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How come I've never noticed this before ?

If you need a friend, I'm sailing right behind
Like a bridge over trouble waters


You what ?

If bridges are noted for one thing it's for not sailing anywhere.

Date: 2004-11-02 05:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mr-tom.livejournal.com
It's like: "You're so vain, you probably think this song about you."

It's obviously about whoever it is that thinks it is about them, and therefore an abominable metric of vanity.

Date: 2004-11-02 05:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] venta.livejournal.com
Johnny Cash - The Man Comes Around

But even the mighty Mr Cash can't render Danny Boy listenable :(

Date: 2004-11-02 05:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] phlebas.livejournal.com
I think you're missing either an 'and' or some punctuation.

Date: 2004-11-02 05:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] venta.livejournal.com
Hmm. Googling for lyrics:

If you need a friend
I'm sailing right behind.
Like a bridge over troubled water
I will ease your mind.


That's better. Still doesn't make a whole lot of sense, mind.

Date: 2004-11-02 06:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lanfykins.livejournal.com
ISTR that Paul Simon mentioned somewhere that the 'Sail on, silver girl' verse was an afterthought that didn't work as well as the others.

No shit.

Date: 2004-11-02 06:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lanfykins.livejournal.com
Thankyou.

The song 'Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad' has now left my head.

On the other hand...

You're so vain... la la la la la la la la la la...

Date: 2004-11-02 06:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] venta.livejournal.com
Whaddya say?

Nothing much, largely because I misread "Plan VagiPirate" and got hopelessly derailed trying to fit that into your scheme.

Irrelevantly: if you're not reading oxgoths right at this minute, where on earth has the Masquerade ball site gone too ? The link seems to go straight to a private blog sort of thing.

Date: 2004-11-02 06:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] venta.livejournal.com
14:11 (from LuCyFurRrRRrr, who says she's having no trouble seeing the site. Maybe it's just me :( ). First mail today was 12:29 from Samantha B.

Date: 2004-11-02 06:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] venta.livejournal.com
clear your cache and try again - is it working now?

I'm a programmer, not a muppet, y'know. I tried that one already :)

Date: 2004-11-02 06:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_corpse_/
If bridges are noted for one thing it's for not sailing anywhere.

True, but some do trundle.

Date: 2004-11-02 06:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] venta.livejournal.com
And, much as I hate to suggest that there's anything interesting in Middlesbrough, the Transporter Bridge" (http://www.nhi.clara.net/oldy017.htm) does kind of sail a bit.

I can't find a better photo, sadly. And a few online articles about the bridge suggest that the moving platform part is 160ft up or something. Which I'm sure is wrong, I think it "floats" on the river ([livejournal.com profile] jiggery_pokery, any offers?)

Date: 2004-11-02 06:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] venta.livejournal.com
S'ok. Expecting me to have forgotten the obvious is probably a safe bet most of the time ;)

Date: 2004-11-02 06:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] venta.livejournal.com
can I be a vagi-pirate when I grow up...?

I have not yet thought of a good answer to this. I'm deeply disappointed in myself :(

Date: 2004-11-02 06:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_corpse_/
Chicago, as I've been known to say, has fifty moveable bridges. Fifty! Most tilt, some swivel and I think a couple rise, but few actually sail.

Date: 2004-11-02 07:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hjalfi.livejournal.com
If you need a friend, I'm sailing right behind

You mean, on a different boat crowding your stern, and shouting abuse at you because you're blocking all their wind? Some friend.

What's the URL of ITEM-A (the International Taskforce for the Elimination of Metaphor Abuse)?

Date: 2004-11-02 02:10 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Top of the transporter bridge structure is 160ft; the transporting bit is only feet above the (alledgedly clean and sparkling these days) Tees.

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