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Post by steelmonkey on May 24, 2009 23:22:00 GMT
no? not even maybe?
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Post by stormmonkey on May 24, 2009 23:25:20 GMT
steelmonkey - when you say this allusion is on an album before or after TAAB are you saying it is immediately after or before TAAB?
I think it's time for another clue...?
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Post by fatman on May 25, 2009 13:06:18 GMT
I would say a plausible answer could be "Good Gracious will you look at all the animals playing with their tools" but although that song seems to be about schoolchildren (i.e., the reference to putting chewing gum in each other's hair) it's not necessarily about rich kids playing a 'm-bation' game as per your clue.
Jeff
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Post by fatman on May 25, 2009 13:21:49 GMT
In which song/lyric does ian allude to the nasty, little 'tradition' of rich kids participating in group masturbation contests in school ? No clues...this is pretty easy. I don't know why I didn't ask you this before, but what is this tradition? I've never heard of it, and certainly never participated in any group "m-bation" contests in school when I was growing up. Maybe I'm not familiar with it because I was not a "rich kid." (My father was/is a traveling salesman, my mother a social worker.) Jeff
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Post by fatman on May 25, 2009 13:47:17 GMT
I've looked at the most vulgar lyrics in TOTRNR, and Baker Street Muse, and could find no references to anything you're describing. Then I looked at all songs referencing children or school, including the curious stanza from Old Ghosts about young children faltering at their games at the altar...between grey pillars, etc, and the line from Sparrow at the Schoolyard Wall about trying "a wee sensation...but first you have to want to join in." I've also considered the second verse to Man of Principle, "and the battle's on, and he'll play to win, feel the blue blood rushing quick beneath his skin, etc." That song does seem to deal with rich kids from different schools in competition with each other. But I keep coming back to that line from Look at the Animals. It's got to be that, right?
Jeff
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Post by steelmonkey on May 25, 2009 21:53:22 GMT
'take the prize for instant pleasure..captain of the cricket' team...in the Play, but like brick, addressing winners and losers in life's long song. It conjures an image of the high school stud who is good at all he does...including group jack-off contests...not a universal phenomena of that age group...but prevalant with rich kids in private/prep schools who sleep together in dorms from earliest adolescense...it's a great irony that teenage boys 'compete' for first ejaculation...when, in real life, men strive to delay ejaculation when actual sex takes hold ( no pun). I think it's a brilliant line of the play and really describes the high school winner....his life being unfurled in the viewing room.
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Post by rebecca on May 25, 2009 21:59:09 GMT
'take the prize for instant pleasure..captain of the cricket' team...in the Play, but like brick, addressing winners and losers in life's long song. It conjures an image of the high school stud who is good at all he does...including group jack-off contests...not a universal phenomena of that age group...but prevalant with rich kids in private/prep schools who sleep together in dorms from earliest adolescense...it's a great irony that teenage boys 'compete' for first ejaculation...when, in real life, men strive to delay ejaculation when actual sex takes hold ( no pun). I think it's a brilliant line of the play and really describes the high school winner....his life being unfurled in the viewing room. A teacher friend of mine told me about another teacher walking in on such a contest. Where is the memory eraser button when you need it?
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Post by stormmonkey on May 25, 2009 22:29:04 GMT
'take the prize for instant pleasure..captain of the cricket' team...in the Play, but like brick, addressing winners and losers in life's long song. It conjures an image of the high school stud who is good at all he does...including group jack-off contests...not a universal phenomena of that age group...but prevalant with rich kids in private/prep schools who sleep together in dorms from earliest adolescense...it's a great irony that teenage boys 'compete' for first ejaculation...when, in real life, men strive to delay ejaculation when actual sex takes hold ( no pun). I think it's a brilliant line of the play and really describes the high school winner....his life being unfurled in the viewing room. A very well spotted allusion steelmonkey...however, you spoiled the game! Why didn't you narrow it down a bit further for us.... ? Your gonna have to set us another trivia quiz now. lol.
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