# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![MachV](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@MachV](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MachV)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/41 "2002-07-05T14:18:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sparrow \* > \*\*. . . . 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! \*\* I’ll have to call a techinal foul on that one… the crucial “I was” is missing. 😉 _A real live nephew of my uncle Sam Born on the Fourth of July_ ---
**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, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/42 "2002-07-05T14:27:06Z")
So odd many have been born to do THAT. What have you been been born to do? ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/43 "2002-07-05T15:17:59Z")
“… an American I was raised an American And I’ll die an American In America With Armenians.” - The Firesign Theatre ---
**Author:** ![sidle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@sidle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sidle)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/44 "2002-07-05T20:43:48Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by spooje \* …to love you …to lick your face …to rub you but you were born rub me first- Caddyshack [QUOTE] Let’s go for a swim, shall we? 😃 One of my favorite movie lines ever! ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/45 "2002-07-05T21:59:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Crepitus Fremitus \* > \*\*…one morning when the sun didn’t shine -? > \*\* Tennessee Ernie Ford (most famously), written in '46 by Merle Travis, released in '47. Ford covered it in 1955 on his NBC show, then released it later in the year as a B-side. > [@](#): > > _[from the official Tennesee Ernie Ford website](http://www.ernieford.com/Sixteen%20Tons.htm)_ > On October 17, Capitol shipped the new record nationwide, and to deejays around the country, confident that “Baby” would be a hit. But, inexplicably, radio stations coast to coast began ‘flipping’ the single and playing the B side. Purely by accident, music history was about to be made. > > In eleven days following its release, 400,000 singles are sold. Demand for the song was so great, that Capitol geared all its pressing plants nationwide to meet the deluge of orders. In Twenty-four days, over one million records were sold, and “Sixteen Tons” became the fastest-selling single in Capitol’s history. By November, it had captured the top spot on every major record chart in the country, and by December 15 (less than two months after it’s release) more than 2,000,000 copies were sold, making it the most successful single ever recorded. ---
**Author:** ![TridCloudwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@TridCloudwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TridCloudwalker)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2002, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/46 "2002-07-05T22:46:45Z")
“I was born ready.” ~Jack Burton (aka Kurt Russel in Big Trouble in Little China…among others who have used that phrase) ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2002, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/47 "2002-07-06T02:13:58Z")
. . .in the backseat of a Greyhound bus, rollin’ down Highway 41- (Allman Brothers) ---
**Author:** ![bibliophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@bibliophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophile)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2002, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/48 "2002-07-06T21:12:47Z")
…to love you like I do [Chris Isaak] ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2002, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/49 "2002-07-07T00:41:03Z")
…at half past one, almost two in the morning. (Etc., etc.) - Billy Bragg and Wilco (lyrics by Woody Guthrie), from _Mermaid Avenue II_ ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2002, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/50 "2002-07-07T01:42:24Z")
. . . to wander. [Rare Earth ?] . . . at night, but not last night. . . . with a silver coke spoon in my nose [anonymous] ---
**Author:** ![Minor\_Irritant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Minor\_Irritant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Minor_Irritant)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2002, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/51 "2002-07-07T02:06:44Z")
…under a wandering star. [Lee Marvin. Yes, Lee Marvin.] ---
**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 7, 2002, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/52 "2002-07-07T02:08:08Z")
Thanks Homebrew for the eduction re Sixteen Tons. That song’s been rattling around in my head for as long as I can remember. I’m glad I’m not the only one who’s been infected. ---
**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 7, 2002, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/53 "2002-07-07T02:08:32Z")
Thanks Homebrew for the education re Sixteen Tons. That song’s been rattling around in my head for as long as I can remember. I’m glad I’m not the only one who’s ever been infected. ---
**Author:** ![Granuaile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecccb3/32.png) [@Granuaile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Granuaile)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2002, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/54 "2002-07-07T07:35:36Z")
…on a Dublin street (Come Out Ye Black and Tans-Dominic Behan) ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2002, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/55 "2002-07-07T21:23:50Z")
…long ago, somethin somethin somethin something…but what I really want to know is…are you gonna go my way? I have a particular dislike for Lenny Kravitz but it was the first thing I thought when I saw the thread title. Oh well… ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2002, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/56 "2002-07-07T22:31:28Z")
“… in a ditch by a mother who left me there, naked and cold and too hungry to cry.” Dulcinea (Aldonza) in “Man of La Mancha.” ---
**Author:** ![KillerFig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/51bf81/32.png) [@KillerFig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KillerFig)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/57 "2002-07-08T03:59:32Z")
_…in the dirt I never had no home and the places I live you don’t wanna know but if you wanna meet evil, come a little bit close_ Danzig, “I’m the One” -KillerFig ---
**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 8, 2002, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/58 "2002-07-08T09:44:13Z")
…in a small town…and that’s probably where they’ll bury me –John Mellencamp ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2002, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/59 "2002-07-08T11:11:12Z")
… the next of kin, the next of kin to the wayward(?) wind. Title and performer long forgotten. **Mr. Motto,** _Lefty Frizzell_ is a name I haven’t heard since the mid 1950s. I wonder how many Dopers recognise it? ---
**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 8, 2002, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342/60 "2002-07-08T12:32:26Z")
Yep. Lefty Frizzell. Old country is the only country worth listening to. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-born/117342.md?page=4)