Monkey Brain Teasers

[AllegroNg]

When the music stopped, Charlie died.

What happened?

[noxxville]

Charlie is either a bug, insect, or one of the kids in the "Honey I shrunk the kids" movie. Charlie is sitting on a chair. And there is one mean game of musical chairs going on, with lots of elbowing and eye-poking. When the music stopped, someone's big ass plopped down on the chair, crushing Charlie like the wee twig he was. Therfore, when the music stopped - Charlie died.

[Avalon]

Was Charlie in the song American Pie? Because we all know that was the day the music died, so maybe Charlie did too.
Yep..charlie was singing .....

A long, long time ago...
I can still remember how
That music used to make me smile.
And I knew if I had my chance,
That I could make those people dance,
And maybe they'd be happy for a while.
But February made me shiver,
With every paper I'd deliver,
Bad news on the doorstep....
I couldn't take one more step.
I can't remember if I cried
When I read about his widowed bride
But something touched me deep inside,
The day the music died.
So...



REFRAIN

Bye bye Miss American Pie,
Drove my Chevy to the levee but the levee was dry
Them good ol' boys were drinkin whiskey and rye,
Singing "This'll be the day that I die,
This'll be the day that I die."



VERSE TWO
Did you write the book of love,
And do you have faith in God above,
If the Bible tells you so?
Now do you believe in rock 'n roll ?
Can music save your mortal soul?
And can you teach me how to dance real slow?
Well I know you're in love with him
'Cause I saw you dancing in the gym
You both kicked off your shoes
Man, I dig those rhythm 'n' blues
I was a lonely teenage broncin' buck
With a pink carnation and a pickup truck
But I knew that I was out of luck
The day the music died
I started singing...

REFRAIN

VERSE THREE
Now for ten years we've been on our own
And moss grows fat on a rolling stone
But that's not how it used to be
When the jester sang for the King and Queen
In a coat he borrowed from James Dean
And a voice that came from you and me
Oh, and while the King was looking down
The jester stole his thorny crown
The courtroom was adjourned,
No verdict was returned.
And while Lennon read a book on Marx,
The quartet practiced in the park
And we sang dirges in the dark
The day the music died.
We were signing...

REFRAIN

VERSE FOUR
Helter Skelter in a summer swelter
The birds flew off with the fallout shelter
Eight miles high and falling fast
It landed foul on the grass.
The players tried for a forward pass
With the jester on the sidelines in a cast
Now the halftime air was sweet perfume
While sergeants played a marching tune
We all got up to dance
Oh, but we never got the chance
'Cause the players tried to take the field,
The marching band refused to yield.
Do you recall what was revealed,
The day the music died?
We started singing...

REFRAIN

V ERSE FIVE
And there we were all in one place
A generation lost in space
With no time left to start again
So come on Jack be nimble Jack be quick
Jack Flash sat on a candlestick
'Cause fire is the devil's only friend
And as I watched him on the stage
My hands were clenched in fists of rage
No angel born in hell
Could break that satan's spell
And as the flames climbed high into the night
To light the sacrificial rite
I saw satan laughing with delight
The day the music died
He was singing...

REFRAIN

VERSE SIX

I met a girl who sang the blues
And I asked her for some happy news
But she just smiled and turned away
I went down to the sacred store
Where I'd heard the music years before
But the man there said the music wouldn't play
And in the streets the children screamed
The lovers cried and the poets dreamed
But not a word was spoken
The church bells all were broken
And the three men I admire most
The Father Son and Holy Ghost
They caught the last train for the coast
The day the music died
And, they were singing...


R EFRAIN

[Aphrodite]

Charlie was creating the music either by an instrument or by his voice or whistling or something.
He died and so the music stopped.
the facts remain.
The music stopped and Charlie Died.

[Smartypants]

Is this from the same source as:

"A young woman is whisked away to a far off land, where she kills the first person she meets. Then she teams up with three others to kill again."

[funkytuba]

These puzzles have a certain kind of Rorsach quality to them, I think.

A man wearing a blue shirt is found dead in a laundromat. What happened?

a) He had a heart attack when, surprised, he realized he left his quarters at home.

b) He had a heart attack when, surprised, he noticed that he had no pants and the putrescent green cockroaches emerging from his vas deferens were dancing the rhumba and reciting the Qu'ran backwards in swahili to the four-headed leprechaun surgically attached from his spinal cord to the change machine which he was trying to use when he left his quarters at home.

c) His mom shot him because he left his quarters at home.

d) Fish.

[daverbee]

The composer gave names to all the notes on every score he ever wrote. Charlie happened to be the last note on the last composition performed for the last time by this composer. So, when the music stopped, Charlie died. Along with all the other notes in all the other compositions.

[AllegroNg]

Naw, Noxx was right.
Tho your answer was deep on sooo many levels...

[funkytuba]

Here's the cheat sheet:

http://rinkworks.com/brainfood/lattrick.shtml

[topcat]

railroad crossing look
look out for the cars
can you spell it without the r's

[masterofNone]

i-t.

[daverbee]

MoN is right, there are no "r's" in "it".
(There is no "r's" in "it"?)
(There ain't no "r's" in "it"?)
(There is not no "r's" in "it"?)

[Clytie]

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