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Deep Purple and Gloria Estefan - classicdrogn - 03-10-2004
_Smoke On The Water_, by Deep Purple: fire powers - sorta Hazy Shade in reverse. Plus, it's longish.
www.best-lyrics-place.net...yrics.html
_Space Truckin'_ also by Deep Purple: Another spacefilght song, but this one does it by conjuring something like the Big Pig from the She-Hulk comics space caper. Of course, it still only lasts as long as the song, but for that duration Doug's got some heavy duty cargo capacity as well as transatmospheric flight. Gotta be good for something.
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_1-2-3_ by Gloria Estefan: quantity surveying powers. At a glance, Doug can tell you how many trees in a forest, average leaves per tree, squirrel population, etc. Or sand on a beach and seacreatures per square foot, people in a crowd and how many are armed, whatever, as long as it's something physical (not a chance something will happen, or how many times something has happened - unless theres some distinctive physical change to accompany each instance, like pocks in the wall where something has been slammed into it) that Doug could normally detect if he took the time, and which can be expressed as a single number or ratio. A very powerful effect if you think about it, but of such a narrow focus that it's reasonably allowable.
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- CD
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
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Re: Deep Purple and Gloria Estefan - Bob Schroeck - 03-10-2004
Quote:Oh, yeah, that works for me.
_Smoke On The Water_, by Deep Purple: fire powers - sorta Hazy Shade in reverse.
Quote:That's one I don't know, but the lyrics look like fun. (Your link page misspelled "borealis", though... unless that's a very weird intentional misspelling.)
_Space Truckin'_ also by Deep Purple
Quote:Also manifests a female aardvark that answers to the name of "Ethel". Actually, that looks like a great song. It's so easy to find songs for destructive stuff, for speed, for flying. It's the oddball things I like to have songs for ("76 Trombones, anyone? ), and this certainly qualifies.
_1-2-3_ by Gloria Estefan: quantity surveying powers.
Thanks, CD!
-- Bob
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There's no wrong way to eat a Rhesus.
Re: Deep Purple and Gloria Estefan - The Wanderer - 03-10-2004
Quote:I think it was intentional, yes - a pun on the name "Alice". I can easily see that sort of thing being intended and (possibly) even conveyed in the sung lyrics, but it's difficult to convey correctly in simple text.
Your link page misspelled "borealis", though... unless that's a very weird intentional misspelling.
Re: Deep Purple and Gloria Estefan - classicdrogn - 03-11-2004
Woohoo! Two points! Or something. Basically, SotW is one of those songs that makes me want to take the T-tops out and break traffic ordinances, which seemed like a pretty good reccomendation as a power song. For that matter, _Rainbow in the Dark_ (I think by the group Rainbow, but I can't recall) might do something, for the same reason - the most likely literal effect would be to generate a glowing rainbow energy band around the top (and bottom, if he wasn't on the ground) of his power radius, casting light to see by - but it could be a force field similar in appearance, if not effects (because the effects are serious overkill) of the D&D spell Prismatic Sphere.
Now that I think of it, I'm pretty sure that the effect I listed for 1-2-3 is similar to one of the powers in the AD&D2e Psionist character class book, but it DOES fit that song, doesn't it?
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
Re: Deep Purple and Gloria Estefan - Bob Schroeck - 03-11-2004
Quote:A quick search turns up a song by that name recorded by a group called "Dio", which (judging from some of its other titles) appears to be a Christian metal band. Not that that bothers me, unless they get really offensively preachy in their lyrics.
For that matter, _Rainbow in the Dark_ (I think by the group Rainbow, but I can't recall)
-- Bob
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There's no wrong way to eat a Rhesus.
Re: Deep Purple and Gloria Estefan - classicdrogn - 03-11-2004
Yeah, I know Roddy James Dio s the front man for whatever the band is, but not which of the bands he was lead for it was.
- CD
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows