# I was born... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 4, 2002, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342 "2002-07-04T10:58:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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 4, 2002, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/1 "2002-07-04T10:58:01Z")
…in a cross fire hurricane -stones …a ramblin man -almen bros …in a wagon in a travelin show -cher …with a plastic spoon in my mouth -who …one morning when the sun didn’t shine -? …to be wild -steppenwolf …to be alive -patrick hernadez Any more? ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/2 "2002-07-04T11:20:57Z")
…a poor black child - The Jerk …to love you …to lick your face …to rub you but you were born rub me first- Caddyshack …on the other side of a town ripped in two -Hedwig ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/3 "2002-07-04T11:26:15Z")
in Saginaw, Michigan - Lefty Frizzell ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/4 "2002-07-04T11:34:46Z")
… in a trunk in Pocatello, Idaho - Judy Garland ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/5 "2002-07-04T12:17:48Z")
…in 49, a cold war kid in McCarthy time. Stop 'em at the 38th parallel, blast those yellow Reds to hell. **Billy Joel** - _Leningrad_ ---
**Author:** ![CptHowdy65](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/73ab20/32.png) [@CptHowdy65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CptHowdy65)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/6 "2002-07-04T12:26:22Z")
on the bayou - CCR ---
**Author:** ![irish\_bill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ac91a4/32.png) [@irish\_bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irish_bill)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/7 "2002-07-04T12:28:06Z")
-under a bad sign. Albert King. ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/8 "2002-07-04T13:07:37Z")
-under a wandering star ---
**Author:** ![ShadowWarrior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7993a0/32.png) [@ShadowWarrior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowWarrior)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/9 "2002-07-04T13:23:40Z")
- in the USA - Springsteen I’m amazed no-one else beat me to this… ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/10 "2002-07-04T13:26:32Z")
_But…_ (one of the [best films ever made](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0023634)) ---
**Author:** ![gex\_gex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@gex\_gex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gex_gex)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/11 "2002-07-04T13:58:53Z")
_…son of Byford, brother of Al bad as my momma and Run’s my pal It’s McDaniels, not McDonald’s These rhymes are Darryl’s, those burgers are Ronald’s_ run dmc. ---
**Author:** ![robertliguori](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@robertliguori](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robertliguori)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/12 "2002-07-04T13:58:55Z")
I was hatched. Or possibly deincubated. ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/13 "2002-07-04T14:09:17Z")
“To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o’clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously” **David Copperfield** , by Charles Dickens ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/14 "2002-07-04T14:16:50Z")
_Okay … as long as we’re doing literary too …_ … in the house my father built. - Richard Nixon ---
**Author:** ![gex\_gex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@gex\_gex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gex_gex)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/15 "2002-07-04T14:29:36Z")
“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it.” **The Catcher in the Rye** , by JD Salinger. kinda relevant, i guess. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/16 "2002-07-04T14:46:29Z")
…an original sinner - eurhythmics ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/17 "2002-07-04T14:52:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ShadowWarrior \* > \*\*- in the USA - Springsteen > > I’m amazed no-one else beat me to this… \*\* or of the take off of the Springsteen classic and a reasonably funny movie… “…in East L.A.” - Cheech Marin ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/18 "2002-07-04T14:52:40Z")
… a king of fools - Social Distortion ---
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/19 "2002-07-04T15:36:17Z")
…in Chernoble. …under a blue moon. …in a Wal-Mart. …from a corpse (from the Manga **Berserk**. Not my own demensia) …with a gun in my hand. …with my horn in my hand. …with her brother’s penis in her hands (from **The House of Yes**. Again, not my demensia). …a walking, talking disaster. …on fire. …ready. …dead. ---
**Author:** ![scott\_evil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scott\_evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott_evil)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/20 "2002-07-04T16:40:29Z")
…in the wagon of a travellin’ show / My mama used to dance for the money they’d throw / Papa would do whatever he could - Cher, “Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342.md?page=2)