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Rank: Super Veteran Joined: 23 Dec 2004 Posts: 2043

"A whiter shade of pale" is the title of an evergreen popsong, rather old, from Procol Harum.
I never knew what it meant, my English teacher neither knew.
Maybe it was poetry.

I think I solved the riddle by now.
Have a look at the pic below

(doubleclick for a full view)

If Martina is in the pictures every other creature looks paler then pale, even if they are pets
..except Charlie that is Wink

Martina

I hope you like it and whatever happens all your duckies love you !!

--Bennie--

Rank: Super Veteran Joined: 25 Dec 2004 Posts: 1915

Thanks Bennie. Yes Martina makes everybody and everything else pale into insignificance Cool

For those who don't know the song:

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

There are also 2 unpublished verses here

IMHO the secret to writing a pop song is to make it so obscure that people will read whatever they want into it, or even assume that because it's so hard to understand it must be poetry Laughing

Here's a clip on YouTube

And Martina whatever is happening with Sadie we all love you and we're all here if you want to talk.

Rank: Super Veteran Joined: 23 Dec 2004 Posts: 2043

Hi Martina,

This message is just to let you know we did not forget about you.
If I don't make a message you might think so perhaps.

On the other hand if I write a message without you have written anything you might not like it, I don't know.

I just hope everything is ok with you.
hope to talk to you sometime Wink

Kind regards and a cuddle to Charlie !!

--Bennie--

Official Model Joined: 22 Dec 2004 Posts: 5031

Thanks so much Bennie, that was beautiful. I will never forget about any of you. No matter what i do i will always remember Marcus, Bennie, Wally, Rastus, Iriwn and last but not least Lee Cool

Rank: Super Veteran Joined: 23 Dec 2004 Posts: 2043

Rank: Rookie Joined: 08 Aug 2005 Posts: 56

Whew

Just made the cut Smile

Thanks Martina. Hope you and Sadie are getting better. See ya soon.

Rank: Junior Member Joined: 29 Jul 2005 Posts: 126

That's weird. I just heard the Annie Lennox version of Whiter Shade of Pale recently.

And I remember butchering this song many a time during organ lessons when I was still little Embarassed

Rank: Junior Member Joined: 29 Jul 2005 Posts: 126