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kickaha ([personal profile] kickaha) wrote2007-03-25 11:04 pm

I are askeered.

So we're watching BSG tonight, when [livejournal.com profile] 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!)

[identity profile] ginkgo.livejournal.com 2007-03-26 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] franktheavenger.livejournal.com 2007-03-26 01:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, you are insane. I mean, you can't really argue that. ;)

[identity profile] ginkgo.livejournal.com 2007-03-26 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Not at all! Yay!

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

[identity profile] franktheavenger.livejournal.com 2007-03-26 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Vacation starts this Thursday and goes until the second week of April. ;)

[identity profile] ginkgo.livejournal.com 2007-03-30 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Daaaaang! That's awesome.