Word of the Day
Today's "Word of the Day" is brought to you by Bruce Springsteen ...
calliope: n. A musical instrument fitted with steam whistles, played from a keyboard.
"With a boulder on my shoulder, feelin' kinda older, I tripped the merry-go-round. With this very unpleasing sneezing and wheezing, the calliope crashed to the ground." -- Bruuuuuuuce Springsteen, "Blinded By the Light (1973)"
Personally, I prefer the Manfred Mann's Earth Band remake because it's all overblown and arena rock. Gimmie a rock song with violins and orchestral harmonies, man.
Yeah.
I like Queen.
calliope: n. A musical instrument fitted with steam whistles, played from a keyboard.
"With a boulder on my shoulder, feelin' kinda older, I tripped the merry-go-round. With this very unpleasing sneezing and wheezing, the calliope crashed to the ground." -- Bruuuuuuuce Springsteen, "Blinded By the Light (1973)"
Personally, I prefer the Manfred Mann's Earth Band remake because it's all overblown and arena rock. Gimmie a rock song with violins and orchestral harmonies, man.
Yeah.
I like Queen.
posted by Danielle Belton @ 10:26 AM
1 Comments:
At 8:06 AM,
Anonymous said…
I named my newly acquired Toshiba notebook "Calliope" purely by coincidence. You know when you're booting up a new computer and you're prompted to give it a name? Well, calliope sounded cool but I couldn't remember what it meant and was too lazy to look it up. I'm just so glad it's not from the Greek for "righteous piece of crap."
Thanks, Danielle, for the reminder.
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