This video was posted on the Language Hat blog and showed up in my RSS feed today. Thought some of you would get a kick out of it.
Wordmatic
December 03, 2010, 02:31
BobHale
That's brilliant. As I just posted on my blog, I had been intending to join the campaign to get John Cage's 4:33 as the Christmas number one single but I think I'd like to see this there instead.
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
December 03, 2010, 22:15
Kalleh
That is great, WM! BTW, it is nice to see you back. We have missed you.
I posted it to my Facebook page, Bob. But the Blog idea is a good one, too.
December 03, 2010, 22:19
wordmatic
Kalleh, I saw your post on FB, and Bob, that is a great idea. Even my husband loved this video, and he doesn't even follow anything about linguistics.
Wordmatic
December 04, 2010, 10:50
arnie
I've already posted it on my FB page, along with a suggestion that we start a new FB group to get it to No. 1! I've got one "Like", from CW.This message has been edited. Last edited by: arnie,
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
December 04, 2010, 22:05
Kalleh
I guess I am behind the time with Facebook. How do you make something number 1?
December 05, 2010, 08:24
arnie
There's always a big fuss round about now because the music companies release the the recordings they figure will get to number one in the charts at Christmas. Because a lot of people are buying recordings as presents the sales volume is greater than at other times of the year.
There was a campaign on Facebook a couple of years ago to get a song by a virtually unknown band to number one in the charts at Christmas, and it succeeded, much to the annoyance of the music industry. I can't remember now who the band was, but I do remember I thought the song was dire.
There are at least two Facebook campaigns going on to get music to number one in the Christmas charts that I know of. One is for John Cage's 4'33", and the other is for The Pogues' Fairytale of New York. Almost certainly there are others.