Comments on: What the hell is midnight oil?

By: calum

calum — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 18:02:51 +0000

James — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 15:53:43 +0000

It is obviously a reference to the Australian rock band: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Oil

Peter Robinson — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:29:21 +0000

Midnight Oil is a good Australian Band :-D http://www.midnightoil.com/

ChipX86 — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:26:02 +0000

sb: I’ll blog about it when it’s finally done.

sb — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:19:56 +0000

Such inspiration. What are you working on?

Nathaniel McCallum — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:12:51 +0000

The phrase “mid-night oyle” from the poem above is probably an allusion to this (much earlier) parable: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2025%20:1-13;&version=31;

Andy Wingo — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 13:05:55 +0000

According to an old episode of http://www.drscience.com/, midnight oil is an excretion of the musk gland of the inspiration weasel.

Now you know!

Mikey Cooper — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 12:54:01 +0000

Oil-burning lamps when cramming for their finals, they didn’t have electricity back in the day.

senectus — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 12:43:48 +0000