No One Lives Forever Oingo Boingo Meaning
Ammiel Fried
Boingo is a young Stand User who wields the Stand Tohth. As part of the Egypt 9 Glory Gods, he attempts to assassinate the Joestar Group in Egypt alongside his older brother Oingo and later Hol Horse.
Boingo is a young child of ordinary build, but his characteristics include an unusually large mouth and a large afro held together by a topless cap, leaving a few stray hair locks. His attire consists of a bright shirt and trousers over which he wears shorts and a jacket, plus a coat and simple shoes.
Boingo is very shy and content to take a supporting role in his partnership, using his Stand to guide his brother Oingo and then Hol Horse and then hide somewhere to observe. This passivity is also explained by the facts that Boingo is still a little child and that Tohth, being a mere book, is completely useless in a fight. Because of his shyness, Boingo is only comfortable around Oingo with whom he is close. After his encounters with the Joestar Group, Boingo seemingly learns from the experience and decides to become braver but, after Iggy attacks him, Boingo is then stated to have reverted back to his shyness. His timidity also causes him to stutter noticeably.
As one of DIO's servitors, Boingo demonstrates hints of evilness. For example, he grins and even awkwardly laughs when Tohth predicts that the heroes may die, and has no problem with mugging a man for his money. During his last appearance, Boingo expresses a wish to use his power for good so that people will love them more but this development is cut short when Iggy attacks him.
Boingo and his brother share a very close relationship, working as partners and relying on each other. Tohth's narration states for instance that Boingo feels lonely after being separated from Oingo. Moreover, Boingo accepts to partner up with Hol Horse to avenge his retired brother.
The book, titled, Oingo Boingo Brothers Adventure, will show predictions of the future. When an image appears, the prediction(s) then become fate, and are destined to come to fruition. However, no body, not even Boingo, can control the Image projected onto Tohth.
Boingo is first seen reading from the comic book Tohth and then meets a friendly comic artist who offers to buy it from him. However, Oingo maintains that the book is not for sale and threatens the comic artist to stay away from Boingo. He then reads the comic and decides to wait four hours for the next bus to avoid the accident Tohth predicted. The brothers then look into Tohth for the next prediction and realize that they are meant to poison the Joestar group's tea. Boingo stays in the shadows and witnesses Oingo's preparations to fulfill the prophecy. At the same time, Jean Pierre Polnareff lets a cigarette fall, which points to their restaurant.
Initially, the group decides to order tea, but a suspicious Joseph Joestar decides to order the unopened coke instead. This seems to prevent Oingo from poisoning the drink at first, but an angry customer reacts to the warm coke he was served, causing the Joestar group to order the tea that Oingo successfully poisons. However, right as the group is about to drink their tea, Iggy eats another customer's cake and causes the Joestar group to abandon their tea to take care of Iggy and leave the shop, which makes Oingo and Boingo angry. Eventually, following Tohth's prophecy, Oingo punches a nerdy-looking stranger and frightens him into dropping his wallet, giving the two money and temporarily pacifying them for their failure.
Following Tohth's next prediction, Oingo then tries to make Jotaro eat a bomb that looked like an orange. However, Joseph and Polnareff return and Oingo is forced to disguise himself as Jotaro in order to prevent them from attacking him. The disguise backfires and Oingo is dragged into the same car where he placed the bomb. Boingo becomes shocked after finding out the true meaning of Tohth's prophecy, that Oingo is the one who will fall victim to the bomb with Jotaro's face, and mentally begs for his brother to transform back so that their intended interpretation of the prophecy will come true. Regardless, Oingo accidentally steps on the bomb he set up, causing it to blow up and split his face in two. Boingo then arrives and resolves to defeat the Joestar group on his own, causing Oingo to become proud of his younger brother's growth. However, the man Oingo assaulted earlier returns with other thugs, who beat up the two brothers and send them to the hospital. Meanwhile, the real Jotaro returns from visiting the hospital, and, happening to be thirsty, picks out an orange to eat.
After exiting the hospital, Boingo teams up with Hol Horse to avenge his brother (albeit only after Hol Horse had to resort to kidnapping Boingo). Boingo, hiding under a crate for the majority of Hol Horse's assisted assault, demonstrates the extent of Tohth's power by showing its next prediction: that Hol Horse would kick a woman and the woman will be thankful and give him money. Hol Horse is skeptical, but this is proven true when he sees a woman walking past him and, driven by the possibility of the prediction being true, runs and kicks the woman in the back, and finds out he killed a deadly scorpion on the woman's back, and is paid for saving her life.
The two then try to follow the next prediction, involving Hol Horse sticking his fingers up Polnareff's nose and the rest of the Joestar group being hit by a truck. Hol Horse, skeptical of the result, but willing to follow through nonetheless, sticks his fingers up Polnareff's nose. A series of events is then triggered that leads up to the Joestar group being hit by a truck.
Boingo now has Hol Horse's full confidence and directs Horse to guide his bullets through a series of pipes. However, Hol Horse's watch was off by a few minutes when directed to fire at noon, and the bullets loop around and pierce through the depicted holes in the comic book's pages to hit him instead. Afterward, Boingo contemplates using his powers to better the lives of others and kicks aside his hiding crate, but the crate accidentally hits Iggy and Boingo becomes assaulted by the dog and becomes even more introverted than before. Tohth then says that, if it was that easy to change their ways, there wouldn't be bad people in the world.
Oingo and Boingo are reduced to a supporting role in the game, and they don't use their respective Stands at all. Since Boingo doesn't appear as an enemy, he no longer forms a partnership with Hol Horse.
Boingo's Stand, Tohth, appears as the main menu character for the Gallery Mode, which contains every character ending (available once the player beats Arcade Mode with that character), mini-games, special modes (such as Taro card reading) and mini-boss battles (such as Death 13 and N'Doul).
Boingo is also playable via Alessi's transformation move on the "Hol Horse with Boingo" character, as Boingo assumes Hol's place on the match for a small period of time. However, Boingo doesn't attack the opponent, as Hol Horse does that for him, hiding under the box in the background, by shooting the enemy.
It's a satirical take on an art enthusiast who piles hyperbolic praise upon a supposedly brilliant piece of art. He's a snob who prefers the smug satisfaction of his artistic assessment to the company of others ("And though I once preferred a human being's companyThey pale before the monolith that towers over me").
In some ways Linnell's singing about himself, as he's forever writing about inanimate objects. Musically, I think this song is really about trying to write a hit record that recycles your previous hit; this is what the song is really about, trying to recapture the success of Birdhouse in you Soul. It has a similar theme and pop production. However, like reheating a souffl, it doesn't work. With Birdhouse, the narrator (our blue canary nightlight) is so utterly sincere that we are charmed and won over. Linnell's narrator, be it himself or a writing as a character, just doesn't sound convinced, and the song lacks the inventive metaphors and image of Birdhouse.
I remember being desperate for this to be a hit, and given a stronger tune, it could have been, in the UK at least. They played the show on the Jonathan Ross show (a big deal when the majority of the country still only had four channels) and they showed up the limitations of not having a band by having to play with the House band. A nervous Linnell massacres the accordion intro (go on Youtube, it's awful) and it went down hill from there. Apollo 18 is a weak album for Linnell. It was one of those rare times when he had no obvious single. Flans should have been less modest and pushed for "My Evil Twin" or "See the Constellation", which were both stronger lead off singles. They compounded the error of "Statue" by releasing The Guitar and Snail Shell as the next two consecutive singles (in the Uk at least), which effectively killed both this and John Henry, and saw the Giants retreat to their cult hardcore fans. It was no longer 1990. Grunge and then Britpop were the rock/pop idioms and the Giants a spent the rest of the 1990s in the Wilderness. Only Flans' energy kept them together.(Mr Tuck)
See, I always thought this was about someone who was going to go out with a girl, but he got stood up and was left waiting for her by a statue. When he says the statue got him high, he is being sarcastic because the girl was supposed to get him high but she didn't even turn up. He's also sort of comforting himself like- "it'll be alright, me and the statue". And at the end he's so pissed off he imagines that the statue tells him to burn a building down.
I always thought that it was about a guy being taken in by the police (or something like that) for being really high on something. He's so high, he thinks that the statue got him high. Perhaps him thinking he's burning is a side effect of his drugs, and saying that the statue will burn them is him threatening them for catching him. -SirNapkin
I always had this bizarre and probably erroneous notion that this song is about a Doctor Who story from the late70s/early80s called The Keeper Of Traken. Though I'm sure Mr L has probably never seen the Tom Baker story in question, the song describes some of the scenes in the programme very closely.
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