Tin Roof Rusted

Many of us may remember the 80's song "Love Shack" by the B-52's and the one part of the song where the music stops and someone says male:"You're WHAT?" female:"Tin Roof Rusted"
I have a friend who swears this is a euphemism for pregnant. I was wondering, is this true? and if it is, how did it come about?

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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.

I can't remember where I saw this, so I can't verify for you. But, I seem to remember that this was just a nonsense phrase that was called out by the singer at the spur of the moment.

According to the occasionally reliable reference "Pop-Up Videos," most people think it's slang for pregnancy but Cindy Wilson apparently just made it up outta nowhere.

I remember a VH1 interview with the singer (Cindy something). Her reply to this question was that the three words were totally spontanious and had no conscious meaning. Time to read up on Freud....

- - - Since we're there, what's it mean to be "living in your own private Idaho"? - MC

Would you want to live in someone elses Idaho?

Maybe it means your house is full of potatoes, mormons and skinheads?

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To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion.

Hm... Good question. I recently found out that song is about the fear of annihilation by global thermonuclear war or something. Mebbe it's related to that.

And why would you name a dog Quiche Lorraine?

I remember that as a boy growing up in Texas, there was an ice cream flavor that was called "tin roof." Maybe Cindy was groovin' on that. Maybe "tin roof, rusted" means "tin roof ice cream with caramel sauce." And as the man says, if it ain't true, then it ought to be.

And I always interpreted the phrase "living in your own private Idaho" as describing those young turks who always seem to have a mobile aura of boredom around them no matter what their surroundings might be. (I am assuming that Idaho is boring.)

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It always sounded like the guy said "Say What?"

I finally decided that the Love Shack was an illicit club and that she was responding with the day's password.

Let m throw a 'spaniard' in the works here.
Way back in the 70's, when I was runnin a coffee shop,we used to get alot a people who played East Texas Blues, gut bucket blues Eeep Elum blues,call um what you will. There was one guy in particular who played and knew a lot. I know the REAL words to Long Tall Sally,High Powered Wimmin,Keep On Truckin, lots a stuff. I remember parts of a song that had the lines, "Tin roof's rusted, sumthin sumthin sumthin, and I'm flat busted. The guy had this explanation for what it meant. ( We always asked him " What the hell does ' Gotta bottle up'n'go' mean" for example.) HE said 'tin roof rusted' means the condom sprung a leak, and some girl is 'in trouble', he's responsible, and he is broke. Now lots of those old songs have words that don't mean much out of context, sometimes if you swapped rhyming words you could get a meaning , busted for rusted say, or scanning an entire verse gave a meaning that you couldn't get from individual lines. Just for what it's worth.

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