# Audiences chanting canned responses during specific songs – it bugs the hell out of me **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 29, 2014, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audiences-chanting-canned-responses-during-specific-songs-it-bugs-the-hell-out-of-me/696819 "2014-08-29T01:17:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audiences-chanting-canned-responses-during-specific-songs-it-bugs-the-hell-out-of-me/696819/21 "2014-08-29T19:02:59Z")
Parliament/Funkadelic “Think! Think! It ain’t illegal yet!” I don’t know if it was a regular thing at all concerts where they played Maggot Brain, but we had it going on for a while. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audiences-chanting-canned-responses-during-specific-songs-it-bugs-the-hell-out-of-me/696819/22 "2014-08-29T19:09:49Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > I’ve never heard any of these, except the Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer one. Which means either that I need to get out more, or that it’s a good thing for me that I don’t. Me neither. I’m going with “good thing,” personally. ---
**Author:** ![DChord568](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@DChord568](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DChord568)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audiences-chanting-canned-responses-during-specific-songs-it-bugs-the-hell-out-of-me/696819/23 "2014-08-29T19:17:01Z")
> [@DChord568](#): > > When Nick Swisher (an OSU alum) was acquired from The Yankees by the Cleveland Indians, he played up this tradition a lot, doing the O-H-I-O bit after every home run he hit. And it’s a between-innings scoreboard animation at every Indians home game. > [@ZipperJJ](#): > > They had been playing “Hang On Sloopy” in the 8th inning for several years before they were duped into hiring that broken-down charlatan. He had nothing to do with it. I never said he did, or that there was any connection between Swisher and the eighth-inning tradition. Just that he perpetuated the O-H-I-O bit for his own purposes. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audiences-chanting-canned-responses-during-specific-songs-it-bugs-the-hell-out-of-me/696819/24 "2014-08-29T19:53:52Z")
I can’t stand going to any Ben Folds shows anymore. All the morons who reply “Who the fuck are you?” during the intro to “Underground”, like on the _Naked Baby Pictures_ CD. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audiences-chanting-canned-responses-during-specific-songs-it-bugs-the-hell-out-of-me/696819/25 "2014-08-29T20:04:52Z")
Seven Drunken Nights. “Hey, Wife!” (What do you want, you sonofabitch?) ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audiences-chanting-canned-responses-during-specific-songs-it-bugs-the-hell-out-of-me/696819/26 "2014-08-29T20:25:05Z")
> [@DChord568](#): > > When Nick Swisher (an OSU alum) was acquired from The Yankees by the Cleveland Indians, he played up this tradition a lot, doing the O-H-I-O bit after every home run he hit. And it’s a between-innings scoreboard animation at every Indians home game. > [@ZipperJJ](#): > > They had been playing “Hang On Sloopy” in the 8th inning for several years before they were duped into hiring that broken-down charlatan. He had nothing to do with it. > [@DChord568](#): > > I never said he did, or that there was any connection between Swisher and the eighth-inning tradition. Just that he perpetuated the O-H-I-O bit for his own purposes. WELL…in case anyone gets that impression from your post, I want them to know that he didn’t have anything to do with it. And also he is an awful, over-paid baseball player. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audiences-chanting-canned-responses-during-specific-songs-it-bugs-the-hell-out-of-me/696819/27 "2014-08-29T21:26:07Z")
On his album \* My Son, the Nut, \* Allan Sherman sings “Headaches” to the tune of "Heartaches. " He starts the last line of the second verse, - Mother, don’t hand me those pills from the shelf, \* and the audience follows along for the rest of the line: - I’d rather do it myself! \* ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audiences-chanting-canned-responses-during-specific-songs-it-bugs-the-hell-out-of-me/696819/28 "2014-08-30T00:54:11Z")
> [@SpeedwayRyan](#): > > I’ve never heard the “Mony Mony” one, but the “Sweet Caroline” and “Margaritaville” versions always bug the shit out of me too. It doesn’t help that I’m not a big fan of either song or artist to begin with, but it just makes me cringe to hear the audience participation in both. We were at a cheap (OK, _free_) outdoor concert last week when the band kicked into Margaritaville (thanks for that, guys). The couple in front of us thought they were the Cutting Edge of Cool as they, on cue, pumped their fists in the air and exchanged stoopid grins as they bellowed ‘Salt! Salt! Salt!’. I wanted to crack their skulls together. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audiences-chanting-canned-responses-during-specific-songs-it-bugs-the-hell-out-of-me/696819/29 "2014-08-30T00:58:41Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > We were at a cheap (OK, _free_) outdoor concert last week when the band kicked into Margaritaville (thanks for that, guys). > > The couple in front of us thought they were the Cutting Edge of Cool as they, on cue, pumped their fists in the air and exchanged stoopid grins as they bellowed ‘Salt! Salt! Salt!’. > > I wanted to crack their skulls together. > mmm At what point: after “searching for my lost shaker of salt?” ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audiences-chanting-canned-responses-during-specific-songs-it-bugs-the-hell-out-of-me/696819/30 "2014-08-30T01:10:05Z")
> [@Accidental\_Martyr](#): > > “Sweet Home Alabama” > At University of Alabama football games and at bars in Tuscaloosa after _Sweet Home Alabama_ in the chorus the crowd responds with _Roll Tide Roll_! I love this one. ROLL TIDE ROLL! ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audiences-chanting-canned-responses-during-specific-songs-it-bugs-the-hell-out-of-me/696819/31 "2014-08-30T01:42:05Z")
Another one from the student section at University of Alabama football games during the chorus of “Dixieland Delight” by Alabama. _Spend my dollar (ON BEER), Parked in a holler ‘neath the mountain moonlight (ROLL TIDE), Hold her uptight (AGAINST THE WALL), Make a little lovin’ (ALL NIGHT), A little turtle dovin’ on a Mason Dixon night (FUCK AUBURN), Fits my life (AND LSU), oh so right (AND TENNESSEE, TOO), My Dixieland Delight._ ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2014, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audiences-chanting-canned-responses-during-specific-songs-it-bugs-the-hell-out-of-me/696819/32 "2014-08-30T03:14:58Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > At what point: after “searching for my lost shaker of salt?” Yep. mmm [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/audiences-chanting-canned-responses-during-specific-songs-it-bugs-the-hell-out-of-me/696819.md?page=1)