The Latest Internet craze apparently
Posted by Stringy on 1 April 2008 - 2:22pm.
I was sent this a couple of months ago...
Rap Lyrics explained with charts and graphs
This has now become a major Internet craze and there are some other great ones here starting with Rick Astley and Prince -
There are more here should you wish to kill some time at work...
Very funny!
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Our work security system detected a violation on the first those links. It doesn't generally do that lightly, so I'd procede with caution.
From memory, I think the Rick Astley pie chart suggests he was much more likely to make me cry than he was to let me down. Not borne out by history, I'm afraid.
Astley
Sounds like an over sensitive security system to me. Ours is pretty picky and it was ok with them. Shouldn't be a problem anyway.
I suppose he's equally likely to let me down or make me cry really. It's very unlikely that he'd surprise me by making a record I liked, however.
Here's one I made myself
(Perhaps a bit of an old reference for the young'uns)
... although actually it's better suited to a venn diagram
*snorts coffee through nose*
How about this one
Source: The Beatles (c1969)
I struggle with this one.
The graph would imply that 'the love you take' is equal to 'the love you make' at another point, much closer to the Start than the End. And also, that the two flavours of love are also equal to each other at the Start itself.
I am sure, were this the case, that Paul and John would have made that clear at the time.
A fair point
... but I would say that song suggests there is an end to love making/taking. Therefore there would have to be a start of love making/taking for an individual. If you happen to begin taking love earlier than making it (as I suppose most would), then actually the taking graph would appear flat for a period of time.
The song states that love making and taking are equal at the end, but no comment is made about any earlier time. It's not reasonable to infer that love making and taking are unequal right up until the end. (In fact it's logically possible for them to have been equal all along.)
One area you might pick me up on is my assumption that the song refers to cumulative love. The lyrics aren't specific, so I made a rather devil-may-care assumption as to their intent.
The lyrics might perhaps be changed thus to make them more clear:
"And at the end
the total love you've made
is equal for the the first time
to the total love you've take."
Unfortunately this neither rhymes nor scans.
allthebest
Mr Logic.
My turn
Oooh this is getting addictive
One more
and...
OK
You win
No he doesn't...
Well Done
Very good chaps.
This one is already done for you
Fort Minor-Remember the Name. Richard Thompson fans look away now,contains Rap
Reasons To Be Cheerful, Slide 3
I'd do it, but with such a weighty dataset I'd need a whole PowerPoint presentation.
(Keep 'em coming. My fave so far: Fraser's "Yellow Submarine".)
Important socioeconomic data
Divorce statistics
7 Days
Lies, damned lies and...
Very well done Mr Waring, however you appear to have missed the looking for a job / finding a job sub set, which skews the figures considerably.
Merely a level of granularity...
That I chose not to explore.
The essence of the tale is that full happiness was achieved whilst in a drunken haze (for an hour or so) but that at the present time (ie now) our hero is 'miserable'. Heaven knows.
His state of happiness whilst looking for a job, and then having found a job, is uncertain, although I think we can be reasonably certain that happiness levels fell when the 'found' state was achieved.
Whether he was in the haze of a drunken hour whilst looking for a job is also uncertain, although unlikely, given that he did, eventually, find a job.
I deal only in facts, not conjecture.
As Anthony said to Cleopatra
You Lose
This one was easy
Not fearing 'The Reaper'
http://img185.imageshack.us/my.php?image=reaperpiexm7.jpg
If you were concerned as to whether you should sit down or not..
http://img292.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sitdowncd3.jpg