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  • Fact checking in popular songs.
  • IdleJon
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    If Springsteen had sung “Born to rip fans off with over inflated ticket prices while pretending to be a working class hero”, that would have stood up rather better to fact checking than his blabbering on about “last chance power drives” whatever they are.

    I can’t think of anything in the lyrics of Born To Run that suggests that you have to be working class to be BtR. Yes, the use of ‘tramps’ conflicts with the idea of needing a meaty engine to Run but I’d guess that tramp doesn’t mean what we use it for in the UK. And the ‘mansions of glory’ bit suggests people of money. Even Jacob Rees Mogg may be Born To Run.

    10
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    I have not needed or indeed wanted a Shady Lane.

    egb81
    Free Member

    Thunder doesn’t only happen when it’s raining.

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    greatbeardedone
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    “The sun ain’t gonna shine any more, the moon ain’t gonna rise in the sky”.

    Well, allow me to retort, mr Walker.

    tjagain
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    I have no idea where to start with this!  all sorts of claims in there.  somehow I doubt yellowman had 110 girlfriends

    Zungguzungguguzungguzeng
    Zungguzungguguzungguzeng

    Seh if yuh have a paper, yuh must have a pen
    And if yuh have a start, yuh must have a end
    Seh five plus five, it equal to ten
    And if yuh have goat, yuh put dem in a pen
    And if yuh have a rooster, yuh must have a hen, now

    Zungguzungguguzungguzeng
    Zungguzungguguzungguzeng

    Jump fe happiness and jump fe joy
    Yuh nuh fe call Yellowman nuh bwoy
    Lady Ann a yuh so take fe toy
    Playgal all dem call him joy
    Yuh nuh fe call Yellowman nuh bwoy
    Yuh nuh fe call Junjo nuh bwoy
    Yuh nuh fe take I and I fe bwoy

    Zungguzungguguzungguzeng, watch it!
    Zungguzungguguzungguzeng, catch it!
    Zungguzungguguzungguzeng, ‘ca

    Zero, zero, one, one, nine
    ‘ca Yellowman make yuh feel so fine
    Me chat all me lyric, me chat dem in a rhyme
    Me nuh eat lime it full of a rhyme
    ‘ca Yellowman him a commit nuh crime, ‘ca

    Zungguzungguguzungguzeng
    Zungguzungguguzungguzeng, hey!

    Ku Shung Peng, Ku Shu-shu-shung Peng, hey!
    Ku Shung Peng, Ku Shu-shu-shung Peng
    Seh if yuh have a start, yuh must have a end
    Seh if yuh have a paper, yuh pass me the pen
    But tell yuh Yellowman have too much girlfriend
    ‘ca nuff a dem a talk bout me nuh have nuh girlfriend
    Yuh a idiot bwoy, me have a hundred and ten
    Seh all a dem, dem have yellow children
    All a dem, dem have yellow children
    Some live a Kingston and dung a Maypenn
    Nuff a dem a ask me how me have nuff girlfriend, true
    Arguments, I have nuff arguments, Lord!
    Arguments, I have nuff arguments
    Me enter in the house of parliament
    Prime minister and his wife haffe keep silent
    A true Yellowman a chat intelligent
    Dem put me in the court, the judge seh yuh innocent, true
    Arguments, I have nuff arguments, ‘ca
    Sandra should a be fe me girlfriend, hey!
    Lady Ann should a be me girlfriend, make a

    Zunggu zungguguzungguzeng, hey!
    Yuh nuh fe jump fe happy or joy
    Yuh nuh fe call Yellowman nuh bwoy
    Nuh bother take Junjo fe toy
    Me bredda in law them call him U-roy

    Zungguzungguguzungguzeng, watch it!
    Zungguzungguguzungguzeng

    Yuh leggo violence, yuh smoke ishence
    Yuh deal with violence, yuh go dung silence
    But tell yuh Yellowman come fe tell dem again
    Yuh live a Kingston or yuh live a Maypenn
    Seh if yuh have a rooster, yuh must have a hen
    And if yuh have a start, yuh must have a end
    But watch Yellowman come fe rock dem again, Lord!

    Zungguzungguguzungguzeng, watch it!
    Zungguzungguguzungguzeng, hey!

    Jump fe happiness and jump fe joy
    Yuh nuh fe take Yellowman fe bwoy
    Yuh nuh fe take Yellowman fe toy

    Zungguzungguguzungguzeng, watch it!
    Zungguzungguguzungguzeng, hey!

    Ku Shung Peng, Ku Shu-shu-shung Peng!
    But tell yuh Yellow vibes it sound like FM
    The other rest of vibes sound like AM
    But tell yuh Yellowman come fe rock dem again
    Yuh could a live a Kingston, Mo’ Bay or Maypenn, ‘ca

    Zungguzungguguzungguzeng, hey!
    Zungguzungguguzungguzeng, hey!

    Nuh fe call Yellowman nuh bwoy
    Yuh fe jump fe happiness and jump fe joy

    Zunggu zungguguzungguzeng
    ‘ca Yellowman have nuff girlfriend
    ‘ca watch a man me come fe tell dem again
    ‘ca Yellowman come fe mash dem again, Lord!

    codybrennan
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    You are all my fact-checking cuz.

    tjagain
    Full Member

    The drugs don’t work

    You need a better supplier then

    tomhoward
    Full Member

    8 days a week

    Didnt a bodybuilding forum get all in a tizz over this?

    pandhandj
    Free Member

    @rustyspanner

    Au contraire!

    molgrips
    Free Member

    I can’t think of anything in the lyrics of Born To Run that suggests that you have to be working class to be BtR.

    I was going to say that Roger Bannister was posh, so I fact checked myself and whilst he did go to a public school his parents were both originally working class, so… Dunno.

    Then I was going to say Seb Coe was posh but he went to a secondary modern.

    molgrips
    Free Member

    Do they call you mellow yellow? Really?

    RustySpanner
    Full Member

    Damn, forgot about them!

    failedengineer
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    “I hear that the Emperor of China used to wear iron shoes with ease” Where did you hear that, Robin?

    “Even Damnation is poisoned with rainbows” Difficult to prove, Leonard.

    Couple of fairly obscure ones, there. Some of you oldies may remember them.

    matt_outandabout
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    I bet the street has now been adopted over so many years, and so Bono cannot walk there anymore.

    fasthaggis
    Full Member

    In other ‘Bono’ news
    Whit a roaster

    There never was a Yellow Submarine for them all to live in.

    Cougar
    Full Member

    Three pages in and we’ve all missed the biggest question.

    Does Batman, in fact, smell?

    RustySpanner
    Full Member

    Bitterness, money and talc.

    tthew
    Full Member

    Are African bluebirds migratory?

    I think that’s the african swallow, mainly to transport coconuts.

    tjagain
    Full Member

    The bluebird is a north american bird.  There are other birds that have some blue colouring but they are not Bluebirds – they may be blue birds

    lister
    Full Member

    “Sugar in your coffee doesn’t taste quite right,
    Feeling the effects for a hundred thousand nights”
    273 years Mr Mould. I don’t think the effects will really last that long.

    pandhandj
    Free Member

    @rustyspanner

    No worries mate!

    I cant stay mad at you! 🙂

    defblade
    Free Member

    Diamonds do not shine.

    They reflect and they refract…
    …but they do NOT effing shine!

    stingmered
    Full Member

    7 days in a week last time I checked.

    leondemille
    Free Member

    Deserts don’t miss the rain, if they did they wouldn’t be deserts!

    stingmered
    Full Member

    (Ha, beaten to it I’ve just seen!)

    northernsoul
    Full Member

    The average age of combat soldiers in the Vietnam war was closer to twenty t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t twenty three than n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n nineteen (linky).

    scotroutes
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    3 am is not, in fact, eternal. 60 seconds later, it’s 3:01.

    scruffythefirst
    Free Member

    Are dirty pigeons capable of feeling love?

    And I’m pretty sure 8bn people aren’t holding hands.

    ThePinkster
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    I’ve just checked, and much to my neighbours consternation the only way to feel the noise most definitely is when it’s good and loud

    theotherjonv
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    Fog on the Tyne is all mine all mine

    – is it technically feasible to own weather? I suppose you could bottle a bit of Tyne fog, but claiming all of it sounds as greedy as it is improbable.

    matt_outandabout
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    Does Batman, in fact, smell?

    Of guano…

    scotroutes
    Full Member

    As far as I can tell, Queen never won any competitions.

    Cougar
    Full Member

    There was that day at the races…

    muddy@rseguy
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    Whilst yes, I could technically walk 500miles, I would most likely take the car or perhaps the train instead as it would be quicker.

    TedC
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    Given Sir Brian Mays interests in astrophysics, Queens assertions of the methods of planetary rotation seem even more questionable.

    tomhoward
    Full Member

    Whilst it is possible to fly to the moon, playing amongst the stars will require a much longer trip.

    ads678
    Full Member

    Maybe they were slowly walking down the hall, but faster than cannon and ball.

    Could have been staying in the same hotel and didn’t want to seem to eager to get to the breakfast buffet, but wanted to get there faster as cannon and ball were notorious for nicking all the sausages!!

    theotherjonv
    Full Member

    It’s more likely than the binmen going on a six day bender.

    MoreCashThanDash
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    Given Sir Brian Mays interests in astrophysics, Queens assertions of the methods of planetary rotation seem even more questionable.

    I’m not aware of any peer reviewed challenge to his theorem after all these years, ergo, it remains my working hypothesis.

    BigJohn
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    I think Perry Como might have ended up in the burns unit if he was telling the truth.

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