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"Madman across the Water".
sjjohnston wrote:
I don't know if anyone has pointed this out (due to my aversion to wading through vitriol), but I'm fairly confident that the "Madman Across the Water" to which the album title refers is Elton John himself. See, he was aware of this thing called "perspective:" when he's in the US, he's the guy from across the water. And here I thought it was Bernie Taubman (the guy who wrote the lyrics to almost all of Elton's songs). Shows what I know. -- //-Walt // // ...or was it actually Reginald Dwight after all... |
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"Madman across the Water".
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"Madman across the Water".
"Inger Skramstad Jørstad" wrote in message
... "The Real Bev" skrev i melding ... When the Czechs and the Slovaks split up, Slovakia became of course still Slovakia (SVK), or "the Slovak Republic", but the Czechs did not wish their country to be called "Czecho" (ENG), What??? Sorry, but you've just lopped off "Slovakia" from "Czechoslovakia" to say what it would have been in English??? Err.... no!!! I believe there's a diplomatic protocol in place where the naming of new states from the break up of an old one is left to the state itself and then adopted by everybody else. And if memory serves, the Czech Republic was called that before the Soviet Union amalgamated it with Slovakia. |
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"Madman across the Water".
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 17:17:16 -0500, Walt
wrote: sjjohnston wrote: I don't know if anyone has pointed this out (due to my aversion to wading through vitriol), but I'm fairly confident that the "Madman Across the Water" to which the album title refers is Elton John himself. See, he was aware of this thing called "perspective:" when he's in the US, he's the guy from across the water. And here I thought it was Bernie Taubman (the guy who wrote the lyrics to almost all of Elton's songs). Shows what I know. Taupin. Taubman's the shopping mall guy. HTH. HAND. bw |
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"Madman across the Water".
"Schneck" skrev i melding
... What??? Sorry, but you've just lopped off "Slovakia" from "Czechoslovakia" to say what it would have been in English?? Well, it was in fact suggested by some, maybe not too seriously, but this "name" was luckily soon abandoned. a diplomatic protocol in place where the naming of new states from the break up of an old one is left to the state itself and then adopted by everybody else. And if memory serves, the Czech Republic was called that before the Soviet Union amalgamated it with Slovakia. BTW, do you know where Oslo ( = the capital city of Norway) is? In the middle of Czechoslovakia, obviously. A good one some years ago, that one was. |
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"Madman across the Water".
"Walt" skrev i melding
... And here I thought it was Bernie Taubman (the guy who wrote the lyrics to almost all of Elton's songs). Shows what I know. Good point, I have actually never really thought of that. Could "The Madman across the Water actually in fact be him, and not Elton?? (And no, it is not called "The Madam across the Water".) |
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"Madman across the Water".
"Inger Skramstad Jørstad" skrev i melding
news BTW, do you know where Oslo ( = the capital city of Norway) is? Right in the middle of Czechoslovakia, obviously. A good one some years ago, that one was. You all got that? Czech-oslo-vakia, right? |
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"Madman across the Water".
"bdubya" skrev i melding
... Taupin. Taubman's the shopping mall guy. Quite correct, the name is Bernie Taupin, I missed that one. |
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"Madman across the Water".
tm wrote:
The Real Bev wrote: tm wrote: "pigo" wrote: "Inger Skramstad Jørstad" wrote and NOT Turkey, a name which they find degrading and offensive. Too bad for them I guess. That's the name on the maps I read. Is that one of those bizarre maps that puts the americas in the center and cuts eurasia in half? Those things are really hard to use. My world map has Japan in the center. I assume you've seen the one that has New York in the center... No. I'd like to see that. I'll bet they are available in NY? Probably. There's an equivalent 'Hollywood' map too. Imagine you are a half a mile off the coast of NYC and half a mile up, looking west at a more-or-less 3-D view. NYC takes up 3/4 of the foreground and many landmarks are labeled. Next, you see something called The Mississippi River. Then The Rockies, Pacific Ocean, Asia and Europe. I've also got a big National Geographic map that i cut down the Atlantic and pieced back together so I can see Asia without going back and forth. Oh fine, I suppose you completely eliminated Ascension Island. What are you, some kind of continentcentric snob? -- Cheers, Bev *********************************************** "A complete lack of evidence is the surest sign that the conspiracy is working." -- Tanuki |
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"Madman across the Water".
bdubya wrote:
On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 17:17:16 -0500, Walt wrote: sjjohnston wrote: I don't know if anyone has pointed this out (due to my aversion to wading through vitriol), but I'm fairly confident that the "Madman Across the Water" to which the album title refers is Elton John himself. See, he was aware of this thing called "perspective:" when he's in the US, he's the guy from across the water. And here I thought it was Bernie Taubman (the guy who wrote the lyrics to almost all of Elton's songs). Shows what I know. Taupin. Taubman's the shopping mall guy. HTH. HAND. bw Ok. As I said before, shows what I know. //-Walt // //There is no Volkl Conspiracy |
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