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Icy's Quiz 14 Dec 2011 - Famous Last Words
Icy North Posted Jan 25, 2017
Yours is the one about the Cambridge ladies with furnished souls, but I can't remember the American poet.
I'm guessing it was Cambridge, Mass. rather than Cambridge, England?
Icy's Quiz 14 Dec 2011 - Famous Last Words
Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Jan 25, 2017
Very good! Yes! 
Anybody know the poet?
A poetry critic said his poems 'are loved because they are full of sentimentally, of sex, of more or less improper jokes, of elementary lyric insistence.' Heh-heh.
Icy's Quiz 14 Dec 2011 - Famous Last Words
Icy North Posted Jan 25, 2017
EE Cummings (I asked a friend) 
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Let's see how familiar this one is:
land
hand
blood
neighbourhood
Icy's Quiz 14 Dec 2011 - Famous Last Words
Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Jan 25, 2017
I'm drawing a blank...but this one ought to be good...
Icy's Quiz 14 Dec 2011 - Famous Last Words
Icy North Posted Jan 25, 2017
Clue: Famously spoken by an American in an English accent.
Icy's Quiz 14 Dec 2011 - Famous Last Words
Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Jan 25, 2017
Which might explain the anomaly of thinking 'blood' rhymed with 'neighbourhood'? 
Icy's Quiz 14 Dec 2011 - Famous Last Words
Icy North Posted Jan 25, 2017
Clue 2: Nothing has been more commercially successful...
Icy's Quiz 14 Dec 2011 - Famous Last Words
Bluebottle Posted Jan 25, 2017
Not even 'Star Wars'
Got to be Michael Jackson's 'Thriller'.
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Icy's Quiz 14 Dec 2011 - Famous Last Words
Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Jan 25, 2017
I was thinking 'Cats', but you may be right.
Icy's Quiz 14 Dec 2011 - Famous Last Words
Icy North Posted Jan 25, 2017
Yes, it was Vincent Price's piece in Michael Jackson's Thriller.
Written by Rod Temperton from Cleethorpes, who died in October 2016:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Temperton
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