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Which of these actors did not appear with the Ramones in the film ”Rock

`n` Roll High School”?

(Answer: Dee and Taylor were not in ”Rock `n` Roll High School.” But try to imagine what the film might have been like if they were.)

IT COULD HAVE BEEN `GABBA GOOBLE HEY`

Question: How did the Ramones` catch-phrase ”Gabba Gabba Hey” come into being?

Answer: The words ”Gabba Gabba Hey” first turned up on the Ramones`

1977 album, ”Leave Home.” This is the origin of the phrase:

”We had seen that movie, `Freaks,` ” Joey Ramone told us a while back.

”We had some free time in Ohio or somewhere, and we saw it in this little theater. The kind of theater it was, it was like for, I guess, serious moviegoers or something. It was cool because they gave a speech about the director and this and that before the actual film started. At the end of the film, the characters are going `gabba gooble` and stuff like that, you know?

So we sort of changed that a bit. Oh, it`s a classic. It`s our trademark or whatever, you know?”

NAME THAT TUNE

How well do you know your Ramones songs? Just match the lyric with the Ramones song in which it appears.

LYRICS

1. ”I don`t wanna go down to the basement/There`s somethin` down there” 2. ”I don`t wanna walk around with you/So why you wanna walk around with me?”

3. ”Wart hog/Wart hog/Wart hog”

SONGS

a. ”I Don`t Wanna Go Down to the Basement”

b. ”I Don`t Wanna Walk Around With You”

c. ”Wart Hog”

(Answers: 1-a, 2-b, 3-c.)