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Thread #29353   Message #373502
Posted By: Little Hawk
12-Jan-01 - 03:42 PM
Thread Name: BS: what's the difference between...?
Subject: RE: BS - what's the difference between.....
Or as Dylan once wrote sarcastically "and I seen...or rather, I have saw", regarding promises made by reporters that he would see what would happen if he gave them weird and silly answers to their stupid and predictable questions...they would print a rumour story to cause him trouble and embarrassment.

In one short sentence Bob lampoons not only said reporters, but also all pedants who have ever complained about his frequent usage of colloquial and technically incorrect grammar in his song lyrics...which was not through ignorance, but by choice.

Oddly enough, Bob usually sings "there is no place I'm going to" in Tambourine Man, which is impeccably correct English, but I've heard innumerable renditions of the song by various folkies who usually sing "there ain't no place I'm going to". I wonder why? They must have just been sure that Bob would do it that way, I guess...

BTW, Spaw's original diagram looked like this:

Diagram A --- O
Diagram B --- O

I forgot to put in the "break" commands before, so it didn't come out right. See? Little Orphan Annie's eyes...for sure, eh?

- LH