Clashing slang
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ronbutters at AOL.COM
Mon May 17 21:55:05 UTC 2010
Don't know what the instruments were; I'm just reporting on the song lyrics as they were taught to me. I don't recall them as being particularly "white."
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From: "David A. Daniel" <dad at POKERWIZ.COM>
Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 18:33:07
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I am pretty sure that diddling in the west-coast sixties involved fingers.
Still think of it thus.
DAD
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In Iowa in the 1950s he did not bang her, he DIDDLED her.
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From: Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 13:41:14
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Subject: [ADS-L] Clashing slang
Back in 1949(?), I read a story by Damon Knight entitled, "Not With a
Bang." This title struck me as so hip that it introduced me to, and
made me a fan of, T.S. Eliot, one of Saint Louis's most famous native
sons. Only a few moments ago, however, did it strike me that this
title is a pun.
The story is about a jerk, probably the last man on earth, who
ultimately fails in his efforts to seduce a woman, probably the last
woman on earth, so as to begin the repopulation of the world with
humanity.
_Bang_ as a slang term meaning
"engage(ment) in sexual intercourse"
does not exist in the BE of my generation. However, by sheer
coincidence, the old, (white) college drinking-song with the words,
"He banged her once / He banged her twice / He banged her once too often
..."
was running through my mind. Then... *Flash!* It hit me:
"This is the way the world ends / *Not* with a_bang_"!
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