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Making love to the Mersey Tunnel...

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Posted by Nick Duvet on 3 February 2012 - 11:22am.

...oh with a sausage, have you ever been to Liverpool!!?

I have no idea what it means or why it's a brilliant lyric for the song. It just is.

Any more examples of meaningless words that hit the ball out of the park?

The Stranglers - London Lady

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'Making love to the Mersey Tunnel with a sausage'?

I don't know the song, but my immediate thought was that this lyric belongs in Roger's Profanisaurus.

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Gatz | 3 February 2012 - 11:25am

Double post

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Gatz | 3 February 2012 - 11:27am

Caroline Coon

Apparently the song is about MM journalist Caroline Coon, whom JJ Burnel had an (unfulfilling, it would seem) affair with - another example of his charmless, unpleasant lyrics.

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Stephen G | 3 February 2012 - 11:34am

excepting this particular couplet

that transcends the song, which was kind of my point

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Nick Duvet | 3 February 2012 - 12:07pm

That Couplet is the Worst Offender in the Song

refers explicitly to the unsatisfatory nature of their "lovemaking" in gratuitously unpleasant and offensive terms. Or am I being too sensitive?

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Stephen G | 3 February 2012 - 12:19pm

That the OP professes not to know what it meant

implies that it's an oblique enough reference to pass the uninitiated by. Like when that presenter read out a text from a viewer which suggested that the weather was "...as wet as an otter's pocket". Besides, it's not JJ's fault he's got a tiny, tiny penis.

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skirky | 3 February 2012 - 3:14pm

Stephen

yes, you are

personally I don't give a toss about the context, I like the words and the sound they make.

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Nick Duvet | 3 February 2012 - 9:00pm

Fair enough Nick

personally I do find that my response is sometimes modified by context, particularly when that context is sexist or gratuitously offensive, as is undeniably the case here and in many other Stranglers lyrics (I am a huge Stranglers fan but have major problems with their lyrics) but then hey, as you say, maybe I am over-sensitive

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Stephen G | 3 February 2012 - 9:20pm

Local variation

It was like throwing a rolled-up copy of the Glasgow Herald up the Clyde Tunnel.

Not smart and not clever.

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Jorrox | 3 February 2012 - 1:12pm

Throwing a sausage up a close

Surely? As an insult those types of thing are double edged, are they not?

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Lando Cakes | 3 February 2012 - 9:20pm
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