Ignorance fought. I always assumed it was Mozart who composed it.
And to add to my earlier post- now I’ve got an earworm of my own devise: “The Bear’s A Jolly Good Fellow.” Argh!
“French letter” can be slang for a condom; an item which didn’t use to be as easy to come by as they are now.
So one possible meaning is that he’d finally managed to get ahold of contraception, and she agreed to have sex.
– the second half of the verse does sound rather like dropping acid to me, though.
“He’ll eat you if you deny.”
Thank you! I couldn’t figure out that last line.
Listening to the Beatles “White Album” the other day. In the song “The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill”, the line “Not when he looked so fierce” is sung in a high falsetto voice. I always assumed it was one of the guys singing in silly fake voice, but I suddenly realized “No, that’s Yoko!”
“And so say all the moose.”
I believe it’s Geico that has an ad for home insurance where the couple praise their home but then mention a clogging problem, followed by showing their upstairs neighbors constantly clog dance. OK. Then there was a second commercial where another couple mention they have a “rat” problem, with the band Ratt breaking out in song everywhere. OH! A clogging problem is another pay on words,suggesting their pipes are bad!
Less obviously, she (and Patti Harrison) are the backing vocals on “Birthday.”
The song is from 1975, not 1875. Condoms were available at any drug store.
Yes, trust me when I say condoms were very available in 1975.
Yes, but you had to go up to the counter and ask.
See Amazon Women on the Moon
a little racy.
I don’t know for sure when it shifted; but I’m fairly sure that it was later than the mid70’s when I started seeing condoms out on the open counters. Drugstores had them, yes; but you had to ask for them. In small towns this could get complicated because the person you had to ask might know your parents. HIPAA didn’t exist yet.
I remember jokes about the guy who bought condoms only to find out when he went to pick his date up that the pharmacist was her father.
I was buying them off the display case in 1969. San Diego. No asking anybody involved.
That may be a case of urban areas being more liberal, while the smaller communities were more conservative, especially in the South. The religious
stranglehold on the community meant preventing teens (and unmarried couples) from having access. Because allowing access is tantamount to condoning promiscuity and teen sex.
Condoms were easily available in bathroom vending machines even in less urban areas going back decades.
Or have some one you know walk in:Welcome to the house of fun
This image from The Graduate is iconic.
However I never noticed :
the shadow of the electric candle, top left corner
Once you’ve seen it, you can’t unsee it.
:eek:
(Johnny Carson Voice) “I did not know that.”
This may not be quite what the OP intended, but I recently noticed just how many damn helicopters there are in the James Bond movies. I did a search a while ago (using the IMDb trivia listings) and I think there were only two of the Bond films that didn’t have a helicopter in them somewhere. One was Dr. No, which could have been for budgetary reasons.
Acura’s logo is a play on its parent company Honda’s logo: The top of the ‘H’ is squished to make an ‘A’.