Friday, June 14, 2013

We Didn't Start The Fire (AKA I'm sure your rape and Lil Jon)

I have tried to use the "speech to text" feature on my phone. Especially while driving to cut down on "fingers on the phone" and "eyes off the road". But the problem is...well I mumble a lot. I find I spend more t ime proof reading then I do actually looking while writing a text. I rarely send or read texts while driving. But if the feature exists...
So yesterday, while driving, I decided to see how well my "speech to text" feature really is. Below is how my phone interpreted me saying the lyrics to Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start The Fire." Like most 30+ year olds, I know all the lyrics, although I admit, yesterday I learned that "Homeless Vets" are referred to, not "Homeless pets."
I left the refrain as is to help better understand where you are in the song.

If you don't know them, the lyrics are available here:
http://www.metrolyrics.com/we-didnt-start-the-fire-lyrics-billy-joel.html

Here is MY ANDROID's version of "We Didn't Start The Fire."

Harry Truman, Dr East, Cambridge China, Chinese race, South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joda Maggio.
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television, North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe.

Rosenberg, I'm sure your rape and Lil Jon, Brando, The King and I, and The Catcher in the Rye.
Eisenhower, back and got a new queen, Maggiano's, Liberace said Diana goodbye.

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it
Just dial in on cop siren for a copy of Rockefeller, Pappa Miller, communist bloc.
Roy Klein want to run the skinny DDTank on hand in blue balls, rock around the clock.

I'm Stein 17, Brooklyn's got a winning team, Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley is the last,
bomb go to the past Alabama cruise chest is great, Peggy great trouble did you.
We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Little Rock, passing knock, Mickey Mantle, para lax but nick yellow light Bridge on the River Clyde,
Killed in on Lebanon, California baseball, start weather homicide, children of the atom I

Buddy Holly, fan her, space monkey, mafia, to look into trouble as a listen no go,
To do sit in rain hail with kennedy, Chubby Checker, site go, Belgian Congo.

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Hemingway, I mean, strangers in a strange land, deal in, Berlin, Dave days.
Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania, Ole Miss, John Glenn, Mr Patterson.
Hope all mathematics, British politician, JFK blown away what else do I have to say...

We didn't start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world's been turning
We didn't start the fire
No we didn't light it
But we tried to fight it

Birth control, hoochie man, Richard Nixon back again, shot Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock.
Taking Reagan, Palestine, tear on the airline, ayatollahs in Iran, brushes in Afghanistan,
Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide, porns at home, instead 8 track, Bernie get hypothermia,
On the shore, China's under martial law, Rock n Roll, the Cold War...I can't take it anymore

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My top 5 favorite lines:

1. I'm sure your rape and Lil Jon (I either want to hear this Lil' Jon song or want to know the restr of the sentence).
2.  Liberace said Diana goodbye (looking like he beat Elton to it by a few years)
3. Roy Klein want to run the skinny DDTank on hand in blue balls?  (Clearly a rhetorical question, at least it is if you know Roy Klein).
4. Porns at home (Where else woudl they be?)
5. hoochie man.  (That guy fuck things up throughout the 60s and 70s!)