"The Joker" is not the first time Miller spoke of the Pompatus. The published lyrics to the song "Enter Maurice," which Miller recorded the previous year, show:
Miller did not invent the word. All of his song-writing shows strong rhythm and blues influences, and a 1954 song called "The Letter" by the Medallions had the lines:
The song was composed by Vernon Green as a description of his dream woman. "Pizmotality described words of such secrecy that they could only be spoken to the one you loved," Green explained. He coined the term puppetutes "to mean a secret paper-doll fantasy figure who would be my everything and bear my children."
ALSO USED BY SOUTH PARK. Death is following the kids on a tricycle. Grandpa: Come back here you pompatus son of a pansy! Kids: Ahhh! ...
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