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 Broken Hearts Are For Assholes

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Maybe you think you're a lonely guy
Maybe you think you're too tough to cry
So you went to *The Grape*,
From: Bill Lantz <lantz@primenet.com>
  It was a gay bar according to band folklore.
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Just to give it a try
And Dagmar
*Without a doubt, the ugliest sonofabitch I ever saw in my life*
From: Bill Lantz <lantz@primenet.com>
  Transvestite more than likely ala Charlel. Listen to Lobster Girl from YCDTOSA vol 6 for more continuity on this subject although the whole rap from 10/31/78 sheds more light on the subject than that little excerpt. It would seem Terry and Patrick liked to frequent a particualr gay bar and dragged Frank along at least once to witness the events.
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*Let's talk about Leather: LEATHERRRRRR*
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And so you kissed a little sailor
*Tex Abel, starring
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in the latest Shepperton Production:*
From: "Jonathan Bedford" <Jonbedford@mospherics.freeserve.co.uk>
  Shepperton Film Studios, South West London, founded in 1930, responsible for many famous British films. Golden era after second world war, decline in the seventies. Apparently (Sir) Richard Attenborough (knighted 1996) completed Ghandi and A Passage to India at Shepperton [this info from http://members.aol.com/shepsoft/page5.htm a software company in Shepperton, West London]. These films were later than Sheik Yerbouti but "A Bridge Too Far" (1997) directed by Attenborough may have coincided with the Odeon Hammersmith Concert from which the basic recording of "Broken Hearts are for Assholes" was taken. Hammersmith is in West London.
  Could Richard Attenborough be the "Sir Richard Pump-a-loaf" in this song?
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Who had just blew in from Spain
*Sir Richard Pump-A-Loaf*
From: Bill Lantz <lantz@primenet.com>
  A reference to bread boffing (masterbating with a loaf of bread).
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You sniffed the reeking buns of Angel
From: Bill Lantz <lantz@primenet.com>
  I always assumed it was another reference to the band Angel.
From: mbp8@cornell.edu (Mike Puterbaugh)
  Angel could also be assumed to be a gay man's name, or nickname. You can come up with your own situation where one gay man's nose would be in proximity to another's buttocks.
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*The story of a demented bread-boffer*
From: Bill Lantz <lantz@primenet.com>
  Bread boffer = pump-a-loaf
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And acted like it was cocaine
*Cucumber pud annexed to a fine whole-wheat loaf*
From: Bill Lantz <lantz@primenet.com>
  Must be another reference to the bread boffing.
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You were dazzled by the exciting new costume of Ko-Ko
  Is it just typical homo's name?
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*Then on Tuesday night, Ceasar's back in town*
  And what about it? Nickname for domineering brute?
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In a way you can't explain
*Facing off in a
no-holds-barred tag team grudge match
with Kona.*
From: mbp8@cornell.edu (Mike Puterbaugh)
  Refers to a professional wrestling match. In this context, it is suggested that watching two or men in spandex tights grapple with each other is a favorite pastime of gay men.
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And so you worked the wall with Michael
From: Unknown netter
  "Work the wall"--it has always been my understanding that at singles bars/discos/"meat markets" (places where people went mainly to find someone to have sex with that night in the disco era) someone would work the wall by approaching different people who were standing next to the wall, trying to pick them up, etc, and if one turned you down you would go to the next one.
From: harring@helios1.phy.ohiou.edu (Peter B. Harrington)
  I seem to remember from an FZ interview that the term "work the wall" actually originated from the Televangalists who would go through the crowds and collect money (working the crowd). Working the wall and floor make sense. I am still not sure of how you would work the pipe. This same approach probably works for other acts of charity that could take place at your dance club or the dark alley behind it. The sexual reference of doing it with your back up against the wall may have been a double entendre that is common in much of Zappa's lyrics. I have never heard this term used before in reference to that sexual position, but working a pipe would be an interesting permutation.
From: Philippe Julia <ph.julia@hol.fr>
  In some backrooms of gay bars there is (there was ?) a wall with small holes. You can put your cock into a hole. Somebody is behind the hole and offers his mouth or is ass. That's the surprise. so working the wall is maybe that kind of work...
  CC
  check out also
Jazz Discharge Party Hats comments in _Man From Utopia_ N&C
Mudd Club in _You Are What You Is_
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*Three-hundred-seventy-nine
pounds of Samoan dynamite*
From: mbp8@cornell.edu (Mike Puterbaugh)
  It's worth noting that for a period in the late 70's the World Wrestling Federation Tag-Team champions were The Samoans, Afa and Sika, who weighed approx. 300 lbs. each.
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Which gave your back an awful strain
*Volcanic Hell*
  Brand-name of some dynamite gay device?
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But you came back on Sunday for the gong show
From: mbp8@cornell.edu (Mike Puterbaugh)
  Surely refers to some sort of male revue. There was also a game show called "The Gong Show" at one time, but I'll leave the details about that to someone who knows more than I do.
From: "jansan" <jansan@metronet.de>
  the gong show was a show, where everyboy (!) could perform anything. one had 1minute to go, and if the jury liked it, one could do longer. but mostly the "performances" were so bad, they would be interrupted very soon. mostly the performances were about singing, but also some male or female strippers appeared.
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*Now you been to The Grape 'n' you been to The Chest*
  Another place to work the wall?
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I'm gonna ram it, ram it, ram it
Ram it up yer poop chute
From: gsworsham@earthlink.net (Gary Worsham)
  "ram it up your poop chute" means to insert it into your anus.
From: ulrich@sfu.ca
  "poop" is a word for "shit" used when talking to children. A chute is a passage for something to fall through, such as a laundry chute or trash chute to a laundry room or garbage can in the basement.
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*Corn hole*
  Another scientific problem:-)) Is it called so because being reputedly used for sort of sexual gratification by means of flora paraphernalia?
From: John Henley <jhenley@mail.utexas.edu>
  "Cornhole" is also a verb, slang, meaning "to fuck the ass." Boy Scouts and other young men in camping situations often use the word (or did when I was a kid) as a good-natured threat: "C'mon, let's pull off his drawers and cornhole him!" The drawers would often be pulled off, but the cornholing usually didn't happen, lest the boys later have to answer charges of being "fags".
  I think it's likely that the term originated in rural areas in the days before indoor plumbing, when eaten corn cobs were put to use as ass-wipers.
From: bzavitz@fres2.glfc.forestry.ca (Brian Zavitz)
  "Corn hole" is slang for anus, similar to "cake hole" is slang for the mouth. I imagine it's called a corn hole since in most people, corn remains mostly undigested when it exits the body.
  CC
  Check out also THING-FISH. Won Ton On
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Ram it, ram it, ram it
Ram it up yer poop chute
*Fist fuck*
  Here is an explanation. Directly from Kurt Vonnegut jr. book _Jailbird_ Dell Paperback, 1980, p.157
" He said this:

- Fist-fuck films.

I had never heard of such things. I gropingly asked what they were.

.....

So he explained slowly and patiently, and most reluctantly, that there
was a motion-picture theater where the restaurant used to be. It
specialized in films of male homosexual acts of love, and that their
climaxes commonly consisted of one actor's thursting his fist up the
fundament of another actor.
From: David F Lynch <dflync01@homer.louisville.edu>
  There's also a very good explanation of "fist-fucking" in the alt.sex.bondage FAQ. Also, for some reason, somebody sent me a picture last week of a woman with TWO fists apparently inserted in her vagina.
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Ram it up yer poop chute
*Wrist-watch; Crisco*
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From: Vladimir Sovetov <sova@kpbank.ru>
  Crisco also mentioned in THING-FISH. And big bucket of it is used on one of THING-FISH Hustler's spread for monster artificial penis lubrication by Rhonda and Unknown Italian right before the act of briefcase fuckin'
From: ulrich@sfu.ca (Charles Ulrich)
  Crisco is a brand name for vegetable shortening, intended for cooking but also used as a sexual lubricant. The mention of a wrist-watch in this context reminds me of a fake ad in the National Lampoon in the late 1970s, depicting a watch on a shit-covered hand. This was a parody of Timex commercials that showed Timex watches continuing to function after being put through various forms of torture (not including fist-fucking).
From: Vladimir Sovetov
  Most probably the source of inspiration and sex connotaions:
  "Miss Sandra [of GTO] always carried a small can of Crisco for personal lubrication".
  The Real Frank Zappa Book p.104
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Ram it up yer poop chute
*Pud!*
From: ulrich@sfu.ca (Charles Ulrich)
  Penis.
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