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A childhood belief about misheard lyrics

Do you remember "The look" by Roxette? I think it was popular around 1990, when I was 10 years old, and I really loved this song. I had just learned english in school for a year, but I tried to understand and translate the lyrics, looking up words in the dictionary and stuff (well most of the time the lines didn't make that much sense to me, I know now over 10 years later that they REALLY don't make that much sense).

Anyways there is this line where I always heard "kissing like a ramrod" and associated it to that big spaceship-transforming-robot from Saber Rider (anyone knows that series?) which was called Ramrod. I tried to look that word up, but I couldn't find it, most likely because I misspelled it "Ramrott" or something like that.

So, I went to my english teacher (an elderly man) and asked him what a ramrod was. He looked a bit puzzled, so I provided him the context and said the line in the song was "kissing like a ramrod", which made him look even more puzzled. He then muttered something about how lyrics in songs are sometimes no correct english and went on with his english lesson.

Years later, I stumbled by conincidence over the lyrics to "The Look" printed out somewhere... which solved the ramrod puzzle, since the original lyrics were "tasty like a raindrop". ^_^;

— Lunaticat

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