Watch a stretch of TV news, and you will likely hear an annoying commercial with a jingle that begins:
If it hurts when you poop sometimesCan anyone decipher the next line? It sounds to me like “You’re sweatin’ your nextra to the boo.” I have found the Internets unhelpful in answering my question.
Like pinchin’ off a porcupine
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Here it is on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wb7dwxyfRt0
YouTube's closed captioning has it as "You're sweating your next year to the lou," which I translate as "You're sweating your next trip to the loo". The vocalist is definitely swallowing some dipthongs in there.
Aha — I didn’t think of using the subtitles. But it sure sounds like boo to me, which of course makes no sense.
What scares me is that I haven’t found anyone else asking this question.
“Your next trip” — that’s it, for sure. Thank you! Slowed down, her last word still clearly sounds like “boo.” Is that what ukulelists call a bathroom? : )
I shudder to think what they could do with the lyrics to Skip To My Lou.
LOL.
I listened again, and Matthew has it all correct. Slowed down, the word is indeed “loo.” At regular speed, I still hear it is “boo,” which I know makes no sense.
Could have been a great topic for an essay in a Prose Writing class I once had.
Ha! I think I once asked students (talking, not writing) to invent contexts in which “Kenneth, what is the frequency?” would make some sort of sense. That was years ago, when two guys beat up Dan Rather while asking that question.
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