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Wikipedia just read my mind.
Which is to say, someone else must have made the same edit I was going to make, at the same time as me. I was reading the page for the song 'She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain' (or rather, I was initially reading about Mother Jones, but you know how Wikipedia does), and I noticed that the second verse was listed as "She'll be ridin' twenty seven white horses when she comes", which a) aren't the words, b) doesn't make any sense, and c) doesn't even scan.
I went to edit, and lo, the edit page read "She'll be ridin' six white horses when she comes"! I clicked back to the original page. "Twenty seven". Refreshed. "Twenty seven". Back to the edit page. "Six". So I previewed and then saved it. I mean, I was actually going to put "drivin' six white horses", but who am I to argue with the apparent gods of the internet? I've heard it as both 'ridin'' and 'drivin'', and although the latter makes more sense (how do you ride more than one horse?), 'ridin'' it is.
In other internet news, this morning I read the new XKCD, which was gently poking fun at Google+ as being nothing more than a non-Facebook Facebook, and had as its alt-text: "On one hand, you'll never be able to convince your parents to switch. On the other hand, you'll never be able to convince your parents to switch!"
Then I checked my email, and found an invitation to join Google+ ... from my dad.
Which is to say, someone else must have made the same edit I was going to make, at the same time as me. I was reading the page for the song 'She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain' (or rather, I was initially reading about Mother Jones, but you know how Wikipedia does), and I noticed that the second verse was listed as "She'll be ridin' twenty seven white horses when she comes", which a) aren't the words, b) doesn't make any sense, and c) doesn't even scan.
I went to edit, and lo, the edit page read "She'll be ridin' six white horses when she comes"! I clicked back to the original page. "Twenty seven". Refreshed. "Twenty seven". Back to the edit page. "Six". So I previewed and then saved it. I mean, I was actually going to put "drivin' six white horses", but who am I to argue with the apparent gods of the internet? I've heard it as both 'ridin'' and 'drivin'', and although the latter makes more sense (how do you ride more than one horse?), 'ridin'' it is.
In other internet news, this morning I read the new XKCD, which was gently poking fun at Google+ as being nothing more than a non-Facebook Facebook, and had as its alt-text: "On one hand, you'll never be able to convince your parents to switch. On the other hand, you'll never be able to convince your parents to switch!"
Then I checked my email, and found an invitation to join Google+ ... from my dad.
