Merrick
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self-evident untruths
Jul 20, 2003, 01:04
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I was listening to The Beach Boys' 'Cool Cool Water' today and the lyrics - in astonishing contradiction of basic scientific categorisation - assert that 'in an ocean or in a glass, cool water is such a gas'.
This rivals 'we don't need no education' as the most self-evidently untrue lyric I've ever heard.
Anyone else got any contirbutions?
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PaulMakesMusic
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Re: self-evident untruths
Jul 20, 2003, 02:06
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Should I stay or should I go?
The answer is self evident.
If I go now there'll be trouble.
If I stay there will be double.
Therefore you should go, so that half the trouble can be avoided.
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Joanna
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Re: self-evident untruths
Jul 21, 2003, 11:14
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Beach boys are good for nonsense lyrics. Try 'good vibrations' for a start- in particular:
'I don't know where but she sends me there'
Eh?
I blame the strong California sunshine ;)
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Nat Hate
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Re: self-evident untruths
Jul 21, 2003, 11:31
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"I don't know where but she sends me there" - that makes sense brilliantly. I've been to places where I didn't know where I was, both physically and emotionally!
Don't mean to sound petty, just my opinion :)
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anthonyqkiernan
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Re: self-evident untruths
Jul 21, 2003, 11:39
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Anything with "so glad we made it" or "we're gonna make it" in it. the whole concept that love is all about travelling to a spot and then stopping/standing still/becoming complacent.
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Dwight Fried
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Re: self-evident untruths
Jul 21, 2003, 16:34
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TLC's "Don't go chasing waterfalls' comes to mind. How the fuck do you chase a waterfall?
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Dwight Fried
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Re: self-evident untruths
Jul 22, 2003, 04:49
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Or this gem by Johnny Cougar:
"Oh yeah,life goes on
Long after the thrill of livin' is gone"
Wha?
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Joanna
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Re: self-evident untruths
Jul 22, 2003, 10:04
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Now you see that makes perfect sense to me. Cos life does indeed go on, whether or not you are still thrilled by it. *sigh*
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Merrick
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Year 3000
Jul 22, 2003, 12:43
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from the Rocking Vicar
http://www.rockingvicar.com
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Parishioner Paul Price: "I have two young sons, and consequently we have a copy of Busted's Year 3000 playing, oh only about fifty times daily. As you may know, the central premise of this song is that the boys travel from the present day to a point 997 years in the future, where they see that a'
'great great great granddaughter' is 'pretty fine'.
In my younger days, this wouldn't have made any impression on me, but now I find I am quite unable to allow this lyric legitimacy until I have tested it scientifically. If we allow a new generation to come along on average every twenty five years, then by the year 3000, 41 generations of boy band offspring will have come and gone, and the girl who is pretty fine will actually be their great (X39) granddaughter.
This may not scan so well in a pop song, but the
important thing is that it's accurate. The trouble is, no-one seems to care..."
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anthonyqkiernan
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Re: Year 3000
Jul 22, 2003, 12:52
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I think we had that one over by (HH) a while back. It really is a pile of total and utter (intellectually) insulting tosh.
"I've been to the year three thousand
not much has changed but they lived under water,"
Not MUCH!!!!!!! WTMFF?!?!?!!?!?
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