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Fact: Children never believe you when you say that if they keep arguing you'll find them something unpleasant to do.

Another fact: They'll keep arguing until they have several unpleasant things to do (clean room, bathroom, and weed the flower beds).

There goes most of my to-do list. :D
 
Oh, yeah. And the word 'doula' is from the greek word 'a woman who serves'.

:D
 
"In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida"

is a seventeen-minute, five-second psychedelic rock song by Iron Butterfly, released on their 1968 album In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, occupying the entire second side of the album. The lyrics are simple, and heard only at the beginning and the end. The track was recorded on Monday, May 27, 1968 at Ultrasonic Studios in Hempstead, Long Island, New York. The recording that is heard on the album was actually meant to be a sound check for engineer Don Casale while the band waited for the arrival of producer Jim Hilton. However, Casale had rolled a recording tape, and when the rehearsal was completed it was agreed that the performance was of sufficient quality that another take wasn't needed. Hilton later remixed the recording at Gold Star Studios in Los Angeles.

In later years, band members claimed that the track was actually produced by legendary Long Island producer George "Shadow" Morton. Morton subsequently stated in several interviews that he had agreed to do so at the behest of Atlantic Records chief Ahmet Ertegun, but he also allowed that he was struggling with alcoholism at the time and that his actual oversight of the recording was minimal. Neither Casale or Morton receive credit on the album.

The song is considered significant in rock history because, together with music by Blue Cheer, Jimi Hendrix and Steppenwolf, it marks the point when psychedelic music produced heavy metal. To wit, Blue Cheer's treatment of "Summertime Blues", Hendrix's "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)", and Steppenwolf's "Born To Be Wild" - whose lyrics contain the phrase "heavy-metal thunder" - have in common insistently driving rhythms that typify music of the heavy metal style. In 2009 it was named the 24th greatest hard rock song of all time by VH1.

A commonly related story says that the song's title was originally "In The Garden Of Eden" but at one point in the course of rehearsing and recording, singer Doug Ingle got intoxicated and slurred the words, creating the mondegreen that stuck as the title. However, the liner notes on 'the best of' CD compilation state that drummer Ron Bushy was listening to the track through headphones, and couldn't clearly distinguish what Doug Ingle answered when Ron asked him for the title of the song (which was originally "In-The-Garden-Of-Eden"). An alternate explanation, as given in the liner notes of the 1995 re-release of the In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida album, is that Ingle was drunk and/or high when he first told Bushy the title, and Bushy wrote it down. Bushy then showed Ingle what he had written, and the slurred title stuck.

Covers
  • By Mongo Santamaría on the album "Feelin' Alright"(1970)
  • By the Incredible Bongo Band on the album "Bongo Rock" (1973)
  • 1985 saw a guitar instrumental 12" single released of "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" on Sutra Records. Guitarist Les Fradkin recorded this as a duo with synthesist Rob Hegel. The act was called Maddog.
  • Thrash metal band Slayer cover the song on the Less Than Zero (1987) soundtrack album.
  • Jag Panzer covered it on the "Chain Of Command" album (2004)
  • Hard rock band Electric Earth covered this song on their debut album, Organic Songs - Volume One (2005).
  • Symphonic speed metal band Blind Guardian covered this song their single Fly (2006).
  • Drum and bass producer High Contrast covered this song on his 2007 album, Tough Guys Don't Dance (High Contrast album).
  • A version entitled "In-A-Gadda-Stravinsky" can be found on the Frank Zappa album Guitar. The main riff can be distinctly heard during the beginning of the song.
 
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Mondegreen

A mondegreen is the mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase, typically a standardized phrase such as a line in a poem or a lyric in a song, due to near homophony, in a way that yields a new meaning to the phrase. It should not be confused with Soramimis, which are songs that produce different meanings than those originally intended, when interpreted in another language.

The American writer Sylvia Wright coined the term mondegreen in her essay "The Death of Lady Mondegreen," which was published in Harper's Magazine in November 1954. In the essay, Wright described how, as a young girl, she misheard the final line of the first stanza from the 17th century ballad "The Bonnie Earl O' Murray." She wrote:

When I was a child, my mother used to read aloud to me from Percy's Reliques, and one of my favorite poems began, as I remember:

Ye Highlands and ye Lowlands,
Oh, where hae ye been?
They hae slain the Earl Amurray,
And Lady Mondegreen.

The actual fourth line is "And laid him on the green." As Wright explained the need for a new term, "The point about what I shall hereafter call mondegreens, since no one else has thought up a word for them, is that they are better than the original."

Other examples Wright suggested are:

  • Surely Good Mrs. Murphy shall follow me all the days of my life ("Surely goodness and mercy…" from Psalm 23)
  • The wild, strange battle cry "Haffely, Gaffely, Gaffely, Gonward." ("Half a league, half a league,/ Half a league onward," from "The Charge of the Light Brigade")
In 2008, the word was added to Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.

Examples in song lyrics
  • The "top 3" mondegreens submitted regularly to mondegreen expert Jon Carroll are:
  1. Gladly the cross-eyed bear (from the line in the hymn "Keep Thou My Way" by Fanny Crosby, "Kept by Thy tender care, gladly the cross I'll bear"). Carroll and many others quote it as "Gladly the cross I'd bear". Ed McBain used the mondegreen as the title of a novel. Also, this mondegreen is paraphrased by the band They Might Be Giants in their song "Hide Away Folk Family" (Sadly the cross-eyed bear's been put to sleep behind the stairs, and his shoes are laced with irony.)
  2. There's a bathroom on the right (the line at the end of each verse of "Bad Moon Rising" by Creedence Clearwater Revival: "There's a bad moon on the rise")
  3. 'Scuse me while I kiss this guy (from a lyric in the song "Purple Haze", by Jimi Hendrix: "'Scuse me while I kiss the sky").
  • Both Creedence's John Fogerty and Hendrix eventually capitalized on these mishearings and deliberately sang the "mondegreen" versions of their songs in concert.
  • In Stevie Nicks' song Edge of Seventeen the line "Just like a white-winged dove" is often misheard as "Just like a one-winged dove".
  • In an episode of the television sitcom Friends, Phoebe believes the lyric from Elton John's "Tiny Dancer", "Hold me closer, tiny dancer" is actually "Hold me closer, Tony Danza."
  • In the CBS sitcom The Nanny, "The girl with kaleidoscope eyes," from the song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" by The Beatles, is misheard as "The girl with colitis goes by."
  • "A wean in a manger," using the Scottish word for a baby, instead of "Away in a Manger." Gervase Phinn used "A Wayne in a Manger" as the title of a book about a children's nativity play.
  • "Tell the Huns it's time for me" (from the song "Beneath the Lights of Home (In a Little Sleepy Town)" sung by Deanna Durbin in Nice Girl? (1941): "Turn the hands of time for me") on the BBC radio programme Quote Unquote in 2002.
  • Mairzy Doats, a 1943 novelty song by Milton Drake, Al Hoffman and Jerry Livingston, works the other way around. The lyrics are already a mondegreen, and it's up to the listener to figure out what they mean. The refrain of the song repeats nonsensical sounding lines:
Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey
A kiddley divey too, wooden shoe (or, if you prefer, "wouldn't chew").​

The only clue to the actual meaning of the words is contained in the bridge:
If the words sound queer and funny to your ear, a little bit jumbled and jivey,
Sing "Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy."​

From this point, the ear can figure out that the last line of the refrain is "A kid'll eat ivy too; wouldn't you?", but this last line is sung in the song only as a mondegreen.​
  • The Joni Mitchell cover of the Lambert, Hendricks & Ross song "Twisted" includes a mondegreen: the original lyric They all laughed at A. Graham Bell was misheard and subsequently recorded by Mitchell as They all laugh at angry young men.
  • A controversial example is found in the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit, where Donald Duck in a scene chastises Daffy Duck, exclaiming "Doggone stubborn little..." Donald's quacks have frequently been misheard as "God damn stupid nigger", resulting in a hard-to-put-down urban legend.
 
Sir_Winston54 said:
Mondegreen

A mondegreen is the mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase, typically a standardized phrase such as a line in a poem or a lyric in a song, due to near homophony, in a way that yields a new meaning to the phrase. It should not be confused with Soramimis, which are songs that produce different meanings than those originally intended, when interpreted in another language.

The American writer Sylvia Wright coined the term mondegreen in her essay "The Death of Lady Mondegreen," which was published in Harper's Magazine in November 1954. In the essay, Wright described how, as a young girl, she misheard the final line of the first stanza from the 17th century ballad "The Bonnie Earl O' Murray." She wrote:

When I was a child, my mother used to read aloud to me from Percy's Reliques, and one of my favorite poems began, as I remember:

Ye Highlands and ye Lowlands,
Oh, where hae ye been?
They hae slain the Earl Amurray,
And Lady Mondegreen.

The actual fourth line is "And laid him on the green." As Wright explained the need for a new term, "The point about what I shall hereafter call mondegreens, since no one else has thought up a word for them, is that they are better than the original."

Other examples Wright suggested are:

  • Surely Good Mrs. Murphy shall follow me all the days of my life ("Surely goodness and mercy…" from Psalm 23)
  • The wild, strange battle cry "Haffely, Gaffely, Gaffely, Gonward." ("Half a league, half a league,/ Half a league onward," from "The Charge of the Light Brigade")
In 2008, the word was added to Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.

Examples in song lyrics
  • The "top 3" mondegreens submitted regularly to mondegreen expert Jon Carroll are:
  1. Gladly the cross-eyed bear (from the line in the hymn "Keep Thou My Way" by Fanny Crosby, "Kept by Thy tender care, gladly the cross I'll bear"). Carroll and many others quote it as "Gladly the cross I'd bear". Ed McBain used the mondegreen as the title of a novel. Also, this mondegreen is paraphrased by the band They Might Be Giants in their song "Hide Away Folk Family" (Sadly the cross-eyed bear's been put to sleep behind the stairs, and his shoes are laced with irony.)
  2. There's a bathroom on the right (the line at the end of each verse of "Bad Moon Rising" by Creedence Clearwater Revival: "There's a bad moon on the rise")
  3. 'Scuse me while I kiss this guy (from a lyric in the song "Purple Haze", by Jimi Hendrix: "'Scuse me while I kiss the sky").
  • Both Creedence's John Fogerty and Hendrix eventually capitalized on these mishearings and deliberately sang the "mondegreen" versions of their songs in concert.
  • In Stevie Nicks' song Edge of Seventeen the line "Just like a white-winged dove" is often misheard as "Just like a one-winged dove".
  • In an episode of the television sitcom Friends, Phoebe believes the lyric from Elton John's "Tiny Dancer", "Hold me closer, tiny dancer" is actually "Hold me closer, Tony Danza."
  • In the CBS sitcom The Nanny, "The girl with kaleidoscope eyes," from the song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" by The Beatles, is misheard as "The girl with colitis goes by."
  • "A wean in a manger," using the Scottish word for a baby, instead of "Away in a Manger." Gervase Phinn used "A Wayne in a Manger" as the title of a book about a children's nativity play.
  • "Tell the Huns it's time for me" (from the song "Beneath the Lights of Home (In a Little Sleepy Town)" sung by Deanna Durbin in Nice Girl? (1941): "Turn the hands of time for me") on the BBC radio programme Quote Unquote in 2002.
  • Mairzy Doats, a 1943 novelty song by Milton Drake, Al Hoffman and Jerry Livingston, works the other way around. The lyrics are already a mondegreen, and it's up to the listener to figure out what they mean. The refrain of the song repeats nonsensical sounding lines:
Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey
A kiddley divey too, wooden shoe (or, if you prefer, "wouldn't chew").​

The only clue to the actual meaning of the words is contained in the bridge:
If the words sound queer and funny to your ear, a little bit jumbled and jivey,
Sing "Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy."​

From this point, the ear can figure out that the last line of the refrain is "A kid'll eat ivy too; wouldn't you?", but this last line is sung in the song only as a mondegreen.​
  • The Joni Mitchell cover of the Lambert, Hendricks & Ross song "Twisted" includes a mondegreen: the original lyric They all laughed at A. Graham Bell was misheard and subsequently recorded by Mitchell as They all laugh at angry young men.
  • A controversial example is found in the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit, where Donald Duck in a scene chastises Daffy Duck, exclaiming "Doggone stubborn little..." Donald's quacks have frequently been misheard as "God damn stupid nigger", resulting in a hard-to-put-down urban legend.
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My personal favorite...

"The ants are my friends, they're blowing in the wind."
 
jockdom said:
Boiling water will turn into ice in the freezer quicker than cold water.
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Nope, not true.

I dated a refrigeration engineer; this false belief was one of his pet peeves. He explained the science but all I remember is "Blah blah blah, not true, blah blah blah."

He could tell me what kind of ice machine a restaurant used by the shape of the cubes in our glass.
 
The city with the world longest name is:

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.

(It's in Wales)
 
WriterDom said:
If Americans gave a shit about soccer it would ruin the World Cup. We'd win it every year. It would be like the Ryder Cup. After we kicked the UK arse ten matches in a row they had to bring in all of Europe to make it competitive.

Kicking around a ball is child's play. The only reason the world likes it so much is they can play on the cheap. With an inflated goat's bladder and two sticks in the ground.
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WriterDom said:
100,000 people or more turn out for College football. Half the town turns out for high school football, in the south anyway. The only people watching soccer are their girlfriends and gay guys who like tanned legs.

But anyway. Hijack over.
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You do have a point, to an extent. This is coming from a brit too!
If soccer (i will say this to avoid confusion) was done with the same attention to detail as American Football, it would be a completely different ball game (literally)! In some ways, I wish soccer would learn from how the NFL is run in terms of salary caps, drafts etc as this would mean the game would be less determined by how rich each club was. But unfortunately this isnt possible as there is no college system feeding into the professional level. I dunno if the US would win the world cup every year either as some teams are pretty good (not including any of the UK countries!). But there is definitely some skill involved when playing soccer, probably more so than you give it credit for. Although I must be honest, I fucking love the NFL too!

As for attendances. I am sure people can theorise why so many people goto college and high school games, but the fact 100k people goto a college game has always fascinated and impressed me. My soccer team averages 8000 fans a game, and that is with a local population of 350000 people too! Tis a shame really. Although I wouldnt call some of the soccer thugs in this country gay guys!
 
naxalite0906 said:
You do have a point, to an extent. This is coming from a brit too!
If soccer (i will say this to avoid confusion) was done with the same attention to detail as American Football, it would be a completely different ball game (literally)! In some ways, I wish soccer would learn from how the NFL is run in terms of salary caps, drafts etc as this would mean the game would be less determined by how rich each club was. But unfortunately this isnt possible as there is no college system feeding into the professional level. I dunno if the US would win the world cup every year either as some teams are pretty good (not including any of the UK countries!). But there is definitely some skill involved when playing soccer, probably more so than you give it credit for. Although I must be honest, I fucking love the NFL too!

As for attendances. I am sure people can theorise why so many people goto college and high school games, but the fact 100k people goto a college game has always fascinated and impressed me. My soccer team averages 8000 fans a game, and that is with a local population of 350000 people too! Tis a shame really. Although I wouldnt call some of the soccer thugs in this country gay guys!
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It takes a hell of a lot of individual skill to play soccer. But I would bet an NFL playbook would be larger and a lot more complex that what soccer players have to learn.
 
Over 10,000 turn out to watch the University of Georgia's ladies' gymnastics team every meet. But they are going for their fifth national championship in a row.
 
WriterDom said:
It takes a hell of a lot of individual skill to play soccer. But I would bet an NFL playbook would be larger and a lot more complex that what soccer players have to learn.
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I agree, but I think it would be alot closer than you might originally think. The difference is that nfl is built around set pieces/plays where there are a lot more open plays in soccer and it is more continuous.
 
naxalite0906 said:
I agree, but I think it would be alot closer than you might originally think. The difference is that nfl is built around set pieces/plays where there are a lot more open plays in soccer and it is more continuous.
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Similar to basketball I imagine. NFL playbooks can be 800 pages long.
 
Well, it's very close to basketball actually except you dribble and shoot with your feet. And being 7' tall doesn't give you an advantage.


Except for the goalie. Who gets to pick his ass when the ball is at the other end.
 
naxalite0906 said:
You do have a point, to an extent. This is coming from a brit too!
If soccer (i will say this to avoid confusion) was done with the same attention to detail as American Football, it would be a completely different ball game (literally)! In some ways, I wish soccer would learn from how the NFL is run in terms of salary caps, drafts etc as this would mean the game would be less determined by how rich each club was. But unfortunately this isnt possible as there is no college system feeding into the professional level. I dunno if the US would win the world cup every year either as some teams are pretty good (not including any of the UK countries!). But there is definitely some skill involved when playing soccer, probably more so than you give it credit for. Although I must be honest, I fucking love the NFL too!
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I doubt we'd win every year. Not going to happen. The NFL requires a specific performance set, as witnessed by the combines used to test. That performance set does not lend itself to training on a shoestring budget. Great NFL players are built, as much as they are born. Soccer skill work takes a ball and dedication. This is why it is so damned popular worldwide, as even the poorest kid in the streets of Mumbai or Bangalore can find something ballish to boot around.

The Ronaldhino's of the world are born, in comparison. NFL players hit weights, use sleds, have large complex practices, require pads, etc. The training regimens are intense, and often very precisely put together. This is why NFL players are so of the most phenomenal athletes on the planet (guys that large should not be able to run that fast). You just don't need all that for soccer.

Hell, I gave my son a good workout last season just by dropping some cheap cones on the ground and having him dribble the ball between the cones. Total cost of equipment outside of the ball? Erm, I think I paid $3 for two sets of cones. If your kid is a QB or a receiver you might be able to get skills practice done on the cheap like that. But if your kid is a tackle?

As for attendances. I am sure people can theorise why so many people goto college and high school games, but the fact 100k people goto a college game has always fascinated and impressed me. My soccer team averages 8000 fans a game, and that is with a local population of 350000 people too! Tis a shame really.
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Attendance numbers are weird there. It makes me wonder how some of those clubs make money.

Although I wouldnt call some of the soccer thugs in this country gay guys!
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Ain't that the truth? A! G! G! R! O!

One of my best friends is a Londoner. He came over here to attend a wedding of a mutual friend, and we went by her dad's place. Her dad's a Brit ex-pat living here, and the first thing out of his mouth was to ask my mate about a big game that had played the night before, Arsenal vs Manchester U. My mate is an arsenal fan, but he had no idea what side her dad was on, and his 55yr old arse was looking a bit hostile when he asked the question, so M claimed that he didn't follow footie. Her dad gave my friend a truly withering look that equated him somewhere abouts pond scum and paedophiles. I asked later why, and he said that her dad smelled like a hooligan, and he might get decked for answering wrong.

Later on, at the reception, her dad and his brother got positively shit-faced, and were acting like idiots dancing to Stones tunes. They almost got into a brawl with each other over a soccer argument too. My mate just nodded and smiled. (It turned out later that he was an Arsenal fan too, ironically.)

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WriterDom said:
It takes a hell of a lot of individual skill to play soccer. But I would bet an NFL playbook would be larger and a lot more complex that what soccer players have to learn.
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I would guess that it is probably not too far off at the World Cup level.

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WriterDom said:
Over 10,000 turn out to watch the University of Georgia's ladies' gymnastics team every meet. But they are going for their fifth national championship in a row.
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You are talking about Georgia, and we all know they're insane about that sort of thing down there.

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Sir_Winston54 said:
My thought was, "It's probably pronounced 'Johnsonville' or something like that." :rolleyes:
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*snort*

Good show, Sir W.
 
WriterDom said:
Well, it's very close to basketball actually except you dribble and shoot with your feet. And being 7' tall doesn't give you an advantage.

Except for the goalie. Who gets to pick his ass when the ball is at the other end.
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I'd say it is a bit more analogous to hockey. Especially for the last part of your post there.
 
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