I mistook those candles in the background for cat-hair rollers!
And the pun factor is: how about some gin or vodka?
I’m a little dubious how “went on the wagon” works out here. But let it be noted, there are probably several cities with drinking establishments called Crow-Bar or Cro-Bar.
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In the UK there’s a CroBar in Barnard Castle, though it is hard to tell what the name is about. There’s a Kro Bar opposite the Students’ Union in Manchester (where I was a student in the 1970s, though it wasn’t there then), but it is a Danish bar and “kro” apparently is the word for a Danish village pub.
There was a Crobar in Soho in London in the antecovidian period but it shut due to complications from the pandemic. It is definitely a pun on the tool as it was a heavy metal/ rock and roll bar. They seem to have crowdfunded pledges of over £100,000 in 2023 in a bid to reopen, but it doesn’t seem to have happened yet https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/crobar
There’s a CrowBar in Sydney which is also a heavy metal venue.
All four palindromes from “Ufo…” to “…God” appear in Weird Al’s parody “Bob”.
P.S. For comparison, here is Dylan’s original.
Wow, I’ve never seen that Weird Al version before!
At first I was getting amazed at how well they were able to reconstruct the alleyway setting, and how good the actors standing in for Ginsberg and Neuwirth had to be. — So much so that I finally realized they used the original and just swapped in an area on the right with Al instead of Bob. (Or am I still under a misapprehension?)
@ Mitch – Weird Al’s Bob video is a completely fresh reshoot (witness the scaffolding in the original); the two men standing in for Ginsberg & Neuwirth are Jon Schwartz (drummer) and Jay Levey (director).
P.S. The strip turns out to be a re-run: Bill posted it in late August 2020, and the parody was discussed there, too.
It seems they have removed the Dylan Messaging site / web app (or I just can’t find it), where you could input ten short texts and it would generate a video clip of this bit, with your messages appearing on the cue cards.
There’s a musical group named Tacocat. The did the wonderful song/video “Dana Katherine Scully”.
Tacocat is also a card in the game “Exploding Kittens”:
Gotta love that new adjective, “antecovidian.”
Now I’m wondering what crows have to do with that tool. In Norwegian, it’s called a cow’s leg (“kubein”) – and certainly looks like one (albeit a bit skinny).
Hi, Keera! Good to see you again.
I’d never actually wondered, but now that you asked, Wikipedia says:
The accepted etymology[2][3] identifies the first component of the word crowbar with the bird-name “crow”, perhaps due to the crowbar’s resemblance to the feet or beak of a crow. The first use of the term is dated back to c. 1400.[4] It was also called simply a crow, or iron crow; William Shakespeare used the latter,[5] as in Romeo and Juliet, Act 5, Scene 2: “Get me an iron crow and bring it straight unto my cell.”
In Daniel Defoe’s 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe, the protagonist lacks a pickaxe so uses a crowbar instead: “As for the pickaxe, I made use of the iron crows, which were proper enough, though heavy.”
@Mitch4 Thanks! Nice to be back!
Agree with Boise Ed – great word!