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They'll stone you and then say they're all brave
They'll stone you when you're sent down in your grave Bob Dylan – Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
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Echoes Dylan’s anti-military sentiments, like in Masters of War.

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it can also mean being buried and stoned in a grave.

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They'll stone you when you're trying to keep your seat Bob Dylan – Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
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Could be a reference to the Montgomery Bus Boycott from 1955, which started when Rosa Parks, a black woman, would not give up her seat to a white person. Her arrest lead to a nation-wide protest.

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Shows how Bob Dylan was heavily involved in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.

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And I'd like to call you Princess Tenderloin Momus – Hypnoprism
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A reference to beef tenderloin, the most tender beef cut.

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Or simply Mirabelle Momus – Hypnoprism
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An uncommon given name, comin from Latin mirabilis, meaning “wondrous” or “of wondrous beauty”.

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Regarding the last line, this line is an allusion to the BabyBelle cheese brand, whose mascot is a cow; a cow is the subject of the above line.

So, in saying he’d like to call her Mirabelle, he’s saying not only that he’d like to call her beautiful with respect to the Latin, but also baby in respect to the widely advertised marketed cheese brand.

This line is a juxtaposition of high- and low-culture, i.e. the language which is Latin and the language of consumerism.

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bugger than Mork from Ork Flying Lotus (Ft. MF DOOM) – Masquatch
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Mork is an alien in the classic science fiction show Mork & Mindy in a career-making role for Robin Williams.

DOOM also refers to Mork in People Places & Things:

In the Streets of New York you out of place like Mork
From Ork, dork, or pop the cork

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When I'm home, the seeds throw darts at the throne MF DOOM (Ft. MC Paul Barman) – Hot Guacamole
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The kids are always hungry to get on top; ‘the throne’ where DOOM resides.

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And love is a thing that can never go wrong
And I am Marie of Roumania Dorothy Parker – Comment
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Comparable to saying ‘if love can’t go wrong, then I’m the pope’.

Marie of Romania (1875-1938) was the last queen consort of Romania, married to Ferdinand I. She is described as a popular queen, but promiscuous and controlling of her weak-willed husband.

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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song
A medley of extemporanea Dorothy Parker – Comment
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Life, likened to a song cycle of improvised stuff.

Parker has taken some poetic liberty with the word extemporeaneous, transforming the adjective into a noun with a Latin plural.

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I do hope it doesn't lead to a whole lot of paranoid people who think that the federal government is out to get them and listening to their phone calls. That would be a problem. Barack Obama – 2014 White House Correspondents' Dinner Speech
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Reference to the the drug-fueled conspiracy theorist trope, paired with the Edward Snowden revelations about mass spying of the NSA on civillians.

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We haven’t seen somebody pull a 180 that fast since Rand Paul disinvitied that Nevada rancher from this dinner.

As a general rule, things don’t end well if the sentence starts, “Let me tell you something I know about the negro.” You don’t really need to hear the rest of it. Just a tip for you. Don’ t start your sentence that way. Barack Obama – 2014 White House Correspondents' Dinner Speech
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A reference to the story about the Nevada rancher who became a conservative hero for freedom. That is, until he turned racist.

Via the Times:

“I want to tell you one more thing I know about the Negro,” he said. Mr. Bundy recalled driving past a public-housing project in North Las Vegas, “and in front of that government house the door was usually open and the older people and the kids — and there is always at least a half a dozen people sitting on the porch — they didn’t have nothing to do. They didn’t have nothing for their kids to do. They didn’t have nothing for their young girls to do.

“And because they were basically on government subsidy, so now what do they do?” he asked. “They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never learned how to pick cotton. And I’ve often wondered, are they better off as slaves, picking cotton and having a family life and doing things, or are they better off under government subsidy? They didn’t get no more freedom. They got less freedom.”

Rand Paul is a republican senator for Kentucky.

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