what is an "intellectual tortoise"?????????????????????

[kingofsorrow]

can someone please tell me? or does anyone care to elaborate? any theories? and don't tell me it's a turtle with a degree.

 

[coolian2]

It's a st00pid person.


Or a very intelligent tortoise.

Depends how literal B*no was being

 

[kingofsorrow]

It's a st00pid person.

that makes sense and puts these lines into perspective.

I like the sound of my own voice
I didn't give anyone else a choice
An intellectual tortoise
Racing with your bullet train

 

[waynetravis]

It's a very odd lyric

 

[BonosSaint]

A forced rhyme?

Slow intellect.

 

[Trinity3000]

It's alluding to the fable of the hare and the tortoise. The slow tortoise races the speedy hare.

I think he is comparing his slow intellect to the other person's, who is as fast as a bullet train.

 

[ahittle]

Weird lyric. But it might be one of those lines that is so preposterous that you just have to use it.

 

[europop2005]

a very brainy turtle

 

[Liesje]

I don't know but it makes for a clever "only a U2 fan would get it" t-shirt.

 

[Mr. V]

It's alluding to the fable of the hare and the tortoise. The slow tortoise races the speedy hare.

I think he is comparing his slow intellect to the other person's, who is as fast as a bullet train.

that's what i always thought...

 

[LemonMelon]

A wise reptile of the testudines family.

 

[pepokiss]

 

[coolian2]

Every post is funnier than mine


I'm a humorous tortoise.

 

[Hornbag]

It seems like it's a sarcastic thing/a colloquialism, and I don't want to generalise but most Irish people would get this instantly. It's just like something we would say in a sarcastic mood We're terrible for use of silly similes and stuff! Just the humour of the paradox I suppose...

 

[coemgen]

"All Because of You" is a blatant worship song. Bono is the "intellectual tortoise," and God's mind and ways are the "bullet train."

Great song.

 

[intedomine]

An intellectual tortoise is the same thing as a Wierd Fish

 

[U2Fanatic4ever]

I don't know but it makes for a clever "only a U2 fan would get it" t-shirt.

oh yeah... most definitely


>>> runs off to cafe press....

 

[brooklynmike]

I like Turtles

 

[U2girl]

A smartass turtle trying to be posh.

 

[Zoots]

Either a very odd lyric or a very lazy rhyme.

 

[kellyahern]

I don't know but it makes for a clever "only a U2 fan would get it" t-shirt.

It was funny at the time

 

[ImOuttaControl]

I always interpreted the line as someone who is an intellectual--who thinks they know all the answers but is afraid to stick their neck out for what they believe in--hence the tortoise.

 

[Trinity3000]

I always thought it was a very clever lyric.

I also like

Some people get squashed
crossing the track
some people get high rises
on their backs

 

[BonoFox1]

A forced rhyme?

Slow intellect.

that is what Ive always thought

 

[bonocomet]

I don't think it means slow intellect at all. The tortoise was the smarter of the two in the tortoise and the hare (the bullet train) right? It seems more like a "slow and steady gets the job done" type of use to me, and not at all just stuck in there to rhyme (since it doesn't)

 

[sweetie]

It was funny at the time

Kelly I've always loved this t-shirt!

 

[Ellay]

It's someone who knows the answer, and gets there in the end despite the odds,

that's my interpretation

 

[Freefall]

It was funny at the time

OMIGAWD!! Where did you get that shirt?? I love it! And you got it signed too!

 

[Freefall]

"All Because of You" is a blatant worship song. Bono is the "intellectual tortoise," and God's mind and ways are the "bullet train."

Great song.

You are right on the money!

 

[11o´clock]

It's alluding to the fable of the hare and the tortoise. The slow tortoise races the speedy hare.

I had never thought about that.