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[odditycollector]

Today I am most pleased to share with you an Ode to Comics Continuity In General.

They Might Be Giants - Istanbul (Not Constantinopole)
Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night

Every gal in Constantinople
Lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople
So if you've a date in Constantinople
She'll be waiting in Istanbul

Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it I can't say
People just liked it better that way

So take me back to Constantinople
No, you can't go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works
That's nobody's business but the Turks

Comments

[estara.livejournal.com]

The song admittedly is brilliant, as are They Might Be Giants, but it's still a cover ^^
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul_not_Constantinople

[odditycollector.livejournal.com]

Huh. I did not know that. The TMBG version is the only one I've heard of before.

...You've gotta admit, though, that makes it even *more* perfect! :)

[estara.livejournal.com]

As in that there is no continuity? Hmm.

[odditycollector.livejournal.com]

In that there's no *stable* continuity, anyway. The anthem for that *should* be a cover song!

Although it is probably too late to claim I planned it. O WAIT. YOU KNOW WHAT I TOTALLY DID. ;)

[estara.livejournal.com]

But of course ^^