h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Yes, I know it doesn't rhyme, but what about:

Soh, a needle pulling thread
Laa-laa, a yellow Tellytubby
Ti, I drink with Jam and Bread

But, then does the original line rhyme either?
Then the major problem is that my line doesn't have the right number of syllables in it (I count 1 extra), or any particular relevance to the rest of the song, although this doesn't ever seem to display any particular relevance to itself so why should we bother worrying about it?

This is beginning to sound like a Theory of Knowledge class.

Actually, the line, "a Note to follow Soh" - sets up the next rhyme of "That will bring us back to Doe"

So, whatever the line is, it has to end in an "o" sound.

If you're going to go to the effort of re-writing a single line from a painfully-average musical, then surely the major restructuring of West Side Story must draw everyone's attention:

The play had been a hit on Broadway long before Hollywood got hold of it, and a bit of it didn't make any sense: There's a scene in Doc's Candy Store where the gang reconvenes to discuss tactics (or something, I'm going from an old memory here), and when Hollywood came to make a film of it, they realised that this scene should go AFTER the rumble: it fits there.

So that's where they put it...and they were deeply worried when they made that choice, too: would people accept it? Were they messing with a "sacred cow"?

The audience either accepted it wholeheartedly or didn't notice the change in the first place; actually, the film works better than the play does for having made that change.

Will the original play of West Side Story be changed to reflect the film version that's based upon it?...and which makes more dramatic sense than the play?

Fruitbat

you don't mean Thoery of Knowledge as in IB diploma do you?


And here's one thing...the whole citizen kane thing where "rosebud" was said with ABSOLUTELY no one around to hear it....

How about...

La, a "the" en Espagnole

Or...

La (Lar), a household god in Rome

And (this is kind of a stretch, but)...

La (lar), a white-handed ape or gibbone

I think these lines have the particular rhyming scheme and rhythmic structure you're looking for, but perhaps not the sanity.

I think that the problem is that 'La', a note to follow Soh. DOES NOT have a better rhyme. I think that we should dump 'la' entirely from the scale, on the grounds that it is promoting mental disquiet. I don't have a problem with rewriting or even flushing entirely a standard scale. Is anyone going to remember what Farenheit was on about in fifty years? No.

Perhaps,
'Bar', a place I blow my dough, or
'Snuh', a word with meaning? No.
Which I quite like as it's pointlessness pays homage to the original line.

Actually, yes, I do mean Theory of Knowledge as in the IB Diploma, one of the coolest courses in the world, I think everybody might possibly agree (or not as the case may be - hey, that rhymes!). Perhaps I should bring this line of discussion up in my next TOK class. We've been studying why people like music, so it would be appropriate, I think.

THE ANSWER::::::::::::::::: La, a little more to go

ah...you must be having a much better time of it than I did...although we were the
first experimental class to go through it in ou school...so we were the hamsters...hence hearing of TOK makes me shudder in horror. I think I got cheated. Of well. Sometimes you wn, smoetimes you fail a course merely for being "wrong."

sorry, it's not really relevant to the point under discussion, but why do people like music?

One could get pedantic and say "La: a major third from Do", or "a major third to go", but perhaps that would run counter to the spirit of the thing. Could it be "La:whose meaning I don't know"? Maybe some bronze age architect once felt this way when, after finishing some gigantic stone circle he realized that that one stone, over there was crooked, and thought "close enough, it's way to much trouble to fix teh damn thing"

um...by the way, thats a minor third, silly me

Unless we change the whole thing into a minor key..then it will have to be an augmented third.....but only in the harmonic form!If we stick to the melodic form of course it will revert back to being a minor third,and everyone can be happy..if thats possible in a minor key.
shazz

Law, a subject of TV shows

How about... "La, a large conurbation on the west coast of the United states, home of the movie industry, popular with exponents of the drive-by shooting" I know itdoesn't scan, but I have complete faith in Julie Andrews' ability to make any old tosh sound great.

LA - an awful place to go?

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In a harmonic minor it's a major third from Do, in a melodic minor it's either major or minor, depending on whether you're going up or down the scale. Besides it isn't La in a minor scale, they change the names so you don't get it confused with the major. I think it might be Li, but I'm not sure.

My nickname is Merry in case it's not registered yet - this is the first time up.

Yes, Lar

But it could be 'Lar, an ape from Borneo'
and then it does scan properly. I know it's a gibbon, which is an ape, but gibbon is a nicer word. And it's not quite from Borneo, but near enough if it can swim a long distance (which I believe some can, or at least drift on wood).

And it should appeal to Douglas, who is keen on wild life.
regards merry