And InMaul and InTyranus? 
About a week or two ago when I was watching “Glee”, I suddenly realized that the hand gesture they use for the “L” in the logo (index finger up, thumb out) is the same gesture used to indicate “Loser”, which is what everyone in the Glee Club is considered by the rest of the school.
Wow…you’re right!
No, they are similar, but not the same. The lengths of the lines are different. Baa Baa Black Sheep is another similar one, but different from either.
The first time I saw Ghostbusters, as a kid, I didn’t pick up on that either, but once I watched it as an adult, it became very easy for my mind to draw connections between Sigourney Weaver and sex.
The melody itself is the same. They are all based upon the melody of the French song “Ah! vous dirai-je, Maman”. Mozart even did his own take on the melody (but didn’t write it, as is usually thought).
The number of syllables per line/measure is different, but the length of each measure is the same and each line uses 2 measures. A group could sing all of them at the same time and they’d all be singing the pitch at all times and they’d stay in sync.
Sorry, I don’t speak music. I have no idea what a measure is.
Measures marked by brackets:
[Twinkle, Twinkle] [Little Star] [How I wonder] [what you are]
[Bah Bah black sheep] [Have you any wool?] [Yes, sir, yes, sir] [Three bags full]
[ABCD] [EFG] [HIJK] [LMNOP]
[What you are] and [LMNOP] sound like different tunes to me. I’m not sure how they are the same. But if people who read music tell me they are the same, I’ll just have to take their word for it.
[whatchyoo are]
[ellemenoh pee]
Just singing them out loud, they sound the same to me – I think you’re conflating the tune with the lyrics.
I first noticed this last night!
–Cliffy
“Frigidaire”
I always thought it was a cool-sounding name (:dubious: pun not intended).
Yesterday it hit me as I was opening mine up for a snack…
Wow, that’s really frigid air… :smack:
That’s what a refrigerator does - blows frigid air inside to keep things cool/frozen.
The melody for Bah bah Black Sheep (at least in the 60s) is WAYYY different than Twinkle, Twinkle / ABCs
In Trevanian’s novel The Eiger Sanction, I got that some of the names were jokes. But it wasn’t until the third or fourth read that I caught the fact that Mr. Dragon’s first name is Yurasis.
How about some audio help?
(MP3 format, using a different instrument for each song)
I don’t think I noticed this one until the last time I watched The Sopranos through, but in season 3, Tony and Ralphie come to blows over a girl Ralphie killed. Before the girl gets killed, Tony and Silvio are talking about her, and Silvio calls her a “thoroughbred.”
In season 4, Tony and Ralphie come to blows (for the last time, if you follow my meaning) over a racehorse Ralphie killed.
In retrospect, it seems obvious to me that they had Ralphie’s end all planned out way in advance.
I have heard and sung the “Jingle Bells, Batman smells” parody about a million times, including Robert Goulet on The Simpsons.
I sang it for a five year old at a tree trimming party yesterday, who informed me that “Robin lays an egg” makes sense because “robins are birds and birds lay eggs.”
That thought had never occured to me.
The other day a radio station played Dream On by Aerosmith. I didn’t realize it was Aerosmith until after the intro. Until then, I had though it was Don’t Speak by No Doubt. They sound very similar to me.
:smack: I never thought of that either.