Talk:The Impression That I Get

message: There is a common perception that this song is about the speaker's reaction to a friend to being tested for AIDS.  This is implied by the lyrics:
I'm not a coward,
I've just never been tested 
I'd like to think that if I was, 
I would pass 
Look at the tested and think "there but for the grace go I" 
I might be a coward, 
I'm afraid of what I might find out. 
I've never had to knock on wood 
But I know someone who has
However, in an online chat, Dickie indicated that the referenced "test" is more about life's tests than AIDS specifically.
Reference: Transcript of Yahoo! Chat with The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
--68.193.239.147 15:55, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Image:The Impression That I Get.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
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BetacommandBot 05:24, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Citation? --12.22.197.194 (talk) 19:27, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: According to the band's FAQ, there's no reference to AIDS in this song. Mari Adkins 11:05, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible AIDS Reference 

message: :Image:The Impression That I Get.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
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BetacommandBot 05:24, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:The Impression That I Get.jpg

message: I removed the full text of the lyrics, as they constituted a copyright violation as per WP:COPY 69.181.101.68 (talk) 06:57, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lyrics Copyright violation 

message: I was shocked to find there was no reference to the song's earlier release or its connection to the clinic shootings. Personally, what most people think are references to AIDS in the song are actually references to the women shot at the clinics.
66.31.78.14 (talk) 19:12, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Citation? --12.22.197.194 (talk) 19:27, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Original Release/Clinic Shooting

message: I know the Bosstones were in Clueless, but I am fairly certain this song isn't. I will look for sources to confirm either way.Ucscottb4u (talk) 18:04, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clueless 

message: I think the postulations regarding the AIDS virus in this piece are, at this point, mostly speculative. More complete analysis of the idiomatic "knock on wood" and "but for the grace of God do I" phrases could point out valuable metaphors. I'm not against the plausibility of this song being about AIDS or STDS in general, but a paucity of sources may make that difficult to prove. There are some contradictions in the phrasing of this song that are interesting in their own right, from a linguistic point of view. There is some good information here, and I wouldn't delete a thing unless we can provide sources to that end. 184.7.175.199 (talk) 02:45, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: According to the band's FAQ, there's no reference to AIDS in this song. Mari Adkins 11:05, 19 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Overall thoughts on the article....