the jim-jims in this town

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When the smack began to flow, Lou didn't care about 'em anymore. Who or what is a jim-jim?

― briania, Sunday, 1 September 2002 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

i think he made it up becoz he thought if he used some slang it would date like something dated would.

― naked as sin, Sunday, 1 September 2002 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

i.e. it's a person.

― naked as sin, Sunday, 1 September 2002 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)

SNAP INTO A SLIM JIM!

(Sorry.)

― Jody Beth Rosen, Sunday, 1 September 2002 15:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Lou Reed's pet chimp..

http://www.primates.com/chimps/chimp.jpg

― A.V. Alexandre (Keiko), Sunday, 1 September 2002 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.lrsm.upenn.edu/~felice/tkdimages/chimp.jpg
Oh NO!!

― A.V. Alexandre (Keiko), Sunday, 1 September 2002 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I just read that the "colored girls" from the "and the colored girls sing" weren't actually colored. Perhaps Lou didn't really "wanna be black"?

― Mary (Mary), Sunday, 1 September 2002 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I am assuming he wrote that part while high and/or watching Speed Racer.

― Nate Patrin, Sunday, 1 September 2002 22:44 (twenty-two years ago)

that's chim chim you chump chump

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 1 September 2002 23:37 (twenty-two years ago)

It was supposed to be a Joyce-ian made-up word...

― jimmythemod, Monday, 2 September 2002 00:06 (twenty-two years ago)

"joyce-ian"

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 2 September 2002 00:39 (twenty-two years ago)

wooly bully > finnegans wake

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 2 September 2002 02:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Well I know that but a smack-addled Lou probably didn't. (You ninnyhammer.)

― Nate Patrin, Monday, 2 September 2002 03:04 (twenty-two years ago)

hey! It's not Joyceiana but Arabilia.

the jinn-jinns are of course the jinn, the malicious spirits of the middle east, roughly translatable as 'devils'.

lou reed knew about them from the boxful that William Borroughs brought back from Tangiers. Together with a berber Opium dealer who lived on the Lower East Side, they released the jinn into the New York water system on Nov 1, 1966, with famous consequences.

This is all, by the way, entirely made up.

― jon, Monday, 2 September 2002 08:03 (twenty-two years ago)

they released the jinn into the New York water system on Nov 1, 1966

So THAT explains the giant lizards in NYC's sewers.

― Jody Beth Rosen, Monday, 2 September 2002 08:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Proto-yuppies, maybe? Straight-laced, tie-wearin' gents in double-breasted suits in the accounting department at Verve Records, speculating over the financial ramifications about releasing albums that arguably glorify heroin use?

Actually, I doubt anyone at Verve Records ever wore double-breasted suits.

― Alex in NYC, Tuesday, 3 September 2002 11:01 (twenty-two years ago)

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