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...making love to the rhythm of the windshield wipers." A tougher test is the Rolling Stones' I Can't Get No Satisfaction, which has sold 4.5 million copies, with Lead Singer Mick Jagger wailing, "I'm tryin' to make some girl." Difficulty was, Tagger's diction is so slurred that many stations unwittingly played the record; others bleeped out the offending phrase. But, gloats Jagger, "They didn't understand the dirtiest line." That is the one where the girl pleads: "Baby, better come back later next week 'cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock 'n' Roll: Going to Pot | 7/1/1966 | See Source »

...look at its reflection chuckle warmly and say "Well it's silly but its not such a bad reflection after all"; a satirist will have a darker view. That's why the night satirists were mislabelled as sick comedians. They weren't sick. But they had to be handled, tagger, pinned down somehow because the were dangerous. They were throwing out the old stereotypes...

Author: By Jules Feiffer, | Title: Satire, Must Skirt Its Own Cliches | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

...initial consonants of all titles of dignity. Thus Queen Victoria was dubbed The Quagger; the Princes of Wales (in the case of both Edward VII and Edward VIII) found themselves Pragger-Waggers; and in 1890, the Rev. Talbot Rice, Rector of St. Peter le Bailey, became The Tagger Ragger of St. Pagger le Bagger. Meanwhile, an Oxford specialty was adding -er to everything: eccer (exercise), fresher (freshman), roller (roll call) and The Jowler (Greek Scholar Benjamin Jowett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Undergragger Talk | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

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