![]() ![]() "Birds of a feather flock together" Birds accentor, amazon, ani, avadavat or amadavat, avocet, babbler, Baltimore oriole, barbet, beccafico, bee-eater, bellbird, bird of paradise, bishopbird, bittern, blackbird, blackcap, blackcock, black grouse, blackpoll, bluebird, blue grouse, blue jay, bluethroat, bluetit, boatbill or boat-billed heron, bobolink, bobwhite, bokmakierie, bowerbird, brain-fever bird, brambling, broadbill, brolga, Australian crane, or (Austral.) native companion, budgerigar, bulbul, bullfinch, bunting, bush shrike, bushtit, bush wren, bustard, button quail, cacique, canary, Cape pigeon, capercaillie or capercailzie, Cape sparrow, capuchin, cardinal or cardinal grosbeak, carrion crow, cassowary, catbird, chaffinch, chat, chickadee, chicken or (Austral. Get out of my house and don’t come back and I will do everything in my power to forget you as soon as possible."A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" Stop! Stop! I want you to leave NOW! Not tomorrow, not sometime in the future, I want you to leave right now and if you drugged me I swear to God I will be getting a restraining order and filing charges against you. Can you just get ready for dinner? You’re freaking me out a little here. Wait, did you drug me? Did you give me something that is going to erase my memory? This is such a weird question! Such a weird question. But if you’re asking about some distant time in the future that is an absurd question, offensive actually. Who knows that sort of thing about herself or even how memory works generally? That is what you’re asking right? Because I think we’ve already established that if you leave here tomorrow I would still remember you by tomorrow. I don’t even think that’s a fair question, to ask someone if she would “remember” something at some indefinite point in the future. You know what? Since you insist on asking me this nonsense, how about this answer? If you just up and leave here tomorrow, asshole, I may even remember you more! Like if we just kind of drifted apart I may someday forget you, but if you leave here tomorrow when things are going well between us and right after we had our “date night.” A date night that you insisted be at the Outback Steakhouse, even though you know I’m trying not to eat red meat, by the way, in that case I may remember you forever, you insensitive prick. I probably won’t ever forget you, or if I do it will be because of some brain injury or dementia and that will happen regardless of whether you leave here tomorrow or not. I don’t think it will have any bearing on how much I remember you if you leave here tomorrow or you don’t. Oh wait, you’re saying if you leave here tomorrow would I remember you… at some later point? Like ten years from now? We’ve been dating for two years, how could I forget you by tomorrow? ![]() I think I have the capacity to remember you for the next twenty-four hours. You’re asking if I would still remember you, by tomorrow? Of course, that’s one day from now. If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me? But, rather than getting into it in a sentence-diagramming way, I will explain what I mean by way of a thought experiment, wherein a hypothetical guy says the line (and only that line, so we can really focus on it) to his hypothetical girlfriend, and how she’d react: Something about the use of the words “still” and “tomorrow” in this way makes it not quite make sense. “If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me?”Īt first glance, the line seems like a nice(-ish), sincere question that someone would ask his girlfriend right before he leaves her to go ride his motorcycle across the country or whatever. ![]() The trouble with its lyrics is the famous opening line: This song started as just a song, then became the song that people requested that Lynyrd Skynyrd play at their concerts, then became the song that people jokingly requested that other bands play at their concerts, then became the thing people yelled out as an ironic reference to that joke, and then, finally, (hopefully) most people got tired of doing that and now it’s pretty much just a song again. ![]()
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