h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

This might have been cleared up ages ago, but if so I missed it. I've read every review on the band that I've stumbled across (I'm not saying I'm a big fan or anything, just annoyed that they know something I don't), and kept my eyes and ears peeled when Belle and Sebastian brought out that song a while back, but the information has not been forthcoming.

Put me out of my misery.

Sorry to lower the tone this early in the forum, but I think it is a strap that men use to maintain an erection.

Blushing apologies if it is really something more innocent.

Sort of like guy ropes?....oh no, wait, I get it ....._that_ kind of erection.

I thought an Arab Strap was a breed of horse....

Or maybe a bra strap undone?
(In the cryptic crossword sense)

Oh lord, this isn't helping at all...

Although that "a bra strap" bit was jolly clever.

Just a thought, what do arabs use to keep their trousers up? Or maybe it's used on packed commuter trains, or even, lowering the tone again, what they get if they've been naughty.

Direct from the source: "That was the night Aidan Moffat first encountered Malcolm Middleton, who are now in a band together called Arab Strap, a name taken from a device seen advertised in a pornographic magazine, used to sure up an unstable erection. "

See: [Broken Link Removed by Moderator]

(I was going to start this post "From the horses mouth:" but thought that would just add to the confusion

Was the pun theirs or yours? Are you shore?

As the interview text was cut-and-pasted from Melody Maker or some such music paper it is far more likely to be a typo than a pun.

Deviating from the original subject, What does LimpBizkit mean ?

Limp Bizkits is what you get if you dunk them in coffee.

But aren't Limp Bizkit American ? If that's the case they wouldn't dunk their biscuits in coffee, they'd dunk biscuits in gravy or mashed potatoes, they'd dunk cookies in coffee

Phew. At last. What a relief. Thanks, Duncan.

I was under the impression that there was a slightly more sinister secondary meaning?

well maybee sinister is the wrong word.

Maybe you could ... expand a bit on this 'sinister' meaning.

Chaps - if you're refering to what I believe you are... (i.e a rather strange blokish activity involving digestive biccies) then you are most definitely lowering the tone!
A gal could be caused to blush when reading such things **

I think I am happy to not have a clue what you are referring to. But then, as I don't know what you are referring to, I am not sure. Erk!!