What DID he and Julio do down by the school yard?

They went swimming, horseback riding, rode go-carts, threw water balloons, shoplifted, rode a trash truck, and gambled.

coke

So, why @tom_g, were they coming to take him away in a couple of days cuz the press let the story leak?
Coke isn’t enough to cause all the trouble, @janbb!

Sorry, @Dutchess_III – my answer was not a serious one. The link I provided was the classic scene from the Royal Tennenbaums. I was describing that scene.

Drug dealing
Something Sexual.

But they DID say Goodbye to Rosie, the queen of Corona

Per Paul Simon:
In a July 20, 1972 interview for Rolling Stone, Jon Landau asked: “What is it that the mama saw? The whole world wants to know.” Simon replied “I have no idea what it is… Something sexual is what I imagine, but when I say ‘something’, I never bothered to figure out what it was. Didn’t make any difference to me.” This implies that Paul Simon left the crime up to the imagination of the listener, allowing each person who listens to the song to draw their own conclusion from their own thoughts and experiences. This has not stopped speculation on a definite interpretation: commentators have detected references to recreational drug use, and believe that the mother saw the boy buying drugs. More recently, in October 2010, Simon described the song as “a bit of inscrutable doggerel.

And Momma looked down and spit on the ground every time his name got mentioned. I hope is wasn’t HIS very own Momma!

@tom_g That was exactly what I first thought of, too! :)

The same mysterious image that drove Great Aunt Ada Doom supposedly mad because she saw “something nasty in the woodshed as a child.” See Cold Comfort Farm.

Cold Comfort Playground?

@gailcalled I remember that!

Was it good?

It was good and nasty !

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@Janbb;I would expect nothing less.(Or do I mean more?)

He and Julio were REALLY bad, then. Is that what you are implying? Is that why his dad said if he got that boy he was gonna stick him in the house of detention?

The last thing he says after saying goodbye to Rosie is “See you, me and Julio down by the schoolyard”
I always figured they were waiting for Rosie. Maybe it was Julio’s turn.

That’s not what he said! He said, “Seeing me and Julio down by the school yard!” Rosie was the only girl and she wasn’t there. She was at the bar, drinking beer. Well, his mother was there but she was home mopping up the spit on the floor. It was just he and Julio. Down by the school yard.

And don’t forget that mysterious “something” that me and Billie Joe McAllister was throwing off the Tallahatchie Bridge.

You may be on to something there @Jeruba. Maybe Billie Joe McAlister was WITH he and Julio down by the school yard and that’s why he jumped off the Tallahatche Bridge.

But the real question is “Who put the bop in the bop-she-bop? Who put the ram in the ramalamadingdong”?

Not me! I didn’t do it!

Meanwhile, poor Jack and Diane. Two American kids, doing the best they can.

And she’s still walkin’ down the street, lookin’ fine.

“Do http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj9fofFGXKcWah Diddy”:

( This started my day with a shot of good cheer…it balances out Milo’s monthly barf on my oriental carpet.)

Doin’ the best they can under the boardwalk.