I Respectfully Disagree: Weird Lyrics Edition

A recent poll undertaken by a streaming music service in the UK declares that the "weirdest song lyrics of all time" come from "Human" by The Killers.

The winning (?) lyric says, "Are we human or are we dancer?"

Beyond lame. The whole list is beyond lame.

Where would my vote go? As someone who listened to a lot of college radio in the 80s (which means I heard a lot of Robyn Hitchcock, who is somehow not even on the list!), I stand by this stanza from the song "Rage in the Cage" by J. Geils Band (it was the B-side of the "Centerfold" 45, which I owned, and both come from the album Freeze Frame).

Sweet Diana to the rescue
Hot potato to my aid
She's the girl with the swirl
Like air-conditioned lemonade

Yeah. So weird I did not even have to Google it - it has been stuck inside my head since listening to the song 5,000 times in 1982.

Gay Sex with Homophones

Some people are getting tired of using the film Idiocracy as shorthand for "the world is getting dumber," but my God. It's true: the world is getting dumber, and a lot of the reason why is explained in (what I feel) is a very spot-on fashion by the first few minutes of said film (see here, with thanks to Gizmodo for supplying this link to me).

I thought of Idiocracy immediately when I read an article about a blogger from language school who was fired after writing a post about homophones. You no what a homophone is, write? Well, too people whose first language is knot English, homophones can bee confusing, as ewe might imagine.

But I guess to people whose first language is hate speech, the word homophone itself is confusing.

Clarke Woodger, the owner of the language school, told the blogger upon terminating him: "Now our school is going to be associated with homosexuality."

No, wait! That's pretty stupid, right? I'd go so far as to say it's idiotic. However, there's more good assheadedness where that came from.

"People at this level of English...may see the 'homo' side and think it has something to do with gay sex," Woodger apparently went on to say without cracking a smile or bursting into laughter at the very notion.

As Kate Bush might sing on the album Lionheart, WOW! WOW! WOW! WOW! WOW

UnbeLIEVEable!