songs which are factually inaccurate

[hitmouse]

I know he was a nonce.

Is there a song called "Michel Foucault was a nonce in Paris, 1961"?

 

[hitmouse]

Nancy Sinatra's name is not Phaedra, she is in fact called Nancy Sinatra.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Nancy Sinatra's name is not Phaedra, she is in fact called Nancy Sinatra.

Ah, but the song was written by Lee Hazelwood. Who is, come to think of it, also not called Phaedra. He's called Lee Hazelwood.

 

[surreybrowncap]

Nancy Sinatra's name is not Phaedra, she is in fact called Nancy Sinatra

Ah, but the song was written by Lee Hazelwood. Who is, come to think of it, also not called Phaedra. He's called Lee Hazelwood.

His grand daughter is named Phaedra....

 

[Raheem]

Not a lie exactly, but in the song Everybody Hurts, REM display a surprising ignorance that people with congenital analgesia do not experience pain.

 

[Raheem]

His grand daughter is named Phaedra....

The cover-up just makes it worse.

 

[Pickman's model]

Nancy Sinatra's name is not Phaedra, she is in fact called Nancy Sinatra.

Is that her legal name?

 

[A380]

I mean, mice don't normally go clip-clippity-clop, but it seems plausible that mice wearing tiny clogs might. I'm not willing to make my mind up one way or the other about this one until someone who's actually attached tiny clogs to a mouse can report back about what sound they make.

Terrified despairing little squeaks I imagine.

 

[surreybrowncap]

I mean, mice don't normally go clip-clippity-clop, but it seems plausible that mice wearing tiny clogs might. I'm not willing to make my mind up one way or the other about this one until someone who's actually attached tiny clogs to a mouse can report back about what sound they make.

The mouse thread is better than the cat, dog thread because it features mice...

 

[surreybrowncap]

Terrified despairing little squeaks I imagine.

 

[A380]

Stockholm syndrome right there.

 

[A380]

Despite the rosy picture painted by Sheb Wooley I suspect that if a one-eyed, one-horned, flying purple people eater had been stranded on Earth in the late 1960s it would have ended its days under heavy torturous experimentation in a CIA dark site located beneath Area 51 and then been the subject of vivisection. Not playing the trumpet in a rock and roll band. Even the later intervention of Nicola Sturgeon would have been unlikely to save it.

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

Bob Marley's "Natty Dread" states "Natty 21,000 miles away from home". That's way more than the distance between Jamaica and Ethiopia. So did Bob just have problems with geography, or did Natty live somewhere else than Ethiopia after all?

 

[Voley]

When trekking in the Himalayas, many people report that the solitude and natural beauty induces a philosophical frame of mind, and many report that their thoughts turn to deep, even spiritual matters. Not me. I spent a whole day trying to remember the name of the fucking woodpecker in Bagpuss.

 

[A380]

When trekking in the Himalayas, many people report that the solitude and natural beauty induces a philosophical frame of mind, and many report that their thoughts turn to deep, even spiritual matters. Not me. I spent a whole day trying to remember the name of the fucking woodpecker in Bagpuss.

Professor Yaffle . I'm here all week if you seek further enlightenment pilgrim.

 

[belboid]

People think I’m insane because I am frowning all the time


No, Ozzy, they think you’re insane because you bite the fucking heads off bats

 

[Voley]

Professor Yaffle . I'm here all week if you seek further enlightenment pilgrim.

I had to look it up when I got to an Internet cafe in Kathmandu. It was driving me mental.

 

[Sue]

It's not a bittersweet symphony. Overblown nonsense is what it is.

 

[BassJunkie]

It was Shaggy.

 

[belboid]

You've done this post before, but it's still one of my favourites on all of urban.

I think that and the ‘rate of prophets’ are probably my finest contributions

 

[A380]

War, although undoubtedly terrible, was actually quite good for liberating occupied Europe from the evil tyranny of Hitler's Nazi regime.

Hu-argh.

 

[Pickman's model]

War, although undoubtedly terrible, was actually quite good for liberating occupied Europe from the evil tyranny of Hitler's Nazi regime.

Hu-argh.

but much less good in eg vietnam or afghanistan

 

[A380]

Bob Marley's "Natty Dread" states "Natty 21,000 miles away from home". That's way more than the distance between Jamaica and Ethiopia. So did Bob just have problems with geography, or did Natty live somewhere else than Ethiopia after all?

Given that Earth's circumference is 24,901 miles then by a great circle route the furthest one point on Earth can ever be from another is 12,450.5 miles.

 

[A380]

but much less good in eg vietnam or afghanistan

Seemed good for for the Vietnamese (eventually) and the Afghans (many times) to achieve their ends...

 

[Pickman's model]

Seemed good for for the Vietnamese (eventually) and the Afghans (many times)...

around 3.5m vietnamese were killed in the american war, maybe more. the country's economy was wrecked. and they have a vile government. so i don't know how you work out it's been good for the vietnamese, maybe you could share your working with us.

 

[rubbershoes]

In ancient times,
Hundreds of years before the dawn of history
Lived a strange race of people, the Druids
No one knows who they were or what they were doing

Just not true. Despite their lack of written records, and the Romans trying to trash their reputation, we know who the druids were and what they were doing.

 

[A380]

around 3.5m vietnamese were killed in the american war, maybe more. the country's economy was wrecked. and they have a vile government. so i don't know how you work out it's been good for the vietnamese, maybe you could share your working with us.

Do you feel they would have been better under a US puppet government then? A view many held but I'm surprised that you do?

Besides, I acknowledged the terrible nature of war, its just the error in Frankie's song I was drawing attention to,

Relax.

 

[Pickman's model]

Do you feel they would have been better under a US puppet government then? A view many held but I'm surprised that you do?

Besides, I acknowledged the terrible nature of war, its just the error in Frankie's song I was drawing attention to,

Relax.

it would have been better had there never been a war, had that wretched country been reunited as was proposed after 1954.

 

[belboid]

Given that Earth's circumference is 24,901 miles then by a great circle route the furthest one point on Earth can ever be from another is 12,450.5 miles.

But if you have to travel on welsh roads you can triple that easily

 

[A380]

it would have been better had there never been a war, had that wretched country been reunited as was proposed after 1954.

Amen to that.