BS: Asteroid Light -- erratum

Subject: Asteroid Light -- erratum
From: GUEST,ebear
Date: 28 Feb 02 - 08:22 PM

The original "Asteroid Light" has the line "two were mutants and the other was me" while the database here has "mutes" which makes not a lot of sense. I looked for a link for feedback but this is all I could find with my short attention span.

Subject: RE: BS: Asteroid Light -- erratum
From: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
Date: 28 Feb 02 - 08:51 PM

I added a note to 31305: Here
This may or may not help to get a correction; the thread has a click for the song. Another mondegreen.

Subject: RE: BS: Asteroid Light -- erratum
From: Bill D
Date: 28 Feb 02 - 11:36 PM

*big grin*....I know why! The database version was transcribed from a tape Dick Greenhaus made of ME singing at the FSGW Getaway about 1987-8...it was in the very early DT distributed on disk. I just never went and checked before. I got the song from an old book.."Songs for Swinging House Mothers", I think

Subject: RE: BS: Asteroid Light -- erratum
From: Hrothgar
Date: 01 Mar 02 - 03:07 AM

Must be dumb to think it was "mutes"

Subject: RE: BS: Asteroid Light -- erratum
From: mack/misophist
Date: 01 Mar 02 - 10:29 AM

If you read more Science Fiction you'd know that 'mutes' or 'muties' is a synonym for mutants. It really does make sense.

Subject: RE: BS: Asteroid Light -- erratum
From: Bill D
Date: 01 Mar 02 - 04:52 PM

"Must be dumb to think it was "mutes"

,,,ummm...I'll tell him you said so...I'm sure it'll make his day.

(Maybe it was MY pronunciation!...perhaps after YOU have transcribed 473 songs and made no mistakes, you'll come back and tell us how easy it is!)