"In the Navy," the album's platinum single, sounds like a rousing tribute to our naval forces, which is evidently how the U.S. Navy took it.
While we think Platinum Chocolate sounds like an ingredient in Cadbury's Fabergé Creme Eggs, this is one dope slider.
The trillion dollar platinum coin sounds silly, and it generated some guffaws from the media, but it remains a real policy choice, whether naysayers like it or not.
Frenchman Charles Bourseul first proposed transmitting speech electronically in 1854, but he was ahead of his time and it took another six years before Johann Reis used a cork, knitting needle, sausage skin and a piece of platinum to transmit sound, if not intelligible speech (that took another 16 years).
Alone among their multi-platinum contemporaries, they sound, well, contemporary.
As the flapper in "The Offshore Pirate" says of the prospect of being bribed with a platinum watch, "That sounds so nice and vulgar -- and fun, doesn't it?" (Conversely, the self-consciously untrashy stories here -- an adulterous woman rebuked by fate, a young wife nursing her paralyzed husband -- probably weren't worth the trouble of salvaging).
Some call it the platinum age, which sounds a little too Rodeo Drive to me.
Only a few decades ago, the concept of mining asteroids for their precious metals such as gold or platinum would've sounded like high science fiction.
He then signed him to his Easy Eye imprint, pairing him with the cream of southern soul and R&B session musicians for this year's brilliant Goin' Platinum!, a record that sounds as if it could have come from any year between 1964 and today, and has made him a minor sensation at the age of 63.
But as she sat on the sofa in the Hollywood office of her publicist recently to talk about the release of her fifth album, "Platinum" (out now), it sounded as though the one thing she's built up in greater quantity than anything she possessed 10 years ago is gratitude.
