Posted on 08/22/2012 12:39:53 PM PDT by EveningStar
Dear Cecil: This has probably been answered somewhere before, but I was getting my teeth drilled that day. Just what does
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It’s how a Cajun invites you to come visit him in the swamp.
“Come bayou!”
That Mongolian song seems to use a five-tone scale, as does Chinese music.
What does “kumbaya” mean...?
It roughly means “Kiss my ass”.
I recall watching a commercial on TV—I think it was during a football game, and it might have been the Super Bowl—in which the song was rendered, “Kumbaya, my friends, kumbaya,” instead of “Kumbaya, my Lord...” I can’t remember what the product being advertised was, but I hope the ad generated some protests.
No, it doesn’t.
It means that if you start singing it, all you’re gonna see is my backside walking out of the building. I hate that song with a passion.
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