# Come up with an inappropriate song for an event **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [January 4, 2021, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-an-inappropriate-song-for-an-event/929657 "2021-01-04T21:25:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-an-inappropriate-song-for-an-event/929657/41 "2021-01-06T22:17:17Z")
I think quite a few nonagenarians would be delighted by this, actually 😃 ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-an-inappropriate-song-for-an-event/929657/42 "2021-01-06T22:45:22Z")
I heard about a groom who suggested “Suicide is Painless” (the M.A.S.H\* theme song) for their wedding song. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-an-inappropriate-song-for-an-event/929657/43 "2021-01-06T22:52:08Z")
Freudian slip? ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-an-inappropriate-song-for-an-event/929657/44 "2021-01-06T23:05:55Z")
You mean “Suicide is Painless”? No, just a not-so-funny joke. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-an-inappropriate-song-for-an-event/929657/45 "2021-01-06T23:17:44Z")
Playing Taps as a suburban dude takes down and furls his Cadet Bonespurs flag. > ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-an-inappropriate-song-for-an-event/929657/46 "2021-01-07T01:36:18Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > Freudian slip? Klinger’s. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-an-inappropriate-song-for-an-event/929657/47 "2021-01-07T01:56:25Z")
I hate those Klingy slips. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-an-inappropriate-song-for-an-event/929657/48 "2021-01-07T02:51:14Z")
Try Woolite ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-an-inappropriate-song-for-an-event/929657/49 "2021-01-07T02:52:17Z")
Today at the Capitol: _Somebody Open The Door_ - Paul McCartney ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Incognito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guy_incognito/32/3920_2.png) [@Guy\_Incognito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Incognito)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-an-inappropriate-song-for-an-event/929657/50 "2021-01-07T20:42:59Z")
Bad choice for a Daddy / Daughter dance: _Girl, You’ll Be a Woman Soon_ Worse choice: _Crash Into Me_ ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-an-inappropriate-song-for-an-event/929657/51 "2021-01-07T22:52:17Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > Today at the Capitol … I can think of a Talking Heads song … ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-an-inappropriate-song-for-an-event/929657/52 "2021-01-07T22:53:00Z")
> [@Guy\_Incognito](#): > > Bad choice for a Daddy / Daughter dance: > > _Girl, You’ll Be a Woman Soon_ > > Worse choice: > > _Crash Into Me_ Also a terrible choice: _My Sharona_ _Don’t Stand So Close To Me_ ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Incognito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guy_incognito/32/3920_2.png) [@Guy\_Incognito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Incognito)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2021, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-an-inappropriate-song-for-an-event/929657/53 "2021-01-08T00:42:09Z")
Also a terrible choice: _My Sharona_ _Don’t Stand So Close To Me_ More bad choices: Anything by John Philip Sousa _Ballad of the Green Berets_ _The KKK Took My Baby Away_ ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2021, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-an-inappropriate-song-for-an-event/929657/54 "2021-01-08T00:44:53Z")
“$ 1000 Wedding”, well, for a wedding. The saddest song ever… [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiaCZ3KgJe8) ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2021, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-an-inappropriate-song-for-an-event/929657/55 "2021-01-08T00:46:11Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > My take on the Johnny Walker commercial was that Johnny will always be by your side; as long as you have Johnny Walker with you, you’ll never walk alone. Or drink alone, as George Thorogood put it. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2021, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-an-inappropriate-song-for-an-event/929657/56 "2021-01-08T04:21:16Z")
Posting this ad before someone else does. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/bp_jALfbwEU/hqdefault.jpg "Old Aiwa commercial: another one bites the dust | fixed sound") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp_jALfbwEU) ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2021, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-an-inappropriate-song-for-an-event/929657/57 "2021-01-09T03:21:54Z")
I always thought “Me and Mrs Jones” was about heroin. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2021, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-an-inappropriate-song-for-an-event/929657/58 "2021-01-09T18:01:39Z")
^ No, he has a Mrs. Jones jones. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/come-up-with-an-inappropriate-song-for-an-event/929657.md?page=2)