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Beej

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« on: January 26, 2005, 10:15:59 AM »
Because the papers want to know "Who shot you where?",

NOT whose shirts you wear....
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« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2005, 10:24:06 AM »
Back in high school, I had a friend who thought when the Clash sang "Rock the casbah" they were in fact singing "Rat in the cat box".
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« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2005, 10:34:37 AM »
An old friend of mine used to sing that as, "You smell like my cat's butt / You smell like my cat's butt."  I don't think he actually thought that was the lyric, though.

"Sunday monkey no play piano song / play piano song,"
Gaz.
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“The choir of children sing their song.  They've practiced all year long.  Ding dong.  Ding dong.  Ding dong.”

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« Reply #3 on: January 26, 2005, 10:44:48 AM »
like the deadly hands of a radium clock
at the bottom, of the pool

sounds like

...like the broken hands of a radio clock
at the bottom of the pool
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« Reply #4 on: January 26, 2005, 03:04:15 PM »
Stevie, "Part Time Lover"

"we are undercover fascists on the run"
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« Reply #5 on: January 26, 2005, 03:29:05 PM »
The summer between high school & college I briefly sorta dated this jock-girl (basketball) who would always sing John Cougar Melloncamp's "Jack & Diane" thusly:

... hold on to sixteen
As long as you caaan.
Changescomearoundrealsoon
Make us swim in a ham...

and then she'd laugh uproarioulsy. I smiled weakly and pretended it was funny. It didn't last long.

Hey, she had great legs, OK?
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« Reply #6 on: January 26, 2005, 03:46:00 PM »
Quote from: "Beej"


Make us swim in a ham...


Hey, she had great legs, OK?


maybe she was saying, 'make us swim, mia hamm?'
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« Reply #7 on: January 26, 2005, 04:22:42 PM »
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Hey, she had great legs, OK?


Life's full of trade-offs, man.
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« Reply #8 on: January 26, 2005, 04:45:23 PM »
Amen to that, Brother Rod.

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maybe she was saying, 'make us swim, mia hamm?'

Mmm, Mia Hamm....
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« Reply #9 on: January 28, 2005, 08:42:21 AM »
as heard on ChiTown 10@10 today:

Aerosmith, "Dream On" -- "half my life's in Vogue's hidden pages."
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« Reply #10 on: February 01, 2005, 10:04:15 AM »
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Amen to that, Brother Rod.

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maybe she was saying, 'make us swim, mia hamm?'

Mmm, Mia Hamm....

Give me Hamm on five, hold the Mayo.
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« Reply #11 on: February 02, 2005, 06:27:23 AM »
From The Beautiful South's "Straight In At 37":

I heard:
"Well Simon le Bon sang at my high school prom
And he was sick in the pants and he was sick in the yard"

they sing:
"Well Simon le Bon stayed round my house before
And he was sick on the plants and he was sick on the floor"
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« Reply #12 on: February 03, 2005, 02:10:05 PM »
Oh Georgina!  Oh Georgina!

pretty sure now that its "o my jesus!"

"In My Time of Dying."
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« Reply #13 on: February 03, 2005, 03:47:02 PM »
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Oh Georgina!  Oh Georgina!

pretty sure now that its "o my jesus!"

"In My Time of Dying."


it's not "Georgina"? I figured he'd just seen "The Devil in Miss Jones"...
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« Reply #14 on: February 03, 2005, 04:05:12 PM »
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Oh Georgina!  Oh Georgina!

pretty sure now that its "o my jesus!"

"In My Time of Dying."


i used to think it was "on my genius"
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