In any kind of nuclear meltdown or waste situation, Carbon-14 is the least of your problems.
It’s possible now that the Chunnel’s been built, but when Berlin sang:
"I was on a Paris train /I emerged in London rain "
it wasn’t.
It was a metaphor, dear.
Around he-ah, we call that - I say, boy - we call that a “roostuh”. [aside]That boy’s about as bright as a burnt-out lightbulb. [/aside] [/Foghorn Leghorn]
But “Well isn’t that nice” seems pretty ironic.
I think this is a reference to being in the east (like Tokyo) and the west (like Texas). Not which direction you’re looking.
While it is true, the thunder you hear happens after the lightning that caused it, it is possible to hear thunder in the distance and then run inside before the storm gets overhead and lightning strikes where you are. That is, presumably, what she meant. “The storm is coming, run for cover!”
Check the dates. Mandelbrot Set was in 2004. Mandelbrot death was in 2010.
Tinie Tempah’s recent hit “Written in the Stars” goes “written in the stars a million miles away …” I think he’s grossly underestimating distances to stuff in outer space.
Geddy Lee of Rush has admitted he mispronounced “Barchetta” in the song Red Barchetta. He pronounced it with a “ch” when really its pronounced barketta.
Close to the spirit of the OP, I was looking through old records at a yard sale the other day and come across one that featured “The Love Theme from The Flight of the Falcon.” The original movie. Which features no women. And no men that could be thought of as gay.
Georgie Fame should have sung:
Bonnie and Clyde
were driving in the sunshine
realized it was a trap and reached for their guns
then got filled full of lead
Not as evocative as the original, but far more accurate.
That’s still better than Tom Cochrane pronouncing “Somalian” as if it rhymed with “coma lion” in White Hot.
But “the east” doesn’t refer only to “the east as viewed from my location”, it also refers to that part of the planet also known as the Far East or the Orient; the speaker was in the East watching the sun set to the west. I’ve watched the sun come up in the east many times, and I’ve watched it come up in the West, but I’ve never watched it come up in the East. The line is politically but not factually incorrect.
What, you missed that documentary with Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder?
[QUOTE=See No Evil, Hear No Evil]
Dave: Why don’t you look me in the eye and say that?
Wally: I would if I could, but I can’t; I’m blind.
Dave: You’re blind?
Wally: Yes I’m blind. What, are you fucking deaf?
Dave: Yes, I’m fucking deaf!
Wally: You’re really deaf?
Dave: I’m really deaf.
Wally: Then how do you know what I’m saying?
Dave: Because I’m reading your lips! Now, you want the job or not?
[/QUOTE]
Thought thats was a reference to one of the Toppermovies, Topper Takes a Trip or Topper Returns
Don Black & Andrew Lloyd Webber’s song "Take That Look Off Your Face (from) “Tell Me On A Sunday”) has a British woman living in New York singing this line “He’s doing some deal up in Baltimore now.”
Baltimore is not “up” from NYC.
She kept time by clapping her hands?
But I am pretty sure they actually headed down to New Orleans in 1814, since the Interstate system was not all that good then. Plus, the actual fighting started in late December, setting up the final battle.
Say what? The British came from Lake Borgne and hit the Mississippi River about 9 miles down stream from New Orleans. Jackson marched and did a night attack on December 23, which he lost, but it kept the British in place, so the main battle took place very close to that spot. It was to the east of New Orleans because of the way the river bends, but it was definitely downriver.
By that reasoning it shouldn’t even be named the Battle of New Orleans, since the actual fighting never got close to it.
Again, they reached the Mississippi and started following it upriver to the city.
And again, the British marched downriver away from the city, to reach the bayous then the Lake, which did eventually get them to the Gulf of Mexico. They did send some ships up the Mississippi after that to attack a fort protecting the mouth, but that didn’t last long.
Buffalo are Asian, Antelope African. Almost all native Deer in North Americas lived in the Rockies, so in the ranges not on the range. The exception is the Elk which is technically a deer, so for clarity’s sake let’s go with:
[QUOTE=Tennyson]
‘Every moment dies a man,/ Every moment one is born’:
[/QUOTE]
I need hardly point out to you that this calculation would tend to keep the sum total of the world’s population in a state of perpetual equipoise whereas it is a well-known fact that the said sum total is constantly on the increase. I would therefore take the liberty of suggesting that in the next edition of your excellent poem the erroneous calculation to which I refer should be corrected as follows:
‘Every moment dies a man / And one and a sixteenth is born.’ I may add that the exact figures are 1.167, but something must, of course, be conceded to the laws of metre.
— Charles Babbage
Unpublished letter to Tennyson in response to his Vision of Sin (1842)
A Chicago group went to court and succeeded in having Lake Michigan declared an “arm of the sea”. So, if the song writer is an America’s Cup yachtsman, it’s a perfectly reasonable lyric.
Not in England, or Australia, or somewhere…
The car-pooled to the Klan meeting?
It would have been even later in those places; they’re all ahead of the U.S., time-wise. By the time MLK was shot, it wasn’t even April 4 in a lot of places anymore.