Watch your melvin!

[DR. BELCH]

So the other day I found myself watching "Generation O!" while eating lunch...and the episode seemed to be a take on how people look for hidden messages that aren't there in song lyrics and album covers (cf. the "Paul is dead" messages in the Beatles' music, the Byrds replacing David Crosby's picture on the cover of one of their albums with a horse after they terminated him--http://www.snopes.com/music/hidden/horse.htm).
Anyway, after Molly hears a Buckingham palace guard use an unusual salutation, "Watch your melvin!" she repeats it at the end of a concert, sparking "Molly is gone" rumors. This script's an interesting idea done in by poor execution, IMO (something I say about a lot of shows, it seems). They didn't even bother to explain the real meaning of "melvin".
I always heard it as a verb meaning "To pull one's underwear up into the buttcrack", also called a wedgie. So by extention, if used as a noun, it would refer to one's butt. When Molly tripped outside the palace, the guard was simply saying "Watch your a**" in some colorful local British slang. However, the media ran with it, claiming "melvin" meant "fake", and...well, it was "Abbey Road" all over again.
Why Molly never mentioned the guard or he never stepped forward to set the record straight with the Brit press is beyond me.

"There's nary an animal alive that can outrun a greased Scotsman." --Groundskeeper Willie, "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Bada** Song"

[PennyCat]

(in response to your subject) I'm sorry! I didn't mean to flaunt it like that! Hehehe.

[don Jaime]

A "melvin," as I understand it, is like a wedgie, but from the front, not the rear.

Who's Molly? Generation O is still on?

[Jack]

Yeah, I melvin is a frontal wedgie. Either that or a wedgie from BOTH sides (I've heard both explanations).


Jack:D

[PennyCat]

You know, you'd THINK I would have remembered that. :)

[The Mad Hatter]

You're STILL watching Generation O? Good Lord, you're a masochist.

[DR. BELCH]

Originally posted by The Mad Hatter
You're STILL watching Generation O? Good Lord, you're a masochist.

No, actually, I was hungry. :o If I'd eaten earlier in the day I probably would've stayed online a bit longer and skipped it (I haven't bothered to watch it in weeks). I'm fascinated with language, and I thought they were doing something about colloquial slang...though it gave way to basically a heavy-handed moral about spreading gossip and how unscrupulous the media can be. I admit I found the whole "Molly is dead" angle amusing (particularly when they ran her songs backwards and claimed their were hidden messages in them), though "Whatever Happened To Molly O?" was no "It's a Hard Day's Warners". :rolleyes:

A melvin is executed from the front, you say? So again by extension it's not one's fanny that needs watching, it'd be one's.... :eek: :eek: :eek: !!!

Naughty Brits. :o :rolleyes:

[PennyCat]

Originally posted by DR. BELCH


A melvin is executed from the front, you say? So again by extension it's not one'sfanny that needs watching, it'd be one's.... :eek: :eek: :eek: !!!

Naughty Brits. :o :rolleyes:

I'm starting to regret commenting on that word. :rolleyes:

[sponge's wifey]

Generation O! is still on? I love that show. why did they cancel it? is it because they ran out of songs to write?

[ThePeterNetwork]

What channel is Generation O on? I'm assuming it's on CN since it used to be on Kids WB which has connections to CN.

[Jave]

What channel is Generation O on? I'm assuming it's on CN since it used to be on Kids WB which has connections to CN.Check the date of the thread... it's way old...