# Who invented the inflatable woman, and when?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-invented-the-inflatable-woman-and-when/43688>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 2, 2000, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-invented-the-inflatable-woman-and-when/43688 "2000-12-02T04:49:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Uniball](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Uniball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uniball)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2000, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-invented-the-inflatable-woman-and-when/43688/21 "2000-12-03T02:20:28Z")

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> \*Originally posted by AskNott \*  
> \*\* Anyway, there are FZ sites that will be happy to tell you the lyrics. \*\*

Here’s one of the best, and it’s official:

[http://www.globalia.net/donlope/fz/lyrics](http://www.globalia.net/donlope/fz/lyrics)

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**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2000, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-invented-the-inflatable-woman-and-when/43688/22 "2000-12-03T10:41:24Z")

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> \*Originally posted by yabob \*  
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> > There is a song “Inflatable Woman”, sung to the tune of The Guess Who’s “American Woman.” I heard it only once on the radio, and I almost drove off the road laughing.
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> Thank God I found that. After bibliophage mentioned it, I couldn’t get the phrase out of my head because it fit so well, and I would have been compelled to do parody lyrics myself.  
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I guess that makes several of us, then.

Because as I was opening this thread, the song “American Woman” (_ahem_) popped into my mind as well.

[sub]'course, if I don’t find a girlfriend soon, an inflatable woman may well be my wife…[/sub]

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