# Best cocaine lines **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 17, 2003, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-cocaine-lines/207940 "2003-10-17T05:05:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-cocaine-lines/207940/41 "2003-10-17T22:38:13Z")
“She went around with a cat named Smokey She loved him even though he was cokey.” “Minnie the Moocher”-Cab Calloway ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-cocaine-lines/207940/42 "2003-10-17T22:52:16Z")
(As you might expect, the Rolling Stones are a rich source of material for this thread…) _Sweet cousin cocaine, lay your cool cool hands on my head Ah come on, Sister Morphine, you better make up my bed 'Cause you know and I know in the morning I’ll be dead You can sit around and you can watch all the clean white sheets stained red._ **Sister Morphine** - Rolling Stones _And there will always be a space in my parking lot When you need a little coke and sympathy_ **Let It Bleed** - Rolling Stones and from Beck… _one’s got on the pole shove the other in a bag with the rerun shows and the cocaine nose job_ **Loser** - Beck ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-cocaine-lines/207940/43 "2003-10-17T23:18:54Z")
He said he wanted heaven but prayin’ was too slow So he bought a one-way ticket on an airline made of snow Did you say you saw your good friend flyin’ low Snowblind Friend - Hoyt Axton [http://lyricsheaven.topcities.com/survey\_d\_k\_bestanden/Hoyt\_Axton.htm](http://lyricsheaven.topcities.com/survey_d_k_bestanden/Hoyt_Axton.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Dizzy\_Fingers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dizzy\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dizzy_Fingers)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-cocaine-lines/207940/44 "2003-10-17T23:27:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dr. Rieux \* > \*\*“She went around with a cat named Smokey > She loved him even though he was cokey.” > > “Minnie the Moocher”-Cab Calloway \*\* He took her down to Chinatown, Showed her how to kick the gong around. ---
**Author:** ![Dizzy\_Fingers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dizzy\_Fingers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dizzy_Fingers)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-cocaine-lines/207940/45 "2003-10-17T23:31:25Z")
C is for Coke, Not addictive, you say. You just use it to “cope” Twenty times ev’ry day. ``` - MAD Magazine, "The ABC of Drugs" ``` ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-cocaine-lines/207940/46 "2003-10-18T01:35:43Z")
_White honey, get it from the candyman, White honey, any time I think I can_ - Graham Parker ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2003, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-cocaine-lines/207940/47 "2003-10-18T12:18:29Z")
_May the bird of paradise fly up your nose_ - **Neal Merrit** recorded by Little Jimmy Dickens _Can’t get enough of sweet cocaine Get enough of Mary Jane I’m going on back where I come from Going running back home again_ - From ‘Over the Hill’ by **John Martyn** ---
**Author:** ![widdershins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2003, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-cocaine-lines/207940/48 "2003-10-19T01:12:51Z")
_Standin’ on the conrer of Fourth and Main Tryin’ to score some good cocaine Hey, Hey Baby take a whiff on me_ - “Take A Whiff On Me” by Leadbelly, but I know it from the Byrds. _Charle’s enormous nose, well, it’s all white The girl got a very large nose, but it’s all white It once was oaky But she been blowin’ it quite a bit_ - “Charlie’s Enormous Nose” by Frank Zappa “The first two lines were great, but the next ten years were hell.” - Don Imus ---
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2003, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-cocaine-lines/207940/49 "2003-10-19T01:48:41Z")
Off the ass of Bianca Jagger at Club 54 in 1977. whoa, what a rush that was. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2003, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-cocaine-lines/207940/50 "2003-10-19T01:56:33Z")
“It’s the 80s! Do a lot of coke and vote for Ronald Reagan!” -Mike Nelson “This is how much pure cocaine you’d need to enjoy this movie.” -Mike Nelson ---
**Author:** ![CurlyD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@CurlyD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CurlyD)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2003, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-cocaine-lines/207940/51 "2003-10-19T02:21:35Z")
They say cocaine’s for horses And not for men They say it’s gonna kill me But they don’t say when Cocaine Runnin’ all 'round my brain _Traditional_ ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2003, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-cocaine-lines/207940/52 "2003-10-19T05:25:19Z")
“They say cocaine intesifies your personality. But what if you’re an asshole?” –Bill Cosby ---
**Author:** ![Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2003, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-cocaine-lines/207940/53 "2003-10-19T06:51:41Z")
You went uptown riding in your limousine In your fine Park Avenue clothes You had a Dom Perignon in your hand And a spoon up your nose - **Billy Joel** , _Big Shot_ ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2003, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-cocaine-lines/207940/54 "2003-10-20T12:52:40Z")
You take Sally, I’ll take Jane, I’m looking for that girl that sells cocaine Cocaine Running all 'round my brain Well, I went down to my doctor He said son, it says here you’re 27 But that’s impossible You look like you could be…45 JB: I’ve got to take either more of it or less of it, I can’t decide. David Lindley: It takes a clear mind. JB: To take more of it of less of it? DL: No…it takes a clear mind…to make it. Tallulah Bankhead: Cocaine isn’t addictive. I should know, I’ve been taking it for years. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-cocaine-lines/207940.md?page=2)