZT! (sorry, I tried)

(Ken Stern)
ah, the chimes of death. i'll say he mistook it for...

the JEOPARDY! THEME.

Ah, yes. The infamous legend behind the J! theme song. Once
upon a time, when Merv Griffin's son Tony was a little boy,
Merv would calm him down before bedtime with a rendition of his
original nursery rhyme, "The Chimes of Death".

Little did Merv know it would become one of the most popular
TV theme songs of all time... as well as the default sound for
a dead Mac.

(Speaking of bedtime, I think it's past mine....)

(David Hammett)
I'm not doing so well in this round... what the hell... I'll say "TAPS."

What the hell... DING! That's one point for you and Jimbo.

(Scott Chupack)
He mistook it for TAPS?

DING! All three were at GSC2 and GSC6... do I sense a trend?

(Alan Mitsugi)
doorbells????

You're thinking of "Fame Game" from $ale of the Century.
Perhaps someone else will make the same mistake...

(Todd Hunter)
I don't get it . . . but I'll guess the most hideous, horrifying,
unspeakable whatchamacallit I can think of . . . "The Macarena."
Tell me that's not horrifying.

"That's Not Horrifying"
(the new Woody Fraser television show, coming soon to a
syndicated market near you)

(Matt Kaiser)
There's only one answer that I can think of, "TAPS". (You know, that
trumpet solo you hear in army war films when a soldier dies?)
For some reason, I feel like that "Cuckoo Friend and Ollie" woman right
now.

DING! Cheer up, it's a great answer! 3 points for the TAPS
folks and counting...

(Randy Amasia)
Since I've completely drawn a blank, I'm going to throw out an
answer:

With no disrespect intended to my sister Jake...
*****JO ANNE WORLEY****

I sometimes wonder if it wouldn't benefit to invest a little
bit of thought in some of these answers. Would anyone
honestly Ms. Worley's voice for chimes?

On second thought, if my computer made that sound effect
whenever it died, I'd probably force-crash my computer
just to hear it... :)

(Ed Stash)
The funeral march?

DING! Matches with "dirge" in my book.

(SGold...@aol.com)
WINDOWS 95

DING! Score a match for the Nameless Contestant!

(to...@bigdog.fred.net)
"I can't say that I've heard the death chords that often, but when you
turn on a Mac, it sounds like the opening to *MEN WITHOUT HATS' "SAFETY
DANCE!"

<singing>
You can crash when you want to
Leave your hard drive far behind
'Cause IBM's don't crash
And if they don't crash
Then they ain't no friends of mine

(Hope you enjoyed the song, in lieu of the "ding". :) )

(John Himpe)
an IBM beep

(I'm really not creative, but that would sure scare the h*** out of a
Mac user!)

Hmmm... judges, is that a match with WINDOWS 95....?

BZZZT!!!

Sorry, IBM is a computer, and WINDOWS is an operating system.
Plus they don't make the same sound.

(Michael Baker)
America Online :) ... Welcome! :)

In MY mind that's interchangeable with the death chords, but
we've gotta play by the rules so that's no match.

(Toby Stern)
he mistook them for his phone? huh?

Looks like you confused yourself with that answer! Alas, no
match for you.

(Michael-Jon Hale)
a funeral

DING! Goes with the funeral march/dirge gang.

(Tim Connolly)
Maniacal Laughter.
"You spent $2000 on me and now I'm going to crap out on you!
MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!"

If it did that, I wouldn't be typing out the results now, due
to a busted keyboard. :) No match.

(Nick Schneider)
Well... this shoots a good chance at a good round, or speaking of *wank*:

*a doorbell*

DING! Surprisingly, it's Two on a Match!(Chris Holland)
Let's all salute the flag (or dead Mac) as we play TAPS.......

DING! Salute it?!?! Hell, with as many problems as my
computer's given me, it's lucky I haven't chucked it out my
4th-floor window!

(Randal May)
his own funeral.

DING! That's a match!

(Brian Hamburg)
Brett Somers rides again.

THE <flip>
UKNOWN <flip>
DEATH MARCH <flip>
FOR THE <flip>
CHICAGO <flip>
BLACKHAWKS!

Dedicated to Nick Schneider... :)

Alas, a case of excessive specificity disqualifying an answer
from matching. Can't pair it with the generic "Funeral March".
(Clay Zambo)
The guitar riff from "Start Me Up."

Lord knows that'd scare me.

DING! That's the startup for WINDOWS 95, at least from the
commercials...

(Chris Dickson)
The Grim Reaper. I dunno.

What does a Grim Reaper sound like? Send me a .wav and I'll
consider ex post facto scoring.... :)

(Chri$ Lambert)
I can't stop giving bizarre, otherworldly answers. I'll never make the
100-point club.

He was really scared because he mistook it for "THE SPICE GIRLS.

Help Me.

Starting in June, NMG is changing its name to "The Surrealist
Game". Scary, yes. A match... no.

And that's everyone... Please read the Results posting for the points
breakdown for the question.

Thanks!
Aaron Solomon
sol...@nwu.edu