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Scott R
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...and Men, by They Might Be Giants, continues to be one of my favorite songs.

[ October 24, 2008, 02:56 PM: Message edited by: Scott R ]
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Noemon
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[Smile] I love that song.
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mr_porteiro_head
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As do I.

That entire album gives me warm nostalgia from my freshman year.
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Noemon
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It was a brand new album for 1990!
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That album is awesome.
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El JT de Spang
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I believe we have a rule about song lyrics, no?
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mr_porteiro_head
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Party pooper.
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El JT de Spang
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The funny thing is that I was this ( || ) close to putting '/party pooper' on the end of that post.
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Scott R
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quote:
Originally posted by El JT de Spang:
I believe we have a rule about song lyrics, no?
Yep-- we do. IIRC, it's that we can't post lyrics to the entire song.

And I haven't.

Someone let me know if that's incorrect.
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El JT de Spang
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You don't RC. It's that we're asked not to post more than two lines of lyrics.
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mr_porteiro_head
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Two lines??

If that's the rule, it's a pretty silly rule.

I remembered the rule being 4 or 5 lines, and I thought that was silly.
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It's been two lines for years.
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mr_porteiro_head
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Still silly.
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Scott R
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JT's a shill for the Silly Party!
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mr_porteiro_head
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I'm so disappointed in you, Scott.
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Noemon
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That's not enough, Porter. I demand that you repudiate Scott's original post.
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El JT de Spang
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Are you accusing me of being a shilly?
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I'd do that, Noemon, but I don't have a dictionary with me right now.
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"After killing Jason off and countless screaming Argonauts..."

I was amused that I had to explain to my sister some fifteen years after the album came out that it was sung from the point of view of a nightlight.
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Minimum Wage!

Aw crap, I just posted a song's lyrics in their entirety.
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You forgot the HEEYAH!
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quote:
Originally posted by Sterling:
"After killing Jason off and countless screaming Argonauts..."

I was amused that I had to explain to my sister some fifteen years after the album came out that it was sung from the point of view of a nightlight.
And it's a nightlight that's a blue canary, at that.
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Tatiana
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I don't know about the rest of you guys but I know one of my life goals is always to keep the nightlight on inside the birdhouse in my soul.
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Kwea
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SO...what you are saying is your soul is a mess? I mean, how many newspapers do you go though, and how often are you changing them?

[Wink]
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Tatiana
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Kwea, blue canary nightlights don't have any waste products except heat. No newspapers, just lots of infrared radiation. [Wink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Sterling:
"After killing Jason off and countless screaming Argonauts..."

I was amused that I had to explain to my sister some fifteen years after the album came out that it was sung from the point of view of a nightlight.
But that was the nightlights distant ancestors, the night light was refering to a light house to whom he is distanly related to.
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Lisa
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"Life's just a mood ring we're not allowed to see."

"I don't want the world; I just want your half."

"The world's address, a place that's worn."

"Cow's a friend to me."

All words of wisdom.
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Tatiana
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"I'd be fired if that were my job"
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quote:
Originally posted by Noemon:

It was a brand new album for 1990!
It was a brand new record for 1990.
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This thread inspired me to listen to TMBG and Toad the Wet Sprocket all night.
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So ... I'm the same age as MPH.

Why does that feel so weird?
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mr_porteiro_head
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If you figure that out, I'd love to know the answer.
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Probably because it also makes her the same age as Tom. And me.
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Noemon
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quote:
Originally posted by Omega M.:
quote:
Originally posted by Noemon:

It was a brand new album for 1990!
It was a brand new record for 1990.
>_< I can't believe I messed that one up.
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There was a radio station in Israel that had a show which played really old music, like from the 40s and early 50s, and they used to play Istanbul. Which, if you've ever heard it, is much slower and less energetic than the TMBG cover. Oh, here it is.

First time I heard the TMBG version, I nearly jumped out of my skin. I'd already heard Birdhouse and was planning on finding the album, but I had no idea it was the same band.
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We danced to "Istanbul" at nerd camp. Everyone else was vogueing and we were screaming "People just liked it better that wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!"

Just as one might expect.

/nostalgic
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We did that, except instead of calling it nerd camp, we called it being staff for cub scout day camp.

Same diff.
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quote:
Originally posted by Liz B:

We danced to "Istanbul" at nerd camp. Everyone else was vogueing and we were screaming "People just liked it better that wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!"

Just as one might expect.

/nostalgic
The way people I knew acted around They Might Be Giants kept me from giving TMBG a chance for a long time.
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