Yet Another Cycling Forum
Off Topic => The Pub => Arts and Entertainment => Topic started by: Really Ancien on 18 February, 2009, 07:55:57 pm
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To a pedant like me these are like fingernails on blackboards. The latest is from 'The Killers'.
My global position systems are vocally addressed
They said the nile used to run from east to west
They said the nile used to run… from east to west
That's even worse than Toto.
Sure as kilimanjaro rises like olympus above the serengeti
I seek to cure whats deep inside, frightened of this thing that Ive become
Damon.
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There is the obvious "Isn't it ironic" by Alenas Morisette where every example she gives is not ironic.
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Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now", leaving aside the obvious bit about travelling at the speed of light (Freddie Mercury with infinite mass in timeless space?) has the annoying
I'm burning through the skies Yeah!
Two hundred degrees
That's why they call me Mister Fahrenheit
I'm sorry, Freddie, but 200 degrees Fahrenheit is probably not enough to set you on fire, although it would give you a nasty blister.
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Mr Young's "Cortez the Killer" where he rhapsodises about the, er, peaceful, gentle and cooperative Aztecs....
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There is the obvious "Isn't it ironic" by Alenas Morisette where every example she gives is not ironic.
YouTube - Ed Byrne slates Alanis Morissette (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT1TVSTkAXg)
Brilliant!
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There are not nine million bicycles in Beijing.
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Queen's "Don't Stop Me Now", leaving aside the obvious bit about travelling at the speed of light (Freddie Mercury with infinite mass in timeless space?) has the annoying
I'm burning through the skies Yeah!
Two hundred degrees
That's why they call me Mister Fahrenheit
I'm sorry, Freddie, but 200 degrees Fahrenheit is probably not enough to set you on fire, although it would give you a nasty blister.
If you were going to pick a rock star capable of travelling at the speed of light through sheer rockgoddery, it would be Freddie.
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"The Diary of Horace Wimp" by ELO misses out Saturday when chanting through the days of the week, presumably because it doesn't scan.
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And you cant "Cry me a river". A small damp patch perhaps.
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Mr Billy Bragg, there are no alpha particles that hide a neon nucleus.
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Busted, you did not go to the year 3000, and if you had, and everyone lived underwater, then it would be wrong to say not much had changed.
Also, you're rubbish.
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Kate Bush - "Pi". Great song, but really...
Sweet and gentle sensitive man
With an obsessive nature and deep fascination
For numbers
And a complete infatuation with the calculation
Of PI
Oh he love, he love, he love
He does love his numbers
And they run, they run, they run him
In a great big circle
In a circle of infinity
3.1415926535 897932
3846 264 338 3279
Oh he love, he love, he love
He does love his numbers
And they run, they run, they run him
In a great big circle
In a circle of infinity
But he must, he must, he must
Put a number to it
50288419 716939937510
582319749 44 59230781
6406286208 821 4808651 32
Oh he love, he love, he love
He does love his numbers
And they run, they run, they run him
In a great big circle
In a circle of infinity
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And you don't drive a Mitsubishi Zero, Mr Bragg, whatever your Sexuality. You fly one.
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There's something on the web for virtually every topic.....
Inventory: Seven Songs With Factual Or Logical Mistakes In The Lyrics | | A.V. Club (http://www.avclub.com/articles/inventory-seven-songs-with-factual-or-logical-mist,1536/)
Not very comprehensive but quite nerdy.
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Do they know it's Christmas? Yes they probably do.
Fat Bottomed Girls do not make the world go round any more than slim bottomed girls do.
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Ms Mitchell, they may well have paved paradise, but you don't put up a parking lot, it's just tarmac. You lay it down.
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...unlike a Bridge Over Troubled Waters, which you put up, Messrs Simon and Garfunkel.
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Ms Mitchell, they may well have paved paradise, but you don't put up a parking lot, it's just tarmac. You lay it down.
According to the Yanks, you can put up a parking lot. Here (http://www.forta.com/about/theroad.cfm/90) is a bicycle version.
/pedant
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Doing a little research it seems that it was not oswald's head which jack spot hit (men they couldn't hang, ghosts of cable street). Wishful thinking perhaps?
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Busted, you did not go to the year 3000, and if you had, and everyone lived underwater, then it would be wrong to say not much had changed.
Also, you're rubbish.
Plus, I'm sure my great, great, great granddaughter will look pretty fine, but I'd be astonished if she still looks that way in the year 3000, seeing as she'd be about 850 years old by then...
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Things can only get better
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When the levee breaks, apparently,
If you're goin' down South
They got no work to do,
If you don't know about Chicago.
Has Robert Plant ever studied a map of the USA?
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I'm Leaving on a jet plane.
No Mr Denver, you didn't leave on a jet plane, you left this earth in a Rutan Model 61 Long-EZ
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The world, is just, a great, big onioooooon!!!
No it isn't.
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I'm Leaving on a jet plane.
No Mr Denver, you didn't leave on a jet plane, you left this earth in a Rutan Model 61 Long-EZ
*sings*
"Come let me crash land, like a plane in the ocean
Come let me crash land, come drown me again
You fill up my nostrils, with cold salty water
Come let me crash land, come drown me again"
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In the year 2525, If man is still alive, If woman can survive
err, wot?
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Mr Young's "Cortez the Killer" where he rhapsodises about the, er, peaceful, gentle and cooperative Aztecs....
Great tune, though ...
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This example from the B52's "Lava":
My body's burnin' like a lava from a Mauna Loa
My heart's crackin' like a Krakatoa
Krakatoa, east of Java, molten bodies, fiery lava
Krakatoa is in fact to the west of Java in the Sunda Straight.
Dur!
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No, you are not still Jenny from the block ::-)
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Let me entertain you.
Well, that is hardly likely to happen Mr Williams is it?
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I am the walrus.
The sun always shines on tv.
Star 69 (well, everyone knows it's 1471! ;D)
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Returning to Mr Mercury, I have no doubt that his Killer Queen keeps her Moet & Chandon (despite it's being a poor choice) in a pretty cabinet etc, and that she has gunpowder for some ill-defined purpose, but gelatine?
OK, maye she's putting the explosives aside for a while, and hositng a party.
With a nice trifle.
I withdraw my objection.
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Down by the water hole , drunk every Friday
Eating their nuts , saving their raisins till Sunday
Oh come on. Who or what would have the willpower to do that ?
(http://www.yudu.com/item_files/28169/52eadfed3/regards.jpg)(http://www.yudu.com/item_files/28170/346c719a5/from.jpg)(http://www.yudu.com/item_files/28171/5eb32df38/snakehips.jpg)
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Sorry but no, really no, we are not the new breed, nor are we the new gods.....
Fear Factory, you have gone a bit too 3rd Reich on that one....
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Do they know it's Christmastime at all?
Well, perhaps not, since the vast majority of them are Muslim, with their own well-established calendar of celebrations and communal religious events.
But does it matter? And aren't you asking a rather stupid question in an overly hammed-up 'concerned' manner?
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Mr Cave
You are not a 15 year old girl, nor do you, as far as I know, live in a town called Milhaven, even if said town is small, mean and cold. Maybe if does turn to gold just as the sun goes down. As for poor old Biko, don't think he existed did he?
You are in fact a middle aged australian man with looks only rivalled by that guy out of the Pogues....
Stop living out your fantasies on vinyl....
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You have to admit, though, his eyes ain't green and his hair ain't yeller.
I do believe that he didn't kneel down and plant a rose t'ween Kylies teeth either. It was a rock. Naughty boy.
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I am an anarchist
...er no, you sell butter.
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So you admit he may be the Antichrist?
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So you admit he may be the Antichrist?
How long before we see him dong an advert for "I can't believe it's not the antichrist"?
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'There ain't no cure for the summertime blues'
Well, ignoring the horrid double negative, I'd say
Yes - there is! Get on your bike! :D
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Dear Mr Richard,
I think if you recall, it was Daisy who knew just what to do, and Sue who almost drove you crazy. You're just twisting the facts to make the rhymes work. And as for Rudy, you don't even know a Rudy. It was Reginald who you kept bragging to about your conquests.
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Sir Cliff we aren't all going on a summer holiday. I am skint and won't be going anywhere this year.
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[Hangs head in shame, admitting to knowing a Chr*s D* B*rgh song...]
Let us talk no more, let us go to sleep,
Let the rain fall on the window pane,
And fill the castle keep,
KEEP? I really hope you mean "moat". But that won't rhyme.
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And this isn't the road to hell. It's the M40.
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Nigel: he's got a future in British Steel.
(although it may have been an attempt at irony so appologies if deliberate!)
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"Gordon is a moron"
I, er, well, yeah, um, fair enough. Objection withdrawn.
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And this isn't the road to hell. It's the M40.
Hang on! The M40 still goes to Birmingham doesn't it?
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Nigel: he's got a future in British Steel.
Perhaps not in British Steel, but certainly singing in the Corus.
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And this isn't the road to hell. It's the M40.
Hang on! The M40 still goes to Birmingham doesn't it?
No, it goes from Birmingham to (nearly) London...
Absolutely right, then! :thumbsup:
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The old woman would have choked by the time she tried swallowing the cat.
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Kate Bush - "Pi". Great song, but really...
Sweet and gentle sensitive man
With an obsessive nature and deep fascination
For numbers
And a complete infatuation with the calculation
Of PI
Oh he love, he love, he love
He does love his numbers
And they run, they run, they run him
In a great big circle
In a circle of infinity
3.1415926535 897932
3846 264 338 3279
Oh he love, he love, he love
He does love his numbers
And they run, they run, they run him
In a great big circle
In a circle of infinity
But he must, he must, he must
Put a number to it
50288419 716939937510
582319749 44 59230781
6406286208 821 4808651 32
Oh he love, he love, he love
He does love his numbers
And they run, they run, they run him
In a great big circle
In a circle of infinity
;D ;D
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I was 18 when my dad first took me to a pub
and I've never ever seen him quite so mad
"A pint of your usual, sir?" the barman said,
But he was asking me, not dad.
"By surfeiting the appetite will sicken and so die
I'll not long have a boozer for a son
They say there's 27 pubs from here to Odsal Top
and tonight you'll have a pint in every one.
The 'phone book only lists four... :(
;)
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What's that from?
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And this isn't the road to hell. It's the M40.
Hang on! The M40 still goes to Birmingham doesn't it?
No, it goes from Birmingham to (nearly) London...
Absolutely right, then! :thumbsup:
I believe the song is either about the M25 or the M1 - either way, the road to London/Hell
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What's that from?
"Doin' the Manch.", Cockersdale, written by Keith Marsden. (http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=15299)
:thumbsup:
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And this isn't the road to hell. It's the M40.
Hang on! The M40 still goes to Birmingham doesn't it?
No, it goes from Birmingham to (nearly) London...
Absolutely right, then! :thumbsup:
I believe the song is either about the M25 or the M1 - either way, the road to London/Hell
It was the M4, when it was being touted as the 'High Tech Corridor', Chris had an excellent grasp of the facts in that song.
And all the roads jam up with credit
And there's nothing you can do
It's all just pieces of paper flying away from you
Oh look out world, take a good look
What comes down here
You must learn this lesson fast and learn it well
This ain't no upwardly mobile freeway
Oh no, this is the road
Said this is the road
This is the road to hell
Damon.
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Not factually incorrect, but a glaringly obvious tautology:
4am in the morning
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But is the title of the song alone not incorrect? If we are being pedantic (heaven forbid) then the light that casts the eponymous shadow does not come from the moon: it is reflected/scattered from by the moon but originates from the sun.
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Up the Junction by Squeeze;
This morning at 4.50
I took her rather nifty
Down to an incubator
where 30 minutes later
She gave birth to a daughter
lay an egg did she? ???
(and really nerdy; Clapham Junction is not in Clapham)
Not factually incorrect, but a glaringly obvious tautology:
4am in the morning
I was once invited to a wedding starting at 14.30pm; I don't think anybody took it literally...
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(and really nerdy; Clapham Junction is not in Clapham)
Really really nerdy: Oh yes it was! No, you're right - it's about two miles outside the village. renamed Clapham Junction (http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/271913)
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My mostest favourite is in Wyclef Jean's cover of Shine on You Crazy Diamond. (Quite a good version, by the way)
I can't be bothered to dig it out so I'll try to paraphrase it.
About half way through he talks about how he came across the song.
How he grew up in the "blocks" (projects), how his brother was into British rock and this particular band (the Floyd) who grew up "In the British Blocks"
Yeah, right. ::-)
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I know it's just the leftpondian pronunciation, but Martha and The Muffins' rhyming of "work" with "clerk" always grates for me.
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I can't prove it, but I suspect Ludacris was probably not telling the entire truth when he boasted of his "hoes" in "Area Codes". The evidence is in the map (http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/)*
*This work really was presented at an academic mapping/visualisation conference I attended in Ohio last year.
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(and really nerdy; Clapham Junction is not in Clapham)
Really really nerdy: Oh yes it was! No, you're right - it's about two miles outside the village. renamed Clapham Junction (http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/271913)
wrong Clapham; Clapham Junction (Britains' busiest railway station) is actually in Battersea in the Borough of Wandsworth
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No. Mine is the right Clapham. IIRC, Clapham in Lahndan is named after the Yorkshire family ;D
And I do know about the ugly Clapham/Clapham Junction that has the misfortune not ot be in Yorkshire ;)
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"You could be a big fish" as my colleague keeps singing
No I bloody couldn't, nor have I any wish to be a little fish, or a box!!! :)
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No. Mine is the right Clapham. IIRC, Clapham in Lahndan is named after the Yorkshire family ;D
And I do know about the ugly Clapham/Clapham Junction that has the misfortune not ot be in Yorkshire ;)
so the Squeeze song was about a girl from Yorkshire?
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I'm a fire starter.
No Mr Flint
If you were you would currently be serving an inditerminate sentence at Rampton high security hospital.
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I'm a fire starter.
No Mr Flint
If you were you would currently be serving an inditerminate sentence at Rampton high security hospital.
I feel that the song would have lost some of it's menace, as it were, if it had been called "I'm a fire lighter" :P
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In "The Day Before You Came" by ABBA, it takes Agnetha 75 minutes to get to work but three hours to get home. OK, she stops off for a Chinese, but it's a takeaway.
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In "The Day Before You Came" by ABBA, it takes Agnetha 75 minutes to get to work but three hours to get home. OK, she stops off for a Chinese, but it's a takeaway.
Was she working in London at the time? ;)
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another Chris de Burgh (just for rower 40)
A Spaceman came travelling
In his ship from afar
Twas light years of time
Since his mission did start
Light years are distance thicko!
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Short whiny philandering thicko, I think you mean.
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In "The Day Before You Came" by ABBA, it takes Agnetha 75 minutes to get to work but three hours to get home. OK, she stops off for a Chinese, but it's a takeaway.
And what's more ABBA, Napoleon did *not* surrender at Waterloo. Technically he never surrendered at all, he instead sought asylum almost a month later from the British on 15th July.
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Well, I stand up next to a mountain,
Chop it down with the edge of my hand.
Well, I pick up all the pieces and make an island,
Might even raise just a little sand.
Well, mountain lions found me there waitin'
And set me on a eagles back
Well, mountain lions found me there,
And set me on a eagles wing
(Its' the eagles wing, baby, what did I say)
He took me past to the outskirts of infinity,
And when he brought me back,
He gave me a venus witch's ring
Voodoo Chile - J Hendrix
I think all that's highly unlikely Mr Hendrix, I seriously doubt whether any of that actually happened.
Why, you'd need to be on some sort of Hallucinogenic substance to even think about that sort of thing happening.
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It really isn't raining men. And if it was no one would be singing Hallelujah. I mean think of the impact to the ambulance service and lets face it umbrellas would be no use at all.
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This is getting silly.
Mind you, I've never seen a plasticine porter, with or without a looking-glass tie.
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This is getting silly.
Mind you, I've never seen a plasticine porter, with or without a looking-glass tie.
I think this thread should only highlight 'serious' factual errors. Fantasies and trips on hallucinogens are bound to clash with Truth.
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Does anyone know if Billy Bragg's uncle actually played for Red Star Belgrade?
No Mr Bowie, you are not an alligator.
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"Red and yellow and pink and green. Orange and purple and blue..."
I'm colour blind, but even I know that's rubbish.
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"Red and yellow and pink and green. Orange and purple and blue..."
I'm colour blind, but even I know that's rubbish.
If the next line was "I've just been sick after an evening spent necking Alco-pops" it would have had some credance.
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This is getting silly.
Mind you, I've never seen a plasticine porter, with or without a looking-glass tie.
When was the last time you saw any sort of porter?
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"Dark star I see you in the morning
Dark star a' sleeping next to me"
Mr Stills, you can't see a Dark Star that's the whole point. And if you were foolish enough to get into bed with on you'd be sucked past the singularity so quickly that I doubt you'd have the chance to see it sleeping.
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Again, this is not a factual error - it is a fallacy.
The fallacy of Plurium Interrogationum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_many_questions) or Many Questions.
Are we humans or are we dancers? Arrrgghhhhh, this is as annoying as a Phil Collins song. And that is saying something.
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It's worse than that - it's:
Are we humans, or are we dancer?
Singular.
It's silly.
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Maybe they are referring to Dancer as in Prancer and Dancer. But, you'd have to pretty stupid not to know if you were people or a fictional reindeer.
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another Chris de Burgh (just for rower 40)
A Spaceman came travelling
In his ship from afar
Twas light years of time
Since his mission did start
Light years are distance thicko!
Well, The Rolling Stones managed to get that right:
Bound for a star with fiery oceans
It's so very lonely, you're a hundred light years from home
Unfortunately they go on to spoil it:
Seen you on Aldebaran, safe on the green desert sand
It's so very lonely, you're two thousand light years from home
As anyone knows, Aldebaran is only 65 light years away.
And sand? On a star?
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It's worse than that - it's:
Are we humans, or are we dancer?
Singular.
It's silly.
"In an interview with Rolling Stone, Flowers said that he was irritated over the confusion about the lyric", which mostly goes to show that Brandon Flowers is a cock with a Fucktonnage Rating1 of 7.4 on the Mindtheshovel Scale.
1 - where 0 = Simon Schama and 10 = Tony Blair, George W Bush and Timmy Mallett drinking Bacardi Breezers while watching Celebrity Big Titend. On this scale, David Attenborough has an FR of -3.9.
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Mr Pitney I think that you will find that the time taken to get to Tulsa depends on where you start from and your mode of transport. It's not "only 24 hours"
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Oi! Vanessa Williams! The sun does not go round the moon. If it does where you come from, you're probably part of the Lizard Alliance and really ought to go home before I send for the Pest Control Officer.
Actually, I'm going to send for the Pest Control Officer (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/Shovel_black.jpg) anyway.
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Elvis Isn't Dead.
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Pirate ships would lower their flags
When Puff roared out his name
So to get rid of those pesky Somalians, ships' captains merely have to shout
PUFF!
D'you think it will work? I suspect a volley of RPGs is more likely, given that they don't tolerate benders too well in those parts ;)
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Midge Ure - "If I Was".
When expressing a hope or a wish, one should use the subjunctive mood rather than the indicative mood. The song should be "If I Were".
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Hell, even Topol got it right, even if he wasn't a rich man (de be de be de be dum).
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Oi, Warren Zevon, the Pioneer Chicken stand was round the corner from Alvarado Street not actually *on* Alvarado Street as you incorrectly noted on your song Carmelita.
Someone apparently wrote to Warren (while Mr Zevon was still alive) to complain about the factual inaccuracy.
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There may be 50 ways to leave your lover, Mr simon, but neither making a new plan, nor dropping off the key is one of them.
The former is, at best, merely preparatory (if you'd called the song '50 ways to think of ways to leave your lover', then it would count; but you didn't, so it doesn't), and the latter is nothing more than a courtesy.
While I accept that your advices to Messers Gus and Jack do count towards the total, you're still a long way short of 50.
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Maybe they are referring to Dancer as in Prancer and Dancer. But, you'd have to pretty stupid not to know if you were people or a fictional reindeer.
Fictional reindeer? Of course they're real. You'll be telling me that there's no such person as Father Christmas next....
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It really isn't raining men. And if it was no one would be singing Hallelujah. I mean think of the impact to the ambulance service and lets face it umbrellas would be no use at all.
To be honest, 80-180kg objects falling from the sky for long enough would probably level most buildings underneath!
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Mr waters is not a king bee because even if there was such a thing it would not be able to sing.
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Having followed the fortunes of Tuam's finest band, The Saw Doctors, for many years, it pains me to point out that:
"Its waters harbour fishes from the herring to the whale" is not, piscatorially speaking, spot on.
And
"Our greatest asset has been mined, dug up and sold"
seems to be somewhat tautologous.
Apart from that lads, carry on.
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Memo to the Luckyband: actually, chaps, Hertfordshire almost certainly isn't the greatest county in the UK. I know because I can see it from here, or at least would be able to if there wasn't a tree in the way.
But at least there were proper Slebs at last night's gig - Liza Tarbuck1 and Kevin Eldon2.
1 - possibly
2 - definitely
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Memo to the Luckyband: actually, chaps, Hertfordshire almost certainly isn't the greatest county in the UK.
Hertfordshire struggles to be the best county just north of London beginning with an H and containing Stevenage (which may, tbf, be a large part of its problem)
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ABBA.
A giant dynamo does not attract. You're thinking of a magnet.
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For me, the classic, given the man's colossal influence on following musicians is to be found in Robert Johnson's "Sweet Home Chicago":-
Oh, Baby don't you want to go
To the land of California, my sweet home, Chicago?
Most subsequent artistes have felt the need to change this but Robert wasn't about geography, no sir!
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Gordon Lightfoot changed the lyrics of the 'Edmund Fitzgerald' because it was later proved that he made an error in the original song . . .
I'm not nearly sad enough to link to the 'pedia article that explains it all.
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But I'm sad enough to go read it.
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There are not nine million bicycles in Beijing.
I remember hearing the Simon Singh v Katie Melua on the Today programme where she sang the scientifically corrected version at the end. Has anyone got this / can be bothered finding it?
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My respect for her went up immensely at that. She sounded very game.
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Down by the water hole , drunk every Friday
Eating their nuts , saving their raisins till Sunday
Now that's just spooky - I had this precise part of this song going round in my head before I got to your post (and the song was in there before I opened the thread).
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ooh, this one's been bugging me for about 25 years...
In We Work the Black Seam, Sting asserts that "Deadly for 10,000 years is Carbon 14".
Carbon 14 isn't deadly at all, it's in all living things, it's how you carbon date stuff.
Anyway, its half life is only 5730ish years.
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Gordon Lightfoot changed the lyrics of the 'Edmund Fitzgerald' because it was later proved that he made an error in the original song . . .
I'm not nearly sad enough to link to the 'pedia article that explains it all.
If I remember, he also changes the lyrics when he performs "If You Could Read My Mind" live, to reflect the fact that it takes two to un-tango.
Gordy has a few macho songs that grate, lyrically: "For Loving Me" is great, musically and lyrically but it is about a bastard, no two ways about it.
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More of a grammatical error, but the second line of The Dream Academy's "Life In a Northern Town" annoys me. Shouldn't it be "And the children drank lemonade"? He definitely sings "drunk".
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I think it's raher missing some commas (or semi-colons)? -
"A Sally Army band played; and children drunk; lemonade ..."
... all summing up the bleak life Oop North ...
More of a grammatical error, but the second line of The Dream Academy's "Life In a Northern Town" annoys me. Shouldn't it be "And the children drank lemonade"? He definitely sings "drunk".
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I think it's raher missing some commas (or semi-colons)? -
"A Sally Army band played; and children drunk; lemonade ..."
... all summing up the bleak life Oop North ...
More of a grammatical error, but the second line of The Dream Academy's "Life In a Northern Town" annoys me. Shouldn't it be "And the children drank lemonade"? He definitely sings "drunk".
Opinion seems to be that it's about Nick Drake, but describes Tamworth in Arden as a 'Northern Town'. This verse seems to chime with all those from cold climates.
They sat on the stony ground
And he took a cigarette out
And everyone else came down to listen
He said, "In winter 1963
It felt like the world would freeze
With John F. Kennedy and the Beatles"
Beatlemania took off at the same time as the Big Freeze of 1963, but Kennedy had been prominent in the news during the Cuban Missile crisis in October 1962, and died in November 1963, Kennedy did visit Macmillan in June 1963, but the Kennedy reference has never quite gelled for me.
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...unlike a Bridge Over Troubled Waters, which you put up, Messrs Simon and Garfunkel.
I'm not sure that wilful misunderstanding of a simile counts as a factual error.
And you cant "Cry me a river". A small damp patch perhaps.
Similarly, that's an instruction from the singer to the listener. If I had to listen to Justin Timberlake singing at me every day, I bloody well would cry a river.
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Somone once wrote to Warren Zevon to complain that the lyrics to his song 'Carmelita' were factually incorrect in that the Pioneer Chicken stand was not located on Alvarodo Street as stated in the song.
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I bet it was a yacfer.
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I bet it was a yacfer.
It was me.
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Can anyone confirm the correct lyrics of "Long Train Runnin'"? Some sources have (and it sounds as if Mr. Doobie sings)
when pistons keep on turning
which is so obviously wrong to anyone with a vague knowledge of engineering.
It might be "churning", which I could forgive.
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Oh I don't know, these pistons certainly turned:
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Le_Rhone_9C.jpg/250px-Le_Rhone_9C.jpg)
Mind you since the song was referring to a railway engine not a Sopwith Camel I take your point.
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Can anyone confirm the correct lyrics of "Long Train Runnin'"? Some sources have (and it sounds as if Mr. Doobie sings)
when pistons keep on turning
which is so obviously wrong to anyone with a vague knowledge of engineering.
It might be "churning", which I could forgive.
Surely it's a poetic use of 'turning' as an intransitive rather than a transitive verb. The pistons are 'turning' the wheels by implication, as it's their function, so the object can be omitted by inference, as a Turnstone turns stones. The connecting rods are analagous to the connection of love, to elucidate that, rather than alluding to it, would be a bit 'clunky', and indeed 'clanky'.
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ZZ Top - however sharply dressed you may be, nobody is going to give you their gun love or whatever loving it is you want when you have a silly beard like that.
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More of a grammatical error, but the second line of The Dream Academy's "Life In a Northern Town" annoys me. Shouldn't it be "And the children drank lemonade"? He definitely sings "drunk".
"And the morning lasted all day", hmmm? I think you'll find it lasted until noon, like it does every other day.
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Not sure it's a factual error, but I'm not sure the geography works out.
In The Killing of Georgie, they leave a Broadway show, and we hear that 'a gentle breeze blew down Fifth Avenue', presumably marking the spot where the next thing we hear is that they have been attacked by 'a New Jersey gang', coming out of a darkened alley.
So why does the ambulance go to 53rd & 3rd, a place famous for gay clubs, admittedly, but some way on from Fifth Avenue?
There don't seem to be many alleys near 53rd & 3rd (though much of it has been redeveloped since the mid-70s).
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Bryan Adams: "I know her love for me will never die/But that'd change if she ever found out about you and I".
You and me, Bryan. So you'd better recast the whole verse.
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Too much unprotected sex in the 80's, with strangers you just met in a nightclub, can kill you, Freddie, not too much love (apart from loving a little kitten so very very much that you hug it until it suffocates to death).
What? Too soon?
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Bryan Adams: "I know her love for me will never die/But that'd change if she ever found out about you and I".
You and me, Bryan. So you'd better recast the whole verse.
I had no idea about you & Bryan. Well, best wishes to both of you.
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Too much unprotected sex in the 80's, with strangers you just met in a nightclub, can kill you, Freddie, not too much love (apart from loving a little kitten so very very much that you hug it until it suffocates to death).
What? Too soon?
Sadly though - that's a Brian May song (even sung by him originally), reprised for the last Queen album*. Possibly too many badgers will kill you though - 'specially if they've got TB :demon:
*Yes I know too much about Queen.
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19 by Paul Hardcastle - The average age was 22
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I hate to break it to you Charlene, but while Greece has a lot of islands, the whole country is not an island.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmKDp6Uo0vE
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I hate to break it to you Charlene, but while Greece has a lot of islands, the whole country is not an island.
Technically she could be correct. The lyrics are "Oh, I've been to Nice and the isle of Greece..." An isle can be either an island or a peninsula. So as long as there is a peninsula in Greece (and there are lots) then she could have been the "the isle of Greece".
;D
As an aside and a useless piece of information, Greece comprises approximately 1400 islands (of which 227 are inhabited) - but the British Isles comprises some 5,000 islands (of which 289 are inhabited).
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I would venture that all 5000 are inhabited - by gulls ;)
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Actually, Bono, I think you'll find it was "round about teatime" on April 4 when the shot rang out in the Memphis sky, though I'll admit it doesn't scan as well.
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"There won't be snow in Africa this Christmas time".
Kilimanjaro.
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"There won't be snow in Africa this Christmas time".
Kilimanjaro.
Although it might become true with a few more years of global warming.
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"There won't be snow in Africa this Christmas time".
Kilimanjaro.
Although it might become true with a few more years of global warming.
There's always be the High Atlas, they're in Africa you know. But's nice to see that we're back to the OP.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/snowandski/3446834/Oukaimeden-In-Morocco-the-skis-the-limit.html
To a pedant like me these are like fingernails on blackboards. The latest is from 'The Killers'.
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My global position systems are vocally addressed
They said the nile used to run from east to west
They said the nile used to run… from east to west
That's even worse than Toto.
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Sure as kilimanjaro rises like olympus above the serengeti
I seek to cure whats deep inside, frightened of this thing that Ive become
Damon.
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I was 18 when my dad first took me to a pub
and I've never ever seen him quite so mad
"A pint of your usual, sir?" the barman said,
But he was asking me, not dad.
"By surfeiting the appetite will sicken and so die
I'll not long have a boozer for a son
They say there's 27 pubs from here to Odsal Top
and tonight you'll have a pint in every one.
The 'phone book only lists four... :(
;)
Comment necromancy?
When Keith introduced the song, he used to say that there had been 27 pubs, but that most of them were now closed, and he died back in 1991.
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Grammar again.
No Doubt: "You and me/ We used to be together".
I'll give Bryan Adams a pass because he needs the rhyme, but Gwen has no excuse.
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But this is a thread about factual errors, not grammar errors.
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Are there any recorded instances of cakes being left out in the rain?
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According to Jimmy Webb, who wrote the song, it does refer to an actual incident. Whether he would never have the recipe again or not might have been subject to dramatic licence.
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It took so long to make it.
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I've had cakes in cycling cafes, usually coconut sponges, that could have benefited from being left out in the rain awhile.
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"Well pistons keep on turnin', wheels go round and round"
Proves the Doobie Brothers have never worked as mechanics.
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I think you’ll find, Banananarama, that even if love - of any degree - were classed as an offence, only the jury could find you guilty. The Judge’s jurisdiction in that situation would be limited to sentencing.
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I think you’ll find, Banananarama, that even if love - of any degree - were classed as an offence, only the jury could find you guilty. The Judge’s jurisdiction in that situation would be limited to sentencing.
This thread has a 100% "whoosh" factor so far as I am concerned. But is it not possible for a judge to instruct a jury towards a particular verdict? I know as little about law as I do popular beat combos, so I'm perfectly happy to be subject to correction. As long as it doesn't hurt.
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You’re right, but only the jury can decide guilt. There are instances of the jury not following the judge’s directions.
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Grammar again.
No Doubt: "You and me/ We used to be together".
I'll give Bryan Adams a pass because he needs the rhyme, but Gwen has no excuse.
"You and me" is actually correct.
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Not all offences are tried by a jury, thobut...
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I think you’ll find, Banananarama, that even if love - of any degree - were classed as an offence, only the jury could find you guilty. The Judge’s jurisdiction in that situation would be limited to sentencing.
This thread has a 100% "whoosh" factor so far as I am concerned. But is it not possible for a judge to instruct a jury towards a particular verdict? I know as little about law as I do popular beat combos, so I'm perfectly happy to be subject to correction. As long as it doesn't hurt.
https://www.thejusticegap.com/not-only-a-right-but-a-duty-a-history-of-perverse-verdicts/
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Not all offences are tried by a jury, thobut...
I know, which is why I said “in that situation”.
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That's even worse than Toto.
Sure as kilimanjaro rises like olympus above the serengeti
I seek to cure whats deep inside, frightened of this thing that Ive become
Interesting thing I learned about this song recently is that it's written from the perspective of a naive white boy who's never been to Africa and has an impression based entirely on what he's read in various works of fiction. The factual error is very much part of the point. (The music video plays on this theme.)
Which make it so much less jarring to hear...
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I think you’ll find, Banananarama, that even if love - of any degree - were classed as an offence, only the jury could find you guilty. The Judge’s jurisdiction in that situation would be limited to sentencing.
This thread has a 100% "whoosh" factor so far as I am concerned. But is it not possible for a judge to instruct a jury towards a particular verdict? I know as little about law as I do popular beat combos, so I'm perfectly happy to be subject to correction. As long as it doesn't hurt.
The case has already been examined by The Secret Barrister on Twitter, I reproduce his arguments below:
Firstly, Bananarama erroneously assume that the judge AND the jury are judging the merits of the defence. This is simply not true. Judges in Crown Courts, even Courts of Love, are judges of law alone. The verdict is for the jury.
The ONLY way this would stand up to scrutiny is if the judge had ruled, as a matter of law, that a particular defence was not available, and directed the jury in such terms. Absent further detail, we cannot assume that this happened.
Secondly, the existence of a jury indicates that there is a contested trial to determine guilt. HOWEVER...
...Bananarama confess - openly - that they are not only guilty, but guilty as a girl can be (by which they are presumably accepting a degree of culpability placing them at the top of the range of the highest category on the relevant Sentencing Guideline).
In such circumstances, it is nonsensical for them to express surprise or complaint at the jury rejecting their “plea” (by which they presumably mean defence). They are to blame for admitting guilt in front of the jury and for wasting scarce court resources on a needless trial.
If Bananarama simply wanted to contest the *factual basis* of their admitted guilt, then they should be having a trial of issue (“Newton hearing”) in front of a judge alone. Their advocate should have advised them as such. This is plainly negligent.
In any event, there are live criminal proceedings and Bananarama are imploring the key witness (“only you can set me free”) to intervene to prevent the consequences of their admitted criminality. Bananarama are shamelessly attempting to pervert the course of justice.
In these circumstances, it is frankly unsurprising that, at the start of the song, Bananarama are “locked in a prison cell”. The judge was clearly right to withhold bail given the substantial grounds for believing that Bananarama would interfere with witnesses if granted bail.
In practical terms, Bananarama would be properly advised to spend less time imploring the complainant to help them, and seek advice on the merits of an appeal against conviction. That they haven’t is almost certainly down to savage legal aid cuts depriving them of representation.
My view, for what it’s worth, is that such an appeal would have merit. Because, and I have reread ALL my law books to make sure I’m right on this, there is NO criminal offence in England and Wales of “love in the first degree.” This is simply a common tabloid misconception.
That the CPS charged this case at all is a damning indictment on its chronic lack of resources and obsession with targets above all else. Far better, I would advise, to concede the appeal and bring new charges for the perverting the course of justice (above).
In conclusion, nothing about this Bananarama trial sits right with me. While we must be calm and not jump to conclusions without knowing the full facts, I am deeply troubled that something has gone badly wrong. Or that Bananarama’s legal research is not what it should be.
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;D
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This ^^^^
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He's also done 'I shot the Sheriff"
https://twitter.com/BarristerSecret/status/974243638921310209 (https://twitter.com/BarristerSecret/status/974243638921310209)
"Murder on the Dance Floor"
https://twitter.com/BarristerSecret/status/974251533931106304 (https://twitter.com/BarristerSecret/status/974251533931106304)
"I Fought the Law"
https://twitter.com/BarristerSecret/status/974255098095374336 (https://twitter.com/BarristerSecret/status/974255098095374336)
and "Delilah"
https://twitter.com/BarristerSecret/status/974259595651813376 ("he is subject to a minimum term of at least 25 years on his life sentence. And rightly so.")
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ISTR that at Live Aid, David Bowie shortened his appearance to make way for the video of starving children that had been created to accompany The Cars' "Drive". When the video ended the cameras went to Bowie, in the interview suite, who appeared to have tears in his eyes. This answers the question he had posed a decade earlier in 'Young Americans'.
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If Spiral/Engranages is owt to go by, the Judge in France acts as the prosecutor...
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Different system. They use an inquisitorial method. And love would never be an offence in France anyway.
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another Chris de Burgh (just for rower 40)
A Spaceman came travelling
In his ship from afar
Twas light years of time
Since his mission did start
Light years are distance thicko!
another one from the legend that is CdB:
Richard the Lionheart never recaptured Jersualem (https://genius.com/Chris-de-burgh-crusader-lyrics) from Saladin's armies.
(great song, though!)
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another one from the legend that is CdB:
Richard the Lionheart never recaptured Jersualem (https://genius.com/Chris-de-burgh-crusader-lyrics) from Saladin's armies.
(great song, though!)
And yet another of his songs, Revolution, refers to "men coming down from the valleys", which may explain why he failed Geography at school.
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A favourite tune of mine - allegedly punk but I'm not convinced - is 'Saturday Night Beneath the Plastic Palm Trees' by the 'Leyton Buzzards'.
This relates, very vividly, the escapades of young people in the 70s visiting The Tottenham Palais. Wot is where I used to take young ladies of my acquaintance for a jolly night out. (And my gran lived in Leighton Buzzard).
Now, for reasons (of poetic consistently I assume) it refers to Tottenham Hale Station as being the nearest transport hub.
Sorry pals - it was most definitely Seven Sisters Station.
And wots more the Palais De Dance was on Tottenham High Road, not Seven Sisters Road.
But it's still a bangin' toon.
Sent from my Moto E (4) Plus using Tapatalk
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DJ Random has just played me the Robert Calvert track "Bugatti". Which references Isadora Duncan, well-known for being strangled when her scarf became entangled the rear wheel of an Amilcar.
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It may be similar to what she cried out.......
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Mr Calvert delivered a wonderful track called The Song of the Gremlin. It was delivered in powerful and disturbing style by Arthur Brown.
Bob/Arthur: they are called ailerons, not "airelons"
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another one from the legend that is CdB:
Richard the Lionheart never recaptured Jersualem (https://genius.com/Chris-de-burgh-crusader-lyrics) from Saladin's armies.
(great song, though!)
And yet another of his songs, Revolution, refers to "men coming down from the valleys", which may explain why he failed Geography at school.
I'm pretty sure that if you go to them there Himalayas you'll find some valleys at very high altitudes. Not all valleys are at sea-level :)
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I don't believe Peter Gabriel saw an eagle on Solsbury Hill.
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Durham Town (The Leavin') by Roger Whittaker
You won't be sitting on the banks of the Tyne in Durham City
(for a mackem like me it's an annoying one.)
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Dear Elton (or, more to the point, Bernie): If something, even if it's your best friend, is floating, it's unlikely to be doing so at the bottom of a glass, even on a Saturday night.
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We all assume that George was deploying artistic licence when he sang “Last Christmas, I gave you my heart,” because it’s not a song about organ donation.
But what’s this? In the very next line we’re told “But the very next day, you gave it away.”
That just doesn’t work if you’re using ‘heart’ to mean love. The ungrateful recipient of George’s love can’t just pass his love on to someone else.
And it gets curiouser; next the (now heartless, remember) George says “This year, to save me from tears, I’ll give it to someone special.”
I think we have to consider the possibility that George actually gave his heart to B, who (without consent) within 24 hours transferred the heart to C. Then, somehow (no details are provided) in the intervening 12 months, George retrieved his heart and - having learned precisely nothing from the previous Yuletide’s misappropriation - determines to repeat the catastrophe with a new as yet unidentified host (D).
Is it possible that this entire shambles arises from the fact that George couldn’t be bothered to come up with a better rhyme than ‘day’ and ‘away’?
I suppose it might be an edible heart. That of a lamb or a chicken, perhaps. Funny song though, if that’s the case.
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I don't believe Peter Gabriel saw an eagle on Solsbury Hill.
No one ever saw any members of the Sialia genus anywhere near the Kent coast either. Not unless their migration had gone very badly wrong.
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I don't believe Peter Gabriel saw an eagle on Solsbury Hill.
No one ever saw any members of the Sialia genus anywhere near the Kent coast either. Not unless their migration had gone very badly wrong.
(Googles)
(Snorts Brown Drink through nose)
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We all assume that George was deploying artistic licence when he sang “Last Christmas, I gave you my heart,” because it’s not a song about organ donation.
But what’s this? In the very next line we’re told “But the very next day, you gave it away.”
That just doesn’t work if you’re using ‘heart’ to mean love. The ungrateful recipient of George’s love can’t just pass his love on to someone else.
And it gets curiouser; next the (now heartless, remember) George says “This year, to save me from tears, I’ll give it to someone special.”
I think we have to consider the possibility that George actually gave his heart to B, who (without consent) within 24 hours transferred the heart to C. Then, somehow (no details are provided) in the intervening 12 months, George retrieved his heart and - having learned precisely nothing from the previous Yuletide’s misappropriation - determines to repeat the catastrophe with a new as yet unidentified host (D).
Is it possible that this entire shambles arises from the fact that George couldn’t be bothered to come up with a better rhyme than ‘day’ and ‘away’?
I suppose it might be an edible heart. That of a lamb or a chicken, perhaps. Funny song though, if that’s the case.
This post had better not count for Whamageddon purposes. >:(
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I don't believe Peter Gabriel saw an eagle on Solsbury Hill.
No one ever saw any members of the Sialia genus anywhere near the Kent coast either. Not unless their migration had gone very badly wrong.
Maybe they had escaped from a lorry parked up at Manston
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We all assume that George was deploying artistic licence when he sang “Last Christmas, I gave you my heart,” because it’s not a song about organ donation.
But what’s this? In the very next line we’re told “But the very next day, you gave it away.”
That just doesn’t work if you’re using ‘heart’ to mean love. The ungrateful recipient of George’s love can’t just pass his love on to someone else.
And it gets curiouser; next the (now heartless, remember) George says “This year, to save me from tears, I’ll give it to someone special.”
I think we have to consider the possibility that George actually gave his heart to B, who (without consent) within 24 hours transferred the heart to C. Then, somehow (no details are provided) in the intervening 12 months, George retrieved his heart and - having learned precisely nothing from the previous Yuletide’s misappropriation - determines to repeat the catastrophe with a new as yet unidentified host (D).
Is it possible that this entire shambles arises from the fact that George couldn’t be bothered to come up with a better rhyme than ‘day’ and ‘away’?
I suppose it might be an edible heart. That of a lamb or a chicken, perhaps. Funny song though, if that’s the case.
This post had better not count for Whamageddon purposes. >:(
My reading of it is that you have to hear the song performed by the group, so you’re fine.
For now.
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I don't believe Peter Gabriel saw an eagle on Solsbury Hill.
Tourist eagle*. :)
*A buzzard.
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As we're doing Christmas, one of my personal guilty pleasures by Johnny Mathis:
Waiting for one child
Black, white, yellow, no-one knows
But a child that will grow up and turn tears to laughter,
Hate to love, war to peace and everyone to everyone's neighbour
The Crusades? The Troubles? Henry the fricking Eighth?
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I don't believe Peter Gabriel saw an eagle on Solsbury Hill.
No one ever saw any members of the Sialia genus anywhere near the Kent coast either. Not unless their migration had gone very badly wrong.
Maybe they had escaped from a lorry parked up at Manston
You’re confusing bluebirds with Sudanese refugees.
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"Do They Know It's Christmas?" (Band Aid)
It was unlikely in Ethiopia....
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"Do They Know It's Christmas?" (Band Aid)
It was unlikely in Ethiopia....
Ethiopia is a Christian country, one of the oldest Christian communities.
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"Do They Know It's Christmas?" (Band Aid)
It was unlikely in Ethiopia....
Ethiopia is a Christian country, one of the oldest Christian communities.
True, but the Church is Orthodox....
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"Do They Know It's Christmas?" (Band Aid)
It was unlikely in Ethiopia....
Ethiopia is a Christian country, one of the oldest Christian communities.
To be fair, they call it Ganna (or Genna) and it's on the 7th January. Melkam Genna!
But they also have thirteen months every year and an extraordinary number of still-working Trabants. I've never been sure if Trabants had suspension when they were built (unlikely I suppose) but none of them have suspension now.
(Having travelled through a fair amount of Africa I can answer the question with 'yes, they do know it's Christmas, so fuck off Bob')
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I was, for reasons best explained by being a distracted nerd, reading the comments[1] in tzdata[2] the other night. Ethiopia is one of the time zones they shrugged at and gave up because it was impossible to represent in the structure of the database. They also - for reasons that presumably make sense for an agricultural country close to the equator, but probably double as a cheerful up-yours[3] to the colonisers - like to use solar time, starting from sunrise/sunset rather than the meridian, which puts their clocks about 6 hours out of phase with EAT.
Thankfully, none of this has anything to do with Bob Geldof.
[1] The whole thing's about 10% time zone definitions, and 90% comments containing citations of the relevant historical research. It reads as a protracted saga of frustrated engineers sifting through the strata of colonial history in a seemingly futile quest to make computers do clocks properly.
[2] "Tzdata, tzdata: Gives you an excuse for getting up later." Software that unisex computers use to do things like leap seconds and work out whether Bulgaria was doing daylight saving on the 23rd of July 1981, and if so, by how much.
[3] See also: Belgium, who have form for this sort of thing.
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An Ethiopian neighbour had great difficulty with the Home Office (residency) and US Immigration (first with a visa application and then with entry), over her date of birth, because 1, the Ethiopian calendar is different, and 2, there isn't a standard way of working out equivalent dates in Gregorian reckoning.
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The name of Pagume (the 13th month of 5 or 6 days) is derived from the Greek for the days we didn’t know what to do with. So it’s basically the days that didn’t get picked for any of the teams, like me in PE. It’s to ensure alignment with the lunar calendar and the rise of Sirius. It’s the fault of the Egyptians. I swear this made a lot more sense after a few drinks.
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No Thom not just “anyone” can play guitar.
I’m living proof of that.
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I'm not familiar with Pete Bax: Nothing lives for ever (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nothing-Lives-Forever/dp/B07P14DXHP)
But this thread is getting close.
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No Mr Bowie, you are not an alligator.
But he was a space invader.
ISTR that at Live Aid, David Bowie shortened his appearance to make way for the video of starving children that had been created to accompany The Cars' "Drive".
No one from this planet is that awesome.
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Careful with that spliff Eugene, it causes condensation
No, it doesn't.
There is nothing better in life
Than writing on the sole of your slipper with a biro
Well, I mean, to each his own, but really? I think we all believe we can do better than that.
Sam
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ISTR that at Live Aid, David Bowie shortened his appearance to make way for the video of starving children that had been created to accompany The Cars' "Drive".
No one from this planet is that awesome.
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He was.
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*** SPECIAL CRIMBO EDITION ***
A spaceman came travelling on a ship from afar
Was light years of time since his mission did start
:facepalm:
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Special Late-To-The-Xmas-Party Edition, MOAR like… (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=15495.msg283022#msg283022) :demon:
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”54 - 46 was my number” (https://youtu.be/wNxNwvjzGM0)
“That’s a hell of a chainset, Toots.”
(I know it’s not really a factual error; just couldn’t think where else to put it)
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;D :thumbsup:
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While it's possible that yo' momma did done rock you in the cradle in them ol' cotton fields back home - it's not beyond a farm labourer to tote a cot outside, I presume - it didn't happen down in Louisiana, just about a mile from Texarkana. Texarkana, in location as well as in name, straddles the Texas/Arkansas border.
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That one ^^^^ has bugged me since forever. Bad Mr Fogerty. You weren’t born on the bayou either. You're from Berkeley CA.
While on the subj. of geog. the only reason that people don't forget Winona AZ is because Bobby Troup needed a rhyme for “Arizona”. The place actually contains a good deal of not very much.
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Not just Fogerty - it was actually Leadbelly who wrote it. He sang that it was just ten miles from Texarkana, admittedly, but that's stretching it somewhat too.
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The Gershwins' "Ain't Necessarily So" from Porgy and Bess, nicely covered by Bronski Beat:
Now Jonah he lived in a whale
Jonah he lived in a whale
He made his home in
A fish's abdomen
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Not just Fogerty - it was actually Leadbelly who wrote it. He sang that it was just ten miles from Texarkana, admittedly, but that's stretching it somewhat too.
That's one for “Things I Learned Today” :thumbsup:
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I bet he didn't get there by llama from Peru.
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Y'know what Vanessa? I'm with you on this: sometimes the snow does come down in June.
And sometimes the Sun goes round the...hang on...say what now? No. No no no. I've checked. My little sister is an astrophysicist - years of working on the radiotelescopes at Jodrell Bank, New Mexico and whatnot, got a PhD and everything - and she says the Sun doesn't do that.
I'd back off on that one if I were you.
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Every Rose Has Its Thorn (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2r2nDhTzO4)
My father-in-law has a PhD in plant physiology and agronomy, and will inform you that every rose actually has its prickle (https://www.google.com/search?q=thorn+vs+prickle&rlz=1C1GCEU_en-GBGB822GB822&oq=thorn+vs+pric&aqs=chrome.0.0i512j69i57j0i10i512j0i22i30j0i15i22i30j0i390l5.4101j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8), although it won't rhyme or scan so well, and sounds considerably less badass.
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As noted elsethread when, in 1982, Robyn Hitchcock sang “There’s fifty two stations on the Northern Line” he was, er, wrong. FFWD forty years and thanks to the new stations at Nine Elms and Battersea this is no longer the case :thumbsup:
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Every Rose Has Its Thorn (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2r2nDhTzO4)
My father-in-law has a PhD in plant physiology and agronomy, and will inform you that every rose actually has its prickle (https://www.google.com/search?q=thorn+vs+prickle&rlz=1C1GCEU_en-GBGB822GB822&oq=thorn+vs+pric&aqs=chrome.0.0i512j69i57j0i10i512j0i22i30j0i15i22i30j0i390l5.4101j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8), although it won't rhyme or scan so well, and sounds considerably less badass.
Also, the roses sold by florists are normally thornless. Breeding them for shape and lack of thorns also means they rarely have any fragrance.
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The massed tangle of roses I removed from the 8m length of thick hedge I pulled out yesterday certainly wasn't prickle-less!
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As noted elsethread when, in 1982, Robyn Hitchcock sang “There’s fifty two stations on the Northern Line” he was, er, wrong. FFWD forty years and thanks to the new stations at Nine Elms and Battersea this is no longer the case :thumbsup:
otoh if you include the now unused South Kentish Town (closed as a result of a problem with Lots Rd power station) and City Road (dunno) there are now 54 stations.
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As noted elsethread when, in 1982, Robyn Hitchcock sang “There’s fifty two stations on the Northern Line” he was, er, wrong. FFWD forty years and thanks to the new stations at Nine Elms and Battersea this is no longer the case :thumbsup:
otoh if you include the now unused South Kentish Town (closed as a result of a problem with Lots Rd power station) and City Road (dunno) there are now 54 stations.
Mr Google, he say:
• King William Street (closed 1900)
• City Road (closed 1922)
• South Kentish Town (closed 1924)
• North End Station (never opened; work stopped 1906)
Drayton Park and Essex Road stations are still open but the Northern Line Highbury Branch ceased to be in 1975 and they're now on the National Rail notwork.
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The Gershwins' "Ain't Necessarily So" from Porgy and Bess, nicely covered by Bronski Beat:
Now Jonah he lived in a whale
Jonah he lived in a whale
He made his home in
A fish's abdomen
The Bible did call it 'a big fish' thobut…
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Factual error in factual error
That/Dat fish's abdomen
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Factual error in factual error
That/Dat fish's abdomen
Racist! That's you cancelled ;D
The turgid Deacon Blue came up with some right nonsense in "Dignity":
And I'll sail her up the west coast
Through villages and towns
How does one sail through a coastal village?
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The turgid Deacon Blue came up with some right nonsense in "Dignity":
And I'll sail her up the west coast
Through villages and towns
How does one sail through a coastal village?
There'll be a canal. Or an inlet. Or a fjord. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6l7Hzv4PQ4)
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The turgid Deacon Blue came up with some right nonsense in "Dignity":
And I'll sail her up the west coast
Through villages and towns
How does one sail through a coastal village?
Well, if the sea is sufficiently rough...
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Maybe there's a west coast version of Dunwich.
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Maybe there's a west coast version of Dunwich.
Don't know about Scotland, but further south, there is the Welsh legend of Cantre'r Gwaelod, a mythical city situated in what is now Cardigan Bay.
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The turgid Deacon Blue came up with some right nonsense in "Dignity":
And I'll sail her up the west coast
Through villages and towns
How does one sail through a coastal village?
There'll be a canal. Or an inlet. Or a fjord. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6l7Hzv4PQ4)
Canals: Crinan, Caledonian
Fjords and Inlets: Take your pick starting with the Firth of Clyde!
Dunnoh if it's standard weegie or west highland usage, but Ricky is a Lochweegian.
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The turgid Deacon Blue
*glove slap*
You. Outside. Now.
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I remember Furniture being described as what Deacon Blue would sound like, if Deacon Blue weren't crap ;D
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I remember Furniture being described as what Deacon Blue would sound like, if Deacon Blue weren't crap ;D
Until I googled Furniture, I was reading it as furniture with an accidental capitalisation, and reckoned it was harsh but fair.
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I remember Furniture being described as what Deacon Blue would sound like, if Deacon Blue weren't crap ;D
Until I googled Furniture, I was reading it as furniture with an accidental capitalisation, and reckoned it was harsh but fair.
You and me both!
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The Predatory Wasp Of The Palisades Is Out To Get Us! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBse9Y6zucs)
No, Sufjan, I don't think your friend was 'bit' (nor even 'bitten') on the shoulder. Much more likely to be a wasp sting, given the context.
(Beautiful song, though.)
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New Billy Joel song (https://youtu.be/hexZ5hwia08?si=8kr5n5wNcqRM-Bag)
Lay is a transitive verb. Unless you’re a chicken, Billy, I doubt that you’re laying in the darkness…
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Makes you wonder what His Bobness was after when he implored a female person of the opposite sex to Lay Lady Lay.
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Makes you wonder what His Bobness was after when he implored a female person of the opposite sex to Lay Lady Lay.
He just wanted some salt and vinegar crisps.
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The Ballad of Billy the Kid (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-svCimWJNDc)
All of it is factually incorrect - great song, though, with a wonderful piano part...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff5qL_jTASE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff5qL_jTASE)
Probably equally inaccurate but completely different and more interesting, by the legendary Ry Cooder.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff5qL_jTASE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff5qL_jTASE)
Probably equally inaccurate but completely different and more interesting, by the legendary Ry Cooder.
FTFY
And I don't think John Hartford ever had a gumtree canoe (https://youtu.be/-rPME6PcmiQ?si=Nh3NWb6dso_pEl-B) but I have no proof.
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Sorry T42 - how have you "fixed" my post?
Oh, I see! Wrong button (cold hands!)