#CUP OF JAVA MEANING DRIVER#

“Coffee and tea and the jivin’ and me.” “Jive” can also mean to talk nonsense, or to bullshit someone (cf: the Bee Gees’ “Jive Talkin’”). The only other meaning I can attach to “jug” here is “jail,” which is British slang (“Me brofer’s in jug again!”), though they would, of course, spell it “gaol.” Maybe he gets so high (and crashes so badly, or gets so drunk) that he’s often hauled in by the police to sleep it off. (This might have broader connotations within the so-called “drug culture.”) Maybe he needs the onion to disguise the odor of alcohol on his breath. Maybe he drinks booze to come down off his coffee high. It sounds as though he’s comparing addictions: caffeine vs. “And I cut a rug till I’m snug in a jug.” Whiskey can come in a jug. He wants another “belt” of coffee (drinkers’ slang) from his heavy cup. “Oh, slip me a slug from the wonderful mug.” A “slug” is a gulp/swallow of a beverage cf: a “shot” of whiskey. (The hamburger reference, if that’s what it is, supports this assumption.) “Shoot me the pot and I’ll pour me a shot.” Sounds like he’s in a diner, and he’s asking the guy/girl behind the counter to just slide the coffee pot over to him so he can serve himself, the way a bartender might do with a bottle of whiskey. Maybe the singer gets so hyper from his caffeine, it makes him want to jump up and start dancing (“cut a rug”). “Jive” (originally US “Negro” slang) can also mean to dance energetically, e.g., to jazz music. The singer is obviously addicted to the stuff. “Java Jive” refers to the caffeine buzz you get from drinking lots of coffee. This thread was at the top of the list for “Meanings.” So, if Naita (or anyone else is interested), here are my thoughts on the subject: Sorry to “resurrect” a “zombie” thread, but I’m listening to a Manhattan Transfer album, and just Googled the “Java Jive” lyrics. There’s some further discussion on there, if you want to check it out.

#CUP OF JAVA MEANING DRIVER#

I am the son of a sea cook!! Charge!!!” The taxi driver sarcastically quips “I am not a taxi driver. Mortimer in the final scene triumphantly shouts out “I am not a Brewster.

They also tell him that his father was a sea cook. Mortimer’s aunts reveal to him, to his relief, that he is not related and that his dying mother requested that they raise him. The cab driver arrives on the scene and witnesses the spectacle. Mortimer arrives at the conclusion that he may have inheirited his family’s insanity. Einstein(Peter Lorre), and the corpse of his latest victim for the purpose of using the place for a temporary hideout and disposal. To make the situation worse, Mortimer’s sadistic step-brother returns home with sidekick Dr. 12 souls are interred in the basement with the help of Uncle Ted who assumes that they are Panama Canal workers who died from malaria. He had the habit of blowing a bugle and running up the stairs(San Juan Hill) with the cry of “Charge!” He discovers that his dear old aunts have taken up the charitable mission of euthanizing lonely old men by taking them in as boarders, and offering them elderberry wine laced with poison so that their last moments on earth would be pleasant ones. Uncle Ted, who also resides at the residence suffers under the delusion that he is Teddy Roosevelt. Cary Grant plays the main character of Mortimer, who pays a visit to his two sweet aunts who raised him. Moto also played a evil henchmen in Arsenic & Old Lace(1944). Peter Lorre, who starred in the role of Mr. Google led me to a Wordwizard message board post from 2004, which suggests this connection:

Cup of java meaning