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Yes. And to me (I'm not saying I'm right, this is just my interpretation of the song), this whole song is about this, the Time Code. (The Time Code is used in professional video and audio studios to synchronise devices together. Ever seen those numbers displayed at the bottom of a tv image, like this: 12:25:45:17 ? Well, this is the Time Code. It has been set up by the SMPTE, and is sometimes called "SMPTE Code").
So to me the Baby Snakes are the Time Code impulses recorded on the tape. It really helps putting a recording together. Let's look at the lyrics:

"Late at night is when they come out": Frank used to record in the night, right ?
"They make the best kinda pet (..) I look around and there's a couple right near me": Frank may have felt alone when mixing at 2h30 in the morning, and maybe for a moment he imagined those impulses as pets. Surely those are devoted "creatures" and they'revery reliable.

"They live by a code that is usually SMPTE (...) and maybe I thing that is what keeps them in sync !": this is where I really think the baby snakes are the Time Code impulses themselves !

In my opinion Frank made a song (with a nice poetic twist in the form of the snakes) about the joy of working with TC synchronisation. He was happy about it and that made the song. Simple as that

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I'll never look at Baby Snakes the same way again.

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I always thought Baby Snakes was just a sex song. A "Baby Snake" was a penis. "Late at night is when they come out" - (Most sex probably happens later in the evening), "Pink and wet, they make the best kind of pet" (OK, maybe a little racist) "They live in a hole, a tiny, hole, that is usually empty" (the Baby Snakes home is the vagina - or in the case of our homosexual friends, the asshole, however the percentage of time that it is actually there is pretty small). Of course Frank was a clever guy and liked double entendre and maybe even triple meanings. The SMPTE thing was just a throw-in I thought.

Somewhere along the line I had gotten the impression it was about the clitoris.

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That makes sense too when you think about it.

Especially when you consider the "I'll think I'll give 'em a drink" line.

Freud would have had a freaked out field day,trying to figure out Frank!

Sometimes a tweezer is just a tweezer.

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I think this song hits on several levels at once like many of Franks songs, KU and JPD were all around it...lol...a Snake is a chic that slithers around from guy to guy having sex, many young and up and coming snakes could be found around the music scene, thus Baby Snakes and the lyrics make sense. I know someone in another thread had an awesome explanation about sound equipment, but I do not know enough about it to give it here.

Or the whole time-code thing could just be that Frank was looking for something to rhyme with "empty."

As Freud said, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar...

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Isn't that a Monica Lewinsky qoute?

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So 37 people believe this to be true and 27 say its wrong.So this is a guess what you think's right site.Then you vote thumbs up or down.Not very specific,more like guessing what sounds more likely than not.At least to me it does. I did always want one of those babyslutters to sit me when I was young.....I'm lying.I'd take one now! (over 18 only need apply)

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Snake was a common term for a slut when this song was written, a young slut would be a"Baby Snake", where the focus directly on the clit comes from I am not sure, its like using the Hubble Space Telescope to look across the room...to much magnificatiion...

The Air (Uncle Meat album)

An interesting song... what is is about? Sometimes seems to me that a conflict at the customs, a fight with the guards, in slow motion..

Or? What dou you think? I'm interested in every little detail - what do you think?

As I have always understood it the cliterous is where the focus should be !

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..and I'm one focused man, I worship at the little pink pyramid of yes 'n' deedy,religously!

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Although as now in the 70's the clitoris is the focus, but no one was calling it a snake in the 70's, a snake was a version of a slut...

I would not call myself a baby snake then but I would like to meet a few pythons.

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I thought a baby snake was a clitoris in 1979 when the album came out.

Funny you should mention it...

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still learning about Frank Zappa, don't a boot got something to do with it ?
Stinkfooots yes ?

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Yer,right! Stinkfoot.

You see my python boot was to tight,
I couldn't get it off last night,
A week went by,
Now it's July,
I finally got it off,
And my girlfriend cried,
"you got Stinkfoot!"
Stinkfoot,Stinkfoot,I ain't lying
Can you rince it off,
Do you suppose?
That Stinkfoot,put a hurt on my nose!

Don't worry Zappanese comes easy after a little while.

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