Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: Motorcycle

Fa rima con 
- fickle
o con
- michael
?
-- 
Today no, tomorrow yes.

 ?
La seconda.
Ciao, FB
-- 
"While I'm here, might I make a few changes? I adore my bedroom, but do you
think I could have my curtains washed? I believe they're red, but I should
like to make sure."
(Cold Comfort Farm, the film)

 La seconda.
Tell that to Arlo Guthrie.
http://www.arlo.net/lyrics/motorcycle-arlo.shtml

Tony the ice man ha scritto:
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You took the words right out of my mouth!
-- 
This is my opinion of modern, colloquial, *conversational* American
English. 
If you feel the need to e-mail me, un-not my address first.


(Unless you're Arlo Guthrie)
The Motorcycle Song
words and music by Arlo Guthrie
CHORUS:
I don't want a pickle
Just want to ride on my motorsickle
And I don't want a tickle
'Cause I'd rather ride on my motorsickle
Joe from Massachusetts


I should have known better than to post without reading the whole
thread!
Now I'll probably get a ticket for littering the newsgroup.
Joe from Massachusetts
Joe from Massachusetts

 newsgroup.
("KID, HAVE YOU REHABILITATED YOURSELF?")
That AG's song was the reason I began this thread.
Now I'm slowly translating the text of his A.R.M. song.
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Have you seen the film, "Alice's Restaurant"? It is worth it, even if
only to see Arlo in his underwear jumping up and down, shouting "Kill,
kill, kill", at his failed draft interview.
Like the song, the film is based on actual events, with a little
exaggeration. Arlo, a resident of New York City, attended the private
Stockbridge school in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in the Berkshire
Mountains. Ray and Alice, of "Alice's Restaurant", were on the staff
of the school, as well as proprietors of the restaurant (which wasn't
called "Alice's"). After graduation, Arlo left the area, and tried his
hand at a college in Montana, but soon returned to the Berkshires, and
made the area his second home, and it was then that the "massacree"
occurred.
The Berkshires are a tourist Mecca in summer, and are a second home
for many people from New York City, including Guthrie. The summer
music festival at Lenox, the nearby Jacob's Pillow Dance Theater, and
the legend of the "massacree" draw many visitors to the area. It is
not such a charming place in winter.
I used to have a job which required me to visit the area several times
a week, and I still visit the area often.
Joe from Massachusetts

'Cause I'd rather ride on my motorsickle
But you forgot:
And I don't want to die
Just want to ride on my motorcy...............cle
Have we all suceeded in dating ourselves yet?


Arlo is alive and well, and I just recently watched "Alice's
Restaurant" again.
Joe from Massachusetts

 events, with a little exaggeration. Arlo, a resident of
I think I saw it many years ago, decades, when our TV was 
more interesting. 
I think I saw it on a B/W TV-set in the 70's...
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 Have we all suceeded in dating ourselves yet?
Guarda caso nessuna delle ragazze qui ha risposto ...
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 Guarda caso nessuna delle ragazze qui ha risposto ...
I don't mind admitting to my age :-) 
I certainly remember Alice's Restaurant.
 
-- 
Mary

"Mary Cassidy" <ma...@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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Speaking of restaurants, would you happen to remember the restaurant
in Rome where Rocky Roberts and Lola Falana used to hang out when they
had a show on Italian TV? I remember it was mentioned every week in
the press when those two were popular in Italy. (Maybe it wasn't a
restaurant, maybe it was a disco?)
This would have been just about the same time that "Alice's
Restaurant" was released.
I read earlier this year in the Italian press that Rocky Roberts was
attempting a comeback after all these years. That would be as
impressive a feat as Gigliola Cinquetti ("Non ho l'età") making a
comeback. Or should it be Gigliola Cinquantetti, now that she does
have "l'etá"?   :>)
Joe from Massachusetts

I certainly remember Alice's Restaurant.
I remember it too
BTW I was listening to a Woody Guthrie's CD some days ago, does it
mean I'm old? :)
'bye

 Restaurant" was released.
No, I haven't been in Italy that long, and I've never heard of them.
-- 
Mary

 used to hang out when they had a show on Italian TV? 
"Staaaaasera mi buccio, 
stasera mi buccio, mi buccio con teeeee;
eeeee faccio di tuccio, 
e faccio di tuccio per stare con teeee."
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While I was "Sittin' by the Dock of the Bay" in Naples, watching Rocky
Roberts and Lola Falana on RAI TV, the last thing I wanted to hear was
either of them singing in Italian. I wanted to hear them interpreting
the latest "soul" hits from the US.
You can see some of Rocky and Lola's appearances on "Sabato Sera" from
that era, in the archives of RAI, on 
raiclick.it
. I think they
appeared in most, if not all, of the broadcasts of "Sabato Sera" that
year, many of which were hosted by the inimitable Mina. I think it was
the next summer that they got their own show on RAI, the "Rocky
Roberts Show", featuring Roberts in his trademark dark glasses.
Imagine a group of Americans, black and white, sitting in the back
room of a little bar in Naples every week, watching two black
Americans on TV, trying to blend in with the Neapolitans who didn't
have the luxury of TV in their homes. It was hardly worth buying a TV,
since there were only two channels at the time. Italian TV in those
days wasn't the "'B'-done" it is today.
http://213.140.30.67/raiclick/pc/website/0,4388,6-651-1-CTY20-CID984-0-0-0---1-3-ABB0,00.html
"Nun è peccato" che un certo Peppino, di quella isola vicino a Napoli,
cantasse in inglese, ma mi sembrava che soffrisse da qualche
"Malattia" quando lo fece, come quando Roberts cantava in italiano.
Joe from Massachusetts

Giò
Problems are how you get them felt.

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That's irrelevant.
Poetic license, they call it.
Who knows how he actually pronouces those words.
Take for instance "Lord Randall's ballad" (learnt in early High
School).
http://www.moonwise.com/randal.html
Mother, make my bed soon
for I'm weary with hunting
and fain would lie down
Now, who would've guessed it, "soon" rimes with "down". It's the
"down" who has to be "adjusted" to the "soon" pronounciation.
A very peculiar and interesting fact is that this ballad inspired Bob
Dylan's "A hard rain's gonna fall"
http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/hardrain.html
(learnt that too in ealy High School !)
Just like Simon and Garfunkel did with "Scarborough Fair"...
Eh... "Our Lord works in mysterious ways...." (quote)
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 Who knows how he actually pronouces those words.
I know. It's also called slant rhyme. And the post you responded to is
called ironic.

>>Tell that to Arlo Guthrie.
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I didn't mean to hurt your susceptibility, sorry.
I also got for serious your first reply, and evenly replied.
Now THIS post is NOT ironic.
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 Now THIS post is NOT ironic.
Non mi sono offesso. La mia intenzione non è ovvio a tutti e la risposta è
stata sarcastica perché il rimbeccare si diverte.
Se posso offrirti dei feedback senza offenderti, ci sono degli errori nella
tua risposta. La parola 'susceptibility' non è adatta in quel contesto. One
can have a susceptibility to _being_ hurt che significa che qualcuno è
suscettibile d'sentirsi dolore. However, one can't have his 'susceptibility'
hurt. Si dice invece 'I didn't mean to hurt your feelings'. Si può anche
dire 'I didn't mean to offend your sensitivity' ma è un'espressione
abbastanza poetica e meno comune.
Si dice anche 'I took your first reply as serious'. L'espressione 'and
evenly replied' non ha senso, ma immagino che intendi dire 'and replied
even-handedly'.

even-handedly'.
No, semplicemente non mi veniva la parola, e non mi viene neanche
adesso.
It will come to me. Eventually.
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Perhhaps "and replied in kind"?
http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/kind_1
Joe from Massachusetts