“Fly Me To The Moon”
No human being has ever landed on the moon :rolleyes:
Slade’s Far Far Away has to take the Grand Prize For Astronomical Ineptitude: “I’ve seen the sun set in the east and in the west.” Sure you have, Noddy.
{OK, I know what he meant to say, but it was damn clumsily put}
I have it on good authority that no musical organization, from marching band to stage orchestra, can reasonably function if the trombone section alone is composed of seventy-six individual performers.
Obscure knowledge combined with faux-humorless obsessive nitpicking. Is there a greater example of the Dope’s raison d’etre than this thread?
Minor nitpick. There is at least one theorhetical method of time travel that I’ve heard about. I’m not a mathematician, nor do I keep up on the high end physics journals, so it may have been debunked since it was first posited. The method involves, IIRC, a massive and infinitely long tube/spar, rotating at relativistic speeds. To say that the mettallurgical techniques are not available at this time is an understatement, but it is possible mathmatically.
Billy Thorpe’s “Children of the Sun”: Aliens have not been scientifically shown to exist, and 4 out of 5 scientists believe it to be impossible for a sun to have offspring that speak and travel in spacecraft.
While this may be artistically improbable, I wouldn’t classify it as scientifically inaccurate.
Not to mention an awesome command of esoteric bad rock lyrics. This is definitely one of the best threads in a long time.
Memo to Rick Dees:
While disco music has been known to cause riots, I don’t believe it’s possible for it to cause a man to transform into a duck.
I don’t know about Lyle Lovett’s needs for raw fish, but just to clear up any confusion, there are currently bears in Arkansas.
Golden Earring should be informed that use of radar at levels detectable by the human body, without a radio or antenna, is potentially dangerous. They should also be careful not to do this in the U.S. without first determining which portion of the spectrum they are operating in and if necessary obtaining a license from the FCC. Failure to do so could result in fines, or a drop in album sales.
They also should know that being cloned doesn’t much feel like anything, even in the Twilight Zone.
Which is, of course, compounded by the problem that penguins and polar bears live at opposite ends of the earth and never encounter one another in their natural habitats. I guess a crazed zookeeper might but them both into the same exhibit to see what happens…
Incorrect!
Hell, Michigan is on state highway D32.
Clearly AC DC were on their way to a concert in Detroit when they wrote this song.
As it happens, penguins are from the Antarctica and have very little experience in any sort of interaction with polar bears, the polar bear being an Arctic species. (Unless, of course, you wish to make the point that this state of affairs is the result of very, very proficient avoidance behaviour.)
From “Born to Run”:
“Baby this town rips the bones from your back…”
Is this town run by Predators? I don’t think so.
There is also the line “The spheres are in commotion”.
Apparently Mr. Dolby is living in the pre-Copernican age. Sad, really.
Melissa Ethridge is almost certainly misinformed about her claim to have a chrome-plated heart. Chrome is a radiopaque substance which causes metallic artifact blurring on conventional X-ray film and cannot successfully be identified as such without a biopsy; but as her song also claims she has Midas in her touch, such a biopsy would be rendered impossible as any core sample needle used for the purpose of obtaining tissue samples would be turned to gold, rendering it inoperable for the purpose.
The song by Tennessee Ernie Ford claims he owes his soul to the company store in exchange for sixteen tons of coal which he claims to have personally loaded while still an infant. The company store does not recognize souls as valid legal tender.
Philosophically speaking, the Talking Heads cannot be located on a road absent of destination, as by definition, the band themselves represents a destination point along the road continuum; therefore, while it may be possible they are on a road from nowhere, anybody could take that road to the Talking Heads (first postulating another traveler on said road in search of a destination). Discuss.
I’ve been to Hell, you know. Nice little place. And contrary to what most people think, Hell freezes over almost every winter.
Considering that Dan Fogelberg was born in 1951, I think it’s safe to say he can’t have loved the person to whom this song is dedicated for “longer than there’ve been fishes in the ocean” (the oldest fish fossil dates to about 530,000,000 years ago), let alone for “longer than there’ve been stars up in the heavens” (the progenitor star exploded about 13,000,000,000 years ago).
Just keep telling yourself that…
On a related note: Giant steps are what you take
“Walking on the moon
I hope my legs don’t break
Walking on the moon
We could walk for ever
Walking on the moon
We could live together
Walking on, walking on the moon”
Doe he have even the slightest concept of the idea of “forever”? I think not. This, and many other inacuracies in songs by The Police, turned me off of them forever. 
Scott Plaid, you have to give The Police credit for not “Walking on Starshine.” At least they were describing walking on a real surface.
Talon Karrde
Because I am the raindog
The song I’d Like to Buy the World A Coke (also known as I’d Like To Teach The World To Sing) is filled with factual errors. The song was originally written for a Coca-Cola advertisement- since advertising is full of hyperbole, this seems to explain the many impossibilites in the song itself.
First off, we must ask ourselves: is the definition of “the world” in the song the population of the planet Earth (the people of the world) or the actual planet itself (the actual world)? Both are often referred to as “the world.” Although it is presumed that the world in the case of this song means the people of the world, there is a possibility that it could mean the world itself. A 1940s Time magazine cover showed an illustration of a giant Coca-Cola logo, with face, feeding a bottle of Coke to the Earth, also with face. This symbolic image represents both definitions at once- the world drinks Coca-Cola, The World drinks Coca-Cola. We will look at the song from both viewpoints.
According to the CIA, the size of The World is over 510 million square kilometers, and the population is appromately six and a half billion. Either way you look at it, that’s a freakin’ big house. Also, although it is possible to grow apple trees, there is not yet a feasible way to plant and raise bees and doves, nor utilize abstract concepts such as love as furniture.
Again, either way you look at it, it would be hard to teach the world to sing. If talking about the people, it would take a long time to teach 6.5 billion people to sing on key. Also, would the “perfect harmony” be two-part, three-part, four-part, or six billion four hundred forty-four million one hundred thirty-one thousand four hundred-part? If talking about The World itself, it would be impossible, since planets can’t sing.
Again, over six billion people. Seeing as the average Coca-Cola bottle is 20 fluid ounces, it would have to be a very big Coke. If a 20-ounce bottle goes for, say, $2, this uberCoke would contain over 12 billion dollars worth of Coke. As for The World itself, planets can’t drink either.