# Memo to Fergie **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 14, 2006, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memo-to-fergie/372665 "2006-09-14T11:48:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2006, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memo-to-fergie/372665/1 "2006-09-14T11:48:26Z")
Handy pictorial guide to print out and keep: [London Bridge](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5e/London_bridge.jpg) [Tower Bridge](http://www.ce.ntu.edu.tw/photo/bridge/bridge29bLondon%20Bridge.jpg) You may now return to your regularly scheduled abdominal exercises. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2006, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memo-to-fergie/372665/2 "2006-09-14T12:28:59Z")
Yes, but Tower Bridge doesn’t have a children’s rhyme about it, does it? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2006, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memo-to-fergie/372665/3 "2006-09-14T12:50:42Z")
Look at the URL for the Tower Bridge link. It’s a very common misconception. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2006, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memo-to-fergie/372665/4 "2006-09-14T13:39:48Z")
[Context?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxSL9mhidAY) ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2006, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memo-to-fergie/372665/5 "2006-09-14T15:07:39Z")
I read an interview a few days ago in which she was asked about that cock-up. Her reply? > [@Fergie](#): > > I knew that. I’m not saying it’s about \*the \*London Bridge, it’s just _a_ London bridge. Uh huh. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2006, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memo-to-fergie/372665/6 "2006-09-14T16:04:42Z")
That beats out ‘my humps’ and ‘my lady lumps’ as the Worst Sexual Metaphor Ever by a very, very, very thin margin. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2006, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memo-to-fergie/372665/7 "2006-09-14T16:53:37Z")
You’d think being married to an heir to the throne would have helped her remember which was which. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2006, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memo-to-fergie/372665/8 "2006-09-14T17:13:30Z")
I’d still hit it in a heartbeat 😉 ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2006, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memo-to-fergie/372665/9 "2006-09-14T17:18:40Z")
I guess I’ve always thought that I’m more insightful than I really am, but I don’t understand the metaphor. "How come every time you come around my London London Bridge wanna go down like London London, London wanna go down like London London, London we goin’ down like", etc. What is this supposed to mean? Have I been outwitted by Fergie? ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2006, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memo-to-fergie/372665/10 "2006-09-14T17:52:27Z")
Well I understood it to be a not-very-subtle oral sex reference. He comes round, and he goes down like Tower, er, London, Bridge. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2006, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memo-to-fergie/372665/11 "2006-09-14T18:16:46Z")
Well if that’s what it means, the idea of it is somewhat… [unappetizing](http://forums.superiorpics.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Number=307483). ---
**Author:** ![brianjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2006, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/memo-to-fergie/372665/12 "2006-09-14T18:29:09Z")
[QUOTE=yojimbo] I’d still hit it in a heartbeat 😉 [/QUOTE] I’d hit it. WITH A STICK. She’s nasty, a former meth addict and she’s very… mannish. And I’m a little scared to find out what the hell “London bridge” is supposed to refer to.