Barking Spiders Posted June 30, 2020 Share Posted June 30, 2020 Dunno why but in the last hour naff pop tune The Lion Sleeps Tonight has been worming its way into my ear. This is a song that peddles misinformation inferring that lions live in the jungle but as any fule kno, the habitat of lions is grassland, savannah, dense scrub and open woodland. Open woodlands are no jungle tho'! Now if they'd sung 'in the jungle... the tiger/panther/jaguar sleeps tonight' that would've been better. Fleetwood Mac are woefully ignorant of the fact that thunder often happens during dry conditions and not just when it's raining. The lyric should read 'Thunder often occurs when it's raining'. What other song lyrics are factually incorrect 3 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickD Posted June 30, 2020 Share Posted June 30, 2020 Though I have no real proof, I strongly suspect it was actually raining water, as opposed to Men. 2 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_c2 Posted June 30, 2020 Share Posted June 30, 2020 My favourite is Zombie Crew by Send More Paramedics. "10,000 volts of current fills the room"......hmmm, does it? Regarding lions etc, I have always wondered upon the historical anomoly of small children having a teddy bear - a bear is a dangerous wild animal, very unsuitable for domestication. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deedee Posted June 30, 2020 Share Posted June 30, 2020 Toto's infamous claim that Kilimanjaro rises above the Serengeti. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beedster Posted June 30, 2020 Share Posted June 30, 2020 Most medical experts would agree that you are not as serious as cancer when you suggest that rhythm is a dancer 3 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beedster Posted June 30, 2020 Share Posted June 30, 2020 Gravity makes the world go around, not fat bottomed girls 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beedster Posted June 30, 2020 Share Posted June 30, 2020 (edited) Anatomists have to date failed to find tear ducts in a guitar Edited June 30, 2020 by Beedster 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maude Posted June 30, 2020 Share Posted June 30, 2020 2 minutes ago, Beedster said: Anatomists have to date failed to find strings in any post-mortem examination of a heart The chordae tendineae (tendinous cords), colloquially known as the heart strings, are tendon-resembling fibrous cords of connective tissue that connect the papillary muscles to the tricuspid valve and the mitral valve in the heart. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xgsjx Posted June 30, 2020 Share Posted June 30, 2020 22 minutes ago, Barking Spiders said: Dunno why but in the last hour naff pop tune The Lion Sleeps Tonight has been worming its way into my ear. This is a song that peddles misinformation inferring that lions live in the jungle but as any fule kno, the habitat of lions is grassland, savannah, dense scrub and open woodland. Open woodlands are no jungle tho'! Now if they'd sung 'in the jungle... the tiger/panther/jaguar sleeps tonight' that would've been better. You do know that the urge to sing that song is just a whim away. 1 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beedster Posted June 30, 2020 Share Posted June 30, 2020 6 minutes ago, Maude said: The chordae tendineae (tendinous cords), colloquially known as the heart strings, are tendon-resembling fibrous cords of connective tissue that connect the papillary muscles to the tricuspid valve and the mitral valve in the heart. Ha ha, which is why I changed it 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NickD Posted June 30, 2020 Share Posted June 30, 2020 I would suggest that Nat King Cole would have been more accurate if he'd sung 'When I fall in love, it will be until you turn into a perma-grumpy, nagging harpy'. Similarly, in Natalie Cole's cover of her Dad's hit, 'When I fall in love, it will be until you become a lazy, inattentive sh!t', would have been more factually correct. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maude Posted June 30, 2020 Share Posted June 30, 2020 Just now, xgsjx said: You do know that the urge to sing that song is just a whim away. Absolutely terrible. Well played 😆 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beedster Posted June 30, 2020 Share Posted June 30, 2020 1 minute ago, xgsjx said: You do know that the urge to sing that song is just a whim away. Ouch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maude Posted June 30, 2020 Share Posted June 30, 2020 1 minute ago, Beedster said: Ha ha, which is why I changed it Too slow my friend, it's been quoted and will never disappear. 😁 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maude Posted June 30, 2020 Share Posted June 30, 2020 U2, Vertigo. 1 - 2 - 3 - 14, eh? 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jus Lukin Posted June 30, 2020 Share Posted June 30, 2020 (edited) - Edited March 6, 2022 by Jus Lukin 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goingdownslow Posted June 30, 2020 Share Posted June 30, 2020 No wonder I failed my history at school... Manfred Man - 54321 The Trojans waited at the gates for weeks In a wooden horse into the city they sneaked Who let them in, was it the Greeks... 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul S Posted June 30, 2020 Share Posted June 30, 2020 (edited) 8 minutes ago, Maude said: U2, Vertigo. 1 - 2 - 3 - 14, eh? Have to say that bugs me every time I hear it. Was it ironic or ignorant? Edit. To be fair every time Bono opens his gob it bugs me. Edited June 30, 2020 by Paul S 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nige1968 Posted June 30, 2020 Share Posted June 30, 2020 (edited) In 1970, Alice Cooper was in fact 22. The kids from Fame, meanwhile, are unlikely to actually live forever. Edited June 30, 2020 by nige1968 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tauzero Posted June 30, 2020 Share Posted June 30, 2020 No, Alanis, rain on your wedding day is not ironic. Nor are any of the other examples in your song, they're simply examples of misfortune. Irony is writing a song called "Ironic" while not understanding what "ironic" means. 11 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beedster Posted June 30, 2020 Share Posted June 30, 2020 4 minutes ago, tauzero said:Irony is writing a song called "Ironic" while not understanding what "ironic" means. Yep Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_c2 Posted June 30, 2020 Share Posted June 30, 2020 Live and Let Die: Its either "in this ever changing world in which we live" or "in this ever changing world...which we live in". NOT "in this ever changing world in which we live in"!!!!! Grrr!!!!!!!!!!!! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nige1968 Posted June 30, 2020 Share Posted June 30, 2020 4 minutes ago, tauzero said: No, Alanis, rain on your wedding day is not ironic. Nor are any of the other examples in your song, they're simply examples of misfortune. Irony is writing a song called "Ironic" while not understanding what "ironic" means. The Oxford Dictionary of English contains this definition: "a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often wryly amusing as a result". Now I've nothing against her, but I'd laugh a little if it really did rain on her wedding day. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_c2 Posted June 30, 2020 Share Posted June 30, 2020 Whenever some crappy covers band does "Nobody does it better", I feel its my duty to point out that Carly Simon did it better. 3 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodinblack Posted June 30, 2020 Share Posted June 30, 2020 Vanessa Williams. Here song 'save the best for last' is one of the few that really annoyed me. " Sometimes the snow comes down in June Sometimes the sun goes 'round the moon ". First part, no problem, its possible, second part? I think not, stick to beauty pagenting. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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