Comments on: Too Many Georgias

By: Triumph

Triumph — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:14:12 +0000

I heard that Putin has been sporting a Florida Gators shirt since the whole South Ossetia thing has exploded.

In fact, isn't South Ossetia somewhere in Gwinnett County?

By: sam

sam — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:37:59 +0000

Let's really get confused:

"Back in the USSR" is a tribute to Chuck Berry's "Back in the U.S.A." and the Beach Boys' "California Girls", and also contains a pun on Hoagy Carmichael's "Georgia on My Mind." McCartney is singing about the Soviet Republic of Georgia, whereas 'Georgia on My Mind' has been described as being about either or both of the state of Georgia in the U.S. or a woman named Georgia.

Good thing there was no Soviet Republic of Lucille...I can just hear Little Richard now. Not to mention B.B. King...

By: John Burgess

John Burgess — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:27:08 +0000

So... my next question is, how does Georgia avoid copyright infringement simply by changing the colors? :)

By: Fay, Fay, Come This Way « Obi’s Sister

Fay, Fay, Come This Way « Obi’s Sister — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:48:11 +0000

[...] of Georgia, our sister state, after reading this, I hope College Girl rethinks her audition [...]

By: Leviathan

Leviathan — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:19:04 +0000

You do realize that is not the state of Georgia's flag, right?

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:02:39 +0000

John,

That's UGA, the University of Georgia's mascot. It's actually a rug of some sort that I found, trying to get parallelism with the flags. The Georgetown Hoyas wear gray and blue.

By: JKB

JKB — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:58:30 +0000

Let's just hope we don't see:

"World leaders meet in Rome to discuss situation in Georgia"

Such a headline would really need some context to know what was going on.

By: John Burgess

John Burgess — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:43:33 +0000

What's Georgetown doing there? The dog's name is 'Jack' and I've never heard--even during NIT games--G'town referred to as 'Georgia'. People were too busy trying to figure out "Hoya Saxa"! And if Georgetown Univ., then why not Georgetown College, in Kentucky?