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To: hearthwench

I remember hearing there was a line in the Kinks’ “Well Respected Man” that caused a bit of a stir here in the States:

“And he likes his fags the best...”


75 posted on 02/18/2014 2:26:39 PM PST by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (I'm not anti-government, government's anti-me.)
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To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers

Yup and on a live Kinks album Ray Davies did a spoken bit where he mentioned that line from the song (got a laugh) and how one day an effeminate-sounding cop went up to him and asked, “Excuse me...are you Ray Davies”, and Ray said “yes, what’s yours?”-—”L-O-L-A, Lola,” (though he went into a diff. song, “Destroyer” maybe...


79 posted on 02/18/2014 2:32:43 PM PST by raccoonradio
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To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers; hearthwench
More about "fags":

Chinchy Old Scrooge--Phil Moore & the Phil Moore Four (1953)

Pack Up Your Troubles--Oscar Seagle with the Columbia Stellar Quartette (1917)

116 posted on 02/18/2014 4:48:23 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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