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Re: "'Scuse me while I kiss this guy" syndrome

From: "Dinyar" <dinyar@antenna.nl>
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 18:29:17 +0200
Subject: Re: "'Scuse me while I kiss this guy" syndrome
To: "Robb McCaffree" <nsrjm@mednet.ucla.edu>, <rec-music-gaffa@ucsd.edu>
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For years I went around thinking the lyrics in the ABBA song 'Honey Honey'
were 'you're a lump of shit'. I always thought this was quite odd, as the
group was so squeaky clean. Later my partner enlightened me that they were
actually singing 'you're a love machine'.

Dinyar

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> Van: Robb McCaffree <nsrjm@mednet.ucla.edu>
> Aan: rec-music-gaffa@ucsd.edu
> Onderwerp: Re: "'Scuse me while I kiss this guy" syndrome
> Datum: donderdag 31 juli 1997 10:09
> 
> Emmy May Lombaerts wrote:
> > 
> > >"Lee A. Blankenship" <lab4@dana.ucc.nau.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > >I am afraid I may be a victim of "'Scuse me while I kiss this guy"
> > >syndrome, or "There's a bathroom on the right" (there's a bad moon on
> > >the rise). I may never be able to hear the sound right.
> > 
> > *grin*
> > 
> > To me, Billy Ocean's hit from the 80's still sounds like "Go And Get
> > Stuffed", rather than "When The Going Gets Though". Ah well :)
> > 
> 
> And I had a friend who thought the lyrics to Berlin's "Metro" 
> ("and you were waiting there, swimming through apologies) were 
> "and you were waiting there, swimming through a pile of cheese."
> 
> 
> :-)
> 
> Robb
>