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Mighty frustrated and and covered with sweat?

Not really about the Statue of Liberty:

The Guess Who are Canadian, and Burton Cummings (the song's lyricist) insists it has nothing to do with American pride. "What was on my mind was that girls in the States seemed to get older quicker than our girls and that made them, well, dangerous," Cummings told the Toronto Star in 2014. "When I said 'American woman, stay away from me,' I really meant 'Canadian woman, I prefer you.' It was all a happy accident."

I do agree that the song is usually misinterpreted by Americans though

This is a good read of the history of the song.
http://www.songfacts.com/detai...

FYI, that is a made-up phrase that means absolutely nothing.

(Yes, I used to listen to Def Leppard, back in the day.)

Bowie wrote this after seeing the 1968 Stanley Kubrick movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. "Space Oddity" is a play on the phrase "Space Odyssey," and the title does not appear in the lyrics. The song tells the story of Major Tom, a fictional astronaut who cuts off communication with Earth and floats into space. In a 2003 interview with Performing Songwriter magazine, Bowie explained: "In England, it was always presumed that it was written about the space landing, because it kind of came to prominence around the same time. But it actually wasn't. It was written because of going to see the film 2001, which I found amazing. I was out of my gourd anyway, I was very stoned when I went to see it, several times, and it was really a revelation to me. It got the song flowing. It was picked up by the British television, and used as the background music for the landing itself. I'm sure they really weren't listening to the lyric at all (laughs). It wasn't a pleasant thing to juxtapose against a moon landing. Of course, I was overjoyed that they did. Obviously, some BBC official said, 'Oh, right then, that space song, Major Tom, blah blah blah, that'll be great.' 'Um, but he gets stranded in space, sir.' Nobody had the heart to tell the producer that."

In 1980, Bowie released a follow-up to this called "Ashes To Ashes," where Major Tom once again makes contact with Earth. He says he is happy in space, but Ground Control comes to the conclusion that he is a junkie.

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=1201

Vanz can't dance, but he'll steal your money,
Watch him - or he'll rob you blind...
http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=7123

Her phone number was 876-5309. She was veeeeery popular, back in the day.

LOL troll.

Nah, you have a good point. Baseball was the only sport to require an organist to fill in the boring parts.

Modern baseball games are even worse. Even live, only a fifth of the game is actual baseball. The rest is filler provided by the jumbotrons and sound systems. The only redeeming qualities of going to meatspace MLB games are getting really drunk and laughing inside about how our kids don't fully understand the meaning of the popular song Hey-oh that's being played every 5 seconds over the PA.

Watch out sister, watch out brother
Watch our children while they kill each other
With a gun they bought at Wal-Mart discount stores

> The odds of it happening twice in a lifetime are so astronomical as to be the stuff of fiction.

By 'astronomical', you mean 'infinitesimal', right?

Otherwise, why bother with the first one, if the second one is so certain?
Actually, it would seem that the second one is so likely, it's almost like it doesn't really matter if the first one happens at all...er, hrm. Sounds like something Douglas Adams would've thought up.

Wait. Is this one of those USian say-the-opposite-of-what-I-mean things? ...like, "I ain't got no gun", or "I can't get no satisfaction".
Oh, double wait. That last one was by them English blokes, right? Well, I guess it was where the guy was when he thought of it (Clearwater, Florida, apparently).

Or one could view "Taxman": http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=101

I find it interesting that the Beatles, or at least the royalties on their music, may well be one of the driving forces for copyright extension/abomination in the UK.

It is obligatory at this point to mention that the band Tool (very heavy, but not simple music) used this technique in the song Lateralus.

They can't get with the times. Elvis has to be a white man playing black mans music, and the attitude still didn't change so Vanilla Ice and Eminem followed. It's not racism, it's ultra-conservatism.

Everybody knows Vanilla Ice was an artificial product. Heck, his most famous song is a resampling of Queen's music. Without permission. In comparison, Eminem is a true rapper, his success wasn't due to the record companies (he started from the bottom), and his songs are inspired by his life. And certainly Eminem isn't an icon of "ultra-conservatism", just listen to the songs dedicated to his mother.

I agree with you on the rest, but please don't talk about things which you have no F'ing idea about.

What are you?? Some kind of libertarian scum? If you let people keep their money, all they'll do is spend it foolishly on stuff they only think they need. Instead you have to tax away a substantial portion of people's income so the government can spend it wisely on stuff the government knows they need. You just have to learn to trust the government more. They're here to help you, you see. With hatchet, axe, and saw.
-russ

sigh... Some people just don't know their pop music...

'Hope that helps. have a nice day.'

From songfacts about Alphaville's Big In Japan...
The title of the song is kind of a joke. Many rock bands that are well past their prime continue to be "Big in Japan" long after they cannot draw a large audience in the UK or US. The movie Spinal Tap also made fun of this phenomenon, as the band had a hit single in Japan just as they appeared to be washed up. (thanks, Eulbie - New York, NY)

Come on people, Debian does not matter anymore... Sarge has not yet a totally working and usable installer, it is difficult to navigate the w.d.o website to find the damn complete iso's, the jigdo/mkisofs couple does not work well at all from windows ("the enemy platform we must destroy") and debian-devel@lists.debian.org is like the plane of fire from nethack.

I mean, for SERVERS it would be better to use something different, and between commercial and free alternatives there are many good platforms out there: have you ever heard of gentoo and BSD? Don't care if BSD is dying, it still works better than Debian... and usually BSD OS kernels are in-line with the mainstream develpers, not frozen at three/four releases back in time...

Did you see the sign? Yes.
Did you understand the sign? Yes.
Did you drink from the "Whites Only" water fountain? Yes.

It's yet another to understand all of this and still believe that you're not doing anything wrong.

Yeah, that's called civil disobedience. Happy Birthday to You should be public domain by now. Sharing copyrighted files without making a profit only became illegal seven years ago when the No Electronic Theft Act was signed into law. By comparison, prohibition lasted 14 years.

Don your Elliot Ness attire. Keep busting those average Joes. Personally, I hope your kind stays the course. I hope RIAA legal activity mushrooms. Once you piss off enough regular people, this becomes a campaign issue and the majority is clearly not on your side. Go RIAA GO! :-)