# dalovindj snaps: Ice Cream Man Dead **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 15, 2002, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dalovindj-snaps-ice-cream-man-dead/103786 "2002-04-15T18:14:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dalovindj-snaps-ice-cream-man-dead/103786/21 "2002-04-16T18:18:50Z")
See, if it’s driving you crazy after two hours, what about the ice cream man who has to listen to it _all day every day_? Surely he must be insane. He must go home at night and weep tragic ice cream tears. Never mind the scary clown, beware the twitching ice cream man. ---
**Author:** ![Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dalovindj-snaps-ice-cream-man-dead/103786/22 "2002-04-16T18:24:20Z")
good. the fucker deserves the misery. I laugh at him weeping in his sleep. I can’t wait to see what awaits him in hell. somehow though, I am sure he is immune to the pain he inflicts. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2002, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dalovindj-snaps-ice-cream-man-dead/103786/23 "2002-04-16T19:11:57Z")
All the ice cream trucks around here seem to have replaced their “Turkey in the Straw” with “The Entertainer”, which is defiantely an improvement. ---
**Author:** ![Aleq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@Aleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aleq)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2002, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dalovindj-snaps-ice-cream-man-dead/103786/24 "2002-04-17T16:15:40Z")
Nope, sorry, “The Entertainer” is not an improvement. Of course, I have this little problem in that sometimes when I hear musical phrases over and over I have to find words with the same number of letters as notes in the phrase, then forever afterward I end up spelling as the song is going on. The first couple of bars of “The Entertainer” coincidentally have the same number of notes as the letters in my SCA name and it becomes pretty ugly in my head when the ice cream truck goes by… Okay, so my OCD is to blame but I still hate the ice cream truck… ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2002, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dalovindj-snaps-ice-cream-man-dead/103786/25 "2002-04-17T17:26:48Z")
In our neighborhood, it’s “I’m Popeye the Sailor Man” over and over and over and over and over… well, you know… I yearn for the good old days when the Good Humor Man drove his white truck down the street, just ringing his bells. Do they do that any longer?? ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2002, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dalovindj-snaps-ice-cream-man-dead/103786/26 "2002-04-17T18:41:45Z")
Ah Ha! I have broken the code! The IceCream Man uses his insipid tunes as a form of extortion! If not enough kids come out and buy something, he’ll orbit the block, making babies cry, children cringe, and strong men cower with his repetitive little tune! Only when the last possible quarter has be wrenched from the piggy banks of the poor defenseless children, will he move on, to wreak horror and destruction in a new neighborhood. The IceCream Man is a terrorist, plain and simple. If you don’t submit to his will, and surrender your hard-won change, he will bedevil you with childhood tunes and catchy hooks from movie soundtracks! We need an airstrike! International cooperation! An IceCream Crimes Tribunal! That’s what it’ll take to stop… ::Ominous music:: _The IceCream Man!_ ::/Ominous music:: ---
**Author:** ![PhiloVance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e19adc/32.png) [@PhiloVance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhiloVance)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2002, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dalovindj-snaps-ice-cream-man-dead/103786/27 "2002-04-17T18:48:56Z")
> [@](#): > > **That’s Crazy Ice Cream Joes: long beach freeway, firestone exit, southgate!** :D:D:D:D ---
**Author:** ![dalovindj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/65b543/32.png) [@dalovindj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalovindj)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2002, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dalovindj-snaps-ice-cream-man-dead/103786/28 "2002-04-17T19:22:45Z")
Not only must we irradicate Ice Cream Men, we must also erradicate those that harbour and support them. You are with us or against us: If you buy ice cream from a van you are supporting terrorism - do so at your own risk. These Ice Cream Men have formed an axis of evil that has spread to every corner of our great nation. It must end now. We will hunt you down. We will find you. And when we do, we will serve you with a justice colder and harder than any of your ice cream sandwiches. DaLovin’ Dj ---
**Author:** ![Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2002, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dalovindj-snaps-ice-cream-man-dead/103786/29 "2002-04-17T19:27:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by PhiloVance \* > \*\* > :D:D:D:D \*\* 😉 you _must_ be in southern Cali, eh? ---
**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2002, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dalovindj-snaps-ice-cream-man-dead/103786/30 "2002-04-17T19:34:48Z")
😃 ---
**Author:** ![PhiloVance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e19adc/32.png) [@PhiloVance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhiloVance)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2002, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dalovindj-snaps-ice-cream-man-dead/103786/31 "2002-04-18T05:37:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bad News Baboon \* > \*\* > 😉 > > you _must_ be in southern Cali, eh? \*\* Oh, yeah! If you wanna set of wheels, go see Cal. ;j ---
**Author:** ![Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dalovindj-snaps-ice-cream-man-dead/103786/32 "2002-04-23T16:51:11Z")
**PhiloVance** , everytime you eat at In N’ Out, know that I am throwing daggers of hate and envy your way! 😉 damn. Is Cal Worthington still alive??! ---
**Author:** ![Lucki\_Chaarms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lucki\_Chaarms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucki_Chaarms)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dalovindj-snaps-ice-cream-man-dead/103786/33 "2002-04-23T22:50:12Z")
I have seen their secret home base, and it is SCARY! Y’see, down south of Austin there’s a little row of warehouses. One of these warehouses is owned by a company that throws raves there, and one of them is the secret home base of the ice cream men. Every time I go to a party at the one warehouse, I have to pass the other., It’s a whole lot full of dented, ugly vans covered in stickers of outdated cartoon characters (Mario and the Ninja Turtles figure in heavily). They look SO EVIL! You wouldn’t believe how scary a big lot full of rundown rusted out vans made to look cheerful or something is. I seriously shudder every time I pass it. LC ---
**Author:** ![dalovindj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/65b543/32.png) [@dalovindj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalovindj)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2002, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dalovindj-snaps-ice-cream-man-dead/103786/34 "2002-04-24T18:34:49Z")
Sounds like a good first target in this branch of the war against terrorism. Address please? We’'ll hit them where it really hurts. DaLovin’ Dj ---
**Author:** ![Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2002, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dalovindj-snaps-ice-cream-man-dead/103786/35 "2002-04-24T21:18:52Z")
NO. we must hit harder. we must hit the “icecreamman records inc”(trademark) recording studios first. I am picturing musicians looking like ICP playing some really fucked up looking instruments. ---
**Author:** ![Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2002, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dalovindj-snaps-ice-cream-man-dead/103786/36 "2002-04-24T21:20:37Z")
but actually, I’d love the address…or a picture for my website! next time I visit the mama and the papa, I will stealthly take a picture! ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2002, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dalovindj-snaps-ice-cream-man-dead/103786/37 "2002-04-30T13:59:25Z")
> [@](#): > > [Cold shoulder for ice cream man](http://www.abc.net.au/news/justin/nat/newsnat-30apr2002-72.htm) > The Mr Softee van has been trawling the streets of Hartford, Connecticut, attracting young ice cream lovers for years. > > But their parents have had enough. Round here they play _Greensmeggingsleeves_. ---
**Author:** ![Redboss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8baadc/32.png) [@Redboss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Redboss)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2002, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dalovindj-snaps-ice-cream-man-dead/103786/38 "2002-05-02T01:49:32Z")
Greensleeves, with the volume turned up so loud that the thing that blows out, blew out long ago, and Greensleeves comes out with a distorted, raspy sound, woofer, tweeter all in tatters, and that tinkle tinkle tinkle… da da da da-ah da da da daa didi da da da da dah da dah over and over… well done you **ol’ lovin’ Deej** Redboss ---
**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2002, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dalovindj-snaps-ice-cream-man-dead/103786/39 "2002-06-14T02:05:48Z")
Lucki Chaarms, here’s a great prank for you to pull the next time you get bored. Seeing as you know where they keep the trucks, find some really loud, blaring, obscene music and replace the Disney Theme Songs. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![sidle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@sidle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sidle)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2002, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dalovindj-snaps-ice-cream-man-dead/103786/40 "2002-06-14T13:40:40Z")
> [@](#): > > - originally posted by Tranquilis\* > It could be worse. He could’ve spent the entire f\*cking day orbiting your block playing “Turkey In The Straw”. Gah! Is that the default ditty built into an ice cream truck? I was **completely** shocked and amazed when I visited my parents in Hawkinsville, Ga, and the ice cream truck played the same freak song, “Turkey in the Straw”, as the one in Charleston. Mom said, “You don’t get out much, do you?” 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dalovindj-snaps-ice-cream-man-dead/103786.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dalovindj-snaps-ice-cream-man-dead/103786.md?page=3)