[78-L] Frigidaire, Vaughn Meadera nd Tina Fey

[Randy Watts]

You know, all the years I've heard "I'm Thru with Love," I never thought of that as being intentionally punning. Just always took the resemblance of "frigid air" to "Frigidaire" as coincidence. Never bothered me that a heart could not literally have frigid air in it. After all, I've never read of an actual stringed heart, either. Zinging or otherwise.

Randy  


--- On Fri, 12/5/08, Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:

> From: Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Frigidaire, Vaughn Meadera nd Tina Fey
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Friday, December 5, 2008, 11:21 PM
> >
> > A friend and I have argued about this for years. He
> insists the word is "Frigidaire," a reference to
> the refrigerator. I've always believed it was
> "frigid air." "I've stocked my heart with
> icy, frigid air."   Randy
> >   
> Jim Whipkey wrote:
> 
> > Randy, I  can tell you  absolutely  I believe the song
> refers  simply to
> 
> > the brand name refrigerator because  it is  what  I
> grew up  hearing anytime
> > a reference was made to the box  powered by  electric
> (or gas) was
> > mentioned. 
> 
> IT'S A PUN.  It is a reference to the trade name BUT IT
> MEANS FRIGID 
> AIR.  How the holy hell can you stock your heart with a 
> refrigerator????????????  Of course if you had air in your
> heart you 
> would DIE, so that makes no sense either, but it is OBVIOUS
> that it is a 
> PUN on the word that the singer is saying that protecting
> themselves 
> from being hurt by their lover.
> 
> For Pete's sake, I can't imagine anyone on this
> list, of all places, not 
> recognizing a PUN.
> 
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >   My paternal Grandmother's first  and  evermore
> refrigerators
> > from the time  she  no longer had an Ice Box was
> always  a gas powered
> > Servel refrigerator,  it was always referred to as the
> "Frigidaire" My
> > maternal Grandmother had a real  Ice Box, with  daily
> deliveries of ice
> > until after  World War II, when she got a genuine
> Frigidaire refrigerator
> > and to her dying day, more than 30 years later, 
> always referred to it as
> > the "Ice Box".  And to reinforce  my belief,
> I recall seeing the sheet
> > music, my Father had a small band and  seemingly every
> song  published  and
> > the word   was spelled Frigidaire.