# I Was Eddie Cochran! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 5, 2019, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-eddie-cochran/828992 "2019-02-05T04:36:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-eddie-cochran/828992/21 "2019-02-06T01:07:31Z")
on Feb 2 1975, Ethiopian troops massacred 103 civilians in the village of Woki Duba, after driving Eritrean rebels from the town. So I guess i could be one of those masscred? ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-eddie-cochran/828992/22 "2019-02-06T01:21:45Z")
Apparently I wasn’t anyone famous. We’ll say I was Doreen Schmutter of Nicholasville, KY, grandmother of seven and terrible amateur painter, who died in a freak clothesline accident. Prove me wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-eddie-cochran/828992/23 "2019-02-06T03:37:27Z")
[This Website](https://www.whenwasiconceived.com/) gives the week you were possibly conceived as well as the #1 song, and #1 movie playing. Under the song title it says, “Maybe your parents were listening to this song while you were conceived?” and under the movie title it says, “Maybe this movie got your parents in the mood to conceive you?” The song playing while I was being conceived? “Alone Again (Naturally)” by Gilbert O’Sullivan :dubious: The movie? “Deliverance” :eek: As for my previous life, I can choose between two composers, one Jazz saxophonist, and one author and journalist. I’ll choose the last one. Jacques Gans, Dutch author and journalist ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-eddie-cochran/828992/24 "2019-02-06T05:09:52Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > I remember a joke Carlin did about reincarnation. > > “I suppose it would be nice if reincarnation were a reality, but 1 have problems with the math. At some point, originally, there must have been a time when there were only two human beings. They both died, and presumably their souls were reincarnated into two other bodies. But that still leaves us with only two souls. We now have nearly six billion people on the planet. Where are all the extra souls coming from? Is someone printing up souls? Wouldn’t that tend to lower their value?” I think there is some soulsplitting sometimes. It is all very mysterious. But I can attest that as a teenager I was filled with frustration and desire just like the themes of Eddie Cochran’s music. Also Eddie Cochran was popular in the late fifties and my age now is late-fifties. At some point you have to consider that maybe something more is going on here than mere coincidence. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-eddie-cochran/828992/25 "2019-02-06T13:04:51Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > I remember a joke Carlin did about reincarnation. > > “I suppose it would be nice if reincarnation were a reality, but 1 have problems with the math. At some point, originally, there must have been a time when there were only two human beings. They both died, and presumably their souls were reincarnated into two other bodies. But that still leaves us with only two souls. We now have nearly six billion people on the planet. Where are all the extra souls coming from? Is someone printing up souls? Wouldn’t that tend to lower their value?” John Brunner’s 1967 short story _the Vita-Nulls_ addresses the issue of what happens when human bodies exceeds the number of available souls. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-eddie-cochran/828992/26 "2019-02-06T14:58:10Z")
I was born 2 months early, so the conception date would have been May 25, 1954. The only person who died that day was [Robert Capa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Capa) ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-eddie-cochran/828992/27 "2019-02-06T16:05:23Z")
> [@Nobody](#): > > [This Website](https://www.whenwasiconceived.com/) gives the week you were possibly conceived as well as the #1 song, and #1 movie playing. Whoops, I was off by a month. Well, I’ve never claimed to be able to math. Looks like I was either “Jack Kiefer, 57, American mathematician, statistician, and pioneer of optimal design”, or “Dušan Popov, 79, Serbian-born Nazi spy who became a double agent for British intelligence”. Unless I was _exactly_ nine months, in which case I was “Melvyn Douglas, 80, American film actor, winner of two Oscars”. ---
**Author:** ![Edward\_The\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ce73a5/32.png) [@Edward\_The\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edward_The_Head)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-eddie-cochran/828992/28 "2019-02-06T16:06:16Z")
My grandfather died right around the time I was conceived. My daughter was conceived the same day my mother died. I’m kinda worried what might happen when my daughter conceives… :eek: ---
**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 6, 2019, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-eddie-cochran/828992/29 "2019-02-06T18:47:50Z")
I was soviet astrophysicist [Iosif Shklovsky](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iosif_Shklovsky). Hmm, interested in space and wrote a book called _Five Billion Vodka Bottles to the Moon_… seems reasonable. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-eddie-cochran/828992/30 "2019-02-06T19:09:15Z")
> [@Nobody](#): > > [This Website](https://www.whenwasiconceived.com/) gives the week you were possibly conceived as well as the #1 song, and #1 movie playing. > Under the song title it says, “Maybe your parents were listening to this song while you were conceived?” and under the movie title it says, “Maybe this movie got your parents in the mood to conceive you?” For me, the song was “Cathy’s Clown” by The Everly Brothers and the movie was Disney’s Pollyanna. Thanks for the horrifying visual of my parents bumping uglies to those. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2019, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-eddie-cochran/828992/31 "2019-02-06T23:07:12Z")
By the “subtract nine months from your birthdate” method, I was Admiral Oscar C. Badger II, who was the first U.S. Navy officer to set foot on Japanese soil after World War II. He died on November 30, 1958. According to the “When Was I Conceived?” site, the No. 1 song during my window of conception was “To Know Him Is to Love Him”, while the top film was _Cat on a Hot Tin Roof_. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2019, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-eddie-cochran/828992/32 "2019-02-07T16:07:18Z")
Apparently I’m Wally Cox, voice of Underdog and former roommate and friend of Marlon Brando. We’re both from Detroit. He died young… 48… that’s only two years away from me. _gulp_ ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2019, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-eddie-cochran/828992/33 "2019-02-07T17:32:01Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > Apparently I’m Wally Cox, voice of Underdog and former roommate and friend of Marlon Brando. We’re both from Detroit. He died young… 48… that’s only two years away from me. _gulp_ “There’s no need to fear…” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-was-eddie-cochran/828992.md?page=1)