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The Lawrence Welk singers will now sing, for you, the classic ballad "One Toke Over the Line."
posted by Fidelbogen at 2:54 PM
Monday, September 03, 2012
The Lawrence Welk singers will now sing, for you, the classic ballad "One Toke Over the Line."
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Would somebody please explain to this Limey in London what, in this context, is the meaning of the word "Toke"?
Heh! A toke is a slowly inhaled "drag" of marijuana, retained in the lungs for as long as the toker can hold onto it.
These singers almost certainly did not know the meaning of that word, either! ;)
I just had a vision of a stoned G.P. Telemann, composing a suite for 4 flutes and sitar in an alternate universe... far out, man... ;-)
@Michael:
I would pay good money to hear that one! ;-)
Fidelbogen:
A toke also used refer to a dose of cocaine. They used to spread cocaine out in a line, that's what I thought the words might have referred to.
Not that I'm speaking from personal experience or anything...umm, just what I've heard...ummm
@Anon:
As far as I know, they still do snort cocaine in lines. (Unless it's crack, of course!)
Here's some very arcane drug humor:
Q: Did you hear about the new DeLorean car? No?
A: It sucks up the white line!
P.S. I know that feminists don't approve of rape jokes. . but I wonder if they object to drug jokes?? ;-)
@Anon:
Okay...so do ya reckon those Lawrence Welk people are singing a song about cocaine rather than weed?? ;)
Fidelbogen:
As for feminists disapproving of drug humor, I'm certain that they disapprove of anything men do recreationally to take their minds off the situation. Remember that the Sufferagettes were often Prohibitionists as well. And their modern counterparts are against virtual sex of any kind.
This guy though met a friendlier (and arguably better-looking) companion than an average feminist during recreational drug use:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS3kNbunUzs&feature
So, obviously the feminists would feel deeply threatened by this kind of escapism.
I posted this youtube video long ago because I thought that it was amusing. When the song was written Toke definately referred to inhaling cannabis. Over the line just means that you took too much and has nothing to do with cocaine.Cocaine really didn't become popular until about 1980, well after this song was written. Before then only heroin addicts would inject it with their heroin(there was a cocaine craze around 1900 but that was years ago and no living person remembered it before it became popular again after 1980)
I doubt very much that the geezers who watched Welk knew what the song meant and it was probably just some pop song that Welk liked the tune of.Marijuana was still a drug like heroin in the general public's mind. But you shouldn't think that these olderpeople who watched Welk weren't taking drugs, they just didn't think of them as drugs. Aside from alcohol and nicotine many took amphetemines which they called "energy pills" or barbituates (sleeping pills) not to mention narcotic pain killers. Yes, they were all drugs but since they got them from doctors they thought of the stuff as medicine and never thought of themselves as users or addicts.So it's strange that they thought of themselves as just normal people while a pot smoker was taking a drug in a class with heroin. And btw, cannabis is stiil in the schedule I class along with heroin and other drugs that have no medical use(in the US anyway, heroin is used in England in medicine)Cocaine is a CII along with drugs like morphine and is legal (with a prescription)
@Anon:
I am just now seeing the possible connection between "line" (of coke) and the word "line" in the lyrics.
But of course, it is no connection at all. The drug in question is undoubtedly marijuana, and the Lawrence Welk people were undoubtedly naive about such things.
Which is precisely what makes it it so funny.... ;-) !!
I'm sure they found out later, and were hugely embarrassed!!
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