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U2's The Ocean versus Monty Python's the Accountant Sea Shanty

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U2's The Ocean versus Monty Python's the Accountant Sea Shanty
« on: July 10, 2024, 08:42:56 AM »
Both sea-themed songs, which is better???
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Re: U2's The Ocean versus Monty Python's the Accountant Sea Shanty
« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2024, 06:52:19 PM »
Sailing the wide accountant-sea...

Did you know the the original name of Boy was going to be Stories For Buoys?
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Re: U2's The Ocean versus Monty Python's the Accountant Sea Shanty
« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2024, 07:12:12 PM »
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Re: U2's The Ocean versus Monty Python's the Accountant Sea Shanty
« Reply #3 on: July 10, 2024, 07:32:42 PM »
Quote from: Rupert Pupkin on July 10, 2024, 06:52:19 PM
Sailing the wide accountant-sea...

Did you know the the original name of Boy was going to be Stories For Buoys?

I did not know that. I have only recently learned that the original title of “Where the Streets Have No Name” was “Where the Fleets Have no Name”.
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Re: U2's The Ocean versus Monty Python's the Accountant Sea Shanty
« Reply #4 on: July 10, 2024, 07:34:46 PM »
“Mullet the Blue Fin” - that was another  one.
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Re: U2's The Ocean versus Monty Python's the Accountant Sea Shanty
« Reply #5 on: July 10, 2024, 07:36:56 PM »
“Running to Stand Fin” with its epic chorus:

“I see seven towers, I only see one whale out”
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Re: U2's The Ocean versus Monty Python's the Accountant Sea Shanty
« Reply #6 on: July 10, 2024, 07:39:36 PM »
“I took the poison from the bloated whale , then I floated out of here”
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Re: U2's The Ocean versus Monty Python's the Accountant Sea Shanty
« Reply #7 on: July 10, 2024, 07:40:31 PM »
A Ray Without Me.
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Re: U2's The Ocean versus Monty Python's the Accountant Sea Shanty
« Reply #8 on: July 10, 2024, 07:43:33 PM »
Cod’s Own Country
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Re: U2's The Ocean versus Monty Python's the Accountant Sea Shanty
« Reply #9 on: July 10, 2024, 07:49:32 PM »
Where the Eels have no name
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Re: U2's The Ocean versus Monty Python's the Accountant Sea Shanty
« Reply #10 on: July 10, 2024, 07:51:30 PM »
I STILL
HAVENT FOUND
WHAT IM HOOKING FOR

said Bono, while fishing.
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Re: U2's The Ocean versus Monty Python's the Accountant Sea Shanty
« Reply #11 on: July 10, 2024, 08:01:20 PM »
The Last Pike on Earth
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Re: U2's The Ocean versus Monty Python's the Accountant Sea Shanty
« Reply #12 on: July 10, 2024, 08:08:06 PM »
I’m not going mad or anything. Suggesting alternative U2 song titles with maritime associations placed here and there to replace one of the words in the title is a perfectly normal thing to do - or indeed, a perfectly NARWHAL thing to do.

 :o :o
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Re: U2's The Ocean versus Monty Python's the Accountant Sea Shanty
« Reply #13 on: July 10, 2024, 09:20:33 PM »
The Great American Whale
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Re: U2's The Ocean versus Monty Python's the Accountant Sea Shanty
« Reply #14 on: July 10, 2024, 09:32:50 PM »
Songs of Surrender, also known affectionately as SOS (a well known nautical distress signal); or, Fishing For Compliments
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