"Pompatus", "Shamone", etc.

[goldmund]

@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.

[Infovore]

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.

[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).

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

[Ludovic]

@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.