Once more into the Trans-Caucasus, my friends....

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etaoin22 · #1 Post by **etaoin22** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 4:35 pm

and an advert for FNGD. I have spent my time for question writing, here,, rather than writing there , so I will have to write some more, soon.

I will be dedicated.

BUT,,,

I intend to do a well-deserved Requiescat in Pace for the poorly understood Switch the Question lifeline. One half of the question will be in the spoiler below, so if you are playing FNGD tonite, you may pass this one:

Spoiler

In the famous Beatles' song "Back in the USSR", before the phrase borrowed from Mr. Carmichael and Mr. Charles, "Georgia on", is completed by the word "mind", how many "my"s are sung. ?

I will give a useless hint. There are transcriptions with seven different numbers of "mys" on the first page of a Google search for the lyric. Perhaps post-Beatles or by Billy Joel, the song was sung differently. And I dont even know if there was an official lyric sheet with The White Album.

elwoodblues · #2 Post by **elwoodblues** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 9:15 pm

I count nine.

mrkelley23 · #3 Post by **mrkelley23** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 9:23 pm

Spoiler

And I get ten.

etaoin22 · #4 Post by **etaoin22** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 12:43 pm

Its nine. The tenth is the word "mind" itself.

Now here is my trenchant analysis, Probably wrong but anyhow. .

Counting is hard because instead of being in groups around the beat,the sequence goes like a series of echoes, presumably the request "honey, disconnect the phone" has not yet been done, and there is a feedback loop possibly with the assistance of the KGB.

At least, that is what occurred to me late last night.

Here is the STQ with which I requiescated it. Just more of the same, but longer. I wanted to put at some point a question about the "Ritual Fire Music" (Manuel De Falla) in the same vein, but maybe not now.

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