# Answering questions in songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 25, 2006, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answering-questions-in-songs/358256 "2006-05-25T23:40:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answering-questions-in-songs/358256/21 "2006-05-26T13:52:11Z")
“Did you ever have to make up your mind?” Um, let me think about that… ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answering-questions-in-songs/358256/22 "2006-05-26T13:56:57Z")
“What’s love got to do with it?” Nothing. Take your $20 and go. ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answering-questions-in-songs/358256/23 "2006-05-26T13:58:42Z")
How many roads must a man travel down before they call him a man? Homer: 7! Lisa: Dad, that’s a rhetorical question! Homer: Rhetorical eh? 8! ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answering-questions-in-songs/358256/24 "2006-05-26T13:58:58Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > Prompted by, when hearing the Beatles line “Will you still need me… will you still feed me… when I’m sixty-four?”, my (mental) answer of “[Nope](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060517/ap_en_mu/people_mccartney)”. I used to do that song but my interpertation changed as time passed. Now it’s “When I get older losing my hair, _several years ago_” ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answering-questions-in-songs/358256/25 "2006-05-26T13:59:50Z")
Why do birds suddenly appear, every time you are near? Cause I stuff my crotch with birdseed. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answering-questions-in-songs/358256/26 "2006-05-26T14:04:23Z")
_Have you never been mellow?_ Once, a few weeks ago, when my doctor gave me a mg. of Ativan. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answering-questions-in-songs/358256/27 "2006-05-26T14:06:00Z")
😃 Great thread! Does This Bus Stop at 82nd Street? contains the gem " The Daily News asks her for the dope She says “Man, the dope’s that there’s still hope”. " Who put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp? _[The Barn Owl Monitoring Programme](http://www.sentex.net/~tntcomm/kwfn/BarnOwlRecoveryProgrammeOntario.html) seems to be run by Ontarians._ Who put the ram in the rama lama ding dong? _Ewe did?_ Who put the bop in the bop shoo bop shoo bop? _Cyndi Lauper, she bops._ Who put the dip in the dip da dip da dip? _It’s really just Velveeta and salsa, microwaved._ ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answering-questions-in-songs/358256/28 "2006-05-26T15:30:53Z")
Can’t you see, what that woman been doin’ to me? [John Wayne Bobbit] She been choppin’ off my freakin’ penis! [/JWB] ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answering-questions-in-songs/358256/29 "2006-05-26T15:38:26Z")
“Won’t you tell me…where have all the good times gone?” If you think they’re bad now, just wait until Dave leaves the band… ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answering-questions-in-songs/358256/30 "2006-05-26T15:41:05Z")
Whatever happened to Fay Wray? _she got fucked by a 50-foot ape…_ ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answering-questions-in-songs/358256/31 "2006-05-26T15:44:59Z")
Okay, it’s not really a question, but I get into an argument with Mick Jagger every time I hear that certain song… MICK: TIIIIiiiiIIIiiiime is on my side. ME: No it isn’t. MICK: Yes it is! ME: NO IT ISN’T! Well _my daughter_ thinks it’s funny. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answering-questions-in-songs/358256/32 "2006-05-26T15:53:53Z")
_But what I really want to know is… Are you gonna go my way?_ I don’t pick up hitchhikers. ---
**Author:** ![thwartme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@thwartme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thwartme)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answering-questions-in-songs/358256/33 "2006-05-26T15:56:41Z")
> [@Kizarvexius](#): > > Well _my daughter_ thinks it’s funny. I think it’s funny, too, and with your permission will begin annoying people with it at the earliest oppotunity. _Do you believe in magic, in a young girl’s heart?_ No. It’s just a cardio-pulminary specialist who happens to be good at sleight of hand. _Baby, baby, can’t you hear my heart beat?_ No, the cardio-pulminary specialist is talking too loud. ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answering-questions-in-songs/358256/34 "2006-05-26T16:00:26Z")
Now it can be told: I, **E. Thorp** , am the man who: [ul] [li]put the bomp in the bomp-bomp-bomp[/li][li]put the ram in the ram-a-lam-a-ding-dong[/li][li]put the bop in the bop-she-bop-she-bop[/li][li]put the dip in the dip-di-dip-di-dip[/li][/ul] You may shake my hand if you like. ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answering-questions-in-songs/358256/35 "2006-05-26T17:27:32Z")
> [@thwartme](#): > > I think it’s funny, too, and with your permission will begin annoying people with it at the earliest oppotunity. Go and spread the word, with my blessings. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answering-questions-in-songs/358256/36 "2006-05-26T17:27:46Z")
Frankie Lymon: “Why do fools fall in love?” Because they’re fools. Hmph. [/bitter] ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answering-questions-in-songs/358256/37 "2006-05-26T17:37:51Z")
Q: Don’t you want Somebody to Love? A: Sure, that’d be nice. Q: Don’t you need Somebody to Love? A: Well, I can always use my hand in a pinch. Q: Wouldn’t you love Somebody to Love? A: Didn’t you just ask me that? Q: Are You Experienced? Have you ever been experienced? A: Well, I have been in the past, but not now. (I don’t smoke that funny stuff anymore.) Q: Who Knows Where the Time Goes? A: I know! It goes [here](http://www.fotos.org/galeria/data/520/3Salvador-Dali-Persistence-Of-Memory.jpg)! ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answering-questions-in-songs/358256/38 "2006-05-26T17:54:18Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Why do birds suddenly appear, every time you are near? > > Cause I stuff my crotch with birdseed. That is vert wierd, twisted, and funny. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answering-questions-in-songs/358256/39 "2006-05-26T18:04:43Z")
“Does anybody really know what time it is?” Yeah sure it’s a couple minutes past one. “Does anybody really care?” HEY!! …Screw you , you sarcastic jerk. ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2006, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answering-questions-in-songs/358256/40 "2006-05-26T18:06:57Z")
Woman , woah, Woman, have you got cheating on your mind?" What’s the signal for “bid hearts” again? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answering-questions-in-songs/358256.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/answering-questions-in-songs/358256.md?page=3)