You Could Be The One

eastmidswhizzkid · Post #1 Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 5:43 pm Post subject: You Could Be The One

the euphemism for getting a shag in the line
"i'm in a hurry to get my collar straight"
is a new one on me. does anyone here use/hear this expression down their way?

is it's origin anything to do with "getting your collar felt" (being arrested), in that -presumably- such an action would leave you with a bent collar, and the first thing one would want to do on gaining freedom would to get it straight (get a shag)?
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Pat · Post #2 Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 8:13 pm Post subject:

I thought the line meant getting dressed and out of there quick, similar to love is always over in the morning from TOL.
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adarkadaptedi · Post #3 Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 10:33 pm Post subject:

Seconded.
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Ozpat · Post #4 Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 7:07 am Post subject:

Thirded... Very Happy

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mh · Post #5 Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 6:04 pm Post subject:

Funny one, irrespective of what's printed in the Vision Thing reissue (and elsewhere), I've always heard it as "get my Karma straight"...
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Dark · Post #6 Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 6:44 pm Post subject:

You mean it's not? Oh...
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James Blast · Post #7 Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2008 6:59 pm Post subject:

collar straight - "Get off that grizzly army looking s**t and stop smoking dope, you hear me"!?

straighten out, basically
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eastmidswhizzkid · Post #8 Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 3:40 pm Post subject:

ozjohn1 · Post #9 Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 2:27 am Post subject:

I always thought it was "get my karma straight" too, continuing te references to hippie chicks and all that. Haven't seen the reissues as they have not come out down here ( or they are just not stocked not sure which)
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ozjohn1 · Post #10 Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 3:03 am Post subject:

Have just listened to it again and am more convinced that ever it is "karma" it makes much more sense to me.
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MadameButterfly · Post #12 Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 10:21 pm Post subject:

Izzy HaveMercy · Post #13 Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 10:46 pm Post subject:

Now that we're at it, I am also sure Von sings 'Our Destination To The Bar' and ' Some gay, some gay dumb Indian'... Mr. Green

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MadameButterfly · Post #14 Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 11:01 am Post subject:

Quiff Boy · Post #15 Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 11:08 am Post subject:

its karma! do the lyrics say something other than that? if so, they're lying Laughing

and its 'give me head / run your fingers through my hair' (apart from the instance when he changes it around)

these days 'give me hair' would be more appropriate anyway Wink

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MadameButterfly · Post #16 Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 11:18 am Post subject:

cheers boss! We are not worthy!

so there's nothing wrong with my hearing after all these years of never wearing earplugs! i'm impressed.

these days i would agree with you boss, but don't rub it in. Wink

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eastmidswhizzkid · Post #17 Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 10:18 pm Post subject:

splintered thing · Post #18 Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 12:09 am Post subject:

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many relistens later: aint no doubt about it.[/quote]

Many re-listens.... Are you ok? Surprised

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James Blast · Post #19 Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 12:59 am Post subject:

more relistens (is that a real word?) than you part-timers, and the above is true but so what?

check out this place YC Bachman Turner Overdrive fans - http://www.myheartland.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=17795
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markfiend · Post #20 Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 10:19 am Post subject:

Don't forget that they printed "VISIOIN THING" at first so a mistake in the lyrics is not beyond the realms. (He does sing "karma".)
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stufarq · Post #21 Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 11:28 am Post subject:

Maybe the lyrics were transcribed by Linda Hennrick.
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Being645 · Post #22 Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 10:25 pm Post subject:

Took me some time, but now it's clear ... Laughing

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This is Von's final resumee on the personality of Wayne ... Mr. Green

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which I'd totally subscribed on the first listen of God's Own Medicine decades ago. Just never came to the idea to draw that line ... Laughing

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