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Dear CK: Please don't give me a lecture until you read stales first post, about Lola being a transvestite who got in bed with him. I merely wanted to know how that episode ended.
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Bill, the wonderful thing about these lyrics is that they can go either way, just like Lola!
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I merely wanted to know how that episode ended.
and CK's point is that it's just a song about a man and his transvestite. what more could you want?
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Stales said only change censors made was to eliminate commercial reference. The lyrics made no mention about bed, so I concluded censors had deleted more than just "Coca". This is a bait and switch.
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Why, Bill, you just have to use your imagination. Did he ackshually go home with her? Didn't he say that was the way he wanted it to stay? What did he mean by that? Think, man, I'm givin' it all I've got here![not!]
Deviating a little from the path here, when I worked at the cosmetics counter of a large drugstore chainHi, Wally!my best customers were what I called "Lolas".
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The way I see it, our hero INITIALLY said, "No" and pushed her away but - in the penultimate and final verses - there's a hint that he succumbed and was led away.
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Well, you see Stales set up a scene, and then abandoned it. That's why I said bait and switch. I have no interest in transvestites, but I do wonder how I would react if such a denouement had been sprung on me. I think I might have vomited, but I sure as hell would not have cared to participate any furher. Fooey on Katoeys. Double fooey on jade flutists.
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this seems like an apposite time to bring up the aside that this song (Lola) is the source of a mondegreen. as printed above, the ultimate verse reads:
Well I'm not the world's most masculine man
But I know what I am and I'm glad I'm a man
And so is Lola...
if you search the net you'll find that many folks hear this as:
But I know what I am and in bed I'm a man and so is Lola
this makes it much less ambiguous, which of course is far more satisfying for a certain type. (I wonder if you could use mondegreens as a sort of rorschach test?)
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So, tsuwm, are you saying we should color stales Monday Green?
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