Originally posted Saturday, February 18, 2006
I am frustrated as anything. I have just spent 90 minutes or so trying to fing the lyrics to one of my favorite songs by Enya, "Ebudae", from Shepherd Moon. Every one of the 75 or so web sites I opened with lyrics to the song posted the 3 lines in the liner notes. Many of the sites even translated them - the same way the liner notes do. Does anyone have the wherewithal to find out just what the rest of these lyrics are? Think of it - 75 sites with no more information than what I found by reading the booklet included with the CD Shepherd Moon. Almost 90 minutes wasted trying to discover more information than immediately available, and not one datum more than what I already knew. Oh, one site printed an English version of what she sounds like she's saying in the first verse. And then repeats the same gobbldygook for the second verse, which is clearly different from the first verse!
These people must be the same ones who buy their term papers from the Internet. That's another issue I have. Why would you buy a term paper from some anonymous individual through a website? First of all, how do you know you'll get an original, let alone well-written, paper which will get you a decent grade? Second, are you going to hire this same goober to write your presentation for a business sales meeting to give for a client? And what happens if either of the above audiences decide to ask you questions about the subject you (supposedly) researched? Can you say "le-hoo, ze-her?".
And what about all the nitwits who send supposed virus "warnings" they receive when it's plain to the majority of users that they are false? Or forward pleas for some poor child or other deathly ill (again, supposedly) person?? Or those dumb "you'll-have-bad-luck-if-you-don't-forward-this" messages? I realize the second one is for those whose heart strings get plucked by such things, but half or more of them, and nearly all the others, are false, or forwarding the message won't do any good. A hint regarding those - http://www.snopes.com. Chain letters need to be deleted, not repeated.
I would really like to find a few people on the Internet who use the brains they were given much better, instead of masses of sheep, who just use "copy-paste" or the "forward" button.
Rock on!
Durham
