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Thread started 06/25/04 12:47pm

toejam

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Berries, talons, arrows and stars...

The lyric from "Muse 2 The Pharoah" from THE RAINBOW CHILDREN:

And if the number 13 is such a bad luck number
When there's no such thing as luck
Then the berries, talons, arrows and stars
Are all superstitions, what the ...


is refering to the the 1 cent coin of 1792, while George Washington was President. Check out the link:

http://www.2020site.org/c...dbust.html

I never knew what this line meant, but now I do. It's yet another reference to early American history in THE RAINBOW CHILDREN.
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Reply #1 posted 06/25/04 12:50pm

psykosoul

I thought those were the alternate marshmallows in the first pressings of Lucky Charms confuse
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