It’s obvious what he did, he was Billy the Kid, on his robot horse
Driving back to base from King Solomon’s Mines today, I cranked the radio and was treated to Bon Jovi’s ‘Dead or Alive’. I really don’t think Bon Jovi get the respect they (he?) deserve. Compared to the likes of Aerosmith, who are living legends nowadays, basically thanks to a lamentable hip hop crossover song and an unfeasibly photogenic daughter, and even Mötley Crüe, for god’s sake, compared to their back catalogues, Bon Jovi’s is hidden under a hefty bushel. But “Dead or Alive”:
Me: He’s a cowboy, on a steel horse he rides. What do you think the steel horse is, Grant? A motorbike?
Grant: Yeah, what else would it be?
Me: So you don’t think it could be a robotic horse?
Grant: Uh, no.
Me: So what did he do to be wanted, dead or alive?
Grant (coming from dead to alive): Well, it’s the theme tune from ‘Young Guns’, right, which was about Billy the Kid, so it’s obvious what he did: he was Billy the Kid.
Me: Right you are. But Billy the Kid wouldn’t have owned a motorbike, would he?
Grant: No.
Me: Then what does Jon Bon Jovi mean by “a steel horse”?
Grant: How should I know? That guy must have been on crack.
Me: Unless he meant “a stolen horse”. Perhaps the real lyric is “And I steal horse, I ride!”
Grant: You must be on crack, too.
Later, we go out for curry:
Grant: menace, what’s a lentil?
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Grant thinks a lot of people are on crack, doesn’t he.
Posted on 21-Nov-06 at 7:53 pm | PermalinkI think he thinks the whole world is ‘on crack’, i.e. not him. Alas that is not true.
Posted on 21-Nov-06 at 10:16 pm | Permalinkwhat’s a lentil? Oh you have to admire a guy who has managed to avoid lentils up to this point. (I’m assuming English is his first language when I laugh at all these grantisms). I think you could have had a lot of fun with the lentil - ‘it’s any food that is eaten during the period of lent, Grant’
Posted on 21-Nov-06 at 11:04 pm | PermalinkIsn’t a steel horse a more modern version of the ol’ steam train?
Posted on 22-Nov-06 at 4:02 am | Permalinkdmts - ha ha; I love it. n.b. English is his indeed his mother tongue.
pog - you mean like an iron horse? So he’s a sort of boxcar-hopping hobo-cowboy, or hoboy?
Posted on 22-Nov-06 at 7:10 am | PermalinkPrecisely, ace. Not quite how I imagined Billy the Kid, but there you go.
Posted on 22-Nov-06 at 8:53 am | PermalinkI’m sure you could open up a new section on this blog. A section where we get you, to ask Grant questions & then you publish the answers. Hehehehehehe.
Posted on 22-Nov-06 at 1:22 pm | PermalinkNo need for a new section, chaotic. Great idea, fire away.
Posted on 22-Nov-06 at 1:25 pm | PermalinkChaotic, you’re a genius.
Posted on 22-Nov-06 at 1:58 pm | Permalink