Friday, September 17, 2010

#1307 Is You Is Or Is You Ain’t My Baby, Louis Jordan, Steve Jobs’ Ninja Stars, Joint

Show 1307 Friday 17 September
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Hi, I’m Sarah, welcome to The Daily English Show.

Today’s song is called: Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby.
It’s by an American guy called Louis Jordan. And it was released in 1944.

Is you is or is you ain’t my baby means: Are you or are you not my girlfriend?
In Wikipedia it says that is you is or is you ain't is dialect from somewhere in the US … but I’m not sure if people still say that these days.

In the song, Louis Jordan sings about a girl that he has been dating, but he’s not sure if they’re still together.

The song starts like this:

I got a gal who's always late
Any time we have a date
But I love her
Yes I love her

Gal is an old-fashioned, informal word for girl.

I'm gonna walk right up to her gate
And see if I can get it straight
'Cause I want her
I'm gonna ask her
Is you is or is you ain't my baby?

Get something straight is an idiom which means: to make sure that you or sb else understands the situation.

You can use this idiom when you’re checking that you understand what someone has said, especially when you have some doubts about what they’re saying.

So let me get this straight, you can’t show me your homework because the cat ate it?

And Louis suspects that his girl has found a new guy.

He says: Maybe baby’s found somebody new.





STICK NEWS


Steve Jobs is the CEO of Apple.
Recently he visited Japan with his family.
According to a Japanese newspaper, when they left, Steve tried to take ninja stars onto a private plane.
But a security scan detected the weapons and Steve was prevented from talking them aboard the plane.
Apparently Steve then told officials he would never visit Japan again.
A spokesperson for Apple said the story was pure fiction.

And that was Stick News for Friday the 17th of September.
Kia ora.



I’ll email the report tomorrow.
OK.
Meh ... This job blows. Wish I was a ninja.


Occupation?
I work in IT. And I’m training to be a ninja.


But what if flying pirates attack my plane?!
Oh, crap, this wasn’t in my junior high school textbook.


Stomp!


So he wasn’t caught with stars … but you’re not denying that he is a ninja!



Word of the Day

Today’s word is joint.

Joint has many meanings, including: a part of the body where two bones are joined together, such as: wrist, elbow, shoulder.

The adjective joint means: shared, held, or made by two or more people. For example you can have a joint bank account.

One of the informal meanings they have here is a cannabis cigarette.

And another one of the informal meanings is a kind of shop, or restaurant, or bar. And that’s what Louis Jordan is talking about in another one of his songs called Let The Good Times Roll.

Hey Mr landlord, lock up all the doors
When the police comes around
Tell 'em that the joint is closed





friday joke

Why did Cinderella get kicked off the football team?
Because she ran away from the ball.



conversations with sarah
#838 I don’t think it’s very common

Step 1: Repeat Nina’s lines.
Step 2: Read Nina’s lines and talk to Sarah.

Nina Do you use the word joint like that?

Sarah To mean shop?

Nina Yeah.

Sarah Um, joint … no. I don’t think it’s very common in New Zealand.

Nina Do you have any other informal words for shop?

Sarah Mmm, not that I can think of off the top of my head.






Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby by
Louis Jordan - LYRICS

I got a gal who's always late
Any time we have a date
But I love her
Yes I love her

I'm gonna walk right up to her gate
And see if I can get it straight
'Cause I want her
I'm gonna ask her

Is you is or is you ain't my baby?
The way you're actin' lately makes me doubt
Yous is still my baby-baby
Seems my flame in your heart's done gone out

A woman is a creature that has always been strange
Just when you're sure of one
You find she's gone and made a change

Is you is or is you ain't my baby
Maybe baby's found somebody new
Or is my baby still my baby true?

Is you is or is you ain't my baby
Maybe baby's found somebody new
Or is my baby still my baby true?


links

today's news - Bloomberg


Louis Jordan - Forvo

music

show start
artist: Kevin MacLeod
track: Future Cha Cha
from: Brooklyn, NY, United States
artist site

WOD start
artist: DJ iPep's
album: Home Mix 2007
track: Game Toy
from: EVREUX, France
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

friday joke start
artist: AdHoc
album: Toutes directions
track: Sumbala
from: Annecy, France
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

cws start
artist: Kevin MacLeod
track: The Jazz Woman
from: Brooklyn, NY, United States
artist site

qa start
artist: ioeo
album: triptracks
track: triptrack2
from: Saint Raphael, France
album at Jamendo
artist at Jamendo
artist site

qa bgm
artist: TSF
album: Mystic Opus
track: Sunny Day
from:
Toulouse, France


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