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Thread #57722   Message #909770
Posted By: greg stephens
14-Mar-03 - 06:40 AM
Thread Name: Inflationary pressures on folk tradition-4 P a Day
Subject: RE: Inflationary pressures on folk tradition-4 P
I have just been doing some arithmetic. The original lines in the song suggest that the unfortunate man with his testicles in a bit of a predicament is boasting of 1200 illicit encounters. My rewrite, influenced by fitting in a pony/ride double entendre, implies a much more modest 400 bouts. To preserve the proportion of the original, we should be talking of £8.33333...per go, which is difficult to fit into a fluent line.