am i the only one........

paulaitchison · Post by **paulaitchison** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 5:36 am

i thought that minaretts (ie screaming from the minaretts)

meant minaretts as in wooden puppets,

thinking of some metaphorical reason for these puppets to be screaming,

i did not know that minaretts were the towers from a mosque where the priest calls people to pray.

so its official (as if the last stop were not enough).
dave hates muslims

GuitarGuy305 · Post by **GuitarGuy305** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 7:02 am

I think the puppets are marionettes. And I think Dave loves everyone this life.

paulaitchison · Post by **paulaitchison** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 7:15 am

but screaming from the minaretts from a song with an egyptian rythem and scale........

im pretty sure its not puppets. :discus:

sunglassesatnight · Post by **sunglassesatnight** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 7:30 am

It isn't puppets because minarets aren't puppets. That's what GuitarGuy was getting at.

paulaitchison · Post by **paulaitchison** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 7:32 am

in the words of the virgin mary

come again?

Andre_GT7 · Post by **Andre_GT7** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 7:35 am

Minarets = Towers from mosque
Marionettes = Puppets

sunglassesatnight · Post by **sunglassesatnight** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 7:38 am

Andre_GT7 wrote:Minarets = Towers from mosque
Marionettes = Puppets

Yep.

paulaitchison · Post by **paulaitchison** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 7:48 am

and was i the only one to make the mistake??

prob..........

sunglassesatnight · Post by **sunglassesatnight** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 8:04 am

I didn't know what minarets were for a while and I wondered if it was just another word for marionettes, then I found out otherwise. That led to some interesting interpretations of the song, of course.

guitardmb · Post by **guitardmb** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 8:09 am

paulaitchison wrote:i thought that minaretts (ie screaming from the minaretts)

meant minaretts as in wooden puppets,

thinking of some metaphorical reason for these puppets to be screaming,

i did not know that minaretts were the towers from a mosque where the priest calls people to pray.

so its official (as if the last stop were not enough).
dave hates muslims

Wow I didnt know that.

Funkiest Monk · Post by **Funkiest Monk** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 8:56 am

apparently you weren't the only one to make a mistake that is pretty dumb to make in my opinion. Marionettes has one more sylable than minarets so wouldn't fit. And i'm pretty sure minarets has only 1 t

paulaitchison · Post by **paulaitchison** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 9:23 am

dave hardly sings in a clear fashon and his mumbleing and screaming dont afford one the opertunity to closeley count sylables, and the song does make poetic sense if you think of screaming puppets and all the metaphore that could go with it.

therefore,
i dont think it was "dumb", just a mistake that i may not be entirely alone in making

markTR · Post by **markTR** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 11:34 am

I'll admit; before I knew what a minaret was, I was thinking along the same lines as you Paul.

Taylor2885 · Post by **Taylor2885** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 12:45 pm

I had no idea what the fuck a marionette was. So i learned something today.

I wasn't sure what minarets were either, but I always thought it had to do something with Spanish religion or something like that because the song always sounded Spanish-like to me.

brian_ok · Post by **brian_ok** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 1:41 pm

My dad went to Saudi Arabia last year, and he said that a while ago (50 years or so), a priest would climb to the top of the tower several times a day to call for prayer, but now they have huge, ugly speakers mounted on the tops of all these beautiful towers

I thought that was kind of sad.

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