# Grandson of the Song Game Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 17, 2002, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373 "2002-07-17T07:16:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![bibliophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@bibliophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophile)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2002, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/101 "2002-07-18T01:07:00Z")
Oh boy. I think that’s my first simulpost! But, what happens now? Is it team 2’s turn? ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2002, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/102 "2002-07-18T01:25:34Z")
Yes. Was it good for you? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Lucy\_Shoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ea5d25/32.png) [@Lucy\_Shoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucy_Shoe)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2002, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/103 "2002-07-18T02:03:35Z")
**Team 2** **One** is the loneliest number That you’ll ever do **Two** can be as bad as **one** It’s the loneliest number since the number **one** Harry Nillson - One is the loneliest Number ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2002, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/104 "2002-07-18T02:16:22Z")
\*_Team One_ Chug A Lug, Roger Miller _Jukebox and sawdust floor Something like I ain’t never seen Heck, I’m just goin’ on fifteen But with the help of my finaglin’ uncle I get snuck in For my first taste of sin I said, “let me have a big ol’ sip…” Brrrrr…I done a double back flip_ ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2002, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/105 "2002-07-18T03:02:16Z")
**Team 2** \*Roeena was an artist’s daughter, the deeper image shook her up. Dee-dee’s mother left her father, took his money and his truck. Debbie-Rae had no such problems, perfect Norman Rockwell home. Nina, **sixteen** , had a baby, left her parents, lived alone. Bobbie joined a new-wave band, and changed her name to Bobbie-sox. Eloise, who played guitar, sang songs about whales and cops. Terri didn’t give a shit, just a nihilist. Ronnie was much more my style, she wrote songs just like this. Jezebel went forty days drinking nothing but Perrier. Dinah drove her Chevrolet into the San Francisco bay. Judy came from O-hi-o, she’s a Scientologist. Pomerante, here’s a kiss, I chose you to end this list. **Eighty-eight** lines about **forty-four** women.\* 88 Lines About 44 Women - Campbell & The Nails ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2002, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/106 "2002-07-18T03:06:49Z")
**Team One** My Uncle Used To Love Me But She Died, Roger Miller _who’ll bid me quarter, thirty cents for a ring of keys three sixty-five for a dollar bill of groceries I’ll have me a car of my own someday but 'til then I need a ride my uncle used to love me but she died_ ---
**Author:** ![Crepitus\_Fremitus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19adc/32.png) [@Crepitus\_Fremitus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crepitus_Fremitus)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2002, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/107 "2002-07-18T04:16:35Z")
Uhhhhh, guys: > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tlw \* > \*\* > > Team 1: > > _ **99** Luftballons > Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont > Hielt man fuer UFOs aus dem All > Darum schickte ein General > Eine Fliegerstaffel hinterher > Alarm zu geben, wenn es so war > Dabei war da am Horizont > Nur **99** Luftballons_ > > _99 Luftballons_ - Nena \*\* > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ShibbOleth \* > \*\*You should have made it prime numbers greater than one. > > (Shibb, who is too lazy to go back through the thread and see which entries have already been done) > > \*Hast Du etwas Zeit fuer mich > Dann singe ich ein Lied fuer Dich > Von **neun-und-neunzig** Luftballons > Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont > Denkst Du vielleicht grad’ an mich > Dann singe ich ein Lied fuer Dich > Von **neun-und-neunzig** Luftballons > Und dass sowas von sowas kommt > \* > > 99 Luftballons - Nena \*\* …and both are even the German versions. 'Cmon, if one had been English or Yiddish, then maybe. _ **Ch-ching!** _ 🙂 This is **Team 1** ’s screw up, which \*wuz[i/] my team…but , well, ya know, I switched in my mind before this happened, just to even things up. 😉 So, what now? ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2002, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/108 "2002-07-18T04:23:28Z")
Is that Team One or Team Two’s screwup? **Shibb** doesn’t list a team in the post with the Nena song, but in his most recent post, he’s on Team Two. ---
**Author:** ![Crepitus\_Fremitus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19adc/32.png) [@Crepitus\_Fremitus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crepitus_Fremitus)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2002, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/109 "2002-07-18T04:23:56Z")
I guess that makes it **Team 1** 😃 🙂 🙂 **Team 2** 😃 🙂 🙂 🙂 (1 😃 = 10 🙂 ) And it would be **Team 2** ’s turn to pick a word. Yes? ---
**Author:** ![Crepitus\_Fremitus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19adc/32.png) [@Crepitus\_Fremitus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crepitus_Fremitus)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2002, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/110 "2002-07-18T04:26:09Z")
In that case, I swich back again 😉 I assumed it was Team 1, cause it came after Team 2, but you have a point. ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2002, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/111 "2002-07-18T04:29:28Z")
So now Team 2 picks the next word or theme. There are less than two hours remaining to complete this task before the game reverts back to Team 1 and the scores even up again… :: humming Mission Impossible theme :: ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2002, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/112 "2002-07-18T04:31:09Z")
The times between **Lucy** ’s and **Shibb** ’s posts are close enough that it may have been a simulpost. And **JBERGES** probably assumed it was a Team One post as well. Is **Shibb** around to clarify the matter of his team affiliation? ---
**Author:** ![Crepitus\_Fremitus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19adc/32.png) [@Crepitus\_Fremitus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crepitus_Fremitus)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2002, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/113 "2002-07-18T04:42:19Z")
:smack: I think **Kat** ’s right–just 90 min ago **Shibb** posted for **team 2** I shoulda noticed that. Seems that makes him a **2** ’er. ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2002, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/114 "2002-07-18T05:46:07Z")
So that means that it’s actually team 1’s point, and we’re up to pick the next word/theme. This is getting terribly confusing. I’ll go out on a limb here and say that the score now stands as this: **Team 1** 😃 🙂 🙂 🙂 **Team 2** 😃 🙂 🙂 and we’re up, though I chose the theme last time around. Should I pick another, since time is rather of the essence? (And since Team 2 hasn’t shown up in a while anyway?) If so, I’ll go with **emotions**. Team **One** : _It’s just another **sad** love song Rackin’ my brain like crazy Guess I’m all torn up_ _Another **Sad** Love Song_ - Toni Braxton ---
**Author:** ![Crepitus\_Fremitus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19adc/32.png) [@Crepitus\_Fremitus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crepitus_Fremitus)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2002, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/115 "2002-07-18T06:04:57Z")
Thanks for taking the initiative **tlw**. I spent the last 90 min trying to pry my foot outa my mouth. (Mmmmmm…wingtips). Anyways, enough with the acolades _ **EMOTIONS!!** _ Why not pick songs with _“the”_ in em. I mean, we’re gonna be here… Aw, shucks. **Team 2** (I’ll STAY on Team 2, since they seem to need players) _Shiny **Happy** people holding hands…_ 🙂 REM ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2002, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/116 "2002-07-18T06:26:28Z")
**Team One** Angry All The Time, Tim McGraw \*I don’t know why you’ve gotta be _angry all the time_ ---
**Author:** ![Crepitus\_Fremitus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19adc/32.png) [@Crepitus\_Fremitus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crepitus_Fremitus)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2002, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/117 "2002-07-18T07:31:56Z")
**Team 2** _Walking in the pouring rain Walking with Jesus and Jane Jane was in a turtleneck I was much **happier** then_ Brand New Friend–Lloyd Cole and the Comotions ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2002, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/118 "2002-07-18T07:35:13Z")
Team **1** : _I’m only **happy** when it rains I’m only **happy** when it’s complicated_ _Only **Happy** When It Rains_ - Garbage ---
**Author:** ![Stiletto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@Stiletto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stiletto)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2002, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/119 "2002-07-18T07:50:05Z")
**Team 2** > [@](#): > > Now above and beyond the roofs of our city > The sunset spreads silent and gold > And we’re passing the time not thinking about you > Lost in our own little world > Well the other night we put the radio on > When we ran out of things we could say > But it always plays **love** songs when you’re far away > Forget all the lies, forget all the trouble > Forget all the things that I’ve done > And please believe like I still believe > The best is yet to come, the truth is yet to come Lovesongs - **New Model Army** ---
**Author:** ![Crepitus\_Fremitus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19adc/32.png) [@Crepitus\_Fremitus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crepitus_Fremitus)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2002, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373/120 "2002-07-18T07:50:50Z")
**Team 2** - Well there was Barney McGee from the banks of the Lee, There was Hogan from County Tyrone There was John D McGurk who was **scarred** stiff of work And the the bos’n was PT Malone\* The Irish Rover—The Irish Rovers [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/grandson-of-the-song-game-thread/119373.md?page=7)