I are askeered.

[kickaha]

So we're watching BSG tonight, when ginkgo busts out with what has to be one of the freakiest bits of pattern recognition I've seen in a long time.



We're about 1/4 of the way through the show, when she says "They're quoting U2." "WHAT?" "They're quoting U2! Well, actually, they're using quotes from a U2 cover of a Bob Dylan song." "Uh-huh." "Seriously! Google it!" "Which lines?" "'No reason to get excited', and 'There's too much confusion'." "Hon, those are pretty common sentences." "No, really!"

So I google it.

Bob Dylan _All Along the Watchtower_

At this point, I'm kind of thinking "Okay, this is funny, but..." so I leave the page with the lyrics up.

Not 30 seconds later, I hear... "There must be some way out of here..."



I'm keeping the page up for the rest of the episode.

(TWO LINES and she nailed it. TWO!)

Comments

[franktheavenger.livejournal.com]

Well, I totally would have noticed it had I not already known it, but I would have thought Hendrix; I didn't know Dylan did it first.

[ginkgo.livejournal.com]

Dylan wrote it and Dylan, Hendrix, and a cast of thousands performed it.

Kickaha kindly recorded for all posterity that, in five seconds of dialogue, I didn't come up with the full lineage on the spot. :P I lurves him.

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

Hey now, I recorded that you made the leap in *two comments*. Sheesh. The fact that you pulled that out of your head at all stunned me.

[badger.livejournal.com]

*shrug* So what if you think of the U2 version first? I remember Tori Amos' cover of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" better than the original because I'm a bigger fan of Tori than Nirvana.

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

Heathen. Kurt gave his life for your sins.

[ssandv.livejournal.com]

Kurt gave his life to get away from Courtney Love. Don't be silly.

Heathen?

[badger.livejournal.com]

Don't you drag David Bowie into this, it's crowded enough already.

[franktheavenger.livejournal.com]

If I'd have known he was going to do that I would've sinned much more and more often. Hurry his ass up. :p

No, I'm not a fan. :p

[ginkgo.livejournal.com]

I totally agree. U2's version is my favorite.

At that point in time, though, I was thinking that I couldn't remember the artist who recorded the most widely known version. Kickaha wasn't remembering it based on U2 or Dylan, and he *might* have recalled the song if I had come up with Hendrix. He was still looking at me like I was insane at that point.

[franktheavenger.livejournal.com]

Well, you are insane. I mean, you can't really argue that. ;)

[ginkgo.livejournal.com]

Not at all! Yay!

Speaking of insanity, did you ever use your vacation days?

[franktheavenger.livejournal.com]

Vacation starts this Thursday and goes until the second week of April. ;)

[ginkgo.livejournal.com]

Daaaaang! That's awesome.