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http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mkyrie.html

Mr Mister specific link.

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Very interesting. Thanks! I can now cross that off my list of things that have kept me up at night for the last 20 years.

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Alanis M. (can't spell her first name much less the last)

actual

"cross I bear"

make believe

"cross-eyed bear"


Here is one I still don't get, maybe someone call tell/explain it

"wrapped? up like a ??????, another rumor in the night, blinded by the light"

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pretty sure this one is "revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night"

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I was gonna say that there was this teeny bopper type song called Flavor of the Week, and I always thought the chorus went "He's too stoned, Nintendo, I wish that I could make her see," and I was always like "Nintendo, that can't be right," so I looked up the lyrics and yeah, that's the real line, and I realized that I've listened to some really bad music.

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pretty sure this one is "revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night"

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Clearly that makes much more sense.

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Pardon my ignorance but what does that mean?

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um, I'm really not sure, but isn't a deuce coupe like 1950s slang for some kind of muscle car? revved up like a deuce, like revving the engine?

that's my best guess.



edit: regardless how odd the lyrics are, the Manfred Mann version is a great tune [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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i thought it was "wrapped up like a douche"

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that is what I thought but wasn't going to say it