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* Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke's "Personality" doesn't seem to be about a girl's personality at all. It lists off many famously attractive women, including Madame Pompadour, Theatre/{{Salome}} (of ''Literature/TheBible'' fame; the dancing girl who got John the Baptist killed), and Juno, and attributes this attractiveness to a "well developed... 'personality.'" In fact, the singer's girl has the cutest... "personality." It sounds more like he's admiring her posterior than her personality.

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* Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke's "Personality" doesn't seem to be about a girl's personality at all. It lists off many famously attractive women, including Madame Pompadour, Pompadour (a favoured courtisan of Louis XV), Madame [=duBarry=] (Louis the 15th's paramour), Theatre/{{Salome}} (of ''Literature/TheBible'' fame; the dancing girl who got John the Baptist killed), and Juno, Juno (the Roman version of Hera), and attributes this attractiveness to a "well developed... developed[=/=]faultless[[{{beat}} ...]] 'personality.'" In fact, the singer's girl has the cutest... "personality." It sounds more like he's admiring her posterior than her personality.
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* Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke's "Personality" doesn't seem to be about a girl's personality at all. It lists off many famously attractive women, including Madame Pompadour, Salome (of ''Theatre/{{Salome}}'' fame), and Juno, and attributes this attractiveness to a "well developed... 'personality.'" In fact, the singer's girl has the cutest... "personality." It sounds more like he's admiring her posterior than her personality.

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* Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke's "Personality" doesn't seem to be about a girl's personality at all. It lists off many famously attractive women, including Madame Pompadour, Salome Theatre/{{Salome}} (of ''Theatre/{{Salome}}'' fame), ''Literature/TheBible'' fame; the dancing girl who got John the Baptist killed), and Juno, and attributes this attractiveness to a "well developed... 'personality.'" In fact, the singer's girl has the cutest... "personality." It sounds more like he's admiring her posterior than her personality.
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* ''Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke's "Personality" doesn't seem to be about a girl's personality at all. It lists off many famously attractive women, including Madame Pompadour, Salome (of ''Theatre/{{Salome}}'' fame), and Juno, and attributes this attractiveness to a "well developed... personality." In fact, the singer's girl has the cutest... "personality." It sounds more like he's admiring her posterior than her personality.

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* ''Jimmy Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke's "Personality" doesn't seem to be about a girl's personality at all. It lists off many famously attractive women, including Madame Pompadour, Salome (of ''Theatre/{{Salome}}'' fame), and Juno, and attributes this attractiveness to a "well developed... personality." 'personality.'" In fact, the singer's girl has the cutest... "personality." It sounds more like he's admiring her posterior than her personality.

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* In Music/RoyBrown's "Butcher Pete", a butcher runs around with a knife, chopping up everyone's meat. However, many of the lyrics make no sense if you take this at face value and interpret it as him simply giving people sliced meat, or as him stabbing and cannibalizing people: the narrator warns listeners to watch their wives when Pete is around, and some verses specifically mention that women ''want'' to be "chopped up" by Pete. The other interpretation, of course, is that "chopping up meat" is an euphemism for sex, and Pete's "long sharp knife" is his penis, turning this from MurderBallad to IntercourseWithYou.

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* In Music/RoyBrown's "Butcher Pete", a butcher runs around with a knife, chopping up everyone's meat. However, many of the lyrics make no sense if you take this at face value and interpret it as him simply giving people sliced meat, or as him stabbing and cannibalizing people: the narrator warns listeners to watch their wives when Pete is around, and some verses specifically mention that women ''want'' to be "chopped up" by Pete. The other interpretation, of course, is that "chopping up meat" is an euphemism for sex, and Pete's "long sharp knife" is his penis, turning this from MurderBallad to IntercourseWithYou. Pete even gets up to it in church, which (predictably) upsets the preacher when he starts chopping on the pulpit.



'Cause the girls in Boston are gonna let my ham bone spoil.''

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'Cause the girls in Boston are gonna let my ham bone spoil.''''
* ''Jimmy Van Heusen and Johnny Burke's "Personality" doesn't seem to be about a girl's personality at all. It lists off many famously attractive women, including Madame Pompadour, Salome (of ''Theatre/{{Salome}}'' fame), and Juno, and attributes this attractiveness to a "well developed... personality." In fact, the singer's girl has the cutest... "personality." It sounds more like he's admiring her posterior than her personality.
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