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Dang it, I hate it when that happens. |
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Hopefully, at the memorial service, someone will stand up and yell "It's a trick ! He's not really in the coffin, look, he's hiding behind that curtain over there ! " |
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I hope his ghost haunts every tinpot charlatan in existence. |
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You'll be expecting him as a permanent companion, then. |
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Always happy to discuss your personal experiences, if I feel I
am at any risk of enduring them myself [8th]. |
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Well, you'd have to upgrade to "tinpot" from your current "waxed cardboard" ... |
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Interstingly, the "speed" bit in "Godspeed" means succeed, or prosper. When John Dowland sang: |
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What if I never speede, shall I straight yeeld to despaire? |
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he was referring not to amphetamines or phaetons, but to getting laid. |
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//he was referring not to amphetamines or phaetons, but to getting laid.// |
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How do you know? Could have been road signs. |
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Linguistic geekiness and experience with rennaissance music - double meanings and sexual innuendo, were extremely common. Also, the Cupid references in the rest of the song. |
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"More haste, less speed" is a living-fossil idiom; it originally meant "more haste, less success", although the meaning "more haste less rapidity" also makes sense (source: Fowler's dictionary of modern English usage). |
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Another idiom which has had its original meaning forgotten is "the quick and the dead", which originally meant "the alive and the dead", but again, "the rapid and the dead" makes sense too. |
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(I probably should confess that I deliberately threw my claim out there without any argument or evidence, for the sceptics to notice; kind of like leaving the breakfast dishes lying around just because there's a maid. |
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I should also point out that amphetamines and phaetons were not discovered until long after Dowland's death. Also, I only _assumed_ that he sang the song, even though he is only recorded as a (very skilled) lute player; it's natural to sing a song as one is writing it, although Bach maybe didn't, unless he was a masochist _as well_ as a sadist.) |
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