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bpmod wrote:
JeopRDFan wrote: Puh-lease -- just because he was 10? He took some poetic license to use '69 as the year he and his friends formed a band. That's all. Don't sully the song. Nothing to do with "making love", just about lost love from his youth, bro.
Are you addressing me? Or Bryan Adams?

And where did you come up with 10?

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Addressing your statement -- Bryan Adams may have said that it wasn't a year but the position in an interview, but the other writer Vallance (probably of the lyrics v. music) says it refers to a year. Adams was 10 in 1969.
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JeopRDFan wrote:
bpmod wrote:
JeopRDFan wrote: Puh-lease -- just because he was 10? He took some poetic license to use '69 as the year he and his friends formed a band. That's all. Don't sully the song. Nothing to do with "making love", just about lost love from his youth, bro.
Are you addressing me? Or Bryan Adams?

And where did you come up with 10?

Brian
Addressing your statement -- Bryan Adams may have said that it wasn't a year but the position in an interview, but the other writer Vallance (probably of the lyrics v. music) says it refers to a year. Adams was 10 in 1969.
OK. So explain how "Me and my baby in a 69" refers to a year. There was no "Vallance wrote the words, Adams the music". They co-wrote the song, and Adams had the final say as to which of Vallance's ideas he threw out the window. You possibly even read (wherever you read that "Vallance had a different idea") that they disagreed (or, at least, had differing ideas) on many points and lyrics in the song, and had at least 4 incarnations of it before it was released.

I once co-wrote a song with a friend, and my friend was appalled that, once I was finished with it, the song did not have the same sentiments as he envisioned. And this without me changing one word of the lyrics he wrote, nor adding any of my own.

So, yes, it's possible that Vallance had a different idea. It's not possible (or very likely, anyway) that Bryan is lying.

Adams turned 10 in November 1969. How old was he in the "Summer of '69"?

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JeopRDFan wrote:Puh-lease -- just because he was 10? He took some poetic license to use '69 as the year he and his friends formed a band. That's all. Don't sully the song. Nothing to do with "making love", just about lost love from his youth, bro.
Sorry, just noticed this -- how exactly does suggesting that a song might be about sex "sully" it? Is sex bad?

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MarkBarrett wrote:Comments about all five games this week together:
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TOC winners won each night. (1986, 1992, 1993, 1988, 1989)
Five males won.
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Rex Kramer wrote:
JeopRDFan wrote:Puh-lease -- just because he was 10? He took some poetic license to use '69 as the year he and his friends formed a band. That's all. Don't sully the song. Nothing to do with "making love", just about lost love from his youth, bro.
Sorry, just noticed this -- how exactly does suggesting that a song might be about sex "sully" it? Is sex bad?

Rex
Well, you know... there are plenty of people in this world who wish that their parents had never had sex.

Luckily, I'm not one of them. Maybe JeopRDFan is.

Oh, and next he'll probably say that that Jimmy Buffett song isn't about sex either.

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...but the senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity.

If I had 50 cents for every math question I got right, I'd have $6.30 by now.
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Rex Kramer wrote: Sorry, just noticed this -- how exactly does suggesting that a song might be about sex "sully" it? Is sex bad?
Well, only if you're doing it wrong.
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bpmod wrote:Oh, and next he'll probably say that that Jimmy Buffett song isn't about sex either.

Brian
You've never heard of "Drunk and Screw"? It was a bad "Jeeves and Wooster" rip-off. The song is about renting the 1962 movie adaptation.
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bpmod wrote:Oh, and next he'll probably say that that Jimmy Buffett song isn't about sex either.

Brian
You've never heard of "Drunk and Screw"? It was a bad "Jeeves and Wooster" rip-off. The song is about renting the 1962 movie adaptation.
Now who's sullying what?

Brian
...but the senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity.

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bpmod wrote:OK. So explain how "Me and my baby in a 69" refers to a year.
I've listened to that song numerous times (including 2 minutes ago). I still don't hear the "a".
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Leah wrote:
Rex Kramer wrote: Sorry, just noticed this -- how exactly does suggesting that a song might be about sex "sully" it? Is sex bad?
Well, only if you're doing it wrong.
I thought there was no such thing, but I must have confused sex with something else.

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bpmod wrote:OK. So explain how "Me and my baby in a 69" refers to a year.
I've listened to that song numerous times (including 2 minutes ago). I still don't hear the "a".
I've always heard it. And, since Bryan Adams himself says that those are the words he's singing, I don't know what to tell you.

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...but the senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity.

If I had 50 cents for every math question I got right, I'd have $6.30 by now.
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bpmod wrote:
econgator wrote:
bpmod wrote:OK. So explain how "Me and my baby in a 69" refers to a year.
I've listened to that song numerous times (including 2 minutes ago). I still don't hear the "a".
I've always heard it. And, since Bryan Adams himself says that those are the words he's singing, I don't know what to tell you.

Brian
Weird to have to explain this, but: the absence or presence of the article doesn't make a difference. "In 69" (or in the original French, "en soixante-neuf") means the same as "in a 69". The wonders of carnal grammar.

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bpmod wrote:
econgator wrote:
bpmod wrote:OK. So explain how "Me and my baby in a 69" refers to a year.
I've listened to that song numerous times (including 2 minutes ago). I still don't hear the "a".
I've always heard it. And, since Bryan Adams himself says that those are the words he's singing, I don't know what to tell you.

Brian
Weird to have to explain this, but: the absence or presence of the article doesn't make a difference. "In 69" (or in the original French, "en soixante-neuf") means the same as "in a 69". The wonders of carnal grammar.

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Yes, but for the benefit of those not carnally inclined, the phrase "in 69" can most certainly refer to a year. My original point was that the phrase "in a 69" cannot.
Bryan Adams wrote:You'd have to be pretty thick in the ears if you couldn't get that lyric.
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...but the senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity.

If I had 50 cents for every math question I got right, I'd have $6.30 by now.
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Rex Kramer wrote:
Leah wrote:
Rex Kramer wrote: Sorry, just noticed this -- how exactly does suggesting that a song might be about sex "sully" it? Is sex bad?
Well, only if you're doing it wrong.
I thought there was no such thing, but I must have confused sex with something else.
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"In a 69" could refer to a 1969 model year car.

I just watched the video and could barely catch the a, but of course I was listening for it.
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Rex Kramer wrote:
Leah wrote:
Rex Kramer wrote: Sorry, just noticed this -- how exactly does suggesting that a song might be about sex "sully" it? Is sex bad?
Well, only if you're doing it wrong.
I thought there was no such thing, but I must have confused sex with something else.

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No, we're talking about the same thing. It's just the gender perspective. You probably haven't tried it with a narcissistic college boy.
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