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A knife, a fork, a bottle and a cork?? Please Help!!
Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 8:56 am
by Demins
Hi everybody!
Maybe somebody can help me on this one! In Dillinger's song "Cocaine running around my brain" New York should be spelled as "A knife, a fork, a bottle and a cork".
Why? Is there any logic in this that I don't see?
I'm not a native speaker of english, so it could be some (part of a) nursery rhyme...
Thanks in advance!
Re: A knife, a fork, a bottle and a cork?? Please Help!!
Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 11:44 am
by google-it
Re: A knife, a fork, a bottle and a cork?? Please Help!!
Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 11:55 am
by forkhead
interesting
one disco 45 sleeve of this tune also suggest some link with coke... runnin' around ma brain.
Re: A knife, a fork, a bottle and a cork?? Please Help!!
Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 1:21 pm
by Advance To May Pen
During the late 70s there was an advertising campaign to promote New York as a great place to eat and a knife, a fork, a bottle and a cork etc, was used as a motto. As a matter of interest, this was not the first time a reggae dj used such a thing for a lyric -- Best Dressed Chicken In Town was another slogan from an ad.
Re: A knife, a fork, a bottle and a cork?? Please Help!!
Posted: Thu Apr 06, 2006 4:00 pm
by rcdupre
interesting, I was wondering about that too. I think it also has to do with the influx of Jamaican posses / political gangs into the NYC burroughs in that era and their cocaine runnings.
If you can get ahold of the book "Born Fi Dead" it's very informative.