Andrew Bird has invented a new word

Cafe Society
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So I was listening to “Oh! The Grandeur!” by Andrew Bird, from 1999 I think. There’s a terrific song on the album called “Feetlips,” and as I listened to it, I thought, “My, what a strange word that is. I wonder if it means anything or has any history.”

Nope. I did a Google search on it, and got about 20 hits, all of which related to this album.

Who’dathunkit? I figured you could type any random string of characters into Google and get SOMETHING, but if it hadn’t been for Andrew Bird, “Feetlips” would have zero.

Now that I have your attention…

Anyone else an Andrew Bird fan? Am I the only one in the entire world? Most people I meet haven’t even heard of him. (He played violin with Squirrel Nut Zippers on their first album, I believe.)

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It could refer to toe-sucking, which makes the men who practice it madly popular among women who fancy that sort of thing. It could refer to bootlicking, which is a word for being servile (think Smithers in The Simpsons.)

–Nott

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It’s a perfectly cromulent word.

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Have you ever heard that the Bird is the word?

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[Jim Reeves}

“Put your feetlips a little closer to the phone…”

[/Jim Reeves]

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Thanks everyone, I guess…

AskNott, in case you were serious, it’s not a reference to toe-sucking. It’s about someone who constantly “talk[s] without thinking” and makes an ass of himself. I.e., puts his “foot” in his “mouth.”

I really find it hard to believe that no one else has heard this guy. Apparently he did at least some of the music for “Cradle Will Rock,” the Tim Robbins movie, though I haven’t seen it.

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Oh, and Dijon Warlock, I LOVE Jim Reeves. Possibly the only country singer ever to have a voice better than Elvis’s, though he didn’t use it as well. Then again, he didn’t die so young either; a tradeoff, I suppose.

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Say what? Jim Reeves died even younger than Elvis. Elvis was 42 and Reeves was 40.

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I thought Reeves died by comitting suicide just before he was to star in the 7th season of the Adventures of Superman TV series.

(Heh! I kill me.)

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Nah, he didn’t die. He just broke his neck in a fall from a horse. I think there were only four of the Superman movies.

I really prefer his work in those cheesy Hercules films he made in Italy, though.