Okay.
I don't want to freak anyone out but this is a question that I've had brewing in my brain forever and I believe its high time it gets an answer. Not just because it would lift a heavy burden from my shoulders but it has the potential to alter our collective perceptions as a whole.
Kevin's Watch is populated with some of the most learned and intelligent humans to grace this or any other planet and I believe it is within our combined ability to solve this issue once and for all time.
In the song "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" what star is the song referring to?
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THE QUESTION THAT NEEDS ANSWERED MORE THAN ANY OTHER
"If you can't tell the difference, what difference does it make?"
"There is tic and toc in atomic" - Neil Peart
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If you know all six verses, you know the answer:
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.
When the blazing sun is gone,
When he nothing shines upon,
Then you show your little light,
Twinkle, twinkle, all the night.
Then the traveller in the dark,
Thanks you for your tiny spark,
He could not see which way to go,
If you did not twinkle so.
In the dark blue sky you keep,
And often through my curtains peep,
For you never shut your eye,
Till the sun is in the sky.
Bellatrix and Betelgeuse
The shoulders of Orion use,
but you are prettier by far
Rigel, hunter's skirt-hem star.
As your bright and tiny spark,
Lights the traveller in the dark.
Though I know not what you are,
Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
It's in Wikipedia!
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.
When the blazing sun is gone,
When he nothing shines upon,
Then you show your little light,
Twinkle, twinkle, all the night.
Then the traveller in the dark,
Thanks you for your tiny spark,
He could not see which way to go,
If you did not twinkle so.
In the dark blue sky you keep,
And often through my curtains peep,
For you never shut your eye,
Till the sun is in the sky.
Bellatrix and Betelgeuse
The shoulders of Orion use,
but you are prettier by far
Rigel, hunter's skirt-hem star.
As your bright and tiny spark,
Lights the traveller in the dark.
Though I know not what you are,
Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
It's in Wikipedia!
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Holy Crap!
That was the very definition of "anti-climatic."
It probably says so at wikipedia.
That was the very definition of "anti-climatic."
It probably says so at wikipedia.
[spoiler]Sig-man, Libtard, Stupid piece of shit. change your text color to brown. Mr. Reliable, bullshit-slinging liarFucker-user.[/spoiler]
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
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wayfriend wrote:If someone had checked, they would have noticed something funny about my post.
HEH. Just checked Wikipedia. I was wondering why the song became so lyrically clunky in the last half when reciting the words along with the melody.
Brilliant!
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I didn't check cuz I just assumed WF wasn't a big fat liar.
Now I know better.
Now I know better.
[spoiler]Sig-man, Libtard, Stupid piece of shit. change your text color to brown. Mr. Reliable, bullshit-slinging liarFucker-user.[/spoiler]
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
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Heh. No harshness intended. I did mention it was brilliant.wayfriend wrote:Clunky?!?! That's harsh.aTOMiC wrote:I was wondering why the song became so lyrically clunky in the last half when reciting the words along with the melody.
Just try singing your bogus lyrics along with the melody.
Wait! That means we still don't have an answer to the question!
Ugh.
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No kidding! Gah, there was SO much evidence against that being a real verse.... in retrospect..wayfriend wrote:I didn't think I'd get away with it, too, if it wasn't for those unmeddling kids.
Now I'm thinking about the various barriers against correcting someone in a situation like this...
We'll all forget soon enough..vraith wrote:Now I know better.
It's not like this is the first time EVER.
[Edit: added stuff, fixed a quote thing.]
"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"
They don't take long looks at anything, because they lack the courage.
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience, and the novel, of course, is a way to have experience."
-Flannery O'Connor
"In spite of much that militates against quietness there are people who still read books. They are the people who keep me going."
-Elisabeth Elliot, Preface, "A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael"
