It would have been morning of the 4th on some islands east of the International Date Line.
Okay, if Bono was indeed writing the song from the perspective of a fisherman in American Samoa, then I yield. But until then, I’m going to have to call a penalty on that accuracy of that line :).
The Chalmette battlefield is six miles downriver from New Orleans. The British marched upriver towards New Orleans, along the river, because that’s the only place high, dry and firm enough to support the soldiers, wagons and cannons. When they were defeated they retreated back downriver, along the river for the same reason.
One man and one woman make one child… 
Well, what if he meant “I’ve seen the sun set in Asia, and in Europe”? Where he was at the time, not where the sun was? 
Depends on your definitions and your verbal ticks. I know people who go “up” from Tudela to Saragossa (because Saragossa is bigger), others who go “up” from Saragossa to Tudela (because Tudela is upriver), and others who always go up - they may even go up from Tudela to Saragossa and come back up in the same day. Several of my American coworkers would speak of people being “up in Toronto” and “up in Houston”, but if someone was at Home Office it was “at Home Office” (no up, different preposition); apparently Home Office was Ground Zero and any other company location was “up”.
Sure enough. But one man and one woman can make two children, which would contradict the first line of the metaphor in question.
Them old dreams are only in your head.
I said that.
(As someone more witty than myself once observed) the only thing that’s really ironic about the song, is that that Alanis Morissette doesn’t seem to know what ironic means.
[hijack]I can’t imagine going North from Lala to go East. It’s actually Northwest. I can see I-80 out my window (and hear it) and I take I-5 South to get to I-40 (old Route 66) or I-15 then I-70 to go to most points East. I-80 is a great way to get to Wyoming if you don’t mind mind-numbing miles of Nevada and Utah along the way. I suppose if you somehow found Nebraska and Iowa scenic or something you and your sanity might survive all the way to Chi-town. I’d rather go through Sin and Mile High or The Great Southwest and St. Lou and see some memorable sights, but maybe that’s just me.[/hijack]
AC/DC
I’m TNT… I’m dynamite…
TNT and dynamite are 2 different things.
Somebody forgot to tell the whitetails I see every morning biking in Illinois, or all the mule deer I saw in South Dakota.
Plenty of deer in Michigan, too. According to their Wikipedia page, white-tail deer can be found in most parts of the US. They range from Canada to as far south as Peru.
I was wondering why deer hunters in Maine usually only came back with empty cases of beer from their excursions. It’s got to be hard to shoot a deer in the Rockies from the east coast, I imagine.
I was just listen to a live recording of Pride, and the lyrics clearly say “evening”. Someone must have clued them in. Did you send them an email?
Nobody in the NYC area would ever say “up” to Baltimore. Baltimore is always down.
Houston has no Rockies, but it does have deer. And the elk I saw was in the Rockies (Denver). And while, technically, bison are not related to asiatic buffalo, and pronghorn deer are not really related to african antelope, settlers mangled the language pretty well and called the big grazing beast a “buffalo” and the small antelope-looking pronghorn as “antelope”.
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Back in 1984 I actually sent a fan letter to U2 about this.
So you can give me the credit. 
A “King Bee” is a “H-bee” or a Drone. Every kid knew that as they didnt sting.
Right. The USA has LOTS of deer. And there really isnt any such animal as a “Buffalo” anyway, so the American Bison might as well be one, in fact the Wisent was called a “Buffalo” before White men saw the first Mbogo or Cape buffalo.
But yes the Pronghorn isnt a “true antelope”. So?:rolleyes:
Certainly there is, Elizabeth II is Queen of England too, as well as the rest of GB, plus lots more. She’s Queen of London for that matter. The whole fucking island, in fact. :rolleyes: