# "Pompatus", "Shamone", etc. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 4, 2016, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pompatus-shamone-etc/745124 "2016-02-04T04:09:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![goldmund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a4c791/32.png) [@goldmund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/goldmund)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pompatus-shamone-etc/745124/41 "2020-02-11T03:51:52Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Some sources have it as “so so so kitty”, but none of them have it as “She went to the city and got ‘social security’”, which seemed like a euphemism for getting a pimp (i.e. as in you could tell the cops you were on disability which would explain the lack of a job, in addition to whatever physical security a pimp supposedly provides.) [Saditty](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/saditty). ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pompatus-shamone-etc/745124/42 "2020-02-11T16:44:43Z")
There’s the Elton John song “Solar Prestige a Gammon”: \*Oh ma cameo molesting Kee pa a poorer for tea Solar prestige a gammon Lantern or turbert paw kwee Solar prestige a gammon cool kar kyrie kay salmon Hair ring molassis abounding Common lap kitch sardin a poor floundin\* It goes on like that for the whole song. ---
**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pompatus-shamone-etc/745124/43 "2020-02-11T21:21:39Z")
(BTW, why did someone call this a zombie thread? Elsewhere it’d just be resurrecting a thread on the same subject rather than starting a new one). Tears for Fears Mad World has a good one. The last line is usually, in covers, sung as enlarging your world, but in the original it was a made-up word that nobody could make out. > [@](#): > > With Mad World’s again-resurgent popularity, I’m getting asked more frequently about the last line on the album version from The Hurting, a line which I occasionally also sing in concert. The actual line is: “Halargian world.” (Not “illogical world”, “raunchy young world”, “enlarging your world”, or a number of other interesting if not amusing guesses.) The real story: Halarge was an imaginary planet invented by either Chris Hughes or Ross Cullum during the recording of The Hurting. I added it as a joke during the lead vocal session, and we kept it. And there you have it. > **[Mad World](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_World)** > > "Mad World" is a 1982 song by British band Tears for Fears. Written by Roland Orzabal and sung by bassist Curt Smith, it was the band's third single release and first chart hit, reaching number three on the UK Singles Chart in November 1982. Both "Mad World" and its B-side, "Ideas as Opiates", appeared on the band's debut LP The Hurting (1983). This single was also the band's first international success, reaching the Top 40 in several countries in 1982–83. > "Mad World" has since been covered b... ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2020, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pompatus-shamone-etc/745124/44 "2020-02-11T21:23:48Z")
> [@SciFiSam](#): > > (BTW, why did someone call this a zombie thread? Elsewhere it’d just be resurrecting a thread on the same subject rather than starting a new one). Well, I did so that people wouldn’t feel the need to “correct” me by pointing out that I was responding to a very old post. But now at least there is someone coming in to “correct” me on the correct thread nomenclature, so there is that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pompatus-shamone-etc/745124.md?page=2)