Ah, cheers. I was. I have read them but that was a few years ago.
Presumably Fanny Galore would have gotten nixed, then?
Since this thread is 36 pages long, and this is on page one, (and no one questioned it), I figured asking now is better than scrolling through the last 35 pages.
So I say “huh?”
Never heard this so I went to read the lyrics for this song. There is nothing there that I can tell related at all to masturbation, solo sex, or anything else for that matter, other than a guy reflecting on his younger years, a first love, and all that standard stuff. The second stanza of the song actually mentions that he and his love are in the same room “making you smile before I leave” (something like that).
Does anyone else hold to kirk1168’s theory?
Stink Fish Pot, are you familiar with Rosie Palm and her five sisters?
What’s that on the “business end” of George Clooney’s fucking machine in Burn After Reading? Why, it’s an extruded plastic dingus!
Of course.
But where is that tied into “Running on Empty?”
Your link in the spoiler brings up the imdb page for The Hudsucker Proxy. I have no idea if you intended that.
I suppose he could have claimed that there was no funny business intended – that the lady’s given name happened to be Frances (for which “Fanny” was an often-used diminutive in more innocent times) – but, hard to imagine that ploy working…
It didn’t stop Henry James from naming a character “Fanny Assingham.”
Yep.
The *album *is Running on Empty. The *song *is Rosie.
[QUOTE=fair use amount of lyrics from Rosie]
When you hold me tight
(Rosie, that’s my thing)
When you turn out the light
(I got to hand it to me)
Looks like it’s me and you again tonight, Rosie
[/quote]
One would reckon it probable that here, Henry was head-in-the-clouds oblivious, rather than sneaking an off-colour name in for a laugh… Rather like the clanger dropped by Robert Browning in his verse drama Pippa Passes; where he has the said Pippa declaiming:
“Then, owls and bats, cowls and twats,
Monks and nuns, in a cloister’s moods,
Adjourn to the oak-stump pantry !”
(If I’m right, the impolite word “twat” is used with the same meaning in America as in England.) Browning, rather an innocent in some ways, mistakenly thought that the word applied to a standard part of a nun’s clothing. Seemingly, he was so revered for his poetry that no-one ever dared to tell him about his mistake.
:smack::smack::smack:
Well, at least I was correct about the song “Running on Empty”.
But yeah, Rosie… I get that.
You beat me to.
Soylent green is people!
So it didn’t start post WWI as a play off of Tommies (British) and Jerries (Germans)? Ignorance [successfully] fought.
And of course Simon and Garfunkel started out as Tom and Jerry…
Aaaaaaand I just got the joke behind Mrs. Palm’s name in the Discworld books.
The 1990s Jim Henson TV show Dinosaurs: I had always known that the main dinosaur family’s name, Sinclair, was a nod to the gas station chain with the dinosaur logo. But I guess I had missed until today, when I was searching around online, that the name of the Grandma was spelled “Ethyl.”
(Also that the voice of Fran, the mother, was provided by Jessica Walter, later known for portraying Lucille Bluth on Arrested Development.)
It took me many watchings of The Sound of Music to realize that the Captain’s first name wasn’t Gayorg, a name I had never heard of, but Georg(e). A friend watching it for the first time heard “Something tall and cool, Georg?” and said What is his name?!