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“On a dark dessert highway, Cool Whip in my hair … ”
> My fave, posted to the Usenet by Thomas Dzubin of Vancouver, British
> Columbia: “There was this fireworks factory just three blocks from the
> Hotel California … and it blew up! Big tragedy. One of the workers was
> named Wurn Snell and he was from the town of Colitas in Greece. One of the
> workers who escaped the explosion talked to another guy … I think it was
> probably Don Henley … and Don asked what the guy saw. The worker said,
> ‘Wurn Snell of Colitas … rising up through the air.’”
>
“The Straight Dope: In the song “Hotel California,” what does “colitas” mean?
[1]”
And here, I thought the song “Hotel California” was about … oh wait … I
already covered that [2].
[1]
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_001
[2]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2004/10/22.1
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