Sweets for My Sweet, Sugar for My Honey: Pour Some Sugar on Me (Part 2/4)

A strange and weirdly connected tale of Willy Wonka, Skittles®, The Trayvon Martin Murder,

and the Toronto Maple Leafs Hockey Team Scandal

Rainbow Politics

I mentioned in Part 1 [The Candy Man Can!] that like the color purple, the rainbow is also an emblem of Gay Pride. It appears irrefutable at this point that Ride the Rainbow candy giant Skittles® welcomes the association of its trademark with Gay Pride, otherwise the corporation would distance itself from the implications. If these associations are unwanted, company attorneys might at least issue a stern warning to Gay Pride activists to stop the unauthorized use of the rainbow trademark, in the same way that Kleenex® brand tissues and Xerox® brand copiers are so very protective of their branding as Kleenex® and Xerox®.

The fundamental question for purposes of our inquiry is whether Skittles® is actively promoting the LGBT Agenda and, if so, should we be concerned? Indeed, Skittles® is promoting the LGBT Agenda and not in a casual way, as we shall see. Some activists are rightly concerned about this in that the LGBT Agenda is heavily impacting our culture here at home and, even more importantly, influencing US foreign policy abroad. Now, that’s some CLOUT!

Precisely how does Skittles® promote the LGBT Agenda? For several seasons now, Skittles® has featured an extended advertising theme issuing a call to action focusing on the rainbow. If the rainbow refers to the LGBT community, then Skittles® is urging young consumers to Touch the Rainbow, Taste the Rainbow, Ride the Rainbow, and even Deceive the Rainbow. Deceive the Rainbow is Skittles®’ latest oddly-styled marketing campaign that revolves around a disturbing television commercial in which an adolescent girl is making out with a walrus. Is Skittles® subtly advocating interspecies mating rituals concealed as outré humor? Truly, one must ask the question.

 

 

Skittles: What the Devil Is it?

 

Skittles is the forerunner of ten-pins or bowling, a game in which the players thrust a ball—having holes into which the fingers are inserted—down a long alley to strike the intended target in an explosion of flying pins to achieve a score. The pin or skittle is shaped somewhat like a vase with a long neck and a knob at the top of the pin. Especially interesting to me was the discovery that bowling balls originally had only two holes. As we so often find in sports, the terms used above to describe the game of bowling lead a double life as sexual metaphors.

 

The etymology of the word skittles is quite fascinating, at least to those with an interest in linguistics. For reasons related to the continuing evolution of language, a skittle or bowling pin is associated with a key. Keep this important fact in mind, as we will return to it later. Following is the short version of that etymological history, which provides some of the critical background information necessary to understand the interpretation that will follow.

 
 

Linguist Anatoly Liberman observes that:

 

"Students of English have given up the etymology of key as hopeless, but the word often appeared in German and Dutch scholarly sources, in which it was compared with [German] Kegel ‘skittle, ninepin.’ The first vowel of [Old High German] kegil ‘nail, pin’ is the product of i-umlaut (kegil < *kagila), and the cognates of *kag- are well-known. [...] Schmid mentioned it but could not think of a better comparison than Swabian Kag ~ [Latin cavus] ‘hollow.’ [...]. In English dialects, the most widely-known meaning of key is twisted […]. The verb key means ‘twist, bend,’ used especially with reference to the legs twisted by illness [injury, or deformity] Key was then ‘a stick (pin, peg) with a twisted end.’  

Scyttel(s) and forescyttels testify to other Old English words for ‘key.’ They […] designated a bar […] and were thus ‘shot’ across the door like modern bolts [like a shuttle]. The disappearance of [Old English] scyttel(s) is probably due to the fact that it was used too broadly: it also meant ‘dart, missile, arrow.’” (Liberman, Anatoly, "An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology: An Introduction, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2008, pp 130-31)

Thus, we have the Latin cavus >> German kegel >> Old English scyttel >> English skittle/shuttle, all pointing to the seemingly unrelated concepts of:

 

•  a cave or something hollow (cavus);

•  twist/bend or twisted/bent (key)

•  key (kegel)

•  shooting; shot; dart, missile or arrow (skittle);

•  moving back and forth, or across (shuttle or sliding bolt); and

•  an oddly-shaped bowling pin with a “knob” on a slender neck (kegel/skittle)
 

Considering the association of skittles with key, an extremely interesting Tweet from Skittles® reads thus:

 

Mention Someone You Wanna Be Close With,

The dude with the combo to the Skittles® Vault.

                Lace the Train Bro/Retweet the Rainbow



This one is fairly easy. In the above Tweet, combo obviously refers to the combination lock numbers or key (kegel/ninepin/skittle) to the Vault (cavus, hollow place).

 

Keys unlock doors and gateways and secret hiding places. Do Skittles® unlock doors and gateways and secret hiding places? What about this one:

 

 

Do you have a hiding spot secret enough for your Skittles®?

                       Encase the Faint Glow/ReTweet the Rainbow

 

 

Can any of these concepts for skittle that we discussed above be harmonized? Is there a common theme, and if so, what is it? I believe there is and hope to explain it all to your satisfaction.

The common themes associated with the root words from which the word skittle derives tell a story. We piece them together considering them as a whole, to form a narrative. When we do so, the occult or esoteric meaning of skittle becomes clearer.

 

Perhaps the best way to explain the relationships among these concepts is to look at how the word skittles is used in modern parlance. Today skittles is no longer associated with bowling, except in the most archaic sense of the word; however, the term has acquired new meanings that have significance primarily to the underground or counterculture, specifically the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered community (LGBT). With apologies in advance for the graphic nature of the forthcoming descriptions, I beg the reader to stay with me; this information is critical to our understanding of the philosophy and lifestyle that Skittles® is promoting.

The term skittles relates primarily to the LGBT community and to reproductive and excretory organs and outlets and their bodily fluids and detritus. For example, according to Urban Dictionary, it can mean:

— n. the clitoris;

— n. a gay male or one who is bicurious;

— n. a mixture of semen and flavored beverage, usually juice, that is blended entirely within the mouth;   

— v. to soil the underwear by passing a small amount of feces, as in “You’ve just skittled your pants;”

 

The following Skittles® Tweet appears to confirm, by innuendo, the association of Skittles® with reproductive organs and functions.

 

Put your Skittles® where your mouth is.

Lace the Train Slow/Retweet the Rainbow

 

 

Be reminded of the clear association of skittles with otherness. Recall, in particular, that embedded in the word skittle is the idea of a bent or twisted thing, a deviation from the norm or an inversion or perversion of that which is orthodox. As an example, consider the discipline of Heraldry. This body of knowledge describes all elements that appear on the left of the shield (outside the norm) as sinister. Perhaps there is good reason for that. In the philosophy known as the Western Occult Tradition, the unorthodox or anti-orthodox is frequently referred to as the Left-hand path.

 

Suffice it to say that the gaily-colored Skittles® trail leads directly down unorthodox paths—the road less travelled, if you will, where the path becomes twisted. If it is understood that twistedness is associated with that which strays from the norm, then I have accomplished my objective.

 

Part 3 will explore this concept of otherness more fully. For further clarification of what is meant by twisted and how this notion might help to illustrate the general concept, the links below represent various situations in which the term twisted is used in context:

 

Twisted Oaks Tattoo and Occult Books

Pope Benedict XVI Held Forth Twisted Cross Crucifix During His Installation Ceremony: Adoring Masses Bowed to this Satanic Symbol 

Gabrielle Giffords  Shooting: Frightening, Twisted Shrine in Arizona Killer Jared Lee Loughner's Yard

Kanye West Says Twisted Fantasy Will Have Five Different Covers: First Cover Image of Winged Woman Straddling Him Represents Artist's "Truest Vision"

Dark Matters: Twisted but True

Twisted Aquarian Gospel

 

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End Part 2. Stay Tuned for Part 3: Sweets for My Sweet, Sugar for My Honey—Ravage the Rainbow!

 

Sweets for My Sweet, Sugar for My Honey: The Candy Man Can! (Part I/4)

 

 

A strange and weirdly connected tale of Willy Wonka, Skittles®, the Trayvon Martin Murder,
and the Toronto Maple Leafs Hockey Team Scandal
 

  

 

To set this up, it's important that you watch this brief introductory clip first. I first saw this last year as a commercial for Wonka® Exceptionals chocolate candy bars. I understand the provenance of this clip may be the 1975 movie, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, although I don’t know that for a fact.

 

 

 

Please accept my apologies for the surprise ending of the clip. Obviously this is a departure from the original, but you get the point of the commercial—chocolate pond, chocolate waterfall, stirring chocolate, saturated in chocolate. Judging from the producer’s editorial at the end, he is doing a bit of free association with the chocolate metaphor. As much as we love chocolate, it has a secondary and rather unsavory connotation that is not often discussed—not in polite company at least.  Given that the original clip is an advertisement for Wonka® chocolates, however, let's take a closer look at Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and some of its imagery.

 

 

A Case of the Willies

 

One reviewer notes that Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is "a cheesy film with weird songs that don’t make sense to normal humans, such as Oompa Loompa and the sickening Cheer Up Charlie."

 

Along these same lines, in a post at PrisonPlanet Forum entitled Bizarre New Kurt Cobain Revelations: CIA Mind Control, “Dronethunk” asks a salient question: "Why do strange cryptic little films like My Own Private Idaho reach cult status when virtually no one normal can figure out what the hell is going on?" He then provides the answer: "the term cult status is a hell of a lot more descriptive than you think." 

 

The above are astute and accurate observations: such films don’t make sense to "normal" humans. They don’t make sense because they’re not supposed to make sense to the uninitiated. The entire conceptual framework of such movies—the dialogue, the plot, the songs—turn on codespeak. In Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, our immediate subject, the codespeak relates to a particular argot found within the “alternate lifestyles” community only, as we shall learn.

 

Before we proceed, let’s have a look at origins:  the name Willy Wonka reminds me of Wee Willie Winkie, the Mother Goose nursery rhyme—all w's and l's and k's and i's. I have no proof that Wee Willie Winkie is the source of Willy Wonka other than an immediate impression. This is simply how the name strikes me. Recall, in the nursery rhyme Wee Willie Winkie goes running about town in his nightgown telling the children it's time to go to bed. Salacious little bugger.

 

This naturally leads to a consideration of the term Winkie, or Winky. Probably the best-known use of Winkie/Winky is the slang term for the male reproductive organ, as in Captain Winky. Looking up other similar terms, we find the following:

 

•  Wee Willy Winky
•  Willy
•  Willy the one-eyed wonder worm
•  Willy Wonka
•  Winkster
•  Winkie
•  Winky

 

Which came first, I wonder—Willy Wonka the fictional character or Willy Wonka the slang term? That I do not know. What I do know is that the Mother Goose rhyme Wee Willie Winkie is a few hundred years old.

 

Considering that they are both little pet names for a body part and that Wee Willie Winkie may possibly be the origin of Willy Wonka, let's use the much older term Wee Willie Winkie for the moment and look at the initials: WWW. When I began considering this, I understood immediately that WWW is code. It means Vav, Vav,Vav in gematria, and has a value of 6,6,6 (666). Interesting little factoid, that.

 

Now, let's move along to Willy Wonka, the fictional character of film. Willy Wonka, the mild and ambiguously unctuous character portrayed by Gene Wilder in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, is invested rather heavily in the public mind with sexual overtones and even undertones. As with Wee Willie Winkie of rhyme, we find that he’s exceptionally sexual! To be specific, Willy Wonka either:

 

•  Has an implied secret sex life off-camera that inspired the expression, "Willy Wonka"

                   

— Used as a verb, Willy Wonka means to have sex (with); a term used by younger teenagers in 2001; the phrase comes from the name of a character in a Roald Dahl story and 1971 film based on it: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory;

 

•  Is gay

 

— "It says so in his purple velvet coat and large bowtie;"

 

— [T]he hottest male actor [Johnny Depp's portrayal of Willy Wonka, in this case] having intimate relations with small indian Oompa Loompas that sing gay overrated songs, which by the way creep you out;"

 

•  Is a pedophile

 

— Willy Wonka: Oh, you should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.

 

— Tinker: Up the airy mountain, down the rushing glen, we dare not go a hunting, for fear of little men! You see, nobody ever goes in and nobody ever comes out!

 

— Willy Wonka: Everything inside is eatable, I mean edible, I mean you can eat everything.

 

— Veruca Salt: I want it now, daddy.

 

— Willy Wonka: Well, fortunately, small boys are extremely springy and elastic. So I think we'll put him in my special taffy-pulling machine. That should do the trick. [To an Oompa Loompa:] To the taffy-pulling room.  

 

The above quotes are samples of dialogue from the film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. For those whose vocabulary does not extend to the weirdly inventive street language of sexual license, taffy-pulling is a reference to male masturbation.

 

Before moving on, the name Veruca Salt is rather interesting in the context of sexual metaphors. It’s an odd name, to be sure, and one rife with innuendo, particularly when we look at certain anagrams derived from the name. Note especially the references to vault and vat:

 

•  A Crave Slut (whore/prostitute with a burning desire)

 

•  A Raves Cult (Rave parties are organized underground parties involving music, dance, colored lights, drugs, alcohol, and sex; all night parties involving the same)

 

•  A Vast Lucre (sex for profit, pimps; the sex industry)

 

•  Care Vaults (body cavities involved with sexual intercourse)

 

•  Caves La Rut (see Care Vaults; rutting)

 

•  Scare Vault (reference to penetration anxiety)

 

•  Secular Vat (liberated, guilt-free piece of meat)

 

 

Purple Passion

 

Willy Wonka's wardrobe signals strongly to the alternate lifestyles community. He's simply mad about the color purple! But what does it all mean?  For those who aren’t in the know, purple—and the rainbow, as well, about which more will be said in Part II [Pour Some Sugar on Me]—are symbols of Gay Pride. For instance, we encounter these examples:

 

•  Purple Power, a reference to the growing political power of the gay community. “In the late 1960's the color purple (or, more accurately, lavender) became popularized as a symbol for gay pride.”

•  The Color Purple with its themes of incest and underage sex is regarded as a "Gay Movie."

•  Barney the Purple Dinosaur is thought by many to be a pedophile. This link is only one example from the many I have researched.

•  Tinky Winky (there's that Winky term again) the gay, purple Teletubbie

•  Purple Haze

— In addition to its original reference to a variety of cannabis, we find this reference to "A purple haze of support for LGBT youth on Spirit Day"

— "Millions expected to dress in purple on Spirit Day"

•  Purple Rain

— Prince’s hit tune is associated with homosexuality and/or pedophilia

 

It might surprise the reader to learn that Lavender Linguistics is a term used by some linguists to describe the study of the specialized language or argot within the LGBT community.

 

Mmmmmmm, Chocolate!

 

Having established to my own satisfaction that Willy Wonka’s wardrobe preference for the color purple, among other indicators, identifies him as a distinguished member of the gay community, further reflection on the Wonka® Exceptionals advertising clip seen earlier brings us right to the crux of the matter. Consider this bit of dialogue from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory:

 

Willy Wonka: [T]hat pipe doesn't go to the marshmallow room! It goes to the fudge room!

Mrs. Gloop: You terrible man!

 

What is this "fudge room?" As should be obvious to the reader by now, it is a slang term for the excretory apparatus and outlet of the human anatomy. Other euphemisms of which the general public may not be aware include:

 

•  Cadbury Road

•  Chocolate Channel

•  Chocolate Chimney

•  Chocolate Donut

•  Chocolate Factory

•  Chocolate Starfish

•  Chocolate Lovers Hole to Happiness

•  Chocolate Whizwag

•  Hershey Highway

 

Fudge-packer, of course, refers to a male homosexual. There is little doubt at this point that Willy Wonka is a gay man with an inordinate affection for little children, at the very least.

 

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END PART 1. STAY TUNED FOR PART 2: Sweets for My Sweet, Sugar for My Honey—Pour Some Sugar on Me