Spoofee Grammar Nazis----Part 2

precocious said:
They closed that D'ags? (Yes, that's the one.) Desmonds was/is a bar snuck into the bottom of a high rise. Never ate there. ;) Nice bartenders.....:p

There's also a Mexican place (was a place?) right around the corner on 9th, east side of street going toward 58th. Had fun there too! :p

P.S. I had worked in that D'ags at one time. I had worked in a lot of the D'ags through the city. (Through H.S. & College)
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Don't know about the Mexican place but the pizza joint on the corner of 58th and 9th has turned into a Pax. I happened to notice 'cause I go past there to the Dr's office coming from 8th. Sounds like I should get a taco next time I get a check-up (since I can't get a neighborhood slice any more).
 
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cybermom said:
Desmond? Doesn't he have a barrow in the market place?
:music: Obladi blada.
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I've been dwelling on this - didn't he have a barrel? I mean he might have had a barrow too but usually one keeps barrels in a market place and uses barrows to get the stuff to the barrel. :sus: Then again, the writers were a little stoned at the time .....

http://www.kissthisguy.com/ :ignore:
 
JerryP said:
I've been dwelling on this - didn't he have a barrel? I mean he might have had a barrow too but usually one keeps barrels in a market place and uses barrows to get the stuff to the barrel. :sus: Then again, the writers were a little stoned at the time .....

http://www.kissthisguy.com/ :ignore:
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To be honest, I wasn't all together sure myself and I looked up the words on a lyrics website. :o I'm sure they could have had it wrong. I'm always confused about the part at the end where Desmond stays home and does his pretty face.....
 
"Desmond" refers to Desmond Dekker, a pioneer in ska and reggae from the pre-Marley days.
A barrow is a kind of pushcart, from which he sells his wares in the market.
 
This is really no place to talk about this. "Let's do it in the road"......




(OK Monkfish-what's that one really about???:05: )
 
monkfish said:
"Desmond" refers to Desmond Dekker, a pioneer in ska and reggae from the pre-Marley days.
A barrow is a kind of pushcart, from which he sells his wares in the market.
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This may have become the "secret" Beatles lyrics discussion forum :convinced:

Who Desmond refers to seems to be debatable (Wikipedia says it requires "citation", meaning proof). But it sounds good to me.
As far as a barrow is concerned I have always heard it used with the word wheel (a wheelbarrow). I would think it more likely that Desmond would have a barrel in the marketplace. A Google image search for barrow comes up with the town and wheelbarrows.
 
For the record, "citation" and "proof" are two completely different things.
For the record, Wikipedia is not the final authority on anything.
For the record, a Google image search does not constitute etymological research.

There is nothing secret about the Desmond Dekker reference. In addition, Paul McCartney has said in interviews that the flip flop in the final verse to "Desmond stays at home" was an error, but they didn't feel like doing another take so they left it.
 
cybermom said:
This is really no place to talk about this. "Let's do it in the road"......




(OK Monkfish-what's that one really about???:05: )
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The title is "Why Don't We Do It In The Road?"

It means exactly what it sounds like it means.
 
Roger Wilco said:
For the record, "citation" and "proof" are two completely different things.
For the record, Wikipedia is not the final authority on anything.
For the record, a Google image search does not constitute etymological research.

There is nothing secret about the Desmond Dekker reference. In addition, Paul McCartney has said in interviews that the flip flop in the final verse to "Desmond stays at home" was an error, but they didn't feel like doing another take so they left it.
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monkfish said:
The title is "Why Don't We Do It In The Road?"

It means exactly what it sounds like it means.
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Gee you guys are fun :sus:

..but the Desmond error part make sense so thanks...
 
Roger Wilco said:
For the record, "citation" and "proof" are two completely different things.
For the record, Wikipedia is not the final authority on anything.
For the record, a Google image search does not constitute etymological research.

There is nothing secret about the Desmond Dekker reference. In addition, Paul McCartney has said in interviews that the flip flop in the final verse to "Desmond stays at home" was an error, but they didn't feel like doing another take so they left it.
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Excellent.
 
JerryP said:
...As far as a barrow is concerned I have always heard it used with the word wheel (a wheelbarrow). ...
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Jerry: I found another barrow for you.

In Dublin's fair city, where the girls are so pretty
I first set my eyes on sweet Molly Malone
As she wheeled her wheel-barrow
Through streets broad and narrow
Crying cockles and mussels, alive, alive-O!


Alive, alive-O! alive, alive-O!
Crying cockles and mussels, alive, alive-O!

She was a fish-monger, but sure 'twas no wonder
For so were her father and mother before
And they each wheeled their barrow
Through streets broad and narrow
Crying cockles and mussels, alive, alive-O!

Alive, alive-O! alive, alive-O!
Crying cockles and mussels, alive, alive-O!

She died of a fever, and no one could save her
And that was the end of sweet Molly Malone
But her ghost wheels her barrow
Through streets broad and narrow
Crying cockles and mussels, alive, alive-O!

Alive, alive-O! alive, alive-O!
Crying cockles and mussels, alive, alive-O!
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monkfish said:
Jerry: I found another barrow for you.
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This is one of the nursery rhymes on my son's CD...it's a bit ghoulish for a baby! :hmm: But yes, I agree too that a barrow is just as likely to be in the marketplace as a barrel, perhaps more so b/c you'd wheel it around carrying your wares.
 
i just downloaded that song... hubby loves to sing it... that one and "whiskey, you're the devil"... he's as midwestern as they come (he's a cornhusker), but he's got the irish brogue down!

actually, when we first started dating, he'd make up a limerick a day for me...

my, how things change...

now, he brings me dirty laundry everyday...
 
clubchick said:
now, he brings me dirty laundry everyday...
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ah, a civlized man! mine leaves his in a gigantic lump on the floor of his closet (door open so everything spills out into the bedroom too, just in reach of our toddler who can't wait to pick up all the shiny wrappers, coins, etc. that fall out of his dad's pockets!). :mmph:

he calls it his "vertical filing system", clothes piled chest high! LOL
 
Clubby, Drifa - You need to get a clothes-barrow! :p
Monkfish says you can get them in Dublin :p




but I'd try the Container Store first :ignore:
 
oh oh oh! can I borrow your barrow???:tongue: :confused:
 
Remember what Polonius said:

Neither a borrower of a barrow nor a lender be...:tongue:
 
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