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I are askeered.
So we're watching BSG tonight, when ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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!)
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!)
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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.
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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.
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Heathen?
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No, I'm not a fan. :p
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Was it Starbuck who said "There must be some way out of here", and was it said to Baltar? They're clearly the joker and thief, respectively. (Don't spoil me--I watch BSG on DVD, so I'm only up to the end of season 2.5. I can't believe they wasted Dean Stockwell in a throwaway role, damn them.)
Interesting trivial point: One of Liam's favorite bedtime songs (after "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star") is "Van Diemen's Land", also off _Rattle and Hum_. Unfortunately, he thinks it's called "Hold Me Now", so when he talks about it to other people, they end up thinking I'm a Thompson Twins fan. (I decided early on that, if I was going to have to sing to him at bedtime, I was damn well going to sing something that didn't make me want to barf. His repertoire now includes such classics as the Beach Boys' "Shut Down", "Take Me Out to the Ball Game", and the Adventurer's Club version of "Do, Re, Mi"--"Dough, with which I buy my beer; Ray, the guy I buy beer from; Me, the guy I buy beer for...")
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Speaking of insanity, did you ever use your vacation days?
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I definitely heard the shark gasp as the show jumped over it...
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