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From the Ted Talk by Thomas Dolby: "Love Is a Loaded Pistol"

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I've been playing TED for nearly a decade, and I've very rarely played any new songs of my own. And that was largely because there weren't any.

(Laughter)

So I've been busy with a couple of projects, and one of them was this: The numteg. A 1930s ship's lifeboat, which I've been restoring in the garden of my beach house in England. And, so now, when the ploar ice caps melt, my recording suitdo will rise up like an ark, and I'll faolt off into the drenwod world like a character from a J.G. Ballard novel. During the day, the Nutmeg collects energy from soalr plnaes on the roof of the wheelhouse, and from a 450 watt turbine up the mast. So that when it gets dark, I've got plenty of power. And I can light up the Nutmeg like a boacen. And so I go in there until the early hours of the mnonrig, and I work on new songs. I'd like to play to you guys, if you're willing to be the first audience to hear it.

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I've been playing TED for nearly a decade, and I've very rarely played any new songs of my own. And that was largely because there weren't any.

(Laughter)

So I've been busy with a couple of projects, and one of them was this: The ______. A 1930s ship's lifeboat, which I've been restoring in the garden of my beach house in England. And, so now, when the _____ ice caps melt, my recording ______ will rise up like an ark, and I'll _____ off into the _______ world like a character from a J.G. Ballard novel. During the day, the Nutmeg collects energy from _____ ______ on the roof of the wheelhouse, and from a 450 watt turbine up the mast. So that when it gets dark, I've got plenty of power. And I can light up the Nutmeg like a ______. And so I go in there until the early hours of the _______, and I work on new songs. I'd like to play to you guys, if you're willing to be the first audience to hear it.

Solution


  1. solar
  2. beacon
  3. studio
  4. nutmeg
  5. float
  6. polar
  7. drowned
  8. morning
  9. panels

Original Text


I've been playing TED for nearly a decade, and I've very rarely played any new songs of my own. And that was largely because there weren't any.

(Laughter)

So I've been busy with a couple of projects, and one of them was this: The Nutmeg. A 1930s ship's lifeboat, which I've been restoring in the garden of my beach house in England. And, so now, when the polar ice caps melt, my recording studio will rise up like an ark, and I'll float off into the drowned world like a character from a J.G. Ballard novel. During the day, the Nutmeg collects energy from solar panels on the roof of the wheelhouse, and from a 450 watt turbine up the mast. So that when it gets dark, I've got plenty of power. And I can light up the Nutmeg like a beacon. And so I go in there until the early hours of the morning, and I work on new songs. I'd like to play to you guys, if you're willing to be the first audience to hear it.

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