# When was your last Pink Floyd moment?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-your-last-pink-floyd-moment/333126>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 28, 2005, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-your-last-pink-floyd-moment/333126 "2005-11-28T22:49:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-your-last-pink-floyd-moment/333126/21 "2005-11-29T08:42:10Z")

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“There were Arabs with knives at the foot of the bed…”

pushing 2:am. Can’t sleep. Giggling my butt off wondering why the Bush people haven’t threatened us with this yet. The cat is not amused and wants me to come back to bed. But I’m just a little uneasy about it just now. 🙂

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**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-your-last-pink-floyd-moment/333126/22 "2005-11-29T08:49:14Z")

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(Oh my god, how did they get in here? I thought we were safe home back in England)

I’m devastated that I’ve lost my mp3s of Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking. I absolutely love that album, and the only track they have on Napster is 4:01 (I think… never was good with the track names). There is one song on there that I truly miss - I think of it as the title track, sort of an up tempo more mainstream sounding song that features sound clips from the movie “Shane”. “Shane! My mother wants you!”

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**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-your-last-pink-floyd-moment/333126/23 "2005-11-29T11:11:11Z")

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_Hush now baby, baby, dont you cry.  
Mother’s gonna make all your nightmares come true.  
Mother’s gonna put all her fears into you.  
Mother’s gonna keep you right here under her wing.  
She wont let you fly, but she might let you sing.  
Mama will keep baby cozy and warm.  
Ooooh baby ooooh baby oooooh baby,  
Of course mama’ll help to build the wall._

SmithWife & I have slightly different ideas about prenting - I think she’s a bit smothering, and tends toward neurotic (it’s her mom’s fault - SmithWife is, for the most part, pretty level-headed) and on a couple of occassions I’ve trotted out this bit of lyrics. Kind of mean, I know, but it really got the point across.

Good thread, btw. Any chance to quote Pink Floyd song lyrics is welcome. 😃

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**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-your-last-pink-floyd-moment/333126/24 "2005-11-29T13:05:12Z")

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You bought a guitar  
to punish your Ma’  
You didn’t like school  
and you know you’re nobody’s fool

Good to see other folks like **Dogs** 🙂

**Inigo** my poems were in a _red_ book so Rog missed me on that one.

Do I get two?  
No-one told you when to run. . .

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**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-your-last-pink-floyd-moment/333126/25 "2005-11-29T13:27:34Z")

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_New car, caviar, four-star daydream_  
_Think I’ll buy a football team_

I’m a pretty damn good daydreamer. They almost always involve me, huge sums of money, a tropical island, and lots and lots of naked people

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**Author:** ![Mr.Goob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@Mr.Goob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Goob)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-your-last-pink-floyd-moment/333126/26 "2005-11-29T16:22:37Z")

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YOU!

Yes you!

Get you’re filthy hands off my desert.

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**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-your-last-pink-floyd-moment/333126/27 "2005-11-29T16:26:03Z")

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(didn’t we get into trouble for quoting too many lyrics a while back?)

Lots of choices, but here’s my pick for today:

Who are you and who am I  
To say we know the reason why?  
Some are born; some men die  
Beneath one infinite sky.  
There’ll be war, there’ll be peace.  
But everything one day will cease.  
All the iron turned to rust;  
All the proud men turned to dust.  
And so all things, time will mend.  
So this song will end.

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**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-your-last-pink-floyd-moment/333126/28 "2005-11-29T17:15:15Z")

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Near  
Far  
Wherever you are.  
You’re in my heart. . .and my heart will go on.

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**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-your-last-pink-floyd-moment/333126/29 "2005-11-29T17:24:11Z")

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_I have become comfortably numb_, I get that a lot, but the verse preceeding that line… who hasn’t had a dose of that?

_When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse,  
Out of the corner of my eye.  
I turned to look but it was gone.  
I cannot put my finger on it now.  
The child is grown, the dream is gone._

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**Author:** ![Hugh\_Jass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4da419/32.png) [@Hugh\_Jass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hugh_Jass)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-your-last-pink-floyd-moment/333126/30 "2005-11-29T17:29:50Z")

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If I were a swan, I’d be gone.  
If I were a train, I’d be late again.  
If I were a good man,  
I’d talk with you  
More often than I do  
–If, from Atom Heart Mother.

I don’t treat my best friend too well.

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**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-your-last-pink-floyd-moment/333126/31 "2005-11-29T18:02:54Z")

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> [@Duke of Rat](#):
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> _When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse,  
> Out of the corner of my eye.  
> I turned to look but it was gone.  
> I cannot put my finger on it now.  
> The child is grown, the dream is gone._

Well, I was going to post that one. It always hits me.

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**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-your-last-pink-floyd-moment/333126/32 "2005-11-29T18:06:18Z")

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Remember when you were young?  
You shone like the sun.

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**Author:** ![Nimue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d26b3c/32.png) [@Nimue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nimue)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-your-last-pink-floyd-moment/333126/33 "2005-11-29T18:22:32Z")

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_Now wakes the owl, now sleeps the swan  
behold the dream, the dream is gone_

Saw them on the telly the other night, being inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame. (What took them so long?) Also saw them live at their 1994 concert.

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**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-your-last-pink-floyd-moment/333126/34 "2005-11-29T18:29:32Z")

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> [@Trunk](#):
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> Near  
> Far  
> Wherever you are.  
> You’re in my heart. . .and my heart will go on.

:dubious:

Though, it would be interesting to hear Roger Waters put his spin on it. At least if it made me want to slit my wrists, it would be for an entirely different reason 😉

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**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-your-last-pink-floyd-moment/333126/35 "2005-11-29T19:20:43Z")

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“Stairway scare Dan dare who’s there?”

The light switch to my basement requires shuffling about blindly with arms pinwheeling to locate it, so we tend to just leave it on.

The other day while trying to find the switch, my dog nosed my in the butt. I let out a most unmanly shriek.

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**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-your-last-pink-floyd-moment/333126/36 "2005-11-30T05:09:29Z")

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Then one day you find  
Ten years have got behind you  
No-one told you when to run  
You missed the starting gun

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**Author:** ![Nimue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d26b3c/32.png) [@Nimue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nimue)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-your-last-pink-floyd-moment/333126/37 "2005-11-30T13:12:30Z")

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Just realised no one posted this one:

_The band is just fantastic,  
That is really what I think –  
Oh, by the way, which one’s Pink?_

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**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-your-last-pink-floyd-moment/333126/38 "2005-11-30T14:57:36Z")

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_Hey Jean, this is Henry McLean,  
And I’ve finished my beautiful flying machine,  
And I’m ringing to say that I’m leaving and maybe,  
You’d like to come fly with me and hide with me baby._

Or another favourite:

_And the eagle flies in clear blue skies,  
Breathing in the clear blue air,  
Back here on the ground,  
Another dealer coughs and dies,  
And fifty more come rolling off,  
The Ford production line._

I may have another in my sig that I never use, lets see…

_Preview_

Ah, yes, though it has already been mentioned.

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**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-your-last-pink-floyd-moment/333126/39 "2005-11-30T15:00:19Z")

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Previewing seems to reset the “show your signature” option.

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**Author:** ![Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cornelius_Tuggerson)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2005, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-was-your-last-pink-floyd-moment/333126/40 "2005-11-30T22:46:59Z")

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The evidence before the court is incontravertible.  
There’s no need for the jury to retire.  
In all my years of judging I have never heard before,  
Of someone more deserving of the full penalty of the law.  
The way you made them suffer…

This kept playing in my head as I was sitting there in the courtroom for my expired tags ticket (got dismissed). The judge was an evil powertripping hag who presumed guilt and believed every single word a cop would say and would then berate and humiliate most defendants.

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