Arugula Latte
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Sat Aug-16-03 03:19 PM
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Song Lyric Question: "The Joker" -- "Pompitous of love?" |
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Okay. Steve Miller Band song. The Joker.
"Some people call me Maurice because I speak of the pompitous of love."
WTF?
WHAT IS A POMPITOUS? Please. Anyone. This has bugged me for a good part of my life. Sure there is famine, drought, death, destruction, pollution, war, George W. Bush, and so on, but this is a troubling question. Thanks.
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Sat Aug-16-03 03:22 PM
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1. well if you don't know, |
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i'm not going to explain it to you.
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Sat Aug-16-03 03:22 PM
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as best I can gather.
Lots of googling to be had on the topic.
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Sat Aug-16-03 03:24 PM
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http://members.chello.at/tokezone/announce/pompitous.htmI always wondered about this... thought I was just hearing it wrong.
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Sat Aug-16-03 03:23 PM
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3. Uncle Cecil's answer... |
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Sat Aug-16-03 03:33 PM
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Nice research. I'd always wondered about that term, too. I always figured it was just some big word that people didn't use very often. I feel a little smarter now than I did a few minutes ago.
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Sat Aug-16-03 03:54 PM
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6. And again Steve Miller is exposed |
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Edited on Sat Aug-16-03 03:56 PM by wtmusic
for the plagiarizer he is. "Keep On Rockin' Me" was a full-scale, undeniable ripoff of Free's "Alright Now", was a big hit, and as far as I know Free never saw a dime from it.
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Sat Aug-16-03 03:57 PM
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Edited on Sat Aug-16-03 04:00 PM by JackSwift
is a right wing fascist member of Opus Dei. Or at least most of the moderators over there are, Cecil being a pseduonym.
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Sat Aug-16-03 03:59 PM
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I could probably sing the song beginning to end, but I never did know what it meant!
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Sat Aug-16-03 04:44 PM
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...that lyric comes from the early sixties oldie "The Ten Commandments of Love" by Harvey and the Moonglows (same group that recorded "Sincerely" a few years earlier).
No idea what the hell it means, though!
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