WHY DO PEOPLE ALWAYS ACCUSE GOODLOOKING BROTHERS OF BEING GAY?
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Moon_and_New_York_City — 16 years ago(December 21, 2009 08:46 PM)
As a gay man, I must protest the use of "accuse" and "gay" in the same sentence. it's unseemly and offensive.
As to Blair Underwood or any other brothers on your list, I have never heard such rumors.
He is very good looking though!
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Sitcom_Sally — 15 years ago(July 01, 2010 07:59 AM)
I think that by using "accuse" and "gay" together the implication might be that they are accusing him of being on the low-down (deceptive behavior), not of being gay.
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Sitcom_Sally — 15 years ago(July 04, 2010 08:12 AM)
I was just listening to his songs recently on YouTube (used to listen a lot in the 80s), so maybe that's why I wrote it that way. And I did think about the euphemism at the time, but didn't think that it was different. In fact, I recently watched something where they went to a club walled the LowDown, and wondered why it was named that thinking they meant the DownLow. Such a small change in the words, but such a huge difference in meaning!
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WarpedRecord — 15 years ago(July 04, 2010 04:01 PM)
It's interesting how these colloquilisms develop. I assumed "down low" was a fairly recent phrase, maybe born of hip-hop or AIDS, but on further Googling, I see it goes all the way back to 1930, in a song cal111cled "Boy in the Boat" by George Hanna (though apparently it was about lesbians).
It's a very evocative phrase that seems to capture the feelings of many closeted black men perfectly like they're doing something very sneaky on the side without owning up to it. I think calling a club the DownLow (as opposed to the LowDown) would be most ironic because I wonder if people on the down-low would actually go to it? Of course, the irony is what would make it interesting. -
Sitcom_Sally — 15 years ago(July 05, 2010 06:37 AM)
It seems that the "boat" is an euphemism for a woman's clitoris. "Face is all wrinkled" My, my!
Thanks for posting. Here are the lyrics and link to a YouTube video:
"Boy in the Boat" by George Hannah
Now, did you ever hear the story 'bout that boy in the boat,
Don't wear no shoes or no overcoat.
Broad told me that it happened like this.
He love to dive and also to fish.
He went roaming in that shallow boat.
With his head hardly rising and his eyes hard to cope.
Face is all wrinkled and his breath smells like soap.
Talking about that boy in the boat.
When you see two women walking hand in hand.
Just look 'em over and try to understand.
They'll go to these parties have their lights down low.
Only those parties where women can go.
You think I'm lying, just ask Tack Anne.
Took many a broad from many a man.
Face is still wrinkled and his breath smells like soap.
Still talking about that boy in a boat.
Ever since the year tooty-two
Lot of these dames girls have nothing to do
Uncle Sam started giving a fighting chance
Packed up all the men sent them off to France
Sent them over there those Germans to hunt
The women at home can try all that new stunts
The face is still wrinkled and his breath smells like soap.
I'm talking about that boy in the boat.
"Normapleasepaint something cool today." - Mrs. Bronson -
Sitcom_Sally — 15 years ago(July 05, 2010 06:06 PM)
You think that's dirty? Check out this song I came across recently after reading that the St16d0ones used one of her lines in Start Me Up. The song is Shave it Dry, by Lucille Bogan:
http://coilhouse.net/2010/04/lucille-bogan-shocking-your-great-grandpa rents/
I won't even post these lyrics (you can read them on the site, as well as the line the Stones used), and it's from the 30s!
"Normapleasepaint something cool today." - Mrs. Bronson -
WarpedRecord — 15 years ago(July 08, 2010 01:29 PM)
Today's rappers have nothing on Lucille Bogan (though I must say there was a real grace in her nastiness that's quite charming).
I have a blues collection called "Hot Nuts & Lollypops" that has both the "clean" and the dirty version of that song, along with a lot of other nasties. You can tell by the title what you're in for. Interestingly, a lot of them involve food and cooking:
http://www.amazon.com/Raunchy-Business-Various-Artists/dp/B0000027DG -
HotRod_SC — 14 years ago(June 21, 2011 02:38 PM)
He's trying to start the "rumours" himself probably.
Anyways, what about Denzel? both black and white communities have buzzed him up like the black super man everybody wants to be. That's a reverse case of stereotyping good-looking, well-mannered african americans.
now this is acting: http://www.imdb.com/media/rm2458172160/tt1528718