What was the Miller's Tale?

[WODIN]

And why did it turn her face a whiter shade of pale?

Anyone?

We skipped the light fandango
turned cartwheels 'cross the floor
I was feeling kinda seasick
but the crowd called out for more
The room was humming harder
as the ceiling flew away
When we called out for another drink
the waiter brought a tray

And so it was that later
as the miller told his tale
that her face, at first just ghostly,
turned a whiter shade of pale

She said, 'There is no reason
and the truth is plain to see.'
But I wandered through my playing cards
and would not let her be
one of sixteen vestal virgins
who were leaving for the coast
and although my eyes were open
they might have just as well've been closed

 

[HappyScrappy]

Is it in reference to the Canterbury (sp?) tales?
I haven't read those since high school - but I recall the Miller's tale to be a bit risque (sp?)

man, I can't spell

 

[HappyScrappy]

lol - I guess it wasn't the Miller that was risque.

seems fairly tame, although maybe gruesome.

http://icg.harvard.edu/~chaucer/canttales/milt/

 

[WODIN]

You da Man!!!

That's been bugging me all morning. I burned a few new cds last night as you can see from my threads today.

 

[WODIN]

I like the part about the hot poker.

 

[HappyScrappy]

I like the part about the hot poker.

I'm trying to remember/find which tale was raunchy.
I can remember reading it and then thinking "damn, my teacher is letting us read this?!"

I'm at work - but I have the book at home. I'm sure there is something on the web...

 

[runner]

wasn't there a "wife of bath's tale"? not sure if she had her own story. i remember being told that her being gap-toothed had well-known sexual connotations back in chaucer's day....

it's "canterbury tales", btw.

never mind...looks like you edited it.

 

[Ffactor]

Chaucer sucks, Dickens rules!!!

 

[HappyScrappy]

wasn't there a "wife of bath's tale"? not sure if she had her own story. i remember being told that her being gap-toothed had well-known sexual connotations back in chaucer's day....

it's "canterbury tales", btw.

never mind...looks like you edited it.

yeah - I'm pretty sure it was the Wife of Bath that was the sketchy one.

as for the classic debate as to whether Dickens of Chaucer "rules" - that is so high school

 

[WODIN]

LOL!!!!

People actually debate the merits of Chaucer vs. Dickens?

 

[HappyScrappy]

LOL!!!!

People actually debate the merits of Chaucer vs. Dickens?

I doubt it.
but I thought it sounded funny to fight over which one "rules"


Also, I'd like to add, if you ever find the book "Pissing In the Snow" and you are either 12, or you think like a 12 year old - read it several times.
For some reason this talk of this stuff brought that book up in my mind.
It is a collection of dirty jokes from time gone by - I think the author just had a lot of old peopled tell him dirty jokes that they remembered from their youth, as well as finding written versions of them and actually researching them.

Dirty jokes are always fun.

 

[FreeballinDC]

I am writing a doctorate thesis that compares Chaucer to the average letter content in a Penthouse magazine letter.

 

[WODIN]

I am writing a doctorate thesis that compares Chaucer to the average letter content in a Penthouse magazine letter.

Now that is sheer brilliance.

 

[Zebo]

I am writing a doctorate thesis that compares Chaucer to the average letter content in a Penthouse magazine letter.

Dude....you're killing me! LMAO!

 

[rnch]

"whiter shade of pale" by Proco Harem, circa 1973 or so?

 

[WODIN]

"whiter shade of pale" by Proco Harem, circa 1973 or so?

Yeah, that be the band.

 

[rnch]

i found the cd in the bargain basement bin at a flea market..............interesting cd...........has "conquistor" on i also, their other top 40 hit......... they were backed up by a first rate "long hair" classical orchestra on it...........

always wondered where the lyrics came from! oh well, shows the limitations of a finance degree, i wans't exposed to chaucer, i thought the "mad" magazine hidden inside my accounting book was high class literature!!



"what, me worry?"

 

[toga22]

First off, this song is one of my all time favorites... It is on my CD that I use to paint to... The song creative, yet sensual in it's own right always sets a subtle mood.

I think I have heard a thousand different interpretations as to what the words are suppose to mean... And every interpretation is so very different from the next.

 

[Ffactor]

yeah - I'm pretty sure it was the Wife of Bath that was the sketchy one.

as for the classic debate as to whether Dickens of Chaucer "rules" - that is so high school

Yes, whatever, fuck you!! I live in Bleak House.