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** It's either RuleOfFunny or the mother knew [[{{RealMenWaearPink}} the reason why the father named him Sue]] and [[{{StrangeMindsThinkAlike}} thought it was a good idea]].

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** It's either RuleOfFunny or the mother knew [[{{RealMenWaearPink}} [[{{RealMenWearPink}} the reason why the father named him Sue]] and [[{{StrangeMindsThinkAlike}} thought it was a good idea]].
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** It's either RuleOfFunny or the mother knew the reason why the father named him Sue and thought it was a good idea.

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** It's either RuleOfFunny or the mother knew [[{{RealMenWaearPink}} the reason why the father named him Sue Sue]] and [[{{StrangeMindsThinkAlike}} thought it was a good idea.idea]].
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** And when he was an adult, why didn't he just go to court and legally change his name?

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** And when he was did become an adult, why didn't he just go to court and legally change his name?
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** And when he was an adult, why didn't he just go to court and legally change his name?
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*** How else would we have the line, "My name is Sue. How do you do? NOW YOU'RE GONNA DIE!"



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But when he finally has all the parts and begins to assemble it, he says:

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But *But when he finally has all the parts and begins to assemble it, he says:



How can the transmission be twenty years older than the motor when he explicitly says earlier that he got the motor first?

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How *How can the transmission be twenty years older than the motor when he explicitly says earlier that he got the motor first?
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**Maybe he stole a old leftover transmission from a storage area?
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-->''The first day I got me a fuel pump

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-->''The -->The first day I got me a fuel pump



-->And then I got me a transmission and all the chrome''

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-->And then I got me a transmission and all the chrome''chrome



-->''The transmission was a '53
-->But the motor turned out to be a '73''

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-->''The -->The transmission was a '53
-->But the motor turned out to be a '73'''73
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* "One Piece At A Time": After the narrator devises his plan to acquire a Cadillac from the auto plant where he works by smuggling the parts out sequentially in his lunch box, he says
-->''The first day I got me a fuel pump
-->And the next day I got me an engine and a trunk
-->And then I got me a transmission and all the chrome''
But when he finally has all the parts and begins to assemble it, he says:
-->''The transmission was a '53
-->But the motor turned out to be a '73''
How can the transmission be twenty years older than the motor when he explicitly says earlier that he got the motor first?
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** He explicitly mentions his mother in the very start of the song("well, my daddy left home when I was three, and he didn't leave much to ma and me"). I think one can assume in whatever region he lives she wouldn't have any say on what to call him since "the man" had said it would be Sue and that was final! I guess she could have done that out of spite for her husband, but... just didn't.

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** He explicitly mentions his mother in the very start of the song("well, song ("Well, my daddy left home when I was three, and he didn't leave much to ma and me"). I think one can assume in whatever region he lives she wouldn't have any say on what to call him since "the man" had said it would be Sue and that was final! I guess she could have done that out of spite for her husband, but... just didn't.
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** It's either RuleOfFunny or the mother knew the reason why the father named him Sue and thought it was a good idea.

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