# With a name like Sloopy... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 5, 2012, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-a-name-like-sloopy/620955 "2012-05-05T04:11:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2012, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-a-name-like-sloopy/620955/21 "2012-05-07T16:26:48Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > I know I was not alone in thinking the song was about Snoopy. And if you look at the [LP cover,](http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/the_mccoys/hang_on_sloopy/) you can imagine that the artist might have had a similar idea… with the nose anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Ashley\_Pomeroy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@Ashley\_Pomeroy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashley_Pomeroy)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2012, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-a-name-like-sloopy/620955/22 "2012-05-07T19:51:52Z")
> [@florez](#): > > She was considered to be “boy crazy”, and got plenty of attention for the sexy way she danced publicly, to neighborhood garage band music. Elders warned us girls never to make a spectacle of ourselves like Lupe, however, as I remember the dancing was the normal style of the time. > Lupe wore her straight jet black hair in a page boy style, with some strands partly falling over one eye, and way more makeup, by comparison to the other girls. > Also, she was well built, and more developed than was typical, so it was suggested that she probably “stuffed her bra with tissue paper.” Blimey, I’m going to need a cold drink after reading that. Here’s the Zakary Thaks performing “Bad Girl”: https://www.youtube.com/embed/nTX1v_pJt5E?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/with-a-name-like-sloopy/620955.md?page=1)