# 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:** 3
**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, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wash-your-mouth-out-with-soap-or-i-didnt-know-it-was-about-that/317647/41 "2005-08-19T03:02:54Z")
> [@Fabulous Creature](#): > > Okay, Lucy, you got some 'splaining to do. > > how is like a prayer about blowjobs? > > 😕 I’m down on my knees. _I wanta take you there._ ---
**Author:** ![Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Side_of_the_Floyd)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wash-your-mouth-out-with-soap-or-i-didnt-know-it-was-about-that/317647/42 "2005-08-19T03:06:46Z")
> [@Fabulous Creature](#): > > Okay, Lucy, you got some 'splaining to do. > > how is like a prayer about blowjobs? > > 😕 I’m just guessing that it’s the “down on my knees” part. Though I’m _really_ not seeing it. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Side_of_the_Floyd)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wash-your-mouth-out-with-soap-or-i-didnt-know-it-was-about-that/317647/43 "2005-08-19T03:08:35Z")
Didn’t see **Wolfian** ’s post. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wash-your-mouth-out-with-soap-or-i-didnt-know-it-was-about-that/317647/44 "2005-08-19T03:08:48Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#): > > Did you hear that? 😃 I did, about a mile away. \ But it was very clever! ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wash-your-mouth-out-with-soap-or-i-didnt-know-it-was-about-that/317647/45 "2005-08-19T03:13:41Z")
> [@St\_Ides](#): > > **Semi-Charmed Life** by Third Eye Blind. > > It gets played on the “light rock” station around here all the time… You know, the one that’s always happy songs, so that the people don’t get depressed. All the people around me seem to think it’s a nice, clean, upbeat song… > > It’s about getting really high on many different things, and his woman OD’ing… Or at least, that’s the impression I get from the lyrics. > > I guess he just sings too fast… Then there’s the issue of the band’s name… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wash-your-mouth-out-with-soap-or-i-didnt-know-it-was-about-that/317647/46 "2005-08-19T03:19:33Z")
In the 1950’s singer Ruth Wallis had a hit with “He’s Got the Cutest Little Dinghy in the Navy” It was most definitely not about her sailor boyfriend’s\* boat\*. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wash-your-mouth-out-with-soap-or-i-didnt-know-it-was-about-that/317647/47 "2005-08-19T03:29:17Z")
It took me a while to realize that the song Sledge Hammer was just a bunch of sex talk. ---
**Author:** ![Amaranta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Amaranta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amaranta)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wash-your-mouth-out-with-soap-or-i-didnt-know-it-was-about-that/317647/48 "2005-08-19T04:16:48Z")
Jagged Little Pill came out when my friends and I were, oh I dunno, 12 or 13-ish. And very naive 12 and 13 year olds we were; we’d loudly sing along to lines like “Would she go down on you in a theatre?” with not a clue what they meant, while any adult in hearing distance would kind of fidget uncomfortably trying to figure out whether they should comment. Sometimes someone’s mom would be all “Honey, I don’t know if I want you singing that” and we’d giggle cuz SOME SONGS HAD SWEARS haha that must be why she didn’t want us singing it, right? ---
**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, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wash-your-mouth-out-with-soap-or-i-didnt-know-it-was-about-that/317647/49 "2005-08-19T04:26:24Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#): > > 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. D’oh! :smack: ---
**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, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wash-your-mouth-out-with-soap-or-i-didnt-know-it-was-about-that/317647/50 "2005-08-19T05:02:35Z")
Heh. No worries, **Guin** – you weren’t the only one, so it’s a safe bet that the blame can be placed at my feet. Still, I do find the idea that people might think that I believe _Margaritaville_ is about a guy sinking into depression because he’s got nobody to give rim-jobs to, uh, more than a little disconcerting. Do I really come across as that weird, most of the time? 😃 ---
**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, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wash-your-mouth-out-with-soap-or-i-didnt-know-it-was-about-that/317647/51 "2005-08-19T05:12:56Z")
Nobody else sees this? Let’s break it down… When you call my name _I think we’re all on board with this one._ it’s like a little prayer I’m down on my knees, I want to take you there _Take me where? My guess is Orgasmville._ In the midnight hour, I can feel your power _Power of what? My guess is (edited for content)._ Also, later in the song… I hear your voice, it’s like an angel sighing _Sighing why? See above._ Conclusion: Madonna is a dirty, dirty girl. Or am I just dirty-minded? ---
**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, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wash-your-mouth-out-with-soap-or-i-didnt-know-it-was-about-that/317647/52 "2005-08-19T05:33:34Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#): > > Heh. No worries, **Guin** – you weren’t the only one, so it’s a safe bet that the blame can be placed at my feet. > > Still, I do find the idea that people might think that I believe _Margaritaville_ is about a guy sinking into depression because he’s got nobody to give rim-jobs to, uh, more than a little disconcerting. > > Do I really come across as that weird, most of the time? 😃 Around this place, anything’s possible. ---
**Author:** ![Grelby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a5b964/32.png) [@Grelby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grelby)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wash-your-mouth-out-with-soap-or-i-didnt-know-it-was-about-that/317647/53 "2005-08-19T05:49:20Z")
That line in Alanis Morisette’s “You Oughta Know” was a revelation for me too. The funny thing is that I had been familiar with the term for a couple of years at that point. In fact, it couldn’t have been more than a couple years ago - I was driving, and the radio was playing that song. I heard “Would she \ in a theater?” And I thought, WTF? Why on earth did they blank that line out? What could it possibly… OH. I never mentioned this little epiphany to anyone. I wasn’t sure I could handle the mockery. ---
**Author:** ![Amaranta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Amaranta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amaranta)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wash-your-mouth-out-with-soap-or-i-didnt-know-it-was-about-that/317647/54 "2005-08-19T06:22:17Z")
> [@Grelby](#): > > That line in Alanis Morisette’s “You Oughta Know” was a revelation for me too. The funny thing is that I had been familiar with the term for a couple of years at that point. In fact, it couldn’t have been more than a couple years ago - I was driving, and the radio was playing that song. I heard “Would she \ in a theater?” And I thought, WTF? Why on earth did they blank that line out? What could it possibly… OH. > > I never mentioned this little epiphany to anyone. I wasn’t sure I could handle the mockery. That’s how we used to figure out what the naughty parts of songs were - the parts they’d blank out on the radio. We’d then try to work backwards and figure out what the phrase meant… we were often tragically, hilariously wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wash-your-mouth-out-with-soap-or-i-didnt-know-it-was-about-that/317647/55 "2005-08-19T07:51:32Z")
I didn’t get what my sister meant when she said bad things about “Squeeze Box.” “I know what it means and it’s terrible blah-blah-blah.” To a fifth grader (me) it was just a musical instrument. My favorite song at the time. ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wash-your-mouth-out-with-soap-or-i-didnt-know-it-was-about-that/317647/56 "2005-08-19T08:01:39Z")
“C’mon angel my hearts on fire Don’t deny your man’s desire You’d be a fool to stop this tide Spread your wings and let me come inside” Rod Stewart - Tonight’s the Night ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wash-your-mouth-out-with-soap-or-i-didnt-know-it-was-about-that/317647/57 "2005-08-19T12:13:21Z")
> [@whiterabbit](#): > > I didn’t realize what “Afternoon Delight” was about until I heard it for the first time since I was a kid a couple of years ago or so, and then I was left wondering a) why a song about this? Ooh…sex during the day, how dirty and scandalous! and b) why such a STUPID song? I went to a private Baptist school as a kid, and we once went to an assembly about the e-e-evils of rock and roll in which Afternoon Delight was cited as a prime example. I shit you not. (A couple of others I remember being named in that assembly: Lies, by Fleetwood Mac, and My Sweet Lord, by the Beatles.) Until that day, I thought it was a song about skyrockets. ---
**Author:** ![Nutty\_Bunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d07c76/32.png) [@Nutty\_Bunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nutty_Bunny)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wash-your-mouth-out-with-soap-or-i-didnt-know-it-was-about-that/317647/58 "2005-08-19T12:42:55Z")
**Yummy, Yummy, Yummy** : _Yummy yummy yummy I’ve got love in my tummy and I can’t help lovin’ you_ Love = semen! :eek: I saw a VH1 special a couple of years ago, where they talked about this song and it’s hidden meaning. I kid you not, folks. Count me as another one surpised by **Brand New Key**. I’m 34 and had no idea. I can’t think of any others because I was usually pretty good at figuring out what was dirty. Although, She Bop had to be explained to me when the song came out when I was 13. I used to work for a Presbyterian minister whose 4 year old son would sing Steve Miller’s, **The Joker**. Particularly the line: _I’m a joker I’m a smoker I’m a midnight toker_ It was so cute! It was funny that his father knew exactly what “toker” means, but thought it was funny when his son sang that line. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2005, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wash-your-mouth-out-with-soap-or-i-didnt-know-it-was-about-that/317647/59 "2005-08-19T13:06:15Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > 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. For about ten minutes I was actually thinking, “Biggirl was only seven when that song came out! She’s barely 18, I thought she was, like, 30. And she thought fuck meant pray? Hopw do you think that!” :smack: ---
**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, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wash-your-mouth-out-with-soap-or-i-didnt-know-it-was-about-that/317647/60 "2005-08-19T13:17:20Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#): > > Heh. No worries, **Guin** – you weren’t the only one, so it’s a safe bet that the blame can be placed at my feet. > > Still, I do find the idea that people might think that I believe _Margaritaville_ is about a guy sinking into depression because he’s got nobody to give rim-jobs to, uh, more than a little disconcerting. > > Do I really come across as that weird, most of the time? 😃 Well… it was clear as… uh… 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wash-your-mouth-out-with-soap-or-i-didnt-know-it-was-about-that/317647.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wash-your-mouth-out-with-soap-or-i-didnt-know-it-was-about-that/317647.md?page=4)