In a second you'll be wrapped around my fingerThat double "cause I can" drives me crazy. Because Avril is a literary genius and I think that she could have come up with something else, anything else, to fill that beat.
'Cause I can, 'cause I can do it better
Does Avril stutter? Is it bad for me to hate a song that might be about a girl with a speech impediment? What other reason is there? It's three lousy syllables. I've heard the song maybe twice, but it makes me think that she loses her train of thought and forgets what's she's going to say then realizes that it's going to be hard to rhyme with "finger;" um, zinger, flinger, Corporal Klinger, so she gives up and says some nonsense.
It's like when I took the English class and we read a poem where the author (maybe Keats) used the word "pelf" to fill the rhyme with "self."
I said, what the hell is pelf?
Pelf comes from Old French pelfre, "booty, stolen goods." It is related to pilfer.
Okay, it's a word, but it's damn suspicious if you ask me. It makes me think that all those old poets just made up stuff when it suited them. And getting to the title of this, I'd hate to be playing Scrabble with Shakespeare.
William: K-L-O-N-G.
Time-travelling Me: Dude, klong is not a word. You can't just make up words.
William: Ahem.
Thou mayest shake thy fist in pro-test.
Thy shouts may ring ere long.
Not four nor five nor six days of rest.
Wilt thouest quit till klong.
There, now it's a word. It means a week, a whole week long. Klong. Triple-word score. Take that! I win. I'm Shakespeare, motherf**ker.
I apologize if Family Guy has already done a "playing scrabble with shakespeare" gag, and I don't mean to step on the toes of the chick who wrote a "playing scrabble with shakespeare" poem that I found just now when I was checking to see if Family Guy already did this, or if I piss off anybody else who might think they deserve credit for this idea. But it's mine, dammit, all mine. Oh, and Shakespeare wouldn't have known about canals in Thailand.
