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SpunkieSpunkie Posts: 6,672
edited January 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
I'll start this one up.

U2 - Crumbs : "Where you live should not decide, whether you live or whether you die." Correction: DETERMINE, not "DECIDE".
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  • DaytimeDilemmaDaytimeDilemma Posts: 2,008
    Typical. U2 sucks. What else is new?
  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    "We don't need no education."
    ...
    Judging from that grammar... yes, you do.
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  • gobrowns19gobrowns19 Posts: 1,447
    Cosmo wrote:
    "We don't need no education."
    ...
    Judging from that grammar... yes, you do.

    Lol, that's pretty funny.
    Happiness is only real when shared
  • SpunkieSpunkie Posts: 6,672
    "I ain't got nobody." Double negative dude. Also, ain't ain't a word.
  • harmless_little_f***harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    PJ do it all the time.

    'I used to be crustacean'... Who is Crustacean?
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison
  • gobrowns19gobrowns19 Posts: 1,447
    harmless_little_f*** wrote:
    PJ do it all the time.

    'I used to be crustacean'... Who is Crustacean?

    Haha, yeah, that makes me think of Bob "The loser now will later be the win."
    Happiness is only real when shared
  • HawkshoreHawkshore Posts: 2,155
    harmless_little_f*** wrote:
    PJ do it all the time.

    'I used to be crustacean'... Who is Crustacean?


    Uhh Larry!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79X7b16JySw :p
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  • SpunkieSpunkie Posts: 6,672
    That is actually correct grammar. Perhaps it is the idea you don't like.
  • harmless_little_f***harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    tish wrote:
    That is actually correct grammar. Perhaps it is the idea you don't like.

    He doesn't say 'a'...... he leaves out the 'a'..... The idea is fine.
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison
  • MattCameronKicksButtMattCameronKicksButt Posts: 4,317
    Don't even get me started on this one!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLd22ha_-VU
  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    Shouldn't a 'Love BOAT Captain' take the HELM and steer us towards the clear? A 'Love STAGECOACH Driver' can take the Reins... right?
    Allen Fieldhouse, home of the 2008 NCAA men's Basketball Champions! Go Jayhawks!
    Hail, Hail!!!
  • harmless_little_f***harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    Cosmo wrote:
    Shouldn't a 'Love BOAT Captain' take the HELM and steer us towards the clear? A 'Love STAGECOACH Driver' can take the Reins... right?

    How have I NEVER spotted that!!! Hahahahahaha
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

    - the great Sir Leo Harrison
  • DaytimeDilemmaDaytimeDilemma Posts: 2,008
    "I can't get no satisfaction" should be "I can't get any satisfaction."
  • PearlJamaholicPearlJamaholic Posts: 2,018
    Cosmo wrote:
    "We don't need no education."
    ...
    Judging from that grammar... yes, you do.

    thats a classic one. but i think its the message. its school kids saying it and they hate school.
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  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Posts: 12,223
    "... in which we live in" - Paul McCartney, Live and Let Die, 1973
  • prismprism Posts: 2,440
    tish wrote:
    I'll start this one up.

    U2 - Crumbs : "Where you live should not decide, whether you live or whether you die." Correction: DETERMINE, not "DECIDE".



    considering that decide and determine are synonymous with each other decide sounds and goes alot better within these lyrics. would you really use the word determine in this line instead?



    beside that, since when did rock have grammar rules?
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  • _Crazy_Mary__Crazy_Mary_ Posts: 1,299
    Don't it make you smile? should be: Doesn't it make you smile?
    I really screwed that up. I really Schruted it.
  • vital5vital5 Posts: 5,486
    Cosmo wrote:
    Shouldn't a 'Love BOAT Captain' take the HELM and steer us towards the clear? A 'Love STAGECOACH Driver' can take the Reins... right?
    Here it is not grammar... but a metaphor.... reigns...
  • memememe Posts: 4,695
    "Is a dream a lie if it don't come true?"

    I learned my English with Springsteen, and that's baffled me for years :D
    ... and the will to show I will always be better than before.
  • GreenTeaDiseaseGreenTeaDisease Posts: 3,359
    "I wish I was a neutron bomb...etc"

    It's "I wish I were." It's the subjunctive mood, eddie, get it straight :).
  • GreenTeaDiseaseGreenTeaDisease Posts: 3,359
    the decide/determine reigns/helm, etc, isn't really grammar, it's vocabulary :). In that vein there's the sleater kinney song "pristina" that bugs me that goes "while the other girls fondled their dates she fooled around with a bunson plate." It's a Bunson *burner* and a Petri *dish*...there are no "plates."
  • pjoasisrulepjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
    ALL rap songs
    Alpine Valley 2000
    Summerfest 2006

    "Why would they come to our concert just to boo us?" -Lisa Simpson
  • LONGRDLONGRD Posts: 6,036
    pjoasisrule wrote:
    ALL rap songs
    but they're speaking Ebonics, not English.
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