…Red China, Johnny Ray, South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe Dimaggio.
So can we go ahead and do the rest of the song and get this over with?
Song?
What Song?
::sigh :: That’s it. Since the pursuit of inordinate sexual activity doesn’t seem to be working out for me, I’m taking up heavy drinking.
We didn’t start the fire, CLICK!
::hits skip button. Cues up Downeaster Alexa::
You’d prefer to discuss Fairground Attraction lyrics? That particular song holds bad memories for me, but hell, anything’s better than Billy Joel.
So while we’re on the subject, who was that “World Famous Incognito Violinist”?
Itzhak Perlman. Apparently there was some kind of licensing conflict with the record companies whereby he couldn’t be credited on the album.
And hey, don’t diss my man Billy! (Have you heard all his music, or just what gets on the radio? If just the “hits,” then you’re missing out on his best stuff.
Whew! For a minute there I thought this was just a list of things older than me.
Some things that DID NOT make the list:
The Beatles
Color Television Broadcasting
The Kennedy-Nixon Debates
Most of the appliances in my kitchen, except the fridge and the stove.
A few more things that DID make the list:
Gary, Indiana
The chicken or the egg, whichever came first.
The mass extinction at the KT boundary.
Helium.
something Berlin, Bay of Pigs Invasion
Lawrence of Arabia, British beats Rumania
Old Mr. John Glenn something something Palestine…
In case anyone looking in this thread actually wants all the lyrics:
(From Eutychus55 : except, of course, they’re copyrighted, so we really can’t reprint the entire thing here.)
We Didn’t Start The Fire
(Joel)
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnny Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
(From E55 
etc.
[Edited by Eutychus55 on 12-10-2000 at 06:37 AM]
Some new lyrics courtesy of SkinnyGuy…
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=43476