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Old Fri Nov 13, 2009, 01:06pm
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Boondocks has come to mean the sticks or, in the case of the song, an inferior neighborhood, but it actually means mountains in Tagalog. (American servicemen in WW II brought the term home from the Philippines.) So down in the mountains doesn't quite add up.
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