Re: [math-fun] Logic in (old) pop music

On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 1:47 PM, James Propp <jamespropp@gmail.com> wrote:

Did anyone else notice, way back when, that the Beatles' affirmatory-sounding proclamation "There's nothing you can do that can't be done" is actually a tautology?

Or that the Monkees' claim that "We're too busy singing to put anybody down", by slyly jabbing at the band's detractors, *was* in fact putting them down?

Or that the two halves of the statement in the Turtles' "Happy Together" are saying the exact same thing, rather than the complementary things they may seem to say at first glance? "The only one for me is you, and you for me" Andy