twat+oogle

[Jonathan Lighter]

And these are the lyrics.  Spike Jones recorded it with His City Slickers, but Billy Rose and Con Conrad wrote it in 1923.  Billy DeBeck's comic strip began in 1919.


Who's the most important man this country ever knew?Do you know what politician I have reference to?Well, it isn't Mr. Bryan, and it isn't Mr. Hughes.I've got a hunch that to that bunch I'm going to introduce:(Again you're wrong and to this throng I'm going to Introduce:)Barney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes.Barney Google bet his horse would win the prize.When the horses ran that day, Spark Plug ran the other way.Barney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes.Barney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes.Barney Google had a wife three times his sizeShe sued Barney for divorceNow he's living with his horseWho's the greatest lover that this country ever knew?And who's the man that Valentino takes his hat off to?No, it isn't Douglas Fairbanks that the ladies rave about.When he arrives, who makes the wives chase all their husbands out? Why, it's Barney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes.Barney Google is the guy who never buys.Women take him out to dine, then he steals the
 waiter's dime.Barney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes.Barney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes.Barney Google is the luckiest of guys.If he fell in to the mud, he'd come up with a diamond stud.Barney Google with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes.Who's the greatest fire chief this country ever saw?Who's the man who loves to hear the blazing buildings roar?Anytime the house is burning, and the flames leap all about,Say, tell me do, who goes, "kerchoo!" and puts the fire out?Barney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes.Barney Google, thought his horse could win the prize.He got odds of ten to eight; Spark Plug came in three days late.Barney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes.Barney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes.Barney Google tried to enter paradise.When Saint Peter saw his face, he said, "Go to the other place".Barney Google, with the goo-goo-goo-ga-ly eyes


Wilson Gray <wilson.gray at RCN.COM> wrote:
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Isn't there an old song about "Barney Google and?/with? his
goo-goo-googly eyes"?

-Wilson

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>on 16/3/05 2:33 pm, Wilson Gray at wilson.gray at RCN.COM wrote:
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>>> on 16/3/05 2:53 am, James C Stalker at stalker at MSU.EDU wrote:
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>>>> Twat is ambigous in my dialect. It is used for both the vagina and the
>>>> buttocks. A formulaic observation from high school (late 50s)
>>>>about a male
>>>> oogling the rear end of a female, especially if he was following her down
>>>> the hall was, "he is on the trail of the twitching twat." I have
>>>>been known
>>>> to use it still. In general though, "her twat" referred to front rather
>>>> than back.
>>>>
>>>> JCS
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>>>> James C. Stalker
>>>> Department of English
>>>> Michigan State University
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>>> oogle - new one on me, but I like it.
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>>> --Neil Crawford
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>> How do you feel about "oggle"? This is the way that I've heard it
>> pronounced most often, And then there's "ohgle," which is the way
>> that I pronounce "ogle" in my mind when I read it. I've never once
>> had occasion to speak this word aloud. AFAIK, it's not used in any
>> spoken register of BE.
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>> -Wilson Gray
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>'ohgle' would be my pronunciation, also; but from now on I'll be oogling -
>with its echoes of goo-goo eyes.
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>--Neil Crawford


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