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

...and he will come.' I think.

Field of Dreams. Either powerful affecting stuff or a pile of sentimental old tripe, but it used to set me off anyway.

Possibly...but I think FoD might have been quoting from an earlier source.

When I was just a little girl
I asked my mother, what will I be..
(Qué Sera Sera? - Doris Day

We are not like all the rest
you can see us any day of the week...
(Who Knows What Tomorrow May Bring - Traffic)

If you see me walking down the street
and I start to cry, each time we meet...
(Walk on By - Dionne Warwick)

The Taxman's taken all my dough
and left me in my stately home...
(Sunny Afternoon - Kinks)

Ain't no sunshine when she's gone
it's not warm when she's away...
( Ain't no Sunshine - Otis Redding)

I wanna tell you all a story, about this chick I know
they call her Amphetamine Annie, she's always shovelling snow...
(Amphetamine Annie - Canned Heat)

When the night has come, and the land is dark
and the moon is the only light we'll see...
(Stand by Me - Ben E. King)

Here's a little song I wrote
you might want to sing it note for note...
(Don't Worry be Happy - Bobby McFerrin)

Why does it hurt when I pee?
I don't want no doctor to stick no needle in me...
(Why Does it Hurt When I Pee? - Frank Zappa

I currently have the old iconic white headphones in my lug 'oles. I've just heard what is now my favourite album opening line of all time. From 'The Comfort of Strangers' by Beth Orton, the track 'Worms':

Worms can't dance/ They haven't got the balls.

A hard act to follow!

Perhaps this will serve A9942807....?

We don't need no thought control...no dark sarcasm in the classroom..

a) That's not a first line.

b) In Esperanto, it's:
'Ne malpalon sarkasmon nel klascambron' (circumflex on the C)











Lernejoj! Lasu infanjojn solajn!
Alia en alia ni estas sola brikoj en la muron.

All in all we are all just bricks in the wall

The people called the Romans they go to the house?

Excuse me, I was being a sillius sodus. I blame the woman.

As for today...

"I decree that life today is simply taking and not giving
England is mine, and it owes me a living."

But I didn't think that it mattered if it was the first line or not...just the ones that stick out in your mind...and get stuck in a loop coz you like them or they are just outright weird..or what'aveyou...

ahh

ahh well...I sometimes get stuck in the middle..or perhaps the end...and mull on it some...

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"I decree that life today is simply taking and not giving
England is mine, and it owes me a living."

"Ask me why and I'll spit in your eye"

Brilliant! It always puzzles me when people think The Smiths are miserable. They fail to recognise Morrisey's comic genius.

"As the flames rose
To her Roman nose
And her walkman started to melt."


Meanwhile, inspired by Marks and Spencer:

"You've done it all, you've broken every code
And pulled the rebel to the floor"

Yeah, the poor fools - the downbeat songs are actually in the minority [just]. Moz has every right to feel hard done by

Meanwhile this isn't a bad album-opener:

"Tears on the sleeve of a man
Don't want to be a boy today."

One Tori I would vote for

And by the way Ed, you've got mail...

I'm not aware of too many things,
I know what I know, if you know what mean..

"Van Gough did some eyeball pleasers
He must have been a pencil squeezer
He didn't do the Mona Lisa
That was an Italian geezer."

Ian Drury & The Blockheads
From: 'There ain't half been some clever bastards'.

See my personal space, 'The Nine Billion Names of Edward':

"Oh...Segovia"

Impresionante! One or two little coincidences...

(1) Just a couple of weeks ago, I was seized by the imperative to hear "Up Town Top Rankin'", though I couldn't (at first) remember the title. I managed, finally, to find a clip of it on one of the lyrics' sites - love that sound.

(2) My favourite English 'patient' downloads from a movie channel and supplies me with videos regularly; this week's film....'Rumble Fish'.

(3) "and don't let this put you off..." I think I've got a pretty good reason not to be offput; number 24 on your list is my constant, and may help to explain 'my' tag.