The Duracell Bunny predates the Energizer Bunny, which actually began as a parody of the Duracell Bunny commercials and toys that became a collectible item. There are differences in appearance — the Energizer Bunny wears sunglasses, has larger ears, is a different shade of pink and has a different body shape. Also, while the Energizer Bunny is a single rabbit, the Duracell Bunnies are a species. The Energizer Bunny is always depicted with a drum, as the Duracell Bunny toys of which it is a parody had drums. The actual Duracell Bunny advertising campaign has moved beyond this, and Duracell Bunnies are usually depicted as doing something other than beating a drum.
― and what, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 17:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh word. I just remember reading some interview with him where he copped to having the other bunny in mind when he wrote it.
― bear, bear, bear, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 17:34 (fifteen years ago) link
In "King of Rock," Run-DMC confuse the Beatles with the Police.
― Douglas, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 17:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Also, in "Bled White," Elliott Smith confuses the F train with the N or R. Perhaps he was at 34th St., where they intersect.
― Douglas, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 17:49 (fifteen years ago) link
dunno if anyone's noticed this, but in the song 'ironic', alanis morrisette confuses things which are annoying (e.g. 'rain on your wedding day') with things which are ironic.
― banriquit, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 17:51 (fifteen years ago) link
-- Douglas, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 18:44 (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
At time of recording, there were three members of The Beatles.
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 17:52 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^ good find! maybe she did it on purpose to be "ironic" lol
― and what, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 17:53 (fifteen years ago) link
X-Clan
My style is deep, deeper than atlantis, deeper than the sea floor travelled by the mantis.
― Oilyrags, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 18:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Jay-Z has always been an adamant opponent of the Copernican model.
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 18:26 (fifteen years ago) link
in the song 'gold digger' kanye west confuses 'ska punk' with 'hen fap'.
― banriquit, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 19:56 (fifteen years ago) link
^^
the post that had to be made
― dell, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 20:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Far out, I never heard of no "Duracell Bunny" till now! I missed that ad campaign entirely.
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 21:02 (fifteen years ago) link
That Foxy Brown verse is kind of o_O
― mh, Tuesday, 24 June 2008 21:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Isn't the Alanis Morrisette thing common knowledge?
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 01:56 (fifteen years ago) link
This is another one where they copped to being straight-up wrong, guys genuinely thought there were always three Beatles (unlike the 417 that quantum mathematics have established as co-existing within the Schrodingerian fifth position).
― energy flash gordon, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 02:38 (fifteen years ago) link
How can I go on / When every alpha particle hides a neon nucleus
In the song "Richard", Billy Bragg confuses the noble gases neon and helium.
― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 08:26 (fifteen years ago) link
what a loser
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 16:36 (fifteen years ago) link
this thread is really primo material btw... good work all around
(Lil Wayne) Young moolah baby I got money on money on money on money on top of more money on top of my shit like flies open that ferrari f 5 like eyes up and down ocean drive jumpin up out that maybach with a bitch way back to tease them thighs she got a tattoo on her booty and it say 305 DJ Khaled say it's a movie now don't forget your lines, Cause you dont want me to edit before we roll the credits bitch give me my credit i'm so energetic i'm f**kin like a rabbit smokin on lettuce whatever i want i get it i meant it if i said it and i say i keep it pumpin i aint talkin unletted if you want it come get it cause boy i'm ready i get that fast fetty they should call me Tom Petty got two bitches one peanut butter one jelly i'm a American gangster already
richard petty is the NASCAR driver, tom petty is a singer/songwriter
― and what, Wednesday, 25 June 2008 16:49 (fifteen years ago) link
A) Halloween B) Not Halloween
Bushwick Bill (My MInd is Playin' Tricks on Me)
― Bobbi Peru, Friday, 27 June 2008 05:52 (fifteen years ago) link
early morning april 4th a shot rings out in the memphis sky
― balls, Friday, 27 June 2008 07:03 (fifteen years ago) link
that beach boys 'california dreaming' got what felt like alot of airplay on mtv at the time, here's the horror - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAQ-AeUlijU. big al jardine showcase. lotta sax. i think it was the followup to the slightly bigger hit 'getcha back' - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1Pk9kwcGKk - really really shoddy production on these things, the vocals on 'getcha back' are just stunningly schlocky. really w/ these, roth's 'california girls', 'wipeout' (the best of this bunch by many miles), and then of course 'kokomo' the beach boys were hustling pretty hard for a hit then.
― balls, Friday, 27 June 2008 07:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Y'all niggaz is scared, I'm your worst nightmare squared That's double for niggaz who ain't mathematically aware
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Friday, 27 June 2008 08:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Nice, or possibly Smooth
"Like Dizzy Gillespie played the sax"
― Oilyrags, Friday, 27 June 2008 12:06 (fifteen years ago) link
In The Crazy Word of Arthur Brown's rendition of "Fire", Arthur Brown confuses being the god of hellfire with being Arthur Brown.
― Neil S, Friday, 27 June 2008 12:13 (fifteen years ago) link
In "Tambourine", Eve seems to think the Taj Mahal is a palace, rather than a mausoleum:
"Doin it big like I live in da Taj Mahal,"
― shieldforyoureyes, Friday, 27 June 2008 12:20 (fifteen years ago) link
that beach boys 'california dreaming' got what felt like alot of airplay on mtv at the time, here's the horror - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAQ-AeUlijU. big al jardine showcase. lotta sax.
jesus, what is up with that video? if you turn the sound off, it's like a long-long david lynch short.
― res, Friday, 27 June 2008 12:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Only learned that fact myself in the last year. :(
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Friday, 27 June 2008 13:28 (fifteen years ago) link
"I'm a venereal disease like a menstrual bleed." - Lil Wayne
― lindseykai, Friday, 27 June 2008 16:43 (fifteen years ago) link
In Eve's defense, living in the Taj Mahal would be pretty sweet even if it were an abbatoir
― nabisco, Friday, 27 June 2008 17:34 (fifteen years ago) link
i dont know if thats relavent here, and it was written with full awareness,but "left of the dial" - the replacements: "pretty girls are growing up playing make up,wearing guitar"
― Zeno, Saturday, 28 June 2008 17:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Re Dead Milkmen and "California Dreamin'", Made in the USA was a popular comp, and lots of people heard that cover, but CD jukeboxes were exceedingly rare in 1988 and it wasn't a single.
― Mark Rich@rdson, Sunday, 29 June 2008 03:18 (fifteen years ago) link
OK, maybe it was a single. The important thing is that someone needs to flesh out the entry for "Jukebox" on Wikipedia.
― Mark Rich@rdson, Sunday, 29 June 2008 03:21 (fifteen years ago) link
"Y'all niggaz is scared, I'm your worst nightmare squared That's double for niggaz who ain't mathematically aware"
Ha, wow. Who was that?
― Chris in Belfast, Monday, 30 June 2008 15:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Cannibus
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Monday, 30 June 2008 15:25 (fifteen years ago) link
It's OK, because my nightmare is 2.
― Alba, Monday, 30 June 2008 15:34 (fifteen years ago) link
In '4th Chamber' by the GZA, RZA confuses positrons with protons.
Either that or he confuses 'Causing explosions' with 'Collectively forming a hydrogen atom'. Though that would have made the acronym 'PEACFAHA'. And also wouldn't have scanned.
I like this forum already and this is only my first post. Ace.
― linea, Monday, 30 June 2008 15:49 (fifteen years ago) link
Hello linea. It's good in parts.
― Alba, Monday, 30 June 2008 15:53 (fifteen years ago) link
In "Daddy," Juelz Santana confuses leaving his child an orphan with siring a bastard. (One imagines that ship has sailed already, Mr Santana.)
― energy flash gordon, Thursday, 10 July 2008 00:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Same as in "Mind Playing Tricks On Me"
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Thursday, 10 July 2008 00:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Maybe he meant that anyone who confuses "multiplied by two" with "to the power of two" is "mathematically unaware"? (Which would be OTM)
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Thursday, 10 July 2008 00:41 (fifteen years ago) link
I think that is the correct interpretation of that line.
― HI DERE, Thursday, 10 July 2008 00:53 (fifteen years ago) link
he is actually saying your worst nightmare is the number 2
― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 10 July 2008 00:57 (fifteen years ago) link
(your nightmare)^2 = (your nightmare)*2
-> your nightmare = 2
― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 10 July 2008 00:58 (fifteen years ago) link
haha
My take:
for the mathematically aware, he is (your worst nightmare)^2 for those that ain't mathematically aware he is twice that: 2*(your worst nightmare)^2
― HI DERE, Thursday, 10 July 2008 01:01 (fifteen years ago) link
So for all beings > 2, it's better to be non-mathematically aware if beefing with Canibus. I understand now.
― Joseph McCombs, Thursday, 10 July 2008 03:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Heh, it's the old "I know what I am and I'm glad I'm a man/And so is Lola" kerfluffle all over again! "Pronoun Trouble", Daffy Duck would say.
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Thursday, 10 July 2008 08:44 (fifteen years ago) link
so that would be 2 men.
― Mark G, Thursday, 10 July 2008 08:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Either way, Canibus really should call his next album (Your Nightmare)^2 = (Your Nightmare)*2
― Savannah Smiles, Thursday, 10 July 2008 09:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Brooklyn Academy - Raise Ya Hands
"Your girl got more niggaz in her mouth than Kramer from Friends"
― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Wednesday, 26 November 2008 00:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Man, if it was Donna Summer, I'd bet all thousand numbers rang her back.
― pplains, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 15:32 (two months ago) link
oh boy, ranging phones, that's where i'm a viking
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 15:54 (two months ago) link
wait, what is confusing? to ring somebody means to call them in USA too
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 28 February 2024 15:55 (two months ago) link
If I heard someone say "My phone was ringing off the wall" I would assume they meant they were getting lots of calls, not making lots of calls.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 15:59 (two months ago) link
ring my phoneoff the wall
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 16:00 (two months ago) link
Americans only started saying they "ring" someone in the Internet Age when the English language has flattened out worldwide and Americans have adopted English idioms and vice versa. No one in America in the 1980s said they would "ring" someone unless they were PBS-watching Anglophiles.
― from a prominent family of bassoon players (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 16:02 (two months ago) link
I'm in the phone booth, it's the one across the hallIf you don't answer, I'll just ring it off the wall
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 16:05 (two months ago) link
"almost rang the phone off the wall" of all her friends' kitchens guys come on jeez
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 16:15 (two months ago) link
Me, in a song I wrote:
"I sent my coals to Coventry"
Which I was sure was an idiom but appears to be a conflation of "Send someone to Coventry" and "Send coals to Newcastle"
― your mom goes to limgrave (dog latin), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 16:28 (two months ago) link
― Alba, Saturday, 2 March 2024 07:51 (two months ago) link
Oh, just saw President Keyes' post, sorry
― Alba, Saturday, 2 March 2024 07:53 (two months ago) link
I think there's a slight distinction there between ringing an object and ringing a person, with the latter being definitely rare in the US of the '70s/'80s
(Also Blondie didn't write that song, but they were certainly Anglophiles!)
― Josefa, Saturday, 2 March 2024 14:44 (two months ago) link
I don't think you "ring" an object in the UK either though? People don't say "ring my phone", they say "ring me".
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Saturday, 2 March 2024 15:03 (two months ago) link
HP Baxxter has no problem ringing up da laydeez:
"I’ve always been the party pleaserThere’s not a doubt, I’ve checked all the ladies out
Ring me up!Skip to the dip now!What we say?Jigga Jigga!
Ooooohh! Ho-ho!Davay-davay-davay!Jigga Jigga!Allright!Aaaaaarrrghh!"
whether he has confused A with B, however, remains moot
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Saturday, 2 March 2024 15:05 (two months ago) link
ring a ring of roses?
songwriter confuses the bubonic plague with making a telephone call
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Saturday, 2 March 2024 15:07 (two months ago) link
You can, however, ring someone's bell
xpost
― airport convention (Matt #2), Saturday, 2 March 2024 15:07 (two months ago) link
anita baker - ring my bell
the white stripes - my doorbell
I did indeed circle both of these with a marker pen
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Saturday, 2 March 2024 15:11 (two months ago) link
oh, XP
― massaman gai (front tea for two), Saturday, 2 March 2024 15:12 (two months ago) link
xp to Tom Well I was thinking it's easy to slide from a common phrase like "ring my bell" to "ring my phone" and there's no confusion if Donna Summer is ringing someone else's phone. But in the phrasing of "Hot Stuff" she's first calling lots of different numbers and then one particular phone is being rung off the wall, so I was trying to imagine if in UK usage you can ring your own phone off the wall (actually someone else suggested the possibility first in another thread). But you said before that would be awkward phrasing, so maybe not.
― Josefa, Saturday, 2 March 2024 15:14 (two months ago) link
She's making so many phone calls that the resonance of the ringing coming through the earpiece is going to sonically blast her own phone off the wall.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 2 March 2024 15:22 (two months ago) link
You can certainly ring a bell, true! Also the changes.
― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Saturday, 2 March 2024 15:25 (two months ago) link
anita baker ward - ring my bell
― pplains, Saturday, 2 March 2024 16:36 (two months ago) link
He could play a guitar just like ringing a bell
― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 2 March 2024 18:33 (two months ago) link
In "Safe From Harm" I'm pretty sure Massive Attack didn't mean to say "what happened to the deliberately treated small details of my childhood days"
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 20 March 2024 12:08 (one month ago) link
Haha I have always wondered about that line
― Tim F, Wednesday, 20 March 2024 12:10 (one month ago) link