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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 05:32 AM
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Clowns In My Coffee, Hold Me Closer Tony Danza, And Other Misheard Lyrics
I still laugh whenever I hear the song "Finally" by Cee Cee Penniston.

WHAT I HEAR:

Finally! It's happened to me.
Right in front of my face.
MONKEY LIPS can't describe it.

ACTUAL LYRICS:

Finally! It's happened to me.
Right in front of my face.
MY TWO LIPS can't describe it.
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Dirty Hippie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 05:40 AM
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1. Some song
Line:
"My will is dead"

I turned to my son asking "Did he just say 'my willie's dead?'"
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mikeytherat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 06:16 AM
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2. You must go here immediately!
http://www.kissthisguy.com/

mikey_the_rat
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alpizzy Donating Member (737 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 06:23 AM
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3. Can't remember song title...
Lyric:

Just brush my cheek before you leave me

An ex thought it was:

Just brush my teeth before you leave me

Also....

Dire Straits Lyric:

Money for nothin' and chicks for free

My hubby STILL argues that it is:

Money for nothin' and CHECKS for free!!!

Free checking!!! Cracks me up!!!
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zbird Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 08:17 AM
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4. "There's a bathroom on the right", of course!
From "Bad Moon Rising" by Credence Clearwater Revival.

"Don't go around tonight,
Well, it's bound to take your life,
There's a bad moon on the rise."
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TlalocW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 08:45 AM
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5. I once re-wrote
The entire "Takin' Care of Business" song in high school to make it match the misheard lyric, "Bakin' Carrot Biscuits." I was going to sell it to Parkay and make a million dollars. :) Then I lost my version. Oh, well... The ants are my friends; they're blowin' in the wind.

Bakin' Carrot Biscuits - Everyday!
Bakin' Carrot Biscuits - With Parkay!

TlalocW
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MaineDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 08:47 AM
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6. Rock the Cat's Bra
My friend's daughter - a toddler at the time - would go around singing this at the top of her lungs whenever she heard "Rock the Casbah" by The Clash.
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soothsayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 08:53 AM
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7. "Sweep the ocean"---that's how my friend heard....
Aerosmith's "Sweet Emotion"

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep the ohhhhhhhhhhh-shun
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CO Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 08:58 AM
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8. "Don't You Love Her Ass? She's Walking Out The Door"
The Doors' "Love Her Madly".
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Best_man23 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 09:02 AM
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9. "We're giving love to the family dog"
Pointer Sister's "We Are Family"

Actual lyric:

"Just let me state for the record/We're giving love in a family dose"
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peekaloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 09:05 AM
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10. Bob-bob-bob-bob-bobber Ann
thought it was about a gal with a less than stellar reputation. :eyes:
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 09:15 AM
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11. Big Old Jet had a Light on....
Instead of big old jet airliner. I still sing along that way...old habits are hard to break.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 09:22 AM
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12. Takes the wheel when I'm seeing double, feeds my chickens when I sleep
Should be "Pays my tickets when I speed" -GD "Sugar Magnolia"
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zizzer Donating Member (575 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 10:27 AM
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31. Tastes like chicken when I sneeze
Is the way I heard it.

Zizzer
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 10:39 AM
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32. It wasn't even 5 years ago I was told what it really said
:eyes:
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carolinayellowdog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 09:25 AM
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13. What's the one about douche? and what's it really saying?
Sorry, don't know the title or artist, but a big rock hit of the 80s sounded like the punch line was about douche, and everyone I asked what it was really saying didn't know. Hear it now and again on an oldie station and it always sounds like douche. Ring any bells?
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 09:27 AM
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14. OH the runner in the night, wrapped up like a douche....
You mean that one??
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ProfessorGAC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 09:29 AM
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16. Blinded By The Light
Manfred Mann's version of a Springsteen tune.

It was "deuce" not douche, but it sure sounded like the latter.
The Professor
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kmla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 09:31 AM
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18. You mean "Wrapped up like a douche, another rubber in the night..."?
Manfred Mann's Earth Band - the correct lyrics ( a cover of a Bruce Springsteen song) are approximately,

"Blinded by the light, wrapped up like a deuce, another runner in the night" or something like that. It is a little clearer on Bruce's version, BTW.
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Gato Moteado Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 09:49 AM
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23. actually i think it's revved up like a duece
nt
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kmla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 09:56 AM
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24. I do believe you are right.
That's why I added the qualifier, "approximately" - I knew I was somewhere close...
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CBHagman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 11:55 AM
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36. But for all of us who own "Greetings from Asbury Park, New Jersey"
Edited on Tue Aug-05-03 11:56 AM by CBHagman
...it will always be "cut loose like a deuce."


Manfred Mann also changed the original lyrics of Springsteen's "For You" when that tune was covered.
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kmla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 12:42 PM
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38. Hell, I think you may be right...
All I know is that I wasn't...

I'll agree with anyone at this point!

:freak:
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kmla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 09:27 AM
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15. Groovin'... On a Sunday Afternoon
The Young Rascals - Groovin'

For a while, thought it was about that "free lovin' generation"

"You and me, and Leslie..."

as opposed to the correct version,

"You and me, endlessly.."

:hippie:
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anti_shrub Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 02:02 PM
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42. I just heard that song the other day
...and I thought the lyric was "leslie"


:dunce:
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 09:30 AM
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17. "Sunday Monkey Won't Play Piano Song" by the Beatles
The actual lyrics are French I think... but I don't know the title.

-- Allen
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kmla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 09:32 AM
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19. Michelle, my bell....
And yes, the lyrics are in French.
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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 02:48 PM
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47. ma belle, but I like your way better (n/t)
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EOTE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 09:38 AM
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21. Sont des mots qui vont tres bien ensemble
From the album Rubber Soul.
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EOTE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 09:33 AM
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20. I'm not talkin' 'bout the linen....

From: I'd really love to see you tonight.

Real lyrics: I'm not talkin' 'bout movin' in.
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LuLu550 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 10:21 AM
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28. French
Edited on Tue Aug-05-03 10:21 AM by LuLu550
Michelle...ma belle (my pretty)
Sont les mot qui vont tres bien ensamble (my spelling's off) but it means
"Are the words that go together well."
LuLu
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indigo32 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 09:41 AM
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22. Way down South
or was the "Lay down Sally" LOL
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JHB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 10:02 AM
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25. I once wondered what the fuss was about Sheena Easton...
...singing about the "Sugar Waltz".
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welshTerrier2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 10:06 AM
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26. purple haze
jimi hendrix: purple haze ...

wrong: excuse me, while i kiss this guy ...
right: excuse me, while i kiss the sky ...

the tv show "Wings" had an episode where Antonio (the cab driver) explained to Helen that he learned to speak English in his native country by learning all the words to Michael Row Your Boat Ashore ...

he proceeded to sing the song: my goat knows the baseball scores, hallelujah ...
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CO Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 10:17 AM
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27. "The Girl With Colitis Goes By"
Actually "the girl with kalidescope eyes" from "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds".
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LuLu550 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 10:23 AM
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29. Bob Marley's famous...
"Pajamas...we hope you like pajamas, too."
LuLu
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Ellen Forradalom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 10:25 AM
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30. Found Myself a Lawyer
Originally the 1983 club hit "Vamos a la Playa."
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Tom Kitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 10:47 AM
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33. Men At Work
"I come from a land of hunger" ...I thought that was what "Down Under" was all about.
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CO Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 10:51 AM
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34. "Let's Move Before They Raise The F**king Rent"
At least that's what the line in "All Right Now" sounds like to me...
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 11:47 AM
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35. I always thought it was "Tiny Danzig"...
since Glen is a freaking midget

Glen "In hell I will be tall" Danzig
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Jeff in Cincinnati Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 12:24 PM
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37. Bob Seeger's "Night Moves"
The chorus sounds like their singing "Diet Foods."

It's funnier if you're stoned at the time. Not that I was, mind you...
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Lady President Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 12:50 PM
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39. Reverend in blue jeans
I thought Neil Diamond was singing about a pastor who wore casual clothes:

Reverend in blue jeans...

not

FOREVER in blue jeans...
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 04:40 PM
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54. LOL! I thought it was "Reverend Blue Jeans", perhaps the brother of..
Mr. Green Jeans.
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LuLu550 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 01:55 PM
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40. My Mom
thought the Yardbirds' song "For Your Love" was
Wah-la-wah
LuLu
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CO Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 02:00 PM
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41. Actually, "Wah-la-Wah" Was Sung by Bob Dylan
:-)
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dolo amber Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 02:02 PM
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43. Bald-headed woman...
Edited on Tue Aug-05-03 02:03 PM by dolo amber
or the more popular Bee Gees song "More than a Woman"... (hey, I was like 7 or 8, ffs) :P
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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 02:52 PM
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48. Also works for Eric Clapton's Forever Man (n/t)
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opiate69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 02:05 PM
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44. Dobie Gray
"Give me the beat, boys and free my soul..." I always heard it as "give me the beach boys..."
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Kolesar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 02:11 PM
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45. "I shot Sherri"
But I didn't shoot the deputy, whoa whoa.

I like Bob Marley's version better when I finally heard it.
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Gato Moteado Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 02:38 PM
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46. goddam the butcher man.......
....was the way the little kid who lived two doors down from me used to sing the pusher man, way back in the early seventies. i always wondered, "why did the song want to curse the butcher?"
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NashVegas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 03:23 PM
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49. Pixies
Heard:

"hair club for men"

actual lyric:

"here comes your man"


Heard:

"I am moonshun, I could lose ya"

Actual:

"I am un chien andalusia"
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FlashHarry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 03:32 PM
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50. Well, Black Francis does murder the pronunciation
Edited on Tue Aug-05-03 03:34 PM by FlashHarry
I believe it's in reference to Buñuel's 'Un Chein Andalou.' ("Slicin' up eyeballs, oh ho ho ho!") But Black pronounces the word un as 'oon,' rather than 'uhn.' In any case, it's a great song about a fairly obscure topic.

(edit: spelling)
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jpak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 03:42 PM
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51. I'm your PENIS, I'm your Fire
at your desire....

Shocking Blue indeed

:):):)
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kmla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 03:44 PM
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52. That song would make...
... a good sex-ed theme song, no?

:evilgrin:
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Kolesar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-03 03:48 PM
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53. or a commercial for Trojans
yow!
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