# Colitas in the Eagle's Hotel California-1997 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [September 15, 2003, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colitas-in-the-eagles-hotel-california-1997/201700 "2003-09-15T10:04:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![whit3hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c4cdca/32.png) [@whit3hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whit3hawk)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colitas-in-the-eagles-hotel-california-1997/201700/1 "2003-09-15T10:04:46Z")
🙂 Somehow while driving on a dark desert highway with the cool wind in my hair, probably in a convertible with the top down, I can’t imagine the "Warm smell of colitas’ as being the tip of marijuana cigs. For that to be the case, it would have to be growing all over the fields, and even burning to be warm! Colitas, of course can be any type of small tail, so a warm smell of colitas might be from barbequed pig tails, which is as plausible as lobster tail. Although ‘colita’ has been applied to a cigarette tip, after it’s nearly all burnt, I can’t imagine being able to smell that while going down a desert California highway, unless they were my own colitas! What brought this on? Well, I’m in China, and seems as though the Eagle’s song is popular enough to hear it as a staple in many stereo shops! whit3hawk ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colitas-in-the-eagles-hotel-california-1997/201700/2 "2003-09-15T10:21:05Z")
Welcome, **whit3hawk**. I’m guessing this post is referring to this [url=http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5\_001.html]link[/urk], in which Cecil says it’s the tip of a marijuana branch (i.e. the bud), not a spliff. ---
**Author:** ![bizzwire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/958977/32.png) [@bizzwire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bizzwire)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colitas-in-the-eagles-hotel-california-1997/201700/3 "2003-09-15T11:55:38Z")
Seach is your friend. the answer is [here:](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_001.html) ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colitas-in-the-eagles-hotel-california-1997/201700/4 "2003-09-15T12:06:52Z")
“But why was there Cool-Whip in my hair?” ---
**Author:** ![Dogface](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@Dogface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogface)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colitas-in-the-eagles-hotel-california-1997/201700/5 "2003-09-15T12:48:10Z")
Colitas are a prostitutes of short stature. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colitas-in-the-eagles-hotel-california-1997/201700/6 "2003-09-15T15:30:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dogface \* > \*\*Colitas are a prostitutes of short stature. \*\* What, and they’re smelling them? Euugh… ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2003, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colitas-in-the-eagles-hotel-california-1997/201700/7 "2003-09-15T15:41:59Z")
Dark dessert highway… does that imply Hershey? ---
**Author:** ![ChickPea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@ChickPea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChickPea)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2004, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colitas-in-the-eagles-hotel-california-1997/201700/8 "2004-01-05T14:14:33Z")
Another fine parody of this tune is the “Berkeley California” variant, about the Unix wars. Looks like it’s becoming topical again… ---
**Author:** ![John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ccd318/32.png) [@John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Kentzel-Griffin)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2004, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colitas-in-the-eagles-hotel-california-1997/201700/9 "2004-01-05T14:35:45Z")
Since this is covered in one of Cecil’s columns, I’ll move this to Comments on Cecil’s Columns. **DrMatrix** - GQ Moderator ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2004, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colitas-in-the-eagles-hotel-california-1997/201700/10 "2004-01-05T14:39:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lieu \* > \*\*Dark dessert highway… does that imply Hershey? \*\* Red wine …meet keyboard. Hey was that you nose? ---
**Author:** ![senorphat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f4b2a3/32.png) [@senorphat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/senorphat)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2004, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colitas-in-the-eagles-hotel-california-1997/201700/11 "2004-01-09T06:53:16Z")
Hotel California can only b about a whore house. Listen to the words of the song, and see for yourself. “…mirrors on the ceiling, champagne on ice, we are all just prisoners here, of our own device.”