I realize that the majority of the time I'm ground-fighting with other guys and that I do feel kind of self-conscious in the rare instances I'm paired up with a woman

It's the bits inbetween the fighting that seem surreal for me. Like when you pause in midguard to have a conversation with someone else, or listen to the instructor or tell a joke, and you realise you have your legs wrapped around the waist of some guy you've only just met, and in a second will be pulling him down on top of you.

Of course, the scenarios that are plainly the attacker trying to pin you are inherently squicky, but it's self-defense and as Jars mentions -- mental training.

I touch when I teach. It's just what I need to do to get body parts in the right place, or see what it's supposed to feel like (krav does translate to contact, after all). Maybe there have been a couple times when it was charged, but we both knew and studiously avoided admitting it.

Was it from that Arrested Development episode?

No, I was listening to Perkins' AM Gold cd's one afternoon and I liked the songs so I looked up the lyrics and laughed and laughed and laughed.

No, I was listening to Perkins' AM Gold cd's one afternoon and I liked the songs so I looked up the lyrics and laughed and laughed and laughed.

What did you think it was about before? Or did you just never think about it? (I've missed song lyric double-entendres by not thinking about the lyrics.)

It took me way too long to get Little Red Corvette. In my (nebulous) defense, Trojans didn't mean condoms to me until long after I'd stopped paying attention to its lyrics.

I had to explain to my dad a few weeks ago that Walk on the Wild Side was about a transvestite. It was a question on University Challenge.

When I was little, "Afternoon Delight" and "You Can Ring My Bell" were two of my favorite songs -- about ice cream and getting a friend to play, respectively, of course.....

I had to explain to my dad a few weeks ago that Walk on the Wild Side was about a transvestite. It was a question on University Challenge.

Heh. But that one is explicit (a single-entendre).

A friend of mine didn't get what the Kinks song "Lola" was about. That one's pretty explicit too.

"You Can Ring My Bell"

Huh. I don't want to know. Though it was used as a political signifier in Jamaica a while back (I guess one of the parties has a bell as their symbol).

I'm still avoiding processing what Kinky Reggae might be about. Bob Marley's not supposed to be like that (please don't mention Guava Jelly).

I went down to Piccadilly Circus;
Down there I saw Marcus:
He had a candy tar
All over his chocolate bar.

I think I might join the fun,
But I had to hit and run.
See I just can't settle down
In a kinky, kinky part of town.

Oh, when I was young I used to love the song "Brand New Key." Then I didn't hear it for years and years, and when I heard it as an adult it just cracked me up.

I still think it's a great song, although I might be in the minority there....

"Plucked his eyebrows then he was a she."

"But she never lost her head, even when she was giving head."

It's still amazing that song was a huge AM hit without censoring. Still, one of the great basslines of all time. (courtesy of Herbie Flowers - who also played bass on David Essex's "Rock On" which also has an awesome bass hook.)

"I'm glad I'm a man, and so is Lola." Though it is arguable that Lola is also glad he's a man. But the rest of the song ceases to make sense if you follow that interpretation.