The Green Sahara
“I just realized something,” announced Ernie. “You know that song, Why Can’t It Be? It goes, ‘Why can’t it be/Why can’t it be the two of us (Very awkward phrasing—literal translation of Bakit hindi puede tayong dalawa)/Why can’t we be lovers etc etc.’ The succeeding lyrics go, ‘We met at the wrong place, at the wrong time. . .’ That answers their question. Quite possibly, they never met!”
“What about that Everything But The Girl song, Missing?” I pointed out. “It goes, ‘And I miss you like the deserts miss the rain. . .’ How can the deserts miss the rain when they’ve never had rain?”
Well I was wrong. Turns out the Sahara desert had a green period 6500 to 4500 years ago. Â
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