3: John Deere (Dear) John
6: Chairman of the Board (Bored) to Death
9: Gluten-Free Flour (Flower) Drum Song
12: 50 Cent (Scent) of a Woman
15: Thou shalt not steal (Steel) Magnolias
(This Before & After category will make sense if you say the responses out loud, but will look funny in writing. The hinge piece changes spelling, but not pronunciation, for the second half.)
HOMOPHONIC BEFORE & AFTER
3: John Deere/"Dear John"
6: Chairman of the Board/Bored to Death
9: Soft flour/Flower Drum Song
12: 50 Cent/Scent of a Woman
15: "Thou shalt not steal"/Steel Magnolias
(This Before & After category will make sense if you say the responses out loud, but will look funny in writing. The hinge piece changes spelling, but not pronunciation, for the second half.)
3: John Deere/Dear John
6: Frank Sinatra's nickname on a TV series starring Ted Danson and Zach Galafinakis.
9: Wheat protein removed from an Oscar & Hammerstein musical based on a book by C. Y. Lee.
12: Stage name of Curtis James Jackson in the movie where Al Pacino plays a blind soldier.
15: Commandment in Exodus 20:15 in which “the sanctuary looks like it was hosed down with Pepto-Bismol.”
After (presumably) getting the 3-pointer right, I thought I had some clue what the DJ category was about. Apparently I was mistaken. Old Blue Eyes? Scent of a Woman? Thou shalt not steal? No clue whatsoever what those have to do with the rest of the clues. Too rich for my blood....
2.Hephaestus
4.Dionysus
6.Artemis
8.Hermes (pretty sure it wasn't him that created the peacock's tail, but I realize that sources vary for this stuff.)
10.Hestia
3.John Deere John
6.
9.CLAM (I can see that this is likely "something" flour Drum Song, but what flour is wheat protein? And if it's just 'flour' alone, then that isn't a before and after...)
12.Fifty Scent of a Woman
15.
2: Thrown off Olympus by his mother because he was ugly, this crippled fire god was a victim of Prometheus' theft and Aphrodite's adultery. Who was Hephaestus?
4: This god of the grape harvest gave, and then later took away, Midas' ability to turn things to gold by touching them. Who was Dionysos?
6: When Adonis bragged that he was a better hunter than this goddess – Apollo's twin sister – she sent a wild boar to kill him. Who was Artemis?
8: This guide to the underworld was also known as the slayer of the Argus, whose eyes he put in the peacock's tail feathers. Who was Hermes?
10: This goddess of the hearth was the first of her father's children to be eaten and the last to emerge from his stomach. Who was Hestia?
HOMOPHONIC BEFORE & AFTER
3: Lawn mower manufacturer and politician who received a break-up message in the mail. Who was John Deere/Dear John?
6: Frank Sinatra's nickname on a TV series starring Ted Danson and Zach Galafinakis. Who was the Chairman of the Board/Bored to Death?
9: Wheat protein removed from an Oscar & Hammerstein musical based on a book by C. Y. Lee. What is Gluten-Free Flour/Flower Drum Song?
12: Stage name of Curtis James Jackson in the movie where Al Pacino plays a blind soldier. Who was 50 Cent/Scent of a Woman?
15: Commandment in Exodus 20:15 in which “the sanctuary looks like it was hosed down with Pepto-Bismol." What is "Thou shalt not steal"/Steel Magnolias?
Life IS pain, Princess. Anyone telling you differently is selling something.
3: John Deere John
6: Chairman of the Board to Death
9: Don't know any Oscar & Hammerstein musicals . . . CLAM
12: 50 Cent of a Woman
15: Thou shalt not steal magnolias
(This Before & After category will make sense if you say the responses out loud, but will look funny in writing. The hinge piece changes spelling, but not pronunciation, for the second half.)