# Amusing Anachronistic Bits of Culture

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 1, 2016, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-anachronistic-bits-of-culture/758873 "2016-07-01T17:00:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2016, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-anachronistic-bits-of-culture/758873/81 "2016-07-08T01:02:26Z")

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> [@Lamia](#):
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> How high did “Atom Bomb Baby” chart in the 1950s? I’d never heard of it before this thread, and while I’m sure there are bona fide hits of the era that I’ve never heard of, neither the song nor the group that recorded it appears to even have a Wikipedia entry.

[The Fallout Wiki](http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/The_Five_Stars) has a pretty good entry on them. Doesn’t sound like any of their songs ever quite broke the Top 100. Can’t find any mention of “Atom Bomb Baby” that doesn’t redirect to _Fallout 4_.

In terms of contemporary pop songs that use imagery of nuclear war, The Postal Service’s [_We Will Become Silhouettes_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rKC7ElkTUQ) reached 82 on Billboard in 2005. Good song that gets a lot of mileage out of the incongruity of the poppy tune with the gruesome lyrics.

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**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2016, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-anachronistic-bits-of-culture/758873/82 "2016-07-08T11:21:24Z")

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Not popular culture, but I have a story of an amusing anachronism I experienced that I remembered when I read the title.

A few years ago my friend and I took our kids to an air show that featured old WWII bombers and also had a WWII battle recreation on the ground, with Sherman tanks, armored personnel carriers and actors/extras in authentic period uniforms. We managed to get fairly close to the action, and from where we were it appeared pretty authentic. I had an SLR camera with a 400x lens, so I got some nice closeups.

When I was looking at the pics I took on my computer later, one of the shots of soldiers in an open personnel carrier clearly showed two of the “WWII soldiers” viewing/texting on their phones in the heat of the “battle”. I guess you just can’t get good extras these days :rolleyes:

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**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2016, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/amusing-anachronistic-bits-of-culture/758873/83 "2016-07-08T12:18:41Z")

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How did Dion get away with complaining about that slut, Sue?

> [@](#):
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> Here’s my story,  
> It’s sad but true  
> It’s about a girl that I once knew  
> She took my love then ran around  
> With every single guy in town

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