I have the 'Rock Around the Clock' album (it was my grans) and there is a track on it called Mambo Rock - I had no idea what mambo meant!
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I have the 'Rock Around the Clock' album (it was my grans) and there is a track on it called Mambo Rock - I had no idea what mambo meant!
What about Mambo No 5 :hmm:
Yes- I had assumed it was a kind of dance..
Mambo may refer to:
- Mambo (music), a Cuban musical form
- Mambo (dance), a dance corresponding to mambo music
- Mambo section, a section in some types of Afro-Caribbean music, such as Salsa, Danzon
- "Mambo No. 5", a song originally by Pérez Prado and more recently Lou Bega
- Mambo (Voodoo), a Haitian Creole word for a Voodoo priestess.
- Mambo (software), a popular open source content management system.
- Mambo (greeting), a swahili greeting commonly used by young people in East African countries especially Tanzania and some parts of Kenya. It's considered a slang greeting, and translates to "things?" as in "how are things?"[1]
- "MAMbo", the Bologna Museum of Modern Art in Bologna, Italy
- "Mambo!", a 2005 single by Elena Paparizou
- Mambo Graphics the company behind the Australian surf clothing brand Mambo
- Mambo (club), a club in Long Beach, California
- Mambos (TFI Mambo's club), a club in Urmston, Manchester
- Mambo (cologne), a men's fragrance made by Liz Claiborne.
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2. Won't the batteries run out after a couple of years?Quote:
Originally Posted by Perdita
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Awww :( Penguins in a fridge
wouldnt the penguins suffocate? whod be that stupid lol?!
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