# Frankie says: Relax, don't do WHAT when you wanna come? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 26, 2001, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frankie-says-relax-dont-do-what-when-you-wanna-come/70157 "2001-06-26T01:50:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2001, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frankie-says-relax-dont-do-what-when-you-wanna-come/70157/21 "2001-06-26T23:02:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by London\_Calling \* > Instead of giving up the habit, she decided to take it from the bottom up and, U/L has it, someone was employed on a full time basis to blow the powder up her arse. > > \*\* …oh…my… Gotta admit - that’s one Urban Legend I hadn’t heard, but it does give new insight to the Fleetwood Mac episode of VH-1’s “Behind the Music” (argh!) ---
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2001, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frankie-says-relax-dont-do-what-when-you-wanna-come/70157/22 "2001-06-26T23:12:08Z")
I remember we were trying to work out (one evening down the pub, inevitably) how the employee might appear on her tax returns. Best we could come up with was; ‘Back room staff’. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2001, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frankie-says-relax-dont-do-what-when-you-wanna-come/70157/23 "2001-06-27T01:49:54Z")
**Scarlett** said > [@](#): > > I don’t know or care whether it’s true or not Nice attitude from someone who is supposed to be here to fight ignorance, rather than perpetuate it. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2001, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frankie-says-relax-dont-do-what-when-you-wanna-come/70157/24 "2001-06-27T15:13:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by samclem \* > \*\ ***Scarlett** said > > > [@](#): > > > > I don’t know or care whether it’s true or not > > Nice attitude from someone who is supposed to be here to fight ignorance, rather than perpetuate it. ☹ \*\* Oh, so because I post on this board, I’m responsible for tracking down the veracity of every bit of inane trivia that crosses my path? I dare say there is **way more significant knowledge in the world** to be pursued than whether a Van Morrison song is really about butt-fucking. Read it again. My point was that **whether it’s true or not,** the mental image has ruined the song for me. Oh, and by the way, I edit college textbooks for a living, so I’ll thank you not to accuse me of not fighting ignorance. What have **you** done to contribute to public education lately? To everyone else: I apologize for the hijack. We now return this thread to the highbrow discussion of the Hershey Highway. ---
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2001, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frankie-says-relax-dont-do-what-when-you-wanna-come/70157/25 "2001-06-27T16:06:20Z")
Hey ! You got the scoop on Barbara Hershey ?? - I may never be able to listen to ‘The _Wind_ Beneath my Wings’ again. I hope. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2001, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frankie-says-relax-dont-do-what-when-you-wanna-come/70157/26 "2001-06-27T16:33:15Z")
Yeah, I heard that Mick Jagger was doing her in the back door while sucking a Mars Bar out of Marianne Faithfull. 😛 (Have we been kicked out of GQ yet?) ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2001, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frankie-says-relax-dont-do-what-when-you-wanna-come/70157/27 "2001-06-27T17:10:02Z")
Just for the sake of thoroughness, [the Mars Bar and Ms. Faithful](http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/marsbar.htm). ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2001, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frankie-says-relax-dont-do-what-when-you-wanna-come/70157/28 "2001-06-27T17:21:51Z")
When I don’t want to come I think of Ernest Borgnine naked. That pretty much freezes me right in my tracks. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2001, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frankie-says-relax-dont-do-what-when-you-wanna-come/70157/29 "2001-06-27T18:11:04Z")
Woody Allen had a bit in his standup routine back in the mid-sixties about what he does when he wants to … prolong…the…moment. He thinks of baseball players! 🙂 (Don’t we all?) The bit’s great, too; he has Mays singling, McCovey being pinch hit for… ---
**Author:** ![missdavis102](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7feea3/32.png) [@missdavis102](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missdavis102)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2001, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frankie-says-relax-dont-do-what-when-you-wanna-come/70157/30 "2001-06-27T18:19:50Z")
Yeah, Frankie says don’t come. This I understand can be easier said than done, so I keep a list handy in my mind to offer suggestions to my gentleman friend, when he doesn’t want to come (or more to the point when I don’t want him to). Think about this, honey: [ul]Eleanor Roosevelt The Queen Mum bathtub grout poisonous toads of Central America Barney Fife the man at the Hawaiain Shave Ice stand patent law an unnamed co-worker of mine macrame lampshades Ron and Nancy Reagan getting dental work[/ul] I’ll have to add Ernest Borgnine to my list. That’s just wrong! ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2001, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frankie-says-relax-dont-do-what-when-you-wanna-come/70157/31 "2001-06-27T18:33:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by missdavis102 \* > \*\*poisonous toads of Central America > \*\* I don’t know, that one possibly could be a turn on… [Insert toad-licking UL here] ---
**Author:** ![bughunter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aeb1de/32.png) [@bughunter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bughunter)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2001, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frankie-says-relax-dont-do-what-when-you-wanna-come/70157/32 "2001-06-27T19:07:25Z")
Ugh - now why would anyone want to think of Ernest Borgnine or Elanor Roosevelt when about to climax? What happens if it doesn’t work? The last thing in the world I would want to do is actually come with their image in my mind’s eye. That’s not the kind of imprint association I want to make. (Sheesh - it’s bad enough in porno vids when they continually cut to shots of some ex-con’s ugly grimacing mug. Inevitably, the timing is… unfortunate.) The solution is simple, straightforward, and sure to please your partner: If it feels like you’re ready to pop, and you think it’s too early, then just climb off and go down on her for a while. I mean, the point _is_ to make her come first, right? _Right_? ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2001, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frankie-says-relax-dont-do-what-when-you-wanna-come/70157/33 "2001-06-28T02:28:14Z")
**Scarlett** Nothing against you personally. Just the phrase you used. [/]You\* first brought up in this discussion an allusion to Van Morrison’s song being about sodomy. > [@](#): > > First “Brown-Eyed Girl,” now this I understand that it was a flippant comment, but some of the first time readers here might not. They might take it to be truth. It’s always hard to strike a balance between adding humor to a question in GQ and trying to not add things that might be taken the wrong way by newbies. I have done it before, I’m sure. As to what I have done to contribute to public education, I post pedantic replys to GQ. Read 'em some time. Factual, usually, and mostly boring. I’m just grumpy because the thread should have been dispatched to MPSIMS many posts ago. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2001, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frankie-says-relax-dont-do-what-when-you-wanna-come/70157/34 "2001-06-28T14:50:03Z")
I would hope that even a poor defenseless newbie would understand the difference between a public message board to which any unknown ignorant bozo may post and a standard reference work such as the _Encyclopedia Britannica._ I know of no academic entity that would accept “I read it in General Questions” as a citation of fact. Anyone who can’t tell the difference is on their own. Besides, other semi-humorous, unsubstantiated references were made here to rumors about Stevie Nicks, the Bee Gees, a Crystal Gayle song, and the Hokey Pokey. Should we flag those for the newbies also? Besides, a few folks asked about my reference, and I clarified that it was a rumor. They asked, I answered. Let the newbies fend for themselves. I’m not here to hold their hand. Nobody held mine when I was a newbie, and I managed just fine. As for being in the wrong forum, I agree. I said as much earlier. But I don’t determine where the thread goes, I just posted to it. Sniping at participants in a thread will do nothing to get it moved. You need to e-mail a mod or admin for that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/frankie-says-relax-dont-do-what-when-you-wanna-come/70157.md?page=1)