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Another one I've mentioned before.
In The Postal Service's Nothing Better. He says "And I will block the door like a goalie tending the net/ In the third quarter of a tied game rivalry."
It's unclear what sport he means. Not many sports have goalies, nets and quarters.
Hockey doesn't have quarters. It has periods. Three of them. Since he uses third instead of fourth, perhaps that's what he means, but "period" didn't fit the syllables.
Soccer has halves. Even college soccer with its weird rules doesn't use quarters. And even in the US, soccer people have taken to calling the position keeper. Not goalie, which sounds too American. I still say goalie.
Lacrosse uses quarters and has a goalie, and it's usually called a goalie because of the Canadian influence, but there are a lot of goals in lacrosse so the third quarter isn't especially tense. If he meant that, he could have said fourth quarter.
Likewise water polo. The guys in the group are, as I recall, from the west coast so more likely know water polo than lacrosse, but still, probably not. And even then, why not say fourth?
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Three songs about the Northern Ireland troubles- The Men Behind The Wire, The Town I Loved So Well and Zombie, all seem to think that Tanks were used in the conflict, The Cranberries seemed to think that the IRA used them.
Tanks would have been useless in the North, and were never used
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In the pop world, Busted underestimated spectacularly just how many generations would have lived and died by the Year 3000 - and there’s also, of course, that eejit American woman who doesn’t know the difference between London Bridge and Tower Bridge…
Originally posted by Stumpy Pepys View PostWent over my head at the time. (I was only 14.)
They've pitched a few like that, though - “Nero fiddles while Gordon Burns!” (from Joy Division Oven Gloves) being another example.
Originally posted by elguapo4 View PostThe Cranberries seemed to think that the IRA used them.Last edited by Jah Womble; 15-09-2021, 20:24.
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Originally posted by elguapo4 View PostThree songs about the Northern Ireland troubles- The Men Behind The Wire, The Town I Loved So Well and Zombie, all seem to think that Tanks were used in the conflict, The Cranberries seemed to think that the IRA used them.
Tanks would have been useless in the North, and were never used
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They Might Be Giants covered Why Does The Sun Shine? (The Sun is a Mass of Incandescent Gas), then recorded Why Does The Sun Really Shine? (The Sun is a Miasma of Incandescent Plasma) to correct the inaccuracies of the original.
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Originally posted by Toby Gymshorts View PostThey Might Be Giants covered Why Does The Sun Shine? (The Sun is a Mass of Incandescent Gas), then recorded Why Does The Sun Really Shine? (The Sun is a Miasma of Incandescent Plasma) to correct the inaccuracies of the original.
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The line in The Lady is a Tramp, "hates California, it's cold and it's damp," always irked me. I don't get it in a factual context nor in an ironic one.Last edited by Stumpy Pepys; 01-10-2021, 09:10.
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On Lava the B-52's sing "My heart's crackin' like a Krakatoa/Krakatoa, east of Java, molten bodies, fiery lava" - they'll have got the 'east of Java' bit from the famously wrong film title I guess
Taylor Swift's London Boy lyrics are not exactly incorrect but geographically confused/overambitious (also cringeworthy as, even leaving out the "God I love the English!" bit):
I enjoy walking Camden Market in the afternoon
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Took me back to Highgate, met all of his best mates
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And now I love high tea, stories from uni, and the West End
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I enjoy nights in Brixton, Shoreditch in the afternoon
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So please show me Hackney
Doesn't have to be Louis V up on Bond Street
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I enjoy walking SoHo, drinking in the afternoon (yeah)
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Originally posted by Furtho View Post
Durham? A town?
I suppose he could’ve put some actual effort in and wangled City and pity into it somehow. Then “drinking beer, on the banks of the river wear, watching all the ships being built here, then leaving leaving leaving leaving leeeeeeaaaaving”.
An up to date version could substitute Qashqais for ships. How long for though is anyone’s post brexit guess.
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Originally posted by Furtho View Post
Durham? A town?
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