# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/21 "2002-07-04T17:43:03Z")
…in the desert, raised in a lion’s den my number-one occupation: stealing women from their men ---
**Author:** ![Daerlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Daerlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daerlyn)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/22 "2002-07-04T17:46:23Z")
They say you’re born in sin – _Blaze of Glory_, Bon Jovi ---
**Author:** ![Katisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bcef8e/32.png) [@Katisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Katisha)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/23 "2002-07-04T17:53:37Z")
…about three of the clock in the afternoon, with a white head and something a round belly. (Falstaff, _Henry IV part II_) …to speak all mirth and no matter. (Beatrice, _Much Ado About Nothing_) …free as Caesar; so were you… (Cassius, _Julius Caesar_) …so high, / Our aery buildeth in the cedar’s top, / And dallies with the wind and scorns the sun. (Richard III) And of course… “The time is out of joint; O cursed spite, That ever I was born to set it right!” (Hamlet) Shakespeare search engines gooood… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MachV](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@MachV](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MachV)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/24 "2002-07-04T22:37:10Z")
…my Papa’s son - ZZ Top ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2002, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/25 "2002-07-04T23:14:01Z")
(while pinching my tongue) “on an apple ship” ---
**Author:** ![peepthis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@peepthis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peepthis)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/26 "2002-07-05T00:10:52Z")
I thought it was (while pinching your tongue) “on a pirate ship”? ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/27 "2002-07-05T00:27:09Z")
…in a Petrie dish, in Labratory, Pennsylvania. --Dr. Science (anyone else remember that show?) ---
**Author:** ![Kyomara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8edcca/32.png) [@Kyomara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyomara)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/28 "2002-07-05T00:30:03Z")
…long ago. I am the chosen, I’m the one. --Lenny the Village Idiot …to make you happy. --Randy Newman …to be my baby, Baby, I was made to be your man. --J. B. Jovi ---
**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 5, 2002, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/29 "2002-07-05T00:52:56Z")
…a coal miner’s daughter Or the SNL verision with Gilda Radner in India …a cow minder’s daughter I wasn’t born, so much as I fell out ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/30 "2002-07-05T01:25:06Z")
…the nurses all gathered 'round They gazed in wide wonder At the joy they had found The head nurse spoke up Said “Leave this one alone.” She could tell right away I was bad to the bone. –George Thoroughgood ---
**Author:** ![welby1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@welby1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/welby1)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/31 "2002-07-05T02:02:21Z")
. . .yesterday. ---
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/32 "2002-07-05T10:32:32Z")
Born, not asked. Laurie Anderson (?) ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/33 "2002-07-05T12:18:54Z")
“I was born in the back of a wooden radio The humming of the tubes taught me how to purr I’d listen to the DJ and dreamed that I could be one While Momma licked my fur…” – “I wanna be a DJ on the radio,” Ren of Ren & Stimpy [**Chrome Spot** , great post!] ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/34 "2002-07-05T12:20:21Z")
Oops, was referring to your first post about the Grateful Dead… :\> ---
**Author:** ![Sparrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Sparrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparrow)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/35 "2002-07-05T12:43:25Z")
. . . . on the fourth of July! (Yankee Doodle Dandy) - I can’t believe no-one got that one yet. It took a Brit to tell you! ---
**Author:** ![Opengrave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/919ad9/32.png) [@Opengrave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Opengrave)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/36 "2002-07-05T13:51:43Z")
I’m not sure if this was the same one that **El Elvis** was thinking. … the son of a lawless man Always spoke my mind with a gun in my hand Lived nine lives Gunned down ten Gonna ride like the wind - **Christopher Cross** I wasn’t born so much as I fell out - **The Clash** ---
**Author:** ![tetsusaru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f14d63/32.png) [@tetsusaru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tetsusaru)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/37 "2002-07-05T13:56:09Z")
I was saying “Let me out here” Before I was even born It`s such a gamble when you get a face Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Blank Generation Top that for obscurity. ---
**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 5, 2002, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/38 "2002-07-05T14:04:22Z")
_…right here, november '43 my dad was a captain in the army fighting the germans in sicily_ -randy neman, _land of dreams_ ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/39 "2002-07-05T14:07:23Z")
He was born in Oklahoma His wife’s name is Betty Jo Thelma Liz. He’s not responsible for what he’s doing; His mother made him what he is. Close enough? ---
**Author:** ![wikkidpis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f05b48/32.png) [@wikkidpis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wikkidpis)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/40 "2002-07-05T14:15:36Z")
… to lose (Jerry Lee Lewis- who did the original version?) … to do dishes (The Queers) … to run (Bruce Springsteen) … to be bad (The Runaways/ Joan Jett) … blind (Sonny Boy Williamson) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342.md?page=3)