What were they thinking? Rhyme over reason

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Example:

she’ll dress up all in lace an’ go in style.
--Eagles, Lyin' Eyes

To my knowledge, dressing up "all in lace" hasn't been "in style" since, oh, say, about 1898. Exception: Stevie Nicks cocaine-MaiTai-induced-proto-goth-Cher-like outfits of late '70s, but nobody but someone from the Eagles would have thought that was "in style."

Other daft lyrics, approached from a strictly ILE rather than ILM perspective? whatever that means...

― Skottie, Saturday, 5 April 2003 07:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh dee ironee!

― James Blount (James Blount), Saturday, 5 April 2003 08:24 (twenty-two years ago)

that mini-cooper/super duper line in the new Madonner

― James Blount (James Blount), Saturday, 5 April 2003 08:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm a big admirer of "It's like honey, you can't buy it with money". I think Barney's personal shopper is making a fool of him.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 5 April 2003 09:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Noreaga's legendary boast that he "Runs laps around the English Channel" really should investigated by the Vatican forthwith.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 5 April 2003 09:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh dee ironee!
-- James Blount (littlejohnnyjewe...), April 5th, 2003.

Beautiful! Kudos.

― Skottie, Saturday, 5 April 2003 11:02 (twenty-two years ago)

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