GR translation: do the Tootsie Roll

[Mike Jing]

I know what a Tootsie Roll is, and I understand the implied meaning here
just fine.  It's the use in the original lyrics that I am wondering about.


On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 3:42 AM, János Széky <miksaapja at gmail.com> wrote:

> A Tootsie Roll (non-slang) is simply this,
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tootsie_Roll
> I think this is an associative pun on rolling a hash cigarette, with the
> Devil's Cake standing for a block of hash.
>
>
> 2013/12/17 Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
>
>> Right.  But it's also a line in the lyrics of the Shirley Temple song "On
>> the Good Ship Lollipop", which Bianca sang earlier.  I'm just wandering
>> what the phrase "do the Tootsie Roll" means in that song.  Or maybe it's
>> just childish nonsense?
>>
>> According to Cassell's Dictionary of Slang, Tootsie Roll was slang for
>> penis in the 1920s, and came to mean marijuana cigarette in the 1960s.
>> But that can't be what they are originally talking about in a children's
>> song, can it?
>>
>> Apparently it also refers to a dance that started by a song "Tootsee
>> Roll", but that didn't happen until the 1990s.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 8:16 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Sugar bowl is white substance container.
>>> Devil's food cake is chocolate.
>>> Tootsie Roll is phallic chocolate.
>>> To "roll" with someone can mean sex.
>>>
>>> It's just a silly phrase Slothrop uses to forget about leaving the hash
>>> behind.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Monday, December 16, 2013, Mike Jing wrote:
>>>
>>>> V493.7-14   . . . Otto has a tin can of honest-to-God Bohnenkaffee
>>>> simmering. “First I’ve had in a while,” Slothrop scorching his mouth.
>>>>        “Black market,” purrs the Silent Otto. “Good business to be in.”
>>>>        “I was in it for a while. . . .” Oh, yes, and he’s left the last
>>>> of that Bodine hashish, hasn’t he, several fucking ounces in fact, back on
>>>> the Anubis, wasn’t that clever. See the sugar bowl do the Tootsie Roll with
>>>> the big, bad, Devil’s food cake—
>>>>        “Nice morning,” Otto remarks.
>>>>
>>>> What is the meaning of "do the Tootsie Roll" in the original song, On
>>>> the Good Ship Lollipop?  Or is it just nonsensical?
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
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