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The first three lines in "The Joker" reference older Miller songs. One line from "The Joker": "People might call me the Space Cowboy". This line...
Cats will eat owners after the owners die, if there's no other food around for the cats. More Straight Dope I was attending the 1992 American...
The line would make perfect sense, IYO, if Miller had said "speak" instead of "speak of"? "Speak of" makes no sense, but "speak" makes perfect sense?
"Enter Maurice" contains the line "pompatus of love". There is only one song involved here. The "Maurice" song and the "pompatus" song are the...
I've never heard anyone make that distinction between "speak" and "speak of". Seems like a little too anal when discussing the lyrics to a rock...
It doesn't matter if he knows what it is. He's still talking about it. I don't know what a DippityDoople is, but I did speak of it. Anybody can...
Yeah, but if I said, "I, Maurice, call you a DippityDoople." Then a few weeks later said, "Some people call me Maurice because I say...
Makes perfect sense: Miller had an earlier song titled "Enter Maurice" including the lyric: "speak to you of the pompitous of love." Easy to...
He didn't get the (made-up) word wrong, he just misspelled it. The (made-up) word works perfectly in the song, just as in the original, "The Letter".
but it *does* make sense [img] One song was "The Letter," Green's attempt to conjure up his dream woman. The mystery words, J.K. ascertained...
Apparently, Miller ripped "pompatus" off a 1954 R & B song, "The Letter". And he also ripped "really love your peaches, wanna shake your tree,...
John Lennon: "Bob Dylan had heard one of our records where we said 'I can't hide', and he had understood. 'I get high.' He came running and said...
I really like this one too: [img] Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott smiles as he points out someone in the audience to House Speaker Dennis...
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KPRC just announced that the game will be shown on-time in its entirety. I hope they don't do that split-screen thing again...
Anybody know if KPRC is going to show the game in Houston? Their website doesn't have any info, I haven't heard anything on TV.. I sent them an...
Hey DoD, I'm thinking of a number between 1 and 65535. Can you guess it?
Abortion is a personal issue. Regardless of what the law says, a woman will be able to determine the destiny of the fetus inside her. The...
Closer games mean better ratings. Longer games mean better ratings. Nielsen counts a program as "watched" by one household if a TV stays on the...
http://www.ocregister.com/news/16emigratecci4.shtml MEXICO CITY - If it can't stop emigration to the United States, the Mexican government thinks...
