>>>>>>Maurice? Is that you?
>>>>>
>>>>>Maurice? I thought that was a Steve Miller song.
>>>>
>>>>Look up the lyrics
>>>>
>>>>"Some people call me the space cowboy, yeah
>>>>Some call me the gangster of love
>>>>Some people call me Maurice
>>>>Cause I speak of the pompitous of love"
>>>>
>>>>www.lyricsfreak.com
>>>
>>>Um... reality spellcheck:
>>>
>>>http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_065.html
>>ummm...nope.
>>
>>Or, I'm missing your point
>
>Upon re-reading I saw that the spelling I remember is not the only one in circulation, and that there's even more to the story now than last time - which I find an interesting read. So yours is just one of the possible spellings, and the story is still a nice story :).

Yes, it is a nice story. I tend to lean toward the "In the Garden of Eden"* story I heard once where the lyric was supposed to be 'Cause i speak rather pompously of love' but he was too blitzed to remember it correctly.

* For those of us that remember, that's the original title of "Inna Godda Davida" (making no claims to spell it correctly), but the singer was so blitzed he honestly thought he was singing "In the Garden of Eden" and the guys in the booth were so blitzed, they thought he was too.