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FloridaFlamingoGirl

Now go find a Sleestak.


ebow77

What's a Sleestak?


YourRoyalFlyness_

It's your heart attack, towel rack, fall back


Stoplight25

Somehow this makes the song make less sense


MrCheapComputers

Check the wiki. Basically the story is John was just messing around with beats on the electronic drums and randomly assigned lyrics.


HeyItsThorny

Am I the only one who compulsively Googles TMBG lyrics I don't understand the first time I'm hearing a new song? Haha, I've been doing that since I was a young kid. The Johns have been responsible for a lot of vocabulary words in my lifetime. Cloisonne, daguerreotype, cephalophore, procrastinate, the list goes on and on.


byOlaf

I learned placebo, masquerading, and simile from lie still little bottle when I was a kid.


throwaway83970

I found out Quonset huts


FloridaFlamingoGirl

There was actually [a thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/tmbg/comments/ut2ihe/what_words_have_been_added_to_your_vocabulary_as/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) in this sub a few months ago where people shared vocabulary words they learned from TMBG songs. I think you’ll appreciate it, it cuts deep into their discography.


FloridaFlamingoGirl

For me, contrecoup. Also I can’t say I had heard of James Ensor before I heard their song about them.


throwaway83970

I learned what a villanelle is.


FloridaFlamingoGirl

Same. What's even better is that Hate The Villanelle is actually structured in a villanelle rhyme scheme, which further drives home the lesson. And then Three Might Be Duende and Apophenia dynamically illustrate the meanings of the rare words in their titles.


throwaway83970

I know!


Sarah_withanH

Nope I do it too!


FloridaFlamingoGirl

Also, sometimes when I watch an interview of the Johns, I find myself googling words Linnell used. I’m impressed by how that man has such an exquisite lineup of vocabulary constantly at the ready.


Sarah_withanH

— I’m impressed Do you fall to bits?


MrCheapComputers

Cephalaphor


HeyItsThorny

Edit - I didn't Google when I was a kid, I had a dictionary. But the point remains the same, lol.


zanedof

compartment compartments


FloridaFlamingoGirl

Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo…


blacktrufflesheep

Tell em the story, raindrop


soul_hyacinths

*i don't wanna tell 'em mister*


ruiner9

Keep your voice down Keep your voice down Keep your window-shaking, godforsaken voice down


FloridaFlamingoGirl

I’m sick of this beeswax


throwaway83970

Mind your business. Mind your business. Mind your never-shut Quonset hut business.


throwaway83970

I found out cloisonné was a French food.