Bowie's Top 100 books

[El Pibe]

"The 70,000 figure? That's personal items"

Ha ha, no way!! I Thought that was obvious.

and math (plural maths) is most decidedly a made up word.

It's just a short form of mathematics.

maths UK, math US

mathematic is an adjective so if you ask me we have it right.

[edhistory]

May I refer you to the Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, 1991, Volume IX, page 469 for "math" and page 471 for "maths"?

John K

[El Pibe]

not really. but i'll take your word for it. I'll never use it without sounding like a twat, but happy to stand corrected.

And just to clarify, I never denied the existence of the word math.

I was skeptical that math as a singular of the plural maths was real, mathematics being a noncountable noun it makes no sense to have a singular. You can't say one mathematic, two mathematics, so why would the short forms change the meaning?

Are you making math = single calculation up?

[Otta]

The Oxford dictionary does change over the years. A bit like the borders of Peckham and East Dulwich. It seems that John will cling to the past when it suits his purposes, but is happy to take an update when it helps him to "prove" a point.

The actual word is mathematics.

"do the math" is a term used by idiots.

[steveo]

I could never spell mathamatics let alone do it and I went to a Grammer school

[*Bob*]

steveo Wrote:

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> I could never spell mathamatics let alone do it

> and I went to a Grammer school

..must.. resist..

[Otta]

I suspect it was intentional.

[HonaloochieB]

*Bob* Wrote:

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> steveo Wrote:

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> > I could never spell mathamatics let alone do it

> > and I went to a Grammer school

>

> ..must.. resist..

NILES!!

[uncleglen]

I haven't read any of those books except a bits of a copy of Viz I bought in a 2nd hand shop for someone else. He must have crammed them in between 'Starman' (puerile lyrics) and Suffragette City

[Atticus]

Bowie is good, not great. His adoring clan sneer at those who aren't on board 'they just don't get it' etc supposing some kind of intellectual supremacy, a bit like fans of Stewart Lee

[KidKruger]

Was playing his Bowie at the Beeb stuff last night when cooking, incredibly talented (whether 'good' or 'great').

[El Pibe]

when he's good he's great. Some pretty ropey stuff in there, but then I challenge anyone to be consistently good over such a career.

Luckily Mozart died before doing an ill advised 80's style cover version of a M?burg classic with Haydn.

[Atticus]

El Pibe, spot on!

What would have become of Lennon too? Doubt there would have been a dalliance with a Frog Chorus, mind.

[maxxi]

Atticus Wrote:

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> What would have become of Lennon too? Doubt there

> would have been a dalliance with a Frog Chorus,

> mind.

Have you not seen steveo's Plastic Ono Flaming Lips Band thread/clip!?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXXn3-UpusI

[El Pibe]

Lennon & McCartney = massively greater than the sum of the parts.

[Otta]

Thing that impresses me about DB is that he refused to give up. He was trying everything fir years before finally hitting the jackpot with Ziggy.

I tend to agree with El Pibe / Atticus though. There are some great tracks, but I've never been able to get in to him in a big way.

[HonaloochieB]

El Pibe Wrote:

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> when he's good he's great. Some pretty ropey stuff

> in there, but then I challenge anyone to be

> consistently good over such a career.

>

> Luckily Mozart died before doing an ill advised

> 80's style cover version of a M?burg classic with

> Haydn.

EP, Mozza would have put out an EP when under pressure to do so. And with Hay!

And like as not had sketches made of the two of them and their collaborators and distributed among the cognoscenti.

Early MTV if you will.

Mozart also may have glanced toward Haydn and ventured "I have a notion concerning a musical project, the concept of which is an engine of general sorts made of base metal and of..."

Joseph informed him "Enough with the metal nonsense, already Wolfgang, go with what you're doing it's not enough you should make your mother proud"?

"Act like a mensch"!

[giggirl]

HonaloochieB Wrote:

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> EP, Mozza would have put out an EP when under

> pressure to do so. And with Hay!

WRONG - that was Bowie and Queen

[????]

I see what you did there gg

[Jah Lush]

For the Bowie freaks amongst us.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2013/bowie-radio-show.html

[giggirl]

Thanks for flagging that up Jah

[StraferJack]

quite the curate's egg that PinUps malarkey

[red devil]

They dressed weeks out of date... :)