# I guess they had never heard the Piña Colada Song **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 7, 2005, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-they-had-never-heard-the-pina-colada-song/288796 "2005-02-07T13:58:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lee/32/7455_2.png) [@lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lee)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-they-had-never-heard-the-pina-colada-song/288796/1 "2005-02-07T13:58:42Z")
[This couple](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1517&e=7&u=/afp/afplifestylejordan) did not react the same way as the people in the song. I wonder if they like Piña Coladas. I do know the song is titled _Escape_. ---
**Author:** ![Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bites_when_provoked/32/18073_2.png) [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bites_When_Provoked)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-they-had-never-heard-the-pina-colada-song/288796/2 "2005-02-07T14:37:46Z")
I’m guessing from the way that article ended that they \*didn’t \* end up making love at midnight in the dunes off the Cape. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-they-had-never-heard-the-pina-colada-song/288796/3 "2005-02-07T18:06:05Z")
Why can’t it be that I’ve never heard that song? I hates it. ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-they-had-never-heard-the-pina-colada-song/288796/4 "2005-02-07T18:57:13Z")
I’m too lazy to click the link. Can someone tell me whether or not either party was into yoga? I am guessing, just from the tone of the thread that neither had half a brain. I could be wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-they-had-never-heard-the-pina-colada-song/288796/5 "2005-02-07T19:08:21Z")
Jordanians meet in online chatroom, fall in love, agree to meet, only to discover that they’re already married. Divorce ensues. No word on yoga, but it must be presumed to be unlikely. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_H](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@Bill\_H](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_H)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-they-had-never-heard-the-pina-colada-song/288796/6 "2005-02-07T19:21:39Z")
From the article: > [@](#): > > Upon seeing Sanaa-alias-Jamila, Bakr-alias-Adnan turned white and screamed at the top of his lungs: “You are divorced, divorced, divorced” – the traditional manner of officially ending a marriage in Islam. Screaming disturbing words at the top of your lungs is how it’s traditionally done in many cultures. ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-they-had-never-heard-the-pina-colada-song/288796/7 "2005-02-07T19:44:16Z")
Huh. Didn’t see that one comin’. ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-they-had-never-heard-the-pina-colada-song/288796/8 "2005-02-07T19:49:06Z")
Anyone else have this song stuck in their heads now? _bahmp - bwah-da bahmp - duhhhhh - bahmp - bwah-da bahmp_ ---
**Author:** ![Susie\_Derkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Susie\_Derkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susie_Derkins)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2005, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-they-had-never-heard-the-pina-colada-song/288796/9 "2005-02-07T21:28:21Z")
The Sanford and Son theme? Yeah, but I’m not sure why… ---
**Author:** ![PastAllReason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@PastAllReason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastAllReason)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-they-had-never-heard-the-pina-colada-song/288796/10 "2005-02-08T00:09:30Z")
So no meeting at O’Malley’s I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-they-had-never-heard-the-pina-colada-song/288796/11 "2005-02-08T00:26:09Z")
They appear to be interested in neither health food nor into champagne. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-they-had-never-heard-the-pina-colada-song/288796/12 "2005-02-08T02:22:12Z")
Is it midnight yet? ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-they-had-never-heard-the-pina-colada-song/288796/13 "2005-02-08T02:36:40Z")
Although I’m nobody’s poet, I thought these replies weren’t half bad. (hmmm … will the mods close this thread if the complete lyrics eventually get posted, or at least paraphrased?) ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-they-had-never-heard-the-pina-colada-song/288796/14 "2005-02-08T02:58:41Z")
I can’t get this out of my head: Do you like Pina coladas And getting caught in Bahrain … ---
**Author:** ![Nawth\_Chucka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nawth\_Chucka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nawth_Chucka)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-they-had-never-heard-the-pina-colada-song/288796/15 "2005-02-08T03:06:58Z")
> [@Susie Derkins](#): > > The Sanford and Son theme? Yeah, but I’m not sure why… You’re channeling me, Susie, sorry. It’s been on permanent repeat in my melon since last year when my local cheapie Detroit Channel 20 brought it back to the 11-something slot. I fell asleep on the couch during the late news, woke up around 2am and its superfly funk bass has been popping up during my workdays ever since. Could be worse, could be that damnable Christmas Hippo song. Funnily enough, when I clicked on the OP link an ad accompanied the story for online personals, hee hee. ---
**Author:** ![CaveMike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cavemike/32/16379_2.png) [@CaveMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaveMike)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-they-had-never-heard-the-pina-colada-song/288796/16 "2005-02-08T03:59:24Z")
No _American Pie_ either? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-they-had-never-heard-the-pina-colada-song/288796/17 "2005-02-08T04:04:03Z")
They could have been in a worse Rupert Holmes song. Timothy, anyone? ---
**Author:** ![PastAllReason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@PastAllReason](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastAllReason)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-they-had-never-heard-the-pina-colada-song/288796/18 "2005-02-08T04:09:08Z")
There were other Rupert Holmes songs?! ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-they-had-never-heard-the-pina-colada-song/288796/19 "2005-02-08T04:13:33Z")
It’s a great fight song. And if I ever find that Singapore whore that bit my nose off…! ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-they-had-never-heard-the-pina-colada-song/288796/20 "2005-02-08T04:20:52Z")
Nobody hates that song more than me. Nobody. You may think your hatred for that song is great. Maybe your hatred for that song burns with the heat of 10,000 suns. Even if that is the case, your hatred of that song is a mere bit of interstellar matter in my Universe of Hate for that song. I really hate that song. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-they-had-never-heard-the-pina-colada-song/288796.md?page=2)