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= April 23 =

Tripping in the bathroom
Was there some recent incident in which a pop star stumbled in a bathroom, perhaps hitting his head or otherwise hurting himself? Most of the lyrics to Lorde's "Royals" make sense as general things (e.g. one often hears of a famous-for-being-famous person who trashes a hotel room), but "tripping in the bathroom" seems unusually specific and potentially accidental (anyone can trip in the bathroom; there are even lawyers specialising in it), so I can't understand how it fits into this song that otherwise mocks the lifestyle of the famous-for-being-famous crowd. Nyttend (talk) 04:04, 23 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Probably open to interpretation, too, but see also meaning 7 of the verb "to trip": "To experience a state of reverie or to hallucinate, due to consuming psychoactive drugs." ---Sluzzelin talk  04:16, 23 April 2016 (UTC)


 * The context of the Lorde song makes Sluzzelin's definition plainly clear. -- Jayron 32 23:49, 24 April 2016 (UTC)
 * From Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, a nice little scene with Flea_(musician) about tripping in the bathroom - . Obviously lots of people other than Hunter Thompson have tripped in bathrooms, but if Lorde was intending to reference anything in particular, that's as good a bet as any. SemanticMantis (talk) 14:42, 25 April 2016 (UTC)


 * Note that getting high is often done in the bathroom at parties and such, where they can have some privacy from the police or others who might "bogart" their drugs. StuRat (talk) 04:43, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
 * ^^ In which Stu advertises that he has never in fact gotten high in a bathroom at a party or such :) SemanticMantis (talk) 14:42, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
 * That scenario seems to turn up in a lot of crime shows and the like. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 15:33, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
 * I have to wince at the poor English usage. To "bogart" properly means to gab away like Humphrey Bogart with a cigarette in one's hand, or otherwise to be blithely stonedly oblivious to the fact that one is holding the joint that others might use.  A policeman does not bogart drugs; he steals them and resells them.  There's a difference. Wnt (talk) 10:56, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Jeff Thomas of KIQQ
With all the Prince stuff in the news, I have to admit ... mostly what the name makes me recall were the "Prince Makes Me Puke" T-shirts from the 1980s. :) Searching these on the web, they come with the preface "KIQQ and Jeff Thomas say:"  (I can't recall if that was true of the ones I actually saw, which were in the eastern U.S.)

Anyway, KIQQ is covered under KSWD (FM) - apparently the station lasted only a few years after the shirts before being doused with an "easy listening" format. Now there is something that will make you puke.

Question is, whither Jeff Thomas? Did he ever bury the hatchet with Prince? What happened to him? We have an article Jeff T. Thomas, who actually lives near Los Angeles, but I am 99% percent sure that's not him, because that guy is British and the YouTube recording I happened across of Jeff Thomas sounded very American. Wnt (talk) 13:37, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
 * This site describes him as "Actor, now living in Los Angeles". I'm not sure what the range of "now" is.  Unfortunately, as "Jeff Thomas" isn't an uncommon name and there are lots of actors in Los Angeles, more precise details are proving difficult to isolate. Tevildo (talk)
 * OMFG, it would take the Terminator weeks to go through all that. Wnt (talk) 17:41, 23 April 2016 (UTC)