Fun with High Culture

[serai]

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Heard on a radio cooking show:


Nature is a damp place over which large numbers of ducks fly, uncooked.

-- Oscar Wilde


Also, did you know that almost all of Emily Dickinson's poetry can be sung to the tune of The Yellow Rose of Texas?

Really puts a new spin on "I felt a funeral in my brain..."

Comments

[lyrastar77.livejournal.com]

I liked the nature quote from Oscar Wilde. It kind of reminded me of something one of the guys said in that movie The Big Chill from around the early 80s, about a group of ex-hippy types having a reunion -- you might know it. They went for a countryside walk, and he took a leak & said something like, "Hey, the great outdoors is like one big toilet, isn't it!" ;-)

~Lyra

[myladylyssa.livejournal.com]

And to the "Gilligan's Island" theme. I love Emily, and I could kill my professor for telling me this. I'd gotten through my undergraduate years without that tidbit of info, and now that I am doing my final paper on Emily, reading all 1775 of her poems, I know that damn theme will be in my head all the time. That is one of the worst to eradicate.

*is compelled to sing*
"Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip..."
*cries*

[myladylyssa.livejournal.com]

The things you pick up in grad school! LOL

[cara-chapel.livejournal.com]

You can sing it all to the tune of Gilligan's Island, too.

[fantasy-fan.livejournal.com]

Do you know what that type of thing is called, where a song has a meter that is common to other types of poetry? It has a name, and I can't remember it, and it's been driving me crazy for a while. A lot of poetry goes to the tune of Amazing Grace as well (Actually, you can sing the words to Amazing Grace to the tune of House of the Rising Sun, so those have the same kind of compatable meter). If you hear of a word that describes this phenomenon, please let me know so I can get it out of my head!

[serai1.livejournal.com]

Ahaha! You're right! I hadn't thought of that one. I had thought that "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" would also work, but then I tried it and realized that the last line does a split repeat, so it doesn't work.

[serai1.livejournal.com]

Heehee! I really like the Yellow Rose, though, because it brings up the image of a whole line of cowboys doing fancy step-dance and singing these sad and/or depressing poems to that incredibly jaunty tune.

Yeah, I know, I'm insane. ;)

[serai1.livejournal.com]

I have no idea, but if I ever hear of it, I'll let you know. I found out about it from Mo Rocca, when he was on Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me! the NPR current events game show. I don't know if I'll ever be able to take Emily Dickinson completely seriously again. :D

[frodosweetstuff.livejournal.com]

*giggles madly* I love that quote!! :)