I did a google search for googoomuck the other day. Oh, like you've never googled yourself. The first result after a few awesome Youtube clips was an Urban Dictionary definition. Let's see what it says, shall we?
Oh, my.
If you couldn't be bothered to use the link, the definition reads:
"A double entendre meaning a vampire or a muff diver. Famously used in a Cramps songs bearing the same name."
Couple things.
First, I was mildly shocked to see the term "muff diver" all written out there on the internet. Has anyone used that phrase since 1982? In a place that wasn't a middle school cafeteria or schoolbus? I think as soon as you utter the phrase "muff diver" you automatically grow a wispy mustache and notice you're wearing a 3/4 sleeve 95YNF or Lightning Bolt T-shirt.
Hey! That could be my new superhero! A mild-mannered kid in the '80s who uses the secret phrase to become MUFF DIVER, a fighter for justice, Get the Led Out radio weekends and ...I dunno... world peace or something. It still needs work.
Where was I? Oh yeah, "The Goo Goo Muck." I've heard that song for what, over 20 years now and yeah, that reading makes a lot of sense. Let's take a look at some of those lyrics:
"I cruise through the city and I roam the streets
Lookin for something that is nice to eat."
"I'm the night headhunter looking for some head
With a way-out body underneath that head."
How could I have missed that? And the Cramps were covering a song from 1962. Could people really sing about oral sex back then? Didn't they send Lenny Bruce to the electric chair for saying "damn" on stage? How did that song slip by? Was everyone in 1962 was as dumb as me?
Was this phrase common knowledge back then? I'm picturing guys in leather jackets on street corners saying stuff like, "Nah, we didn't really have sex, we just googoomucked." Or "You know me, fellas, I'm a real googoomuck."
Actually, that sounds sort of gross. Nowhere near as pleasing to the ear as "muff diver."
And you know, if I did inadvertently name my blog after a sex act, that's not a bad one to pick. It's a funny term, something I endorse, and it's way better than my first choice, Santorum's Laff Factory.
Oh, just google it.
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- "American Girl" - Tom Petty
- "Damaged I" - Black Flag
- "Funk #49" - Joe Walsh
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- "Pervert" - Descendents
- "Superstupid" - Funkadelic
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- The Deuce, Season 1
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- Pink Flag, 154, Chairs Missing - Wire
- Technicolor Paradise: Rhum Rhapsodies & Other Exotic Delights - V/A
- Voodoo Drums - Drummers Of The Societe Absolute Guinin
1 comment:
Scott, back in 1962 I was a young teenager. The guys at the candy store (who would have had leather jackets if they could have afforded them) used to throw a handful of coins on the floor and if one of the girls picked any of them up, they'd say. "Oh, hey, she goes down for pennies." I knew they were saying something shameful, but I had no idea what. About 20 years later I remembered it and put it together and started blushing furiously. Yeah,you could talk about it, you just had to keep it well coded.
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