From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 96 03:50:03 PST
To: mark@ausnetinfo.com.au (Mark)
Subject: Re: "Physical Reality"
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At 08:41 AM 2/28/96 +1100, Mark wrote:

>I dislike having to follow up something so unrelated, but the bad boys are the
>criminals, the song is about what will you do when the cops come for you.
>The cops are not the "bad boys" in the song. Trust me.
>
>Mark
>

Actually, the song is deliberately ambiguous.  Because the phrase "Bad Boys"
is repeated at both ends of the verse, you can't tell whether it refers to
the cops or perps or both.  I don't know the origin of the song but I recall
in life or in fiction a special (Las Vegas?) police unit that called itself
the Bad Boys.  Certainly the Bad=Good reversal is well established in
popular culture.

DCF