Tim Blair

I'm betting Michael Moore- he thinks he's a journalist, thin and a bit of a spunk.

It also rules out Warron Baty and Mick Jaggar.

I always thought it was Warren Beatty . . . .

Not to mention ii cummings

What about Reecherd Neexen?

And pop duo Mullu Vanulla

Just realized Milli Vanilli had no e's to begin with. Too much alkeehol.

Poo Woo Horman?

Dude, who knew it was Everest Everley?

If I were to sat ROD STEWART it would be a guess--but--with just a little substance behind it!

Mr Ed.

Mr. Ed would make sense -- you know how people are always saying that couples look alike...

You probably think this blog is about you.

Carly Simon always sounded like she had a gobful of peanut paste and had a wire hooked up to her bottom jaw whenever she sang; funnily enough she also sounded like she was being shagged by a horse as well.
Mr. Ed by the length of the straight.

Can't be Phillip Adams or David Marr...

Habib

That is a shocking thing to say about Carly Simon.

Surely, it more properly describes Carole King.

Bickford, you've gone too goddamned far this time, for reasons that I don't understand. Carly Simon sings fine.

I like "You're So Vain" just for that funky little bass thingy right at the beginning.

Can't have been Wilbur Post.

Beel Cleenton.

William Jefferson Clinton?

On second thoughts, it can't be Michael Moore- he wouldn't need a private jet plane to catch a total eclipse of the sun, he causes them every time he steps outside in daylight.

The "You had one eye in the mirror" suggests one of Chopper Reid's "customers", but on the other hand the apricot scarf suggests Doctor Who during his Tom Baker incarnation.

I thought it was Warren Beatty too. As for the ``apricot'' scarf, I think Carly just needed something to rhyme with ``yacht''.

And isn't it ``You had one eye in the mirror/As you watched yourself go by''?

I've re-thought the exclusion of Mike Moore- he may have had access to a private jet plane if he has room in his blimp hangar for an Antonov, "your horse naturally won"- you bet it did, because it knew that the owner would eat it if it didn't, and the clincher- "clouds in your coffee"; given the size of the bastard, his coffee mug would have to be a size that warm fluids contained in the oceanic sized vessel could in fact generate their own weather systems.
(But how about "be your girlfriend"- there would have to be a crane involved.)
(And he would HAVE to be vain to have never done anything about his appearance).

Another re-think; "walking onto a yacht"- it would have to be the Globtik Tokyo, and "flew on up to Nova Scotia"- he would have never survived; the Newfies would have thought a blue whale had washed up, and taken to the fat sod with flensing knives.
Back to Mr. Ed.

Rod Stewart wearing a scarf. Case closed.

James Taylor?

AdaKizi,

I had always thought it was "go 'bout" but then I looked up the lyrics, and what do you know it rhymes with apricot and yacht anyway.

Apricot scarf... Ralph Furley?

The real point is that if you're a horse and you can talk, it would not be unreasonable to think that there would be a song about you.

so the real question is whether Mr Ed was so vain or justifiably proud of how he had overcome the disadvantages of his birth as a braying ruminant to being a famous, walking talking wit, funnnier than, even tim blair.

See, there's a social question in every post.

GEE...I was thinking Ellen Degenerate...what was I thinking?!!

Maybe I should think about this. Uhm. Ok, every time I walked on to yatch I had to hold to arm rails and jump down to the deck grabbing something momentarily for balance. So who goes into a party like that? Obviously someone who is drunk before hand.

Ted Kennedy!

Or maybe the Old Spice guy.

Are we certain it wasn't Piss Pisstofferson?

Fredie from Scooby Doo.

I was going to say, "Apricot scarf? It's Elton John."

But then I looked up the definition of gavotte: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=gavotte

It could only be Dominique Galouzeau. You probably know him as Dominique "de Villepin." (And, it must be added:) who is a man.