"I said pig on friday" - what does it mean?

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Hi,what does the phrase "I said pig on friday" mean? Some german speakers guessed it's kind of having bad luck.TIAFelix

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[nq:1]Hi, what does the phrase "I said pig on friday" mean? Some german speakers guessed it's kind of having bad luck.[/nq]
It is not any sort of meaningful phrase you can prove that to yourself by searching the Web or the Usenet archives. It just the name of somebody's song (Eastern Lane), and I see neither the lyrics nor a discussion as to how it got that name.
If you've got the lyrics, we might be able to make a little more sense of this.

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[nq:2]what does the phrase "I said pig on friday" mean? Some german speakers guessed it's kind of having bad luck.[/nq]
[nq:1]It is not any sort of meaningful phrase you can prove that to yourself by searching the Web or ... got that name. If you've got the lyrics, we might be able to make a little more sense of this.[/nq]
Could it have something to do with pork, Fridays, and some people's beliefs?
Skitt (in Hayward, California)
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Skitt schrieb:
[nq:2]If you've got the lyrics, we might be able to make a little more sense of this.[/nq]
[nq:1]Could it have something to do with pork, Fridays, and some people's beliefs?[/nq]
Okay, there's a part of the song by Eastern Lane:
http://home.arcor.de/felixwaldner/music/pigonfriday.mp3

Maybe it's no sense in the lyrics, I don't understand much of it.

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[nq:1]Skitt schrieb:[/nq]
[nq:2]Could it have something to do with pork, Fridays, and some people's beliefs?[/nq]
[nq:1]Okay, there's a part of the song by Eastern Lane: http://home.arcor.de/felixwaldner/music/pigonfriday.mp3 Maybe it's no sense in the lyrics, I don't understand much of it.[/nq]
I'm sorry. That's not my kind of music, and I seldom understand much of what is being sung in those sort of songs. Most often the words don't make much sense anyway, I think. Neither does the music, but that might be just my opinion.

Skitt (in Hayward, California)
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[nq:1]Skitt schrieb:[/nq]
[nq:2]Could it have something to do with pork, Fridays, and some people's beliefs?[/nq]
[nq:1]Okay, there's a part of the song by Eastern Lane: http://home.arcor.de/felixwaldner/music/pigonfriday.mp3 Maybe it's no sense in the lyrics, I don't understand much of it.[/nq]
Here's what I get from the lyrics:
I said pig on Friday,
*** knows where that bars me,
It's all we need,
It's all we feel,
It's always wrong (or, it's soul is wrong),
It's always real;
Love is a glove that does not fit,
The feeling, the folly, the hit!
An' we dunno what we want, (with a glottal stop for /d/, making it sound like "we all know...)
But we know we want it,
If I were holy, I would remember,
In my pray-yehzzz! (that's "prayers!", stretched out and derhotacized).
Well! I think it's obvious that this work expresses the free-floating angst of rootless modern youth, yearning for some meaning in life; feeling that it must be there, just around the corner, just ahead; yet never able to actually reach it...
Either that, or it's just a bunch of kids having fun with weird, pseudo-serious lyrics.

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[nq:2]Skitt schrieb: Okay, there's a part of the song by ... sense in the lyrics, I don't understand much of it.[/nq]
[nq:1]Here's what I get from the lyrics: I said pig on Friday, *** knows where that bars me,[/nq]
It may help to know that I've noticed some Muslims of Indian, Pakistan, or Bangladeshi origin seem to think that the prohibition on eating swine flesh extends to making the word itself tabu. Since Friday is the day of communal prayer, I suppose it would seem even worse to those people to use the word then.
I said "****"on Sunday.
Mike.

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[nq:2]Skitt schrieb: Okay, there's a part of the song by ... sense in the lyrics, I don't understand much of it.[/nq]
[nq:1]Here's what I get from the lyrics: I said pig on Friday, *** knows where that bars me,[/nq]
Which to me suggests Skitt had the right idea, although it's all a bit of a stretch:
- In Islam and Judaism at least, the pig is an unclean animal, and Friday is the holy day of the week.
- Therefore someone (eg the narrator of the song) who says the word 'pig' on a Friday is doubly transgressing. So such an action might find the narrator 'barred' - ie excluded from - certain places. - '*** knows where' is an English idiom for "I don't know where", but also here might refer (ironically? maybe not) to the fact that it is religious strictures doing the barring.
Note that since 'bar' to mean 'exclude' derives from the practice of alcohol-selling establishments refusing to serve a particular person (ObAUE: is this the source?), and at least one of the religions in question is generally anti-alcohol, this seems an odd choice of word - I suspect there is no intended subtext here, and it's simply a poor choice.
Too much analysis?

Larry Lard
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[nq:1]Note that since 'bar' to mean 'exclude' derives from the practice of alcohol-selling establishments refusing to serve a particular person ... an odd choice of word - I suspect there is no intended subtext here, and it's simply a poor choice.[/nq]
I think 'bar' in that sense comes from the use of physical or figurative bars -
e.g., from AHD,

2. To shut in or out with or as if with bars.
3. To obstruct or impede; block.
4. To keep out; exclude.

john

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[nq:1]Note that since 'bar' to mean 'exclude' derives from the practice of alcohol-selling establishments refusing to serve a particular person (ObAUE: is this the source?),[/nq]
What is your basis for this strange claim. From the 16th century on we have had 'bar' meaning to exclude, prevent, prohibit, hinder, and so on. It is a natural extension of 'to bar' meaning 'to surround with bars' and 'to secure with bars' or 'to shut out with bars.' Those date from the 14th and 15th century. Note that 'debar' is known to be at least as old as from 1430, 160 years before the use of 'bar'(n) in association with taverns in English. Are you sure you are not the victim of a folk-etymologist?

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