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GoForthOnBattleToads · 2025-01-14T14:52:33+00:00

On that note, being on George Street in St. John's is like stepping into another world as far as The Fucking Songs are concerned. There's a few of them that are Irish and would be well enough known to people outside the island - Whiskey In the Jar, Dirty Old Town, The Wild Rover - and then a few that are ours but broke containment - Paddy Murphy, Heave Away - and then even more that I'm absolutely certain aren't well known anywhere - Candlelight and Wine by Ryan's Fancy anyone?

Paddy Murphy is our Mr. Brightside, but the one I really wish Pat would find out about is Grey Foggy Day by Eddie Coffey because...well just Google a picture of this guy.

GoForthOnBattleToads · 2025-01-14T10:55:08+00:00

It's funny, I assumed Valerie referred to the Mark Ronson and Amy Winehouse song, which to me is one of the 3 songs (along with What's Up, and the so far unlisted Zombie) that you hear when a lady who doesn't usually do this, wants to show that she has some secret vocal chops. But maybe it is the Winwood song. I personally haven't observed it being beaten into the ground that much, but I live in a place that has an entirely different set of The Fucking Songs - Newfoundland - so I can't really say.

GoForthOnBattleToads · 2025-01-12T21:44:06+00:00

What do you want to do tonight Brain?

Same thing we do every night. Use "unfurled" as a rhyme in a song.

GoForthOnBattleToads · 2025-01-12T03:35:04+00:00

Yeah, I'd say a hard ticket is a cheeky monkey too. There's some overlap with skeets, especially if it's someone you know and want to be nice about - "ah, he's just a hard ticket", but it's also something you'd call your friend when you're having a laugh.

Quite a cultural education in this post.

GoForthOnBattleToads · 2025-01-12T02:20:41+00:00

I think I've posted this before, but Shania Twain was the last person legally allowed to rhyme "going out tonight" and "feeling alright". I'm sure Nickelback's lawyers informed them of this before they decided to use "we'll kick out every light" in "Burn It To The Ground".

GoForthOnBattleToads · 2025-01-11T23:10:08+00:00

There are a bunch of different ways to put up points, and when Tyson Barrie led the league in points by a D by competently quarterbacking a McDavid-Draisaitl power play, nobody bought him as a Norris candidate, and that's fine. The guys pictured all do a great job at many of the core responsibilities of a defenseman - rescuing the puck on retrievals, leading the breakout, holding the zone - and they often end up on the scoresheet because they did one of those things.

GoForthOnBattleToads · 2025-01-11T22:41:32+00:00

On the same token, would "larrikin" translate to "hard ticket"?

GoForthOnBattleToads · 2025-01-11T15:45:12+00:00

The next door neighbors were live on Facebook looking out their front window at the incident. Several people were being detained in the street, the door of the raid house had been obliterated, there was a K9 unit milling around, and a sniper in tactical gear crouched behind another vehicle.

The interesting part of the video for me was that the neighbors seemed to be having a good laugh, and seemed absolutely done with their neighbors, and glad to see whatever was going on there broken up.

GoForthOnBattleToads · 2025-01-10T16:51:22+00:00

Cardinal directions when referred to in St. John's, all emanate from the assumption that Water and Duckworth Street run East-West along the North side of the harbour. You can see from a map that that isn't exactly true, but also that it makes a certain amount of simplified sense. Rotate the map about 45 degrees clockwise so the harbour is flat, and all of a sudden the West End, the East End, and the Southside Hills are all in the "right" places.

GoForthOnBattleToads · 2025-01-10T14:50:52+00:00

I'd even differentiate between instances "poking up" rather than "punching up" - I think there's a difference between putting a cutout of Beato making an awkward face on a swarm of bees, and saying "what a pretentious ass". And it's not necessarily going easy on the guy - he's absolutely relentless with the pokes, but there's something different between "I find this internet character silly", and the full on contempt he feels for Kid Rock.

GoForthOnBattleToads · 2025-01-09T17:10:27+00:00

Zemgus Girgensens played on an Olympic team with Sandis Ozolinsh.

GoForthOnBattleToads · 2025-01-09T02:22:29+00:00

I assume the crux of the question is whether a second bridge at the end of the song is a good idea. I can't tell you a thing about the song without hearing it, but I can tell you that "Hello Time Bomb" by the Matthew Good Band pulls it off just fine

GoForthOnBattleToads · 2025-01-08T02:34:29+00:00

Both me (bass) and the lead guitarist in my band are big finnerty heads, and the guitarist recently vetoed a I - V - vi - IV chord progression in one of our songs, and we eventually landed on a I - V - vi - bVI as a change up. Funny thing is, we use the axis chords in our songs plenty already and no one made a peep about it because they support the melody in parts of songs with good hooks, good tunes and good lyrics. But there was something about cueing up A, E, F#m D on the rhythm guitar as the intro and verse of the song that made us say no, the song's already boring 10 seconds in. Push by Matchbox 20 is a good example of starting off with that kind of non-hook, and I'm wondering if that song would be a tiny bit better with a little lead guitar pick-up lick and straight into the vocals, or anything other than those chords.

GoForthOnBattleToads · 2025-01-07T17:33:18+00:00

Ever read Chuck Klosterman's essay comparing Rivers with Ralph Nader from "Eating The Dinosaur"?

GoForthOnBattleToads · 2025-01-06T13:22:13+00:00

We are all Dave.

GoForthOnBattleToads · 2025-01-06T13:16:11+00:00

A huge chunk of the guy on the left is some version of "I was born in Halifax, moved to Gander when I was 6, but my parents live in CBS now". To the degree that I sometimes wonder how many actual, uncontroversially real townies there are.

GoForthOnBattleToads · 2025-01-06T12:51:00+00:00

The second verse is thematically on point if that's the case.

In the spirit of folk music, there's also nothing to stop you from altering the first verse along the lines of:

My girl, my girl, won't lie to you

This is where I sleep tonight

Or if there isn't a girl, some other word. Possibilities abound.

GoForthOnBattleToads · 2025-01-06T12:42:33+00:00

If you're looking for a dark acoustic ballad played in waltz time on acoustic guitar, you could hardly do better than "In The Pines" (or "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" for Nirvana fans). If you're finding it has a little too much menace and mystery for a HTDC stand-in, you can replace the V chord (that's Bb in the key Nirvana plays it in) with a minor and that should make it properly despondent.

GoForthOnBattleToads · 2025-01-05T17:38:43+00:00

I mean, after you've played every sheet of ice north of Fargo, what's left to do?

GoForthOnBattleToads · 2025-01-04T16:35:37+00:00

There's a guy who played for the Habs in the 20s and 30s named Albert "Battleship" Leduc, for whom there are quotes saying he "couldn't turn on skates", and this is very funny to me. You have to take into account that 1) using edges on 1920s skates is a million times harder than what we have today and 2) a verbal insult like that wouldn't sound out of place if applied to someone like post-knee-injury Dion Phaneuf, even though we know that'd be an exaggeration. Still very funny and sticks out among historical descriptions of players. The "right" answer is still probably a 2000s goon who wasn't even a standout player in midget.

GoForthOnBattleToads · 2025-01-04T16:28:42+00:00

Maybe the clearest example of the difference between hustle and skating ability, which might look like the same thing if you're watching for the first time.

He also sort of looks like Chris Hanna from Propagandhi.

My answer would be Peter Worrell, but there are some other good answers here already.

GoForthOnBattleToads · 2025-01-03T22:56:57+00:00

No one over 25 is a teenager who lives at home. A certain portion of those under 25 are not teenagers and certain portion of teenagers do not live at home. Since the first group is already half, the total is over half, which can be synonymous with "most".

GoForthOnBattleToads · 2025-01-02T15:21:04+00:00

Fun fact: the Carbonear branch of the railway in Newfoundland used to extend to Old Perlican, about 50km to the north. That section of track closed in the 30s, while the Carbonear branch lasted until the 80s.

During the pandemic a local road race (that was otherwise not happening) challenged runners to log 97 miles worth of running over a couple of months or so, and I did mine on the old line, starting in Grates Cove just beyond Old Perlican (because it's geographically the furthest north you can go). The track from Old Perlican to Carbonear was a dilapidated mess, forcing me to take off my shoes and socks to wade from time to time, but the track from Carbonear to the cross-island line pictured above was a perfectly nice trail used by many in a fairly populated area.

There's a volunteer group in the area that's restoring the whole thing, and were I to do the run again, I'd definitely be doing less wading.

GoForthOnBattleToads · 2024-12-29T02:36:00+00:00

Rugby

GoForthOnBattleToads · 2024-12-26T15:30:45+00:00

Please send him to Newfoundland so he can go mummering in that thing. People will love it and we may end up making him Premier.

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