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Teddy_Salad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 07:31 PM
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But why must the duchy be passed on the left hand side?
Edited on Mon May-03-04 07:52 PM by Teddy_Salad
What would happen if I passed it on the right hand side?

:nuke: ?
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greatauntoftriplets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 07:33 PM
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1. A state whose head of state is a Grand Duke or Grand Duchess.
Luxembourg, for example. No idea of what you mean by passing it on the left hand side. :shrug:
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Parrcrow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 07:33 PM
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2. a duchy, in that song, is a joint
Edited on Mon May-03-04 07:34 PM by Parrcrow
you pass it on the left hand side because that's where I am.:smoke:
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 07:40 PM
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9. I heard it explained that a duchie is actually
a cooking pot, as in cookware. Remember the lyric, "How does it feel when you got no food?" They changed the word for the English version of the song. But yes, the song is actually about passing a joint.
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shanti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 11:47 PM
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24. you almost had it
Edited on Mon May-03-04 11:53 PM by seekthetruth
it's actually slang for "cutchie", a rasta chalice, which is a ganja pipe.

cutchie (n.) - clay pipe for smoking ganja.
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LincolnMcGrath Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 07:34 PM
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3. Always pass the Dutchie to the left hand side
Pass the Dutchie on the left hand side
It a gonna burn, give me music make me jump and prance
It a go done, give me the music make me rock in the dance

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anti_shrub Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 07:34 PM
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4. Jamaican slang for a joint...
passing left is just accepted good form in joint-passery...
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The empressof all Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 07:34 PM
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5. It's a joint
Edited on Mon May-03-04 07:36 PM by Wubette
Don't know why it must be passed from the left-Probably just creative licence.

Great Song though.
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LincolnMcGrath Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 07:35 PM
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6. It is in the handbook!
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ZenLefty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 07:38 PM
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7. duchy
duchy (duch'e), n., pl. duchies. The territory ruled by a duke or duchess. {1350-1400; ME duche < MF duche, AF, OF duchie < ML ducatus, LL, L: the rank or functins of a DUX, see DUKE, -ATE (3)}

-from Webster's New Universal Unabridged Dictionary (1996)
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Pale Blue Dot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 09:49 PM
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17. How do you lift one of them?
Do the Musical Youth want us to get a hernia?
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ZenLefty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 09:52 PM
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18. Jimi Hendrix knows
Well he's standing next to a mountain, chop it down with the edge of his hand.

Passing duchies is small potatoes to him. :o
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KissMyAsscroft Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 07:38 PM
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8. It's actually a term for a pot...
Like a pot that you would cook in. I remember seeing it on some VH1 show or something...although, in that song it is pmlied that it means joint...
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unblock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 07:52 PM
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10. as in, "dutch oven"?
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ScreamingMeemie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 07:53 PM
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11. It would not become a number one hit.
:shrug:
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Teddy_Salad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 08:00 PM
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12. I think you're right, Mrs Grumpy
Edited on Mon May-03-04 08:01 PM by Teddy_Salad
"Pass the duchy on the right hand side, pass the duchy on the right hand side....."

It just doesn't have the same ring to it, huh?

Definitely would not have made the top ten.
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JVS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 08:18 PM
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13. oops my bad
Edited on Mon May-03-04 08:20 PM by JVS
All these years I thought they were saying from the left hand side. I've wasted my life!
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jmowreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 08:33 PM
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14. If you pass it on the right...
you get your wife back, your dog back, your kids back, they let you out of prison, your crop comes back and it stops raining.
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Teddy_Salad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 09:24 PM
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15. In that case...
I'd be in two minds to which way to pass it.

Hmmmmmm. :crazy:
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camero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 09:47 PM
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16. It would be a dutch freeper
we don't need them
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Khephra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 09:52 PM
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19. Because
if it's in your right hand, you forget if you've hit it or not. So you hit it and take it out of your primary hand into your left (sorry, Lefties, no ill will meant to your handedness). That way, once you've been smoking a bit, you'll always know that if it's in your left hand, then it's time to pass it on.

That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

:evilgrin:
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 09:53 PM
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20. Well, everything is passed "on the left hand side"
Clockwise.

Card games, for example. Turns go clockwise, to the left.



And, just a friendly warning...

If I ever find out about you passing a dutchie, or anything, to the right hand side, I'm gonna...

Well, I don't know what I'm gonna do, but I wouldn't wanna be you when it happens.

So Dont Do It!

:P
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Teddy_Salad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 10:22 PM
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21. Uh Oh!
:scared:
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TroubleMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 10:55 PM
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22. The original song is by The Mighty Diamonds
Edited on Mon May-03-04 10:58 PM by TroubleMan
and their version is "Pass the Koutchie," which was Jamaican slang for a joint.

The "Pass the Dutchie" is a remake by Musical Youth. The Dutchie is short for Dutch Masters, which is a cigar commonly split, emptied, and rolled into a joint.

The original is so much better than the remake -very mellow, and The Mighty Diamonds had great voices. For another good song by them try "Right Time."


(on edit) I think they're still performing. Here's their website:

http://www.mightydiamonds.com/
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TroubleMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 10:59 PM
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23. Hey...their website plays "The Right Time"....listen to it.

It's the jam.
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