# Cream named one of their songs "SWLABR'--WTF? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 16, 2001, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cream-named-one-of-their-songs-swlabr-wtf/50314 "2001-01-16T14:00:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2001, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cream-named-one-of-their-songs-swlabr-wtf/50314/1 "2001-01-16T14:00:27Z")
And those initials just happen to be the abbreviation for the South West Los Angeles Board Of Realtors. What’s going on here? Why did the best of the English supergroups name a song after after a business association based 7000 miles away? ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2001, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cream-named-one-of-their-songs-swlabr-wtf/50314/2 "2001-01-16T14:03:34Z")
It stands for ‘She Wants to Love A Bearded Rainbow’. I think. That’s how it was explained to me. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2001, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cream-named-one-of-their-songs-swlabr-wtf/50314/3 "2001-01-16T14:07:50Z")
[She Was Like A Bearded Rainbow"](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=25655) ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2001, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cream-named-one-of-their-songs-swlabr-wtf/50314/4 "2001-01-16T14:18:29Z")
BTW, Mr Swlabr was the name of a character in the syndicated anthology series “Monsters,” of which George Romero was one of the principals. In this episode, a boy finds a friend in a cereal box. He adds water to it, and it turns into some gross toad-looking thing, sorta like what Kelly LeBrock turned Bill Paxton into in “Weird Science.” Anyway, Mr Swlabr, disgusting though he appears, turns out to be a good friend to the little boy–and there’s gonna be hell to pay for the people that have been mean to him. ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_Cool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecb155/32.png) [@Joe\_Cool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Cool)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2001, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cream-named-one-of-their-songs-swlabr-wtf/50314/5 "2001-01-16T18:23:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mjollnir \* > \*\*BTW, Mr Swlabr was the name of a character in the syndicated anthology series “Monsters,” of which George Romero was one of the principals. In this episode, a boy finds a friend in a cereal box. He adds water to it, and it turns into some gross toad-looking thing, sorta like what Kelly LeBrock turned Bill Paxton into in “Weird Science.” Anyway, Mr Swlabr, disgusting though he appears, turns out to be a good friend to the little boy–and there’s gonna be hell to pay for the people that have been mean to him. \*\* I loved that show! I thought I was the only one who remembered it. Do you know if it’s running in syndication or anything like that? (maybe where I can download episodes on the internet?) ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2001, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cream-named-one-of-their-songs-swlabr-wtf/50314/6 "2001-01-16T18:44:29Z")
It’s not currently running on any of the stations that I get. It did run for a year-and-a-half or so on SCI-FI, though. You can get a list of the episodes at [epguides.com](http://epguides.com/menu/). However, it doesn’t have plot summaries or a cast list. I’ve been unable to find anything like that on the net. ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2001, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cream-named-one-of-their-songs-swlabr-wtf/50314/7 "2001-01-16T23:17:20Z")
Since many people may not follow the earlier link, it is worth mentioning that our very own **TubaDiva** wrote a Staff Report on the subject, [here.](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mswlabr.html) ---
**Author:** ![Alonist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@Alonist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alonist)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2001, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cream-named-one-of-their-songs-swlabr-wtf/50314/8 "2001-01-17T17:57:30Z")
I always assumed it was just an alternate-phonetic way of spelling “slobber”. I expect that’s why Mr. Swlabr got the name, anyway.