I’ve always wondered what, exactly, the Beastie Boys lyric, “Well, it’s 50 cups of coffee and you know it’s on,” meant.
I thought maybe, “it” was writing a last minute term paper, or maybe “it” was getting an early start on a big day of errands.
But now I see that 50 cups is just too high a number to be practical for these ends. I’m not close to 50 yet today, but closer than I’ve been before. And it struck me:
“It” really refers to diarrhea. It’s diarrhea that’s on. Until the break of break of dawn.
