OK, here’s another:

Jim Garten wrote:

Righty-o, Jam-a-lam-a-ding-dong, you clever lad! Here's your gold star to show yer mum:

"To sleep -- perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub! / For in that sleep of death what dreams may come / when we have shuffled off this mortal coil, / must give us pause."

In that section alone of the Dane's famous soliloquy  we find a movie title, a Wishbone Ash album title, and a band name!

And there are those who wonder why we should still read the old Bard of Avon!

  Someone PLEASE take a guess about either one of the above, before I have a rejection-induced apoplexy! Waaaaah!

I won' t bite if you're wrong! (Danbo and Jim excepted, natch)

  Well, I won't draw blood, anyway....

 A movie question: Where did the title of the Robin Williams film "What Dreams May Come" originate?

No web-cheating, SVP!

Glass-Prison wrote: I don't think peter can find an explanation for these lyrics in LOTR. Last time I checked, there was no dynah mo humming over the husky wee wee (It's not as sick as it sounds)

 I have actually managed, at long last, to track down Tolkien references for many of the Zappa lyrics cited, but as the material in question is of a decidedly ribald nature, my proposed analysis  would have been even more salacious (love that word!), and perhaps unsuited to a public forum ostensibly dedicated to the dissemination of (drumroll please) "capital P capital R" Progressive Rock.

So:

Give me something less overtly sexual to work with, would you guys? This thread was fun -- at least for me!  Waah!

(There's just not enough silliness here lately, you know. Maybe I need to return to my shining empire on the Island of Abandoned Progholes!)

 My (upcoming) analysis of that section (from the unexpurgated edition of LOTR) is MUCH, MUCH naughtier than that!

Still, good one Maani! 

(Got to suck up to "the boss," guys....)

maani wrote: Let me give Peter an assist here, at least with one of them: "I poked and stroked til my wrist got numb, but I never did hear no Dinah Moe Humm" This one is so obvious that I'm shocked - shocked! - that neither danbo nor Peter got it. This refers to Frodo and Sam crossing the river after Frodo puts on the ring to get away from Boromir.  Sam "poked and stroked" the oars in the water.  As is obvious, "Dinah Moe Humm" is a wordplay on "dynamo hum."  We all know that a dynamo is a motor most often associated with hydroelectric (i.e., water) power.  The LOTR reference would be that Sam and Frodo were too far from the waterfall at the end of the river to hear the "dynamo hum." Geez, guys.  Give us a hard one...

I don't think there was hydroelectricity in the lord of the rings (or electricity for that matter)

Let me give Peter an assist here, at least with one of them:

"I poked and stroked til my wrist got numb, but I never did hear no Dinah Moe Humm"

This one is so obvious that I'm shocked - shocked! - that neither danbo nor Peter got it.

This refers to Frodo and Sam crossing the river after Frodo puts on the ring to get away from Boromir.  Sam "poked and stroked" the oars in the water.  As is obvious, "Dinah Moe Humm" is a wordplay on "dynamo hum."  We all know that a dynamo is a motor most often associated with hydroelectric (i.e., water) power.  The LOTR reference would be that Sam and Frodo were too far from the waterfall at the end of the river to hear the "dynamo hum."

Geez, guys.  Give us a hard one... 

I don't think peter can find an explanation for these lyrics in LOTR. Last time I checked, there was no dynah mo humming over the husky wee wee

(It's not as sick as it sounds)