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The term "meter-maid", largely unknown in the UK before the song's release, is American slang for a female traffic warden."Lovely Rita" originates from when a female traffic warden named Meta Davies issued a parking ticket to McCartney outside Abbey Road Studios.
"Meter maid" in Stockholm, Sweden, 1961. The term 'meter maid' was popularised in The Beatles' song "Lovely Rita", in which the male singer, smitten with a female traffic warden, recalls: Standing by a parking meter, when I caught a glimpse of Rita Filling in a ticket in her little white book. In a cap, she looked much older,
Jurgen is a doctor, Generalisimo is a dictator, Don Luigi is a hook-handed crime boss, and Rita is a meter maid. Because they all failed to kill Austin Powers, Dr. Evil presses the button on his table that causes their chairs to flip back and send them into a pit of fire, incinerating all four of them, while sparing the lives of Frau and Mustafa.
Apparently the "meter maid" part refers to a parking attendant, which was later made famous by "Lovely Rita". In Tim Riley's book Lennon: The Man, the Myth, the Music – The Definitive Life he says the song is about a rather buxom parking attendant.
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In Japanese popular culture, a bishōjo (美少女, lit. "beautiful girl"), also romanized as bishojo or bishoujo, is a cute girl character. Bishōjo characters appear ubiquitously in media including manga, anime, and computerized games (especially in the bishojo game genre), and also appear in advertising and as mascots, such as for maid cafés.
The Japanese "national character" has been written about under the term Nihonjinron, literally meaning 'theories/discussions about the Japanese people' and referring to texts on matters that are normally the concerns of sociology, psychology, history, linguistics, and philosophy, but emphasizing the authors' assumptions or perceptions of ...
Lovely Rita is a 2001 Austrian drama film, a debut feature by Jessica Hausner. [1] It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival. [2]