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TAKOTRON NEWS
Monday, 18 June 2007
SPACE BRAIN/FRAME
Topic: Music
I recently heard Guns n Roses' ode to extreme intoxication, "Nightrain," which employs several metaphors to describe various feelings and degrees of inebriation:

Loaded like a freight train
Flyin' like an aeroplane


Then I got excited, because I thought the next line was:

Feeling like a space frame

Wow a reference to 3-dimensional truss structures! But then it turns out the actual line is space brain, which is still pretty cool, if it's a reference to an episode of Space: 1999, but the most logical reference is just to being high and spaced out which is boring and predictable. Actually, 'Flyin' like an aeroplane" is pretty quotidian, although the old-fashioned version of the word makes it alright. The first metaphor gets my vote.


Posted by thenovakids at 9:48 AM CDT
Updated: Monday, 18 June 2007 9:49 AM CDT
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Wednesday, 20 June 2007 - 9:55 AM CDT

Name: Jesus H. Christ

Mordecai, those are SIMILES.

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