Comments | theodicy: You Should Be Thinking

theodicy

You Should Be Thinking

Apr 12, 2008 17:48

I'm really not going to admit to you how old I was when I realized that the Bee Gees sang like that because they wanted to. I thought they had no choice.

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Okay, it was like last year. SHUT UP.

silly, theodicy is not very bright, moosique

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tx_cronopio April 13 2008, 02:14:57 UTC

Hee! I was in Argentina the summer that Saturday Night Fever came out, and all the kids trying to learn English kept asking me what the lyrics were. Hell, half the time I couldn't understand them myself!

And then there was the night that I told my friends at the Catholic Girl's Dorm what Billy Joel's Only the Good Die Young was really about.

Good God, I am OLD.

theodicy April 13 2008, 02:52:37 UTC

Sinners ARE much more fun. He was right about that. But nothing else.

;-D

Dood, NO one knows what the lyrics to "Saturday Night Fever" are. Including the surviving Bee Gees. It's more arcane than "Louie Louie."

And, now, having hopelessly dated myself, I will fall down. :falls down:

blessed_harlot April 13 2008, 02:34:31 UTC

Wait, that's NOT their natural singing voice?

theodicy April 13 2008, 02:53:42 UTC

Nope! They (or some of them, at least) have extensive vocal ranges! Who knew??

wordweaverlynn April 13 2008, 03:34:52 UTC

I didn't, and I think I'm at least 8 years older than you. I remember their hits f the 60s, even.

the_sybil April 13 2008, 03:06:31 UTC

Not very long ago I noticed for the first time that the name of the Beatles pop group was not spelled the same way as the insect - and it was like, a pun.

Gah.

ravengirl April 13 2008, 04:13:56 UTC

LOL
oy to the cute.

tuscendi April 13 2008, 06:44:00 UTC

Don't feel bad. One of the true urban legends about me is that I am "the last to know" (about just about everything).

When we play Botticelli, my people know that the famous person cannot be drawn from popular culture. In view of my incomprehensible but clearly abysmal ignorance of the subject, it wouldn't be considered fair to choose a famous subject from that category if I am a participant.

When I was in group therapy in the late 1970s, this young man was going on about his relationship with a certain young woman and he kept calling her "foxy." I thought that meant that she was sly and tricksy, dishonest and unreliable, and I just couldn't put together the sense of what he was trying to say about their relationship. When I tried to verbalize my confusion, and the "foxy" element finally came to light, the group cracked up.

It smarts.