Thursday, September 28, 2023

Deep Thoughts but Not Really, with Xmastime

The Big Chill has been on Pluto TV nonstop for weeks and The Rewatchables just did an episode for its 40th anniversary and Robbie Robertson just died a few weeks ago so it all reminds me of this:

Was The Band having a go at us in their song The Weight by naming the central character “Fanny”? In that upon hearing it it’s natural to think “take a load off, Fanny” is “take a load off, Annie”. The f-f consecutive sound seems needlessly confusing; perhaps they did it so they could incredulously scoff at people at dinner parties who sang the chorus? I mean, wtf?

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