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timerider

10 years ago

Sheik of Araby?? LOL! HUH! Oh well I gave it the old drop out try, LOL!

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Author

10 years ago

Reply to timerider

Thanks for dropping in and trying, timerider! It’s not the Sheik of Araby, but the answer is somewhat exotic. Here’s one of Errol’s gorgeous gal pals with some clues.

youtu.be/7GmkcjAQrAw%5B/img%5D…

And then there’s this:

[img]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-YFFbK957NAw/UZ-hoQNuV-I/AAAAAAAACTA/qFeEH-S0kOU/s1600/1421_user1_091101-215649.jpg[/img]

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Tina

10 years ago

Reply to Gentleman Tim

This is Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue!
The Rolling Thunder Revue was a concert tour by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan with a traveling caravan of notable musicians, including Joan Baez, ROGER McGuinn, and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott.
But …..

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Author

10 years ago

Hint: focus mainly on the Byrd and birds!!! (Of course, Errol always focused on the birds!)

[img]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rITHnOtmr1M/TXSFgjZ6N9I/AAAAAAAAAMU/nKXSAGGJKgg/s1600/errol_binoculars.jpg[/img]

P.S. In Southeast Asia, on the rare occasions he smoked a pipe, Sean, too, had a passing association with the the third & key word.

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Tina

10 years ago

Wow – here you go again!
To find a connection between those pictures is a tough job!
1. picture is Roger McGuinn
2. picture is Frank Zappa
3. picture is Dorothy Lamour, the Sarong girl
4. picture is Joni Mitchell, Both sides, Now – her famous song!
5. picture is Renaldo and the Clara’s
They are all bands and or singers.

Then you say Byrds is a clue so we have – One Track Mind: The Byrds, “Mr. Tambourine Man” (1965) associated with Roger McGuinn. Also Frank Zappa and Roger McGuinn were associated.

Then there is a pipe somehow BUT how all this comes together is rather bleak.
Just a very wild guess “One Track Mind”? As Errol sometimes had it?!

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Author

10 years ago

Reply to Tina

WOW! That is Flynnsational research, Tina!! Really Awesome. It’s not One Track Mind, but you’re knockin’ on the answer’s door! You’ve actually said one the three words!

I’ll trade you another clue for one on your “What is it?” quiz!

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Tina

10 years ago

Reply to Gentleman Tim

A trade? Great! Gosh mine is so easy compared to yours.
I gave the clue away right in the title!
What is that? Errol is in it?
And I told you that you are so close.

The words I was looking for: UNIFORM of The Charge of the Light Brigade

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Author

10 years ago

Reply to Tina

Okay then! For that I must to give you a really difficult clue, Tina!

Errol may have heard the third word in connection to Tunkabom Creek, in East Sepik Province, PNG.

(The first two words he heard much more frequently all over the world.)

Keep fishing!!

www.thefishmap.com…

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Tina

10 years ago

Reply to Gentleman Tim

Unfair! Unfair!
You sure have to do better than that!!!

Are the Three words a title of a song?

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Author

10 years ago

Reply to Tina

No, but very close, Tina!

Linda Christian is here to help from Ciro’s, though Miss Lamour is a much bigger help – especially when she’s hanging out with Hope & Crosby.

[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/Actress_Linda_Christian_wearing_a_sarong_and_Hawaiin_lei_while_talking_with_others_at_Ciros,_1954.jpg[/img]

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Author

10 years ago

Dorothy’s not helping as much this time, but she’s still a big clue:

[img]http://www.corbisimages.com/images/Corbis-U896338ACME.jpg?size=67&uid=d3cce63f-54ee-408f-bf62-8aad51506b8c[/img]

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Author

10 years ago

Reply to Gentleman Tim

Your on the Road to Success, Tina. Bing can help you!

[img]http://www.lincolnonline.com.ar/archivos/links/foto_bing.jpg[/img]

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Author

10 years ago

Reply to Gentleman Tim

Bob, too!

[img]http://www.alamy.com/thumbs/4969f0e556ca474db58fc80bbfc3e335/ROAD-TO-SINGAPORE-Bob-Hope-Dorothy-Lamour-Bing-Crosby-1940-Courtesy-CWAAMX.jpg?noiptc=true[/img]

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Author

10 years ago

Reply to Gentleman Tim

Don’t forget Tunkabom Creek, north of the Sepik, Tina. Errol may have heard the last of the three words in connection with that creek. (To my knowledge, however, The Rolling Thunder Revue never played in East Sepik Province. Though some of the natives may well have appreciated Dylan’s stage makeup on that tour.)

[img]http://nerdpop.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Bob+Dylan+Rolling+Thunder.jpg[/img]

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Author

10 years ago

Two of the words can be found on this photo:

[img]http://www.shakespearean.com/65aerrd[/img]

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Tina

10 years ago

Reply to Gentleman Tim

I give up – nothing makes any sense to me!

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Author

10 years ago

Reply to Tina

It begins a long, long way from Canada, Tina!

[img]http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3105/2619046422_c0b979b298.jpg[/img]

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Lollie

10 years ago

Reply to Gentleman Tim

?!

Wow this is a very tough one.

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Author

10 years ago

Reply to Lollie

It’s probably that I just gave too many clues, Lollie. Less may have been better. Think words to a song – and one of the words rhymes with song:

[img]http://38.media.tumblr.com/ba7979122cbd6cd59eb46904899ebaee/tumblr_mo00h5Szqh1snx77eo1_500.gif[/img]

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Tina

10 years ago

Reply to Gentleman Tim

You most certainly gave much to many clues, but it was a good one! You are sure a devil in disguise, you Tricky Dicky!

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Lollie

10 years ago

Reply to Gentleman Tim

^ hee hee! That Errol guitar gif is great! :D

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Author

10 years ago

These two distinguished characters are referred to also, though in different lines (of the same song):

[img]http://newcombandcompany.com/newcombwp/wp-content/themes/newcomb/dress/pages/Raleigh_Sir_Walter.jpg[/img]

[img]http://www.details.com/images/culture-trends/critical-eye/201203/creative-moment/marlboro_man_varticle.jpg[/img]

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Author

10 years ago

Reply to Gentleman Tim

And this fellow, as well:

[img]http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01772/columbus_1772950b.jpg[/img]

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Author

10 years ago

The answer lies at the end.

[img]http://www.connollyco.com/discography/roger_mcguinn/cardiff_hi.jpg[/img]

[img]http://blog.johannaost.com/uploads/medium_70739dca-899a-4d9e-b31f-c84a3057c833.jpg[/img]

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Tina

10 years ago

Reply to Gentleman Tim

I think I have it: ERROL FLYNN SARONG

I wrapped their flag around me
like an Errol Flynn sarong
and I laid down thinking national
with Dreamland coming on

Dreamland (Joni Mitchell)

It’s a long long way to Canada
It’s a long way from sbow chains
Donkey venders slicing coconut
No parkas to their name
Black babies covered in baking flour
The cook’s got a carnival song
Lay down someplace shady
with Dreamland coming on

Dreamland, dream on Dreamland

Walter Raleigh, Chris Columbus
come a-marchin’ out of the waves
and they claim the beach and concessions
in the name of the sun-tan slaves
I wrapped their flag around me
like an Errol Flynn sarong
and I laid down thinking national
with Dreamland coming on

Goodtime Mary and the lady soldiers
talking over a glass of rum
burning on the inside
with a knowledge of things to come
There’s gambling out on the terrace
Midnight rambling on the lawn
As they lean towards temptation
with Dreamland coming on

In a plane flying back to winter
with shoes full of tropic sand
There comes a lady in a foreign flag
on the arm of her Marlboro man
The hawk howls in New York City
Six-foot drifts on Myrtle’s lawn
as they push the recline buttons down
with Dreamland coming on

African sand on the Trade Winds
on the sun on the Amazon
as they lean towards temptation
with Dreamland coming on

Roger McGuinn “Cardiff Rose” 1976

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Author

10 years ago

Reply to Tina

EXCELLENT, Tina!!!!!!!

Sorry to be so “tricky dicky” at times, Tina, but you guys are so good these quizzes would be over in minutes, if I were any less cryptic!

This all relates to the great story of how Roger McGuinn changed the words of a Joni Mitchell song, “Dreamland” to include Errol. Specifically, he changed Joni’s “Dorothy Lamour sarong” to “Errol Flynn sarong” – on Frank Zappa’s tour bus, which Bob Dylan used for his legendary Rolling Thunder Revue tour.

Tunkabom Creek, which might have appeared an off-the-wall red herring, was actually a near-giveaway, in that the creek is also known in PNG as “Sarong Creek”.

Out “partying” with some of his news correspondent buddies in Southeast Asia, Sean, on occasion, (along with his friends) don a sarong in some of the local establishments. “A sarong in Saigon” wouldn’t be a bad lyric, either!

So there you have it – the legend behind the “Errol Flynn Sarong” . (It would be cool if one of blog’s great artists did a rendering of Errol in sarong. He would certainly look better than Hope & Crosby did!!)

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Tina

10 years ago

Reply to Gentleman Tim

Thanks Tim, that was great fun and I nearly gave up – ha, ha, ha!
As you say, if a quiz is too easy there is not much fun in it!
You sure made it interesting!

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Lollie

10 years ago

Reply to Tina

Congratulations Tina! Very good! :)

I’ve never heard of that song before.Tim that sure was a toughie.

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10 years ago

Roger must be a Flynn fan since he is in another song The Byrds did called Citizen Kane. Check it out.

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Author

10 years ago

Reply to twinarchers

Fantastic, twinarchers! Not sure what Roger (who couldn’t get much higher) is saying, but Errol certainly did famously make it down to the Polo Lounge on occasion. In fact, whenever Flynn made it, it was an occasion! Indeed, he’s been memorialized in Leroy Neiman’s “Polo Lounge”, with some of Hollywood’s other top heavyweights.

[img]http://www.thedailytruffle.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/LeRoy_Neiman_Polo_Lounge.jpg[/img]

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