# Blinded by the Light **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [August 17, 2011, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blinded-by-the-light/593038 "2011-08-17T15:35:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MacLir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@MacLir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacLir)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blinded-by-the-light/593038/1 "2011-08-17T15:35:40Z")
The generally accepted version of the second line is ♫ Revved up like a Deuce … ♫ which fits with the Deuce Coupe theory. The most common Mondegreen of the line is ♫Wrapped up like a douche … ♫ which is about as weird as the rest of the lyrics. :dubious: You appear to have a conflation of them. ---
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blinded-by-the-light/593038/2 "2011-08-17T17:25:59Z")
Wrapped up like a douche into the middle of the night… ---
**Author:** ![Crazyhorse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crazyhorse/32/31_2.png) [@Crazyhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crazyhorse)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blinded-by-the-light/593038/3 "2011-08-17T17:54:29Z")
I suppose we could always [ask Springsteen](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLv_vk6iWn4): > [@Bruce Springsteen](#): > > Deuce was like ‘little deuce coup’ as in two-seater hotrod. Douche of course is a feminine hygienic procedure. So, uh, they’re different. . ---
**Author:** ![Lestrade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/94ad74/32.png) [@Lestrade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lestrade)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2011, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blinded-by-the-light/593038/4 "2011-08-17T18:41:04Z")
The meaning of Cecil’s greeting was discussed in a thread way back in the day. [QUOTE=guest] I M SMRTR TN U = I am smarter than you U R SMRTR N I ? = You are smarter than I? D L U R = The hell you are TRKE = Turkey Got it? R U N-V-S ? [/QUOTE] That **guest** guy sure is smart. (source: [What does “DLUR, TRKE” mean?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=5)) ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2011, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blinded-by-the-light/593038/5 "2011-08-21T10:11:54Z")
What, nobody’s posted a link to the column yet? [In “Blinded by the Light,” what exactly is the lyric following the title phrase?](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1120/in-blinded-by-the-light-what-exactly-is-the-lyric-following-the-title-phrase) ---
**Author:** ![St.Urho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8e7dd6/32.png) [@St.Urho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St.Urho)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2011, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blinded-by-the-light/593038/6 "2011-08-21T17:01:56Z")
> [@Crazyhorse](#): > > I suppose we could always [ask Springsteen](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLv_vk6iWn4): He also posts all his song lyrics on his website: [Blinded By The Light](http://www.brucespringsteen.net/songs/BlindedByTheLight.html) ---
**Author:** ![Jinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Jinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jinx)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2011, 10:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blinded-by-the-light/593038/7 "2011-08-23T10:59:35Z")
I hear Manfred Mann will be making a comeback teaming up with Wal-Mart to push a whole line of sequels songs promoting all sorts of feminine hygine products! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Darwin\_the\_Baptist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c0e974/32.png) [@Darwin\_the\_Baptist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darwin_the_Baptist)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2011, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blinded-by-the-light/593038/8 "2011-08-30T19:43:05Z")
I can’t believe nobody has correctly answered this INCLUDING Cecil!! You really should consider getting something like… oh, the Internet, maybe, so you can look these things up. Anyway, it’s “Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night”. “Deuce” is cop slang for a drunk driver, thus the “revved up” part. Peace ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2011, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blinded-by-the-light/593038/9 "2011-08-30T20:43:18Z")
> [@Darwin\_the\_Baptist](#): > > I can’t believe nobody has correctly answered this INCLUDING Cecil!! You really should consider getting something like… oh, the Internet, maybe, so you can look these things up. Anyway, it’s “Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night”. “Deuce” is cop slang for a drunk driver, thus the “revved up” part. > > Peace Wow! So the guy that actually _wrote_ the song is wrong about what it means? ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blinded-by-the-light/593038/10 "2011-08-31T07:41:09Z")
> [@Darwin\_the\_Baptist](#): > > I can’t believe nobody has correctly answered this INCLUDING Cecil!! You really should consider getting something like… oh, the Internet, maybe, so you can look these things up. Anyway, it’s “Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night”. “Deuce” is cop slang for a drunk driver, thus the “revved up” part. > > Peace You can find any old rubbish on the internet alongside, or piled five feet deep on top of, the truth. As has been pointed out earlier in this thread **Bruce Springsteen** says he meant “deuce” as in “cool car”. What are these internet sources of yours that trump **Bruce Springsteen** ’s statment on what **Bruce Springsteen** ’s song lyrics mean? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blinded-by-the-light/593038/11 "2011-08-31T13:01:40Z")
> [@Darwin\_the\_Baptist](#): > > I can’t believe nobody has correctly answered this INCLUDING Cecil!! You really should consider getting something like… oh, the Internet, maybe, so you can look these things up. Anyway, it’s “Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night”. “Deuce” is cop slang for a drunk driver, thus the “revved up” part. Why would a Jersey boy be using California police lingo? ---
**Author:** ![John\_W.Kennedy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_w.kennedy/32/1031_2.png) [@John\_W.Kennedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_W.Kennedy)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/blinded-by-the-light/593038/12 "2011-08-31T18:38:22Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > > [@Darwin the Baptist](#): > > > > I can’t believe nobody has correctly answered this INCLUDING Cecil!! You really should consider getting something like… oh, the Internet, maybe, so you can look these things up. Anyway, it’s “Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night”. “Deuce” is cop slang for a drunk driver, thus the “revved up” part. > > Why would a Jersey boy be using California police lingo? Obviously, Bruce don’t know what he got.