# Wash your mouth out with soap or I didn't know it was about "that"! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 18, 2005, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wash-your-mouth-out-with-soap-or-i-didnt-know-it-was-about-that/317647 "2005-08-18T20:04:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wash-your-mouth-out-with-soap-or-i-didnt-know-it-was-about-that/317647/21 "2005-08-19T00:01:01Z")
_Little Red Corvette_. I know, I know. My mom LOVED Prince, she went to his concert while pregnant with me ad would listen to his albums all the time. At about 16 years old, I found myself listening to the song. “Moooooom!! How the HELL did you let me listen to this? YOU ARE A TERRIBLE PARENT!” Her reply? “Diosa, it took you SIXTEEN years to figure out the meaning behind the song. You’re fine.” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wash-your-mouth-out-with-soap-or-i-didnt-know-it-was-about-that/317647/22 "2005-08-19T00:05:11Z")
> [@E-Sabbath](#): > > I used, when I was knee high, to sing Beatles songs. Like “Why Don’t We Do It In The Road.” Loudly. It’s not like you can whisper “Why Don’t We Do It In the Road.” Or hum it. ---
**Author:** ![Indyellen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/indyellen/32/4176_2.png) [@Indyellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indyellen)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wash-your-mouth-out-with-soap-or-i-didnt-know-it-was-about-that/317647/23 "2005-08-19T00:30:06Z")
I can remember one time when I was younger hearing David Bowie singing “Suffragette City” & singing along while my dad was around. I chimed in on the “Wham Bam Thank You Ma’am” & got in BIG trouble…didn’t know what it meant at the time. 😉 I can also remember being mildly confused/curious listening to “Margaritaville”. I had NO idea why this guy kept looking for a shaker of salt. 😃 I will confess, however shamefully, that I didn’t figure out “She Bop” was about masturbation until I was a married woman in my late 20’s. I can only state that I was REALLY innocent until about 18 or so, and it wasn’t something I really put much thought into until I was reading an 80’s trivia website… :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wash-your-mouth-out-with-soap-or-i-didnt-know-it-was-about-that/317647/24 "2005-08-19T00:37:10Z")
I’m imagining this coversation 20 years from now: When Miss Elliot said: I’d like to get to know ya, so I can show ya Put the pussy on ya, like I told ya thought she was talking about a real cat! When I was 7 I thought “fuck” meant “pray”, so I thought they were talking about going to church when they sang I wanna fuck you like an animal, you bring me closer to God." in that song by Nine Inch Nails. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wash-your-mouth-out-with-soap-or-i-didnt-know-it-was-about-that/317647/25 "2005-08-19T00:41:26Z")
Damn am I old. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wash-your-mouth-out-with-soap-or-i-didnt-know-it-was-about-that/317647/26 "2005-08-19T00:58:51Z")
I always knew that “Driving my car” in the Beatles song was a metaphor for love, but it wasn’t till about a year ago that I realized how _suggestive_ that metaphor can get (“but I’ve found a driver and that’s a start”,etc.) Then again maybe it’s just my sick mind. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wash-your-mouth-out-with-soap-or-i-didnt-know-it-was-about-that/317647/27 "2005-08-19T01:00:20Z")
> [@Indyellen](#): > > I can also remember being mildly confused/curious listening to “Margaritaville”. I had NO idea why this guy kept looking for a shaker of salt. 😃 You big silly! How could you not know something like that? Honestly, I didn’t either. I still don’t. Help? ---
**Author:** ![nameless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/779978/32.png) [@nameless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nameless)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wash-your-mouth-out-with-soap-or-i-didnt-know-it-was-about-that/317647/28 "2005-08-19T01:12:27Z")
I literally almost came to blows with someone who loved the song “Like a Prayer” by Madonna and _would not_, under any circumstances, believe that it was about fellatio. I am a good friend. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wash-your-mouth-out-with-soap-or-i-didnt-know-it-was-about-that/317647/29 "2005-08-19T01:12:53Z")
I was in my twenties before I twigged to the double-entendre in that old novelty song about pooberty: > [@](#): > > I’ve got a brand new pair of roller-skates > and you’ve got a brand new key > I think we should get together > and try them on to see… I’m old enough that as a kid I had roller-skates and bob-skates that required keys, too. ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wash-your-mouth-out-with-soap-or-i-didnt-know-it-was-about-that/317647/30 "2005-08-19T01:16:43Z")
Let’s rock, everybody, let’s rock. Everybody in the whole cell block was dancin’ to the Jailhouse Rock. Number forty-seven said to number three: “You’re the cutest jailbird I ever did see. I sure would be delighted with your company, come on and do the Jailhouse Rock with me.” Say WHAT!! ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wash-your-mouth-out-with-soap-or-i-didnt-know-it-was-about-that/317647/31 "2005-08-19T01:30:28Z")
Elton John’s _Funeral For A Friend_- “Love lies bleeding in my hand” is the result of a formerly-male friends sex change operation. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wash-your-mouth-out-with-soap-or-i-didnt-know-it-was-about-that/317647/32 "2005-08-19T01:31:08Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > > [@Indyellen](#): > > > > I can also remember being mildly confused/curious listening to “Margaritaville”. I had NO idea why this guy kept looking for a shaker of salt. > > You big silly! How could you not know something like that? > > Honestly, I didn’t either. I still don’t. Help? That song is totally about a guy who drunkenly puts his tongue where the sun don’t shine, and becomes all obsessed about it. All of the action takes place “south of the border.” At the beginning he’s on the “front porch” smelling shrimp, and we all know what _that_ means. In a margarita, the salt goes around the _rim_ (like “rim-job”) and “shaker” refers to the money-maker, or ass. When he “blew out his flip-flop,” that’s a euphemism for the best orgasm he ever had. The pathos of the song comes from the fact that the girl was alarmed by the whole thing and dumped him, so no more rim-jobs for Mr. Buffett. Okay, seriously, I think that **Indyellen** just used to think that “Margaritaville” was a real place. ---
**Author:** ![jasonh300](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/46a35a/32.png) [@jasonh300](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasonh300)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wash-your-mouth-out-with-soap-or-i-didnt-know-it-was-about-that/317647/33 "2005-08-19T01:42:00Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#): > > That song is totally about a guy who drunkenly puts his tongue where the sun don’t shine, and becomes all obsessed about it. All of the action takes place “south of the border.” At the beginning he’s on the “front porch” smelling shrimp, and we all know what _that_ means. In a margarita, the salt goes around the _rim_ (like “rim-job”) and “shaker” refers to the money-maker, or ass. When he “blew out his flip-flop,” that’s a euphemism for the best orgasm he ever had. The pathos of the song comes from the fact that the girl was alarmed by the whole thing and dumped him, so no more rim-jobs for Mr. Buffett. OMG!!! I never had ANY idea that’s what that song was about! I just thought it was about a guy who wanted to get drunk on margaritas but couldn’t find any salt for the glass! This reminds me of a preacher I read about who used to find all sorts of horrible hidden meanings in songs. Talk about grasping at straws… ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wash-your-mouth-out-with-soap-or-i-didnt-know-it-was-about-that/317647/34 "2005-08-19T01:50:17Z")
Did you hear that? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wash-your-mouth-out-with-soap-or-i-didnt-know-it-was-about-that/317647/35 "2005-08-19T02:17:53Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#): > > I was in my twenties before I twigged to the double-entendre in that old novelty song about pooberty: > > > [@](#): > > > > I’ve got a brand new pair of roller-skates > > and you’ve got a brand new key > > I think we should get together > > and try them on to see… > > I’m old enough that as a kid I had roller-skates and bob-skates that required keys, too. :eek: I’m 22 and I’ve never thought of it that way. Same with “Drive my Car.” There’s a great scene in Arrested Development in which the main character and his niece sing “Afternoon Delight” karokee style in front of his office only to be treated to weird looks from his staff. There’s also a great scene for the short-lived Freaks and Geeks in which two parents try to parse “Momma’s Gotta Squeezebox.” ---
**Author:** ![MaceMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@MaceMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaceMan)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wash-your-mouth-out-with-soap-or-i-didnt-know-it-was-about-that/317647/36 "2005-08-19T02:19:00Z")
I have an old tape recording of myself singing when I was about 6 or 7 years old. (My sister and I used to record stories and songs on tape for fun.) I labeled one of the songs “sennerfold.” I thought that word was so cool, but I had no idea what it meant. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wash-your-mouth-out-with-soap-or-i-didnt-know-it-was-about-that/317647/37 "2005-08-19T02:23:19Z")
> [@nameless](#): > > I literally almost came to blows with someone who loved the song “Like a Prayer” by Madonna and _would not_, under any circumstances, believe that it was about fellatio. I am a good friend. Okay, Lucy, you got some 'splaining to do. how is like a prayer about blowjobs? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wash-your-mouth-out-with-soap-or-i-didnt-know-it-was-about-that/317647/38 "2005-08-19T02:47:07Z")
> [@Fabulous Creature](#): > > how is like a prayer about blowjobs? I don’t get that, either. To me it always seemed as though she was just running with a few lines from _West Side Story_: > [@](#): > > Maria… > Say it loud and there’s music playing > Say it soft and it’s almost like praying ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wash-your-mouth-out-with-soap-or-i-didnt-know-it-was-about-that/317647/39 "2005-08-19T02:51:17Z")
> [@nameless](#): > > I literally almost came to blows with someone who loved the song “Like a Prayer” by Madonna and _would not_, under any circumstances, believe that it was about fellatio. I am a good friend. I never realized that! Nor did I ever realize that “Margaritaville” was about sex-I thought it was just about booze and hangovers. When I was little, I LOVED Madonna, Cyndi Lauper and the Pointer Sisters, and I used to sing along to “I’m So Excited”, “She-Bop” and “Like a Virgin”, never even DREAMING the real meaning behind these tunes. Hell, until I was maybe, oh, nine or ten, the word “virgin” was linked to the Virgin Mary. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wash-your-mouth-out-with-soap-or-i-didnt-know-it-was-about-that/317647/40 "2005-08-19T02:56:53Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Nor did I ever realize that “Margaritaville” was about sex-I thought it was just about booze and hangovers. Okay, I let the first one slide with a vagueish “woosh,” but now I think it’s clear that I made the wrong call on the [size] tag for that last line. Let me have a do-over: Okay, seriously, I think that **Indyellen** just used to think that “Margaritaville” was a real place. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wash-your-mouth-out-with-soap-or-i-didnt-know-it-was-about-that/317647.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wash-your-mouth-out-with-soap-or-i-didnt-know-it-was-about-that/317647.md?page=3)