What is the most pretentious literary reference in a song ever?

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I know this girl
This very special girl
And she works in a library, yeah
Standing there behind the counter
Willing to help
With all the problems that I encounter

Helps me find Hemingway
Helps me find Genet
Helps me find Brecht
Helps me find Chandler
Helps me find James Joyce
She always makes the right choice

― Sylvia North, Friday, 29 April 2005 08:35 (twenty years ago)

Never heard of it.

Anyway, "THAT BOOK BY NA! BO! KOV!!" pWNS this thread.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 29 April 2005 08:38 (twenty years ago)

Divine Comedy, The Booklovers, although that's heart-on-the-sleeve pretentious and proud of it.

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 29 April 2005 08:41 (twenty years ago)

http://www.catharton.com/rathmines/dcprom3.htm

― ledge (ledge), Friday, 29 April 2005 08:43 (twenty years ago)

"You read Norman Mailer, and get yourself a new tailor"
Good old Lloyd ownz this thread.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 29 April 2005 08:49 (twenty years ago)

Momus ups the stakes by including his own collection of lyrics among erotic classix:

[...]
I love you, you've read:
Ovid, Anaïs Nin
The Song of Solomon
The Perfumed Garden and Georges Bataille's
The Story of the Eye
The Petronius Satyricon
The Arabian Nights, the Decameron
The Marquis de Sade's 120 Days
And Serge Gainsbourg singing songs to Sweet Jane B
[...]
I love you, you've read:
Sacher Masoch and DHL
Portnoy's Complaint and mine as well
Frank Harris, The Life and Loves
Lusts of a Moron, Wings of a Dove
The Latins of the Silver Age
The triolets of Paul Verlaine
Lautreamont and G. Cabrera Infante
Mishima Yukio and Sweet Jane B

(Most of these posts seem to use quantity as criterion, tho) (xpost)

― OleM (OleM), Friday, 29 April 2005 08:50 (twenty years ago)

That Lloyd Cole couplet is a classic howler, but I must submit dear old Mr. Gartside's "Jacques Derrida."

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Friday, 29 April 2005 09:09 (twenty years ago)

No. There's good pretentious (i.e. everything mentioned here except "THAT BOOK BY NA! BO! KOV!") and bad pretentious (exemplified by "THAT BOOK BY NA! BO! KOV!").

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 29 April 2005 09:10 (twenty years ago)

marcello otm.

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 29 April 2005 09:11 (twenty years ago)

BROS When Will I Be Famous (1987)

You read Karl Marx/ and you taught yourself to dance.

Actually doesn't look that bad on paper.

― piscesboy, Friday, 29 April 2005 09:12 (twenty years ago)

Then you listen to it and wince winsomely as Matt Goss tries to rhyme "Marx" with "dance."

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 29 April 2005 09:19 (twenty years ago)

it works if you're southern

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 29 April 2005 09:23 (twenty years ago)

Just like everything else.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Friday, 29 April 2005 09:27 (twenty years ago)

I suppose it's a slight cut above Chris de Burgh rhyming "dance" with "romance" and then pronouncing them differently.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 29 April 2005 09:28 (twenty years ago)

Peter Gabriel's cover of 'the book of love' hilariously comes up with 'instructions for d-ARRRRR-ntsing', but then again I suppose that is how we quaint Britishers speak, innit.

― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Friday, 29 April 2005 09:31 (twenty years ago)

Only the ones who went to like Charterhouse yeh?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 29 April 2005 09:32 (twenty years ago)

These are the stories of Edgar Allan Poe
Not exactly the boy next door
He'll tell you tales of horror
Then he'll play with your mind
If you haven't heard of him
You must be deaf or blind
These are the stories of Edgar Allan Poe
Not exactly the boy next door

Not exactly pretentious. Just fucking awful.

― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Friday, 29 April 2005 09:33 (twenty years ago)

Where was that from? That Alan Parsons Project thing?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 29 April 2005 09:34 (twenty years ago)

Lou Reed

― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Friday, 29 April 2005 09:35 (twenty years ago)

Ha ha, Lou, you complete divvy.

― Pradaismus (Dada), Friday, 29 April 2005 09:36 (twenty years ago)

Oh blimey, The Raven!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 29 April 2005 09:38 (twenty years ago)

Apart from anything else, hearing him trying to rhyme "Poe" with "door" is pretty painful.

― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Friday, 29 April 2005 09:38 (twenty years ago)

More Lou nonsense:

"My Daedalus to your Bloom was such a perfect wit"

In fact that whole song is a laff riot

― Pradaismus (Dada), Friday, 29 April 2005 09:40 (twenty years ago)

Presumably that is why a copy has been mouldering away in the basement of Notting Hill MVE for the last eight months - on display; they knock a quid off the price once a month. It started at £13 and now it's a fiver, and still no takers.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 29 April 2005 09:40 (twenty years ago)

That's actually from "My House" is which Lou claims his house is haunted by Delmore Schwarz's ghost - that's not a ghost Lou, that's the D.T.s:

"Delmore, I missed all your funny ways
I missed your jokes and the brilliant things you said
My Dedalus to your Bloom
Was such a perfect wit
And to find you in my house
Makes things perfect"

― Pradaismus (Dada), Friday, 29 April 2005 09:44 (twenty years ago)

Lou Reed is like the Evan Parker to John Cale's Derek Bailey.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 29 April 2005 09:45 (twenty years ago)

Marcello otm. "shake & cough/nab-o-kov" sets a standard few could ever hope to match.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 29 April 2005 09:48 (twenty years ago)

That lyric is pretentious in so many ways, I mean quoting "Ulysees" in order to make yourself seem the son and heir to Delmore Schwarz - mind you, Delmore Schwarz was a pilled-up hasbeen boozehound when Lou knew him so Lou was probably right on that score (xpost)

― Pradaismus (Dada), Friday, 29 April 2005 09:50 (twenty years ago)

Lou Reed is a strange case. Rarely has anyone been so good and so bad.

― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Friday, 29 April 2005 09:54 (twenty years ago)

Good examples all (except for Bros, that's a great tune etc etc). I'm not sure these are 'pretentious' exactly, they're more 'insecure'. But pretension is insecurity I hear you cry, oh I dunno.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 29 April 2005 09:58 (twenty years ago)

You can only truly be good if you're bad occasionally (xpost). There endeth the first lesson.

― Pradaismus (Dada), Friday, 29 April 2005 10:01 (twenty years ago)

"He's reading Balsaz, knocking back prosaz".

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 29 April 2005 10:02 (twenty years ago)

thrid track on Porcupine by E&TB, straight after the two singles, starts:

John Webster was
one of the best there was
he was the author of
two major tragedies:
The White Devil and
The Duchess Of Malfi.

always felt kinda random to me.

― koogs (koogs), Friday, 29 April 2005 10:09 (twenty years ago)

As were the recording sessions for that whole album, according to the participants.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 29 April 2005 10:10 (twenty years ago)

haha no one has yet mentioned "Shelley & Keats/hip hop beats" yet.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 29 April 2005 10:23 (twenty years ago)

"You read your Emily Dickinson/And I my Robert Frost."

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 29 April 2005 10:24 (twenty years ago)

Yes, props to the Go-Betweens. But this is worse:

"You say : "'Ere long done do does did"
Words which could only be your own
And then produce the text
From whence was ripped
(Some dizzy whore, 1804)

A dreaded sunny day
So let's go where we're happy
And I meet you at the cemetry gates
Oh, Keats and Yeats are on your side
A dreaded sunny day
So let's go where we're wanted
And I meet you at the cemetry gates
Keats and Yeats are on your side
But you lose
'Cause weird lover Wilde is on mine"

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Friday, 29 April 2005 10:28 (twenty years ago)

Genius, of a kind.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 29 April 2005 10:39 (twenty years ago)

The Go-Betweens lyrics are offset by the chorus though:
"Karen
yeah yeah Karen
yeah yeah Karen
yeah yeah yeah
I said yeah"
(repeat)

Plus I love the way Robert sings "Brrrrecht"

― diedre mousedropping (Dave225), Friday, 29 April 2005 11:00 (twenty years ago)

Karen is a great song. All those authors are exactly what some introverted 17 year old male would be reading in 1978.

― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Friday, 29 April 2005 11:05 (twenty years ago)

Shit, if you actually finish Ulysses, by all means do whatever you can to let people know you did. Stand on a roof top shouting it through a megaphone.

― No more wire hangers ever, Friday, 29 April 2005 12:34 (twenty years ago)

From whence has always bothered me.

― OleM (OleM), Friday, 29 April 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

The torture of tautology.

Siobhan McKenna's old recording of Molly Bloom's soliloquy is one of the sexiest records I know.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 29 April 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

funny cos the first song i had in miond when i read the title of the thread was "cemetery gates". it is very pretentious. but also funny and great, so...

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Friday, 29 April 2005 12:39 (twenty years ago)

just thinking about it, i'm pretty sure david bowie must own this thread...

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Friday, 29 April 2005 12:40 (twenty years ago)

"Cemetry Gates" defuses any pretension by virtue of the title's spelling.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 29 April 2005 12:40 (twenty years ago)

Tautology? Pleonasm, surely.

― OleM (OleM), Friday, 29 April 2005 12:41 (twenty years ago)

This thread should also have a Search/Destroy attached to it. So
Search: "Karen," "Cemetry Gates"
Destroy: "My House"

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 29 April 2005 12:48 (twenty years ago)

maybe this is more of a frank beard thing, but whichever sheryl crow song it is that mentions the day aldous huxley died cos IT WAS ALSO THE DAY JOHN F KENNEDY DIED DYS.

― N_RQ, Friday, 29 April 2005 12:50 (twenty years ago)

I don't think you want to be posting on a message board asking people to destroy your house...

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 29 April 2005 12:51 (twenty years ago)

(xpost) ah the Lou song. I thought for a moment Terrorvision were implying that they'd read a book...

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 29 April 2005 12:56 (twenty years ago)

Everything ever written by the Manics especially that one about spitting out Mailer and Pinter

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 29 April 2005 12:58 (twenty years ago)

the manics seconded although 'faster' worked pretty well considering.

― N_RQ, Friday, 29 April 2005 13:00 (twenty years ago)

The Byrds' "Mind Gardens" ain't nearly as disastrous as most rockcrits claim, but the way David Crosby pointlessly tosses in the line "slings and arrows of out-RAY-geous fortune" (and the insipid way he sings it) is truly nauseating.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:02 (twenty years ago)

The Weakerthans -- Our Retired Explorer (Dines With Michel Foucault, Paris 1961). Doubly pretentious because it mentions "the book by Derrida", and everyone knows Derrida didn't publish any books until 1968.

― Vornado (Vornado), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)

and dylan certainly has a place here too !

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:06 (twenty years ago)

MVB OTM. Although I think I give "Mind Gardens" a bit of a pass because it is on the same album as David Crosby's best ever composition, "Everybody Has Been Burned."

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:06 (twenty years ago)

and dylan certainly has a place here too!

Situations have ended sad,
Relationships have all been bad.
Mine've been like Verlaine's and Rimbaud.

― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:13 (twenty years ago)

"god said to abraham kill me a son..." (old testament is a literary ref, eh !)

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

yep marcello's first post was what i was about to say.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)

Considering that Kate had never read the book, then there's a good case to be made for "Wuthering Heights".

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

enigma : sade !

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

'sade' by smooth operator.

― N_RQ, Friday, 29 April 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

Another one from Momus is the "I grow old, I grow old" from "The Sadness of Things." The title itself is a translation of mono no aware, which is a concept from Japanese aesthetics.

I don't know how pretentious it is, but Sam Phillip's "Signposts" references Walker Percy's book of essays "Signposts in a Strange Land," or so I have led myself to believe.

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

xpost:
Search: "Venus in Furs"

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 29 April 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

alizee : lolita

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:01 (twenty years ago)

Every answer to this thread that ISN'T "Cemetry Gates" is wrong.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

i think there was a consensus on "cemetry gates" (well, from me, at least !).
now we're looking for the second most pretentious !

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha sorry, I was just skimming the thread for "Cemetry Gates" and almost missed it.

"Charlotte Sometimes", "Killing An Arab", "The Drowning Man" and "Bananafishbones" all have compelling arguments that could be made...

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

i'm pretty sure bowie must have made some utterly pretentious references but can't remember a song... anybody ?

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

I think we're using the wrong adjective. "Pretentious" is not necessarily an insult. "Clunky literary reference" is what we're looking for. The Lou Reed "My House" reference may qualify, but "Karen" and "Cemetary Gates" do not.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

AleXTC: Bowie gets boos for most half-assed appropriation of a writer's themes and images (for "Diamond Dogs").

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

alfred : i didn't mind pretentious as an insult. for instance, about cemetry gates, i said it may be pretentious, it's also funny and great.

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

The entire point of "Cemetry Gates" is to lampoon the pretentious literary references! The song would be an abject failure if it wasn't pretentious!

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

And as someone already pointed out, "Karen" is exactly the sort of song a pretentious 17 yr-old guy in love with a librarian would write.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

yeah, i had diamond dogs in mind too but i'm sure there must be others out there...

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

The lyrics of "Karen" are perfectly matched by the musical mood to evoke the self-created arty world of the brooding, bookish, horny youth.

Dan OTM. Which is the point that people who don't like Morrissey don't get.

Dan OTM too about the Cure.

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

I mean, "Karen" is sort of the foreign film version of a Jonathan Richman/first edition Modern Lovers song.

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:38 (twenty years ago)

If merely using titles (without context) for their own sake is pretentious, Soft Machine are kings, thanks to "The Sot-Weed Factor" and "Esther's Nose Job" (and maybe more, who knows) in addition to "Soft Machine" itself.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 29 April 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

>>i'm pretty sure bowie must have made some utterly pretentious references but can't remember a song... anybody ?

Doesn't someone "laugh insane and quip 'Kahlil Gibran'"?
But then again, is that pretentious or just stupid?

― Dr Benway (dr benway), Friday, 29 April 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

It's a thin line.

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 29 April 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

xpost

with ref to the Momus lines above, surely any lyrics with the words "I grow old, I grow old" are referencing T.S. Eliot's "Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock"-

"I grow old, I grow old, I shall wear my trousers rolled"

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Friday, 29 April 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

Did I say it wasn't?

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 29 April 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

I'll step in and defend "My House" because it's got a big sound in it, and because it's a warm & goofy thing about memories and spooks and somebody the singer knew & admired in college. In that respect, it's more about student-ish pretention than it is pretentious. The Daedalus & Bloom line never jumped out as a big clinker to me.

― brianiac (briania), Friday, 29 April 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

Xgau said something like "it's the way people really talk" when he pulled those lines out as Inspirational Verse.

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 29 April 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

Yeah. "My House" was always one of my favorite Lou songs anyway, in part because it's a better song about Delmore Schwartz than the poems Schwartz himself was capable of writing at the time Lou met him.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Friday, 29 April 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

Some more pretentious literary band names: Stephen Hero, Of Cabbages and Kings, A Confederacy of Dunces

― Steve Gertz (sgertz), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

Isn't there a band called Augie March now?

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

Another Walker Percy name-check: the Last Gentlemen.

― brianiac (briania), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

"Yeats and lady gregory corresponded . . .
And james joyce wrote streams of consciousness books . . .
T.s. eliot chose england . . .
T.s. eliot joined the ministry . . .
Did you ever hear about . . .
Wordsworth and coleridge?
Smokin' up in kendal
They were smokin' by the lakeside . . ."

I actually like the song, but geez...

― Not Thaat Chuck, Friday, 29 April 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)

Isn't that a Van Morrison song?

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

I always thought the Momus one worked well. There's a peach-eating reference as well.

also, tossing off Yeats in "Vocation" is fun.. I'm sure he's had some clunkers, but I haven't listened to him in a while.

― Sonny, Ah!!1 (Sonny A.), Friday, 29 April 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

"Isn't that a Van Morrison song?"

Yeah, sorry, it's "Summertime in England."

― Not Thaat Chuck, Friday, 29 April 2005 19:42 (twenty years ago)

I always thought the Momus one worked well. There's a peach-eating reference as well.

Speaking of peach-eating references.....the Allman Bros.' Eat A Peach also references "Prufrock"'s "do I dare eat a peach?" line -- though i wouldn't exactly call this pretentious....long-haired, coked-out, hillbilly rockers alluding to a poem by a Harvard-educated, Nobel Prize-winning poet is kinda cool.

(Oh, and the most annoying ILM trend is officially quoting lyrics without attaching an artist or song title)

― PB, Friday, 29 April 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

I don't know about prententious, but I've always found references to these writers/works to be asserting one's superficial sense of literary superiority....like a sophomore English major who, having flunked out of pre-med freshman year, suddenly discovers "cool" stuff to read and assumes this makes them smarter. Like that douchebag who grows a beard and reads poetry on the quad for us all to see.......I digress:

Eliot
Joyce (esp. Ulysses)
any of the Beats
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Noam Chomsky

― PB, Friday, 29 April 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

the Allman Bros.' Eat A Peach also references "Prufrock"'s "do I dare eat a peach?" line -- though i wouldn't exactly call this pretentious....long-haired, coked-out, hillbilly rockers alluding to a poem by a Harvard-educated, Nobel Prize-winning poet is kinda cool.

Where is this reference? I always thought they named the album such because Duane's death was caused by crashing into a peach truck.

― 57 7th (calstars), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

maybe not pretentious, but here's Lil' Kim on James Joyce (See 4th line) from "Hit 'em Wit the Hee (Remix)."

I be off the wall like The Lox
Night box filled with Benjamins (woo)
Me and my girl Missy gettin' pissy up in Benigans
Makin' all you other rappers begin again, like Finnigan
Christians repent then sin again (woo)

― burna, Friday, 29 April 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

Where is this reference? I always thought they named the album such because Duane's death was caused by crashing into a peach truck.

Well, the title is the reference....

But, alas, neither of us are correct, apparently:

http://www.snopes.com/music/hidden/eatpeach.asp

― PB, Friday, 29 April 2005 20:47 (twenty years ago)

tossing off Yeats in "Vocation" is fun..

I am not sure about this.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

xpost:
Another great story ruined by the literal truth.

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 29 April 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

yeah, as Alfred pointed out, this thread is mangling the meaning of "pretentious." Maybe examples of what people think are unpretentious literay references would produce interesting results.

― erklie, Friday, 29 April 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

Again, the Go-Be's and Smiths songs are good examples of form matching content.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Friday, 29 April 2005 21:22 (twenty years ago)

Maybe examples of what people think are unpretentious literay references would produce interesting results.

Syd Barrett calling Pink Floyd's first album The Piper At the Gates of Dawn is an unpretentious literary reference.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 29 April 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)

MVB OTM. Although I think I give "Mind Gardens" a bit of a pass because it is on the same album as David Crosby's best ever composition, "Everybody Has Been Burned."
-- Ken L

Yes YES YES! You're absolutely right. Not about me being OTM (well, that too) but about everything else. And the crazy thing is this: Those two songs are practically the same song! Same theme: "You die inside if you choose to hide." Why would Crosby insist upon including "Mind Gardens" when he'd already said the same damn thing in a far better song on the very same album, two songs previous? ("Ladyfriend" woulda been a better inclusion.)

― Myonga Von Bronté (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 29 April 2005 23:24 (twenty years ago)

MVB OTM.

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Friday, 29 April 2005 23:35 (twenty years ago)

As for the GB's: "Karen" was written a quarter-century ago by some goofy kids starting a band, and it's no match in the context of this discussion for "why do people who read Dostoyevsky look like... Dostoyevsky?" from the new album.

― 33.33, Saturday, 30 April 2005 00:16 (twenty years ago)

Indeed. Not to mention "The House Jack Kerouac Built" from '87. Serial offend-uhs!

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Saturday, 30 April 2005 00:24 (twenty years ago)

(Resisting temptation to say xxpost: Nag! Nag! Nag! OTM)

― Ken L (Ken L), Saturday, 30 April 2005 00:34 (twenty years ago)

Peppermint Patty: Please don't let her call on me today, please... Helplessly I'm begging on my knees, please!... Please and I'll do anything you say.. Only Please don't let her call on me today!...

Sally: she's gonna ask us something... on Edgar Allan Poe... I know it I just know it.. any moment now...

Lucy: ..she's gonna call on me and ask me something that she knows that I don't know

all 3 girls: on Edgar.. Allan..

Linus: POE, Edgar Allen, American Poet. Born in eighteen hundred and nine....

Charlie: He wrote Cock Robin and My Darling Clementine...

Linus: Joined the army in the spring of twenty seven...

Sally: If you're listening heaven, heaven, help me, help me!

Lucy: She's gonna ask us something... on Edgar Allan Poe...

P.Patty: Please don't let her call on me today please...

Sally: I know it I just know it...any moment now..

Lucy: ...she's gonna call on me and ask me something that she knows that I don't know..

P. Patty: Helplessly I'm begging on my knees, please! Don't let the world find out.. what I don't know about

3 girls: Edgar. Allan...

Linus: Poe! Edgal Allan stories and essays, Wrote the Mystery of Marie Roget

Charlie: Hiawatha and The Road to Mandalay

Linus: Published Tamerlane in eighteen twenty-seven...

Sally: If you're listening heaven...

Charlie: Dickens Christmas Carol...

Sally: HELP ME!

Lucy: she's gonna ask us something... on Edgar Allen Poe...

P.Patty: Please don't let her call on me today, please...

Sally: I know it I just know it.. any moment now..

Lucy: ...she's gonna call on me and ask me something that she knows that I don't know..

P.Patty: Helplessly I'm begging on my knees, please? Don't let the world find out.. What I don't know about...
Please?

Sally/Lucy: Edgar

P.Patty: PLEASE?!?!

Sally/Lucy: Allen

Linus: POE! Edgar Allen got out of the army... married Miss Virginia Clem...

Charlie: He wrote Black Sambo and Colombia The Gem...

Linus: Of the ocean died in eighteen forty-nine....

Sally: Tommorrow I'll be fine!

Charlie: Sweet Adaline!

Lucy: I'm scared, I'm scared... I'm unprepared, you know I'm unprepared.

Sally: she's gonna ask us something.. on Edgar Allan Poe... I know it I just know it... any moment now..

Lucy: ...she's gonna call on me and ask me something that she knows that I don't know...

Lucy: Please have a heart!

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 30 April 2005 00:46 (twenty years ago)

Jay -Z: "rilke of the flow"

― Sym Sym (sym), Saturday, 30 April 2005 00:59 (twenty years ago)

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