Amerie

publication date: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 (part of Round XXV)

category: Music

clue: You can't touch this goo's rapid career rise (and fall).

explanation: Amerie was an R&B singer of rapid success in the music industry, best known for her album "Touch" and her hit single "Why Don't We Fall in Love" ("fall"). more…

solved by: no one!

trivia: Scott phrased the clue to make it sound like MC Hammer in an attempt to dupe players and create chaos in the scores. Incorrect guesses included Craig David, Vanilla Ice, Gabrielle, Lance Bass, Scarface, and 17 for MC Hammer.

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Literature

While working late upon a goo, I tried to write an eerie clue referring to a falling house, but then I heard a tiny mouse, or so I told my beating heart as not to have it break apart, afraid that just a little breath would bring upon a crimson death from that which tapped inside my room where I now feared a certain doom, so scary were those growing knocks I felt quite trapped inside a box beneath the earth outside my door, where I was sure forevermore my murder would remain unsolved, unless the open case revolved around a single stolen note I somehow found the time and wrote, to warn about the urgent noise that kept me from my website toys, but then I realized like a fool that what had made me lose my cool was just my fingers spelling out this clue to tell you all about a Boston poet, tried and true, whose tangled rhymes became a goo, and just in time to set the scene for scary goos this Halloween.
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