Original artwork, not a still
MIT wanted me, you know. Wanted me to rule the world for them.
— Help! ‧ 1965
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Foot is bragging in an over-the-top way: a famous technical university supposedly wanted the speaker, and not merely as a student but to run the world on its behalf. The humour is the puffed-up self-importance, hard to take entirely seriously.
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