za16ao@sdccsu3.UUCP (11/17/83)
I find a lot of people (including myself) tend to misunderstand words/titles of songs in very amusing ways and am curious as to anyone's examples of such. For instance, for years I thought the Yardbirds' tune "Heart Full of Soul" was actually "Wall Full of Soap"... Lady Arwen
riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) (11/21/83)
Back in, oh, the ninth grade when e v e r y t h i n g was assumed to
have a strange sexual meaning which we didn't quite understand, we thought
that the following lines from Elton John's "Benny and the Jets":
She's got electric boots
A mohair suit
You know I read it in a magazine
really went more like this:
She's got electric boobs
A mo has too...
(I should explain that "mo" was a local term meaning homosexual. There
were times in junior high when the left and the right sides of the school
bus would alternate in a chant of "ho...mo, ho...mo", just to annoy the
bus driver. The term "to cut the grass" completely supplanted "to mow
the lawn" because the latter phrase would be taken as an admission of some
horrible sexual deviance. So much for growing up in liberal Stillwater,
Oklahoma :-})
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Prentiss Riddle
{ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!riddle
riddle@ut-sally.UUCPjames@umcp-cs.UUCP (11/22/83)
I agree with that. For a long time (wasn't paying any attention to the announcer) I thought that "Eye of the tiger." was really "Higher and higher." Besides, the notes rise in that phrase, which perhaps helps strengthen the notion of "higher." --Jim
kds@intelca.UUCP (11/24/83)
how about the French line in Peter Gabriel's "Games without Frontiers"
that got it banned from some US radio stations because people thought
is was something mildly offensive in English...(and it gets repeated
over and over!)
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Ken Shoemaker, Intel, Santa Clara, Ca.
{pur-ee,hplabs,ucbvax!amd70,ogcvax!omsvax}!intelca!kdsza16ao@sdccsu3.UUCP (11/27/83)
Oh dear, I just thought of an awful one. You know the song "Janitor" by
Suburban Lawns? I thought they were saying "Oh my genitals..."
:-),
Arwen
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-=< Lady Arwen >=-
...sdcsvax!sdccsu3!arwen19701993@sdccsu3.UUCP (11/28/83)
Su Tissue DOES say "Oh my genitals" in the song "Janitor." It goes: Oh my janitor Oh my genitals Oh my janitor Oh my genitals It's true! By the way, what does anyone think of their latest release, "Baby"? Brian Donnelly