# 'Pompatus' of love

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pompatus-of-love/178304>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [May 29, 2003, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pompatus-of-love/178304 "2003-05-29T16:51:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bizet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@Bizet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bizet)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pompatus-of-love/178304/1 "2003-05-29T16:51:17Z")

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I’ve been a steve miller band fan all the way from Sailor up to but not including that stupid Billy jo and Bobby sue thing, thanks for clearing up the 'properties ’ of love thing as I’ve been singing even on stage the wrong word all these years, no one knew the difference anyway, Tx, Bizet

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**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pompatus-of-love/178304/2 "2003-05-29T22:39:37Z")

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Welcome to the Straight Dope Message Boards, **Bizet** , glad to have you with us.

It’s helpful to other readers if you provide a link to the column upon which you are commenting, helps keep us all on the same page. In this case, I presume, [In Steve Miller’s “The Joker,” what is “the pompatus of love”?](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_065.html)