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carla
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response 25 of 61:
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Jun 3 05:54 UTC 2000 |
DADAism or something.
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brighn
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response 26 of 61:
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Jun 3 18:14 UTC 2000 |
so what IS the cake a metaphor for?
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mcnally
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response 27 of 61:
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Jun 3 19:34 UTC 2000 |
it's a metaphor for cake. that's what makes the song so profound.
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brighn
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response 28 of 61:
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Jun 3 20:27 UTC 2000 |
no, seriously, tell me.
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mcnally
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response 29 of 61:
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Jun 4 02:06 UTC 2000 |
I have no idea.. I guess it probably represents a relationship of
some kind.. But I don't think I can take it, 'cause it took so long
to bake it, and I'll never have that recipe again..
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brighn
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response 30 of 61:
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Jun 4 06:15 UTC 2000 |
actually a surf of websites indicates that the general opinion is the one I
already held, that Jimmy Webb was mourning some lost love and was wandering
through MacArthur Park in SF, saw this cake oozing in the mist, and saw it
as a metaphor for his relationship
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happyboy
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response 31 of 61:
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Jun 4 14:04 UTC 2000 |
lumpy carbohydrates!
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bruin
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response 32 of 61:
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Jun 4 20:12 UTC 2000 |
BTW, MacArthur Park is in Los Angeles.
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happyboy
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response 33 of 61:
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Jun 4 21:29 UTC 2000 |
and that is nise.
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gnat
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response 34 of 61:
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Jun 7 01:02 UTC 2000 |
Weddings were often held in MacArthur Park at that time, and maybe
they still are. So it was a wedding cake he saw, maybe. I think
that makes the metaphor a little more explicable, though no less
stupid.
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goose
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response 35 of 61:
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Jun 8 01:48 UTC 2000 |
RE#5 -- In the Under A Blood Red Sky concert video it *is* "No More!" as in
no more war....
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jor
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response 36 of 61:
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Jun 9 17:51 UTC 2000 |
then there's the Beatles' "When I'm Six Feet-Four"
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jules
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response 37 of 61:
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Jun 10 03:54 UTC 2000 |
ahahahahaha
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ea
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response 38 of 61:
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Aug 29 13:36 UTC 2000 |
Jimi Hendrix - " 'Scuse me while I kiss the sky" or " 'Scuse me while I
kiss this guy"
In Mrs. Robinson, the line is "Jesus loves you more than you will know"
but I know someone who swears that its "She's a sluzzy moron you will
know"
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ashke
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response 39 of 61:
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Sep 13 20:29 UTC 2000 |
Oh please help: "Blinded by the light....wrapped like a ????" someone I know
swears it's "grab a duche and get a bone in the night" another swears it's
"like a duce another runner in the night"
*I* can't tell what it says...
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mcnally
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response 40 of 61:
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Sep 13 20:52 UTC 2000 |
"revved up like a deuce", or sometimes "cut loose like a deuce"
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albaugh
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response 41 of 61:
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Sep 13 20:53 UTC 2000 |
Where "deuce" sounds like "douche".
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scott
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response 42 of 61:
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Sep 13 21:22 UTC 2000 |
Bear in mind that Manfred Mann's version is *not* the original...
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brighn
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response 43 of 61:
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Sep 13 21:35 UTC 2000 |
is deuce in this case the same as in "little deuce coupe"?
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mcnally
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response 44 of 61:
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Sep 13 23:38 UTC 2000 |
Perhaps the same as "deuce and a quarter"..
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bruin
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response 45 of 61:
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Sep 14 02:15 UTC 2000 |
The song in question was "Blinded By The Light," a hit for Manfred
Mann's Earth Band, composed by one Bruce Springsteen, alias "The Boss."
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eeyore
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response 46 of 61:
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Sep 14 10:29 UTC 2000 |
For the record, he *wrote* it and another song for MMEB.
And it's "wracked up like a duece" - as in a 2 in a card deck
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sspan
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response 47 of 61:
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Sep 24 15:09 UTC 2000 |
I remember hearing Robin Quivers on the Howard Stern Show once trying to
figure out what 'samoli.. samoli..samoli..' meant in a song.. turns out it
was The Police's 'So Lonely'
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ashke
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response 48 of 61:
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Oct 27 18:41 UTC 2000 |
Okay, meg, since you know that, what the the NEXT part. That's the line in
question. what comes AFTER duece?
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gelinas
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response 49 of 61:
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Oct 28 04:38 UTC 2000 |
Shoot, and I just heard this song last night, too. I've forgotten, now,
what followed "deuce." However, I did notice "Chopsticks" in the middle
of the instrumental section.
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