# Ice Ice baby **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 23, 2002, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-ice-baby/110573 "2002-05-23T22:52:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-ice-baby/110573/1 "2002-05-23T22:52:57Z")
Yep, Vanilla ice will be visiting Cleveland to play this june 12th. I’m a goin. Weird, though, it says 21 and over only. Maybe his musice is too “mature” for youngsters…😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Green\_Fool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@Mr.Green\_Fool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Green_Fool)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-ice-baby/110573/2 "2002-05-23T23:10:14Z")
Last time he was in Seattle it was 21 and up… because it was at a club! Not that odd really. Alot of acts play clubs and bars that have age limits. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-ice-baby/110573/3 "2002-05-23T23:10:26Z")
In case you don’t know yet, I’ll be the one to warn you: He’s rap metal now. Definitely not the same smooth operator you remember from the robbed-at-Oscar-time film _Cool as Ice_. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-ice-baby/110573/4 "2002-05-23T23:29:04Z")
robbed-at-Oscar-time ! LOL heh As long as he sing Ice Ice baby, which is my favorite song. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-ice-baby/110573/5 "2002-05-23T23:41:10Z")
Would it be weird of me to reveal that when I was in high school, some friends and I went to a sound studio place, and recorded ourselves singing Ice Ice Baby? What? Why are you laughing? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2002, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-ice-baby/110573/6 "2002-05-23T23:45:36Z")
This is all so, so wrong. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-ice-baby/110573/7 "2002-05-24T00:53:18Z")
My friends and I used to walk down the street and sing Ice Ice Baby. Sometimes we’d make up words and sing Lice Lice Baby. ---
**Author:** ![easy\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb8c5e/32.png) [@easy\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/easy_e)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-ice-baby/110573/8 "2002-05-24T03:51:00Z")
Ahh, Vanilla Ice. My parents refused to let me get his tape, because there were “swear words on it.” Yeah, I went to a public school, we had free cable, and my dad can be quite expressive in his word choices. I _never_ heard those words before :rolleyes: Funny thing–one of the first mp3’s I ever got off Napster was “Ice, Ice Baby.” So, I guess I showed you, Dad! 😛 And I’ve seen the Vanilla Ice Behind the Music a couple times. Guilty pleasures, I say. ---
**Author:** ![pezpunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@pezpunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pezpunk)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-ice-baby/110573/9 "2002-05-24T12:22:36Z")
'nilla ice… the man, the myth. If he would go on tour with Color me bad I would be sooooo excited! 😛 **Vanilla** , for the record you now officially scare me 🙂 ---
**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:** [May 24, 2002, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-ice-baby/110573/10 "2002-05-24T12:30:22Z")
Oh my GOD I just figured out who vanilla really is. He’s my old RA from college! :eek: God I remember him, he had all his VI stuff hanging in his room. Oh the horror, the horror. actually I thought about going, but 20 bucks to too damn much. It would be an intersting experience any way. ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-ice-baby/110573/11 "2002-05-24T13:09:31Z")
Quick to the point to the point no fakin’, cookin’ MCs like a pound of bacon! (Yes, I do know all the words to _Ice Ice Baby_. It was high school. What was else did I have to do with my time? It’s not like the local radio station was playing Bach or edgy indie acts instead of Vanilla Ice every hour on the hour.) ---
**Author:** ![moodtobestewed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@moodtobestewed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moodtobestewed)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-ice-baby/110573/12 "2002-05-24T14:53:17Z")
Although I never had the pleasure of meeting Ice himself, I do know several of the people in the “Ice Ice Baby” video from high school. I used to see Ice’s “5.0” Mustang sitting out in front of their houses. Yes, this would indeed be my “Claim to Shame”. :o ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-ice-baby/110573/13 "2002-05-24T17:50:12Z")
**Podkayne** : All right stop Collaborate and listen Nah, I won’t continue. ---
**Author:** ![c\_goat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@c\_goat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/c_goat)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-ice-baby/110573/14 "2002-05-24T21:19:34Z")
> [@](#): > > As long as he sing Ice Ice baby, which is my favorite song He will, but it won’t be the version you remember. It’ll be the new rap-metal version. The words are the same, but the song totally sucks. I’ve heard said version. I’d say save your money. ---
**Author:** ![Dirty\_Earthworm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Dirty\_Earthworm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dirty_Earthworm)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2002, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-ice-baby/110573/15 "2002-05-24T23:39:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by c\_goat \* > \*\* > > He will, but it won’t be the version you remember. It’ll be the new rap-metal version. The words are the same, but the song totally sucks. I’ve heard said version. > > I’d say save your money. \*\* OK, I just have to know … would it be available on-line anywhere? I have to hear it, if only for S&G’s. 😃 -Dirty ---
**Author:** ![mkmiller99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@mkmiller99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mkmiller99)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2002, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-ice-baby/110573/16 "2002-05-25T06:05:33Z")
My high school boyfriend’s best friend was Robbie Van Winkle (aka Vanilla Ice), he could always be found trying to get attention at parties by dancing (this was 1987 Plano, Texas). Funny coincidence…my best friend, who grew up in Romeo, Michigan was friends with Kid Rock (can’t remember his given name), and he was the one that was all about getting the attention at the parties when she was in high school. Even creepier…my best friend’s ex-husband (musician) is now good friends with Kid Rock and Pammy-Po and the Ex never knew Kid Rock from my best friend’s school days. Just a bit of fun to add to the thread. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dieter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@Dieter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dieter)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2002, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-ice-baby/110573/17 "2002-05-25T06:30:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by c\_goat \* > \*\* > > He will, but it won’t be the version you remember. It’ll be the new rap-metal version. The words are the same, but the song totally sucks. I’ve heard said version. > > I’d say save your money. \*\* Yes. I’ve heard it. It sounds like Lymp Biskitiits (or how ever those guys spell their name) As for **Ice, Ice Baby** , I STILL to this day order Fried Rice with a “do-do-do-dudu-do-do” before I say “Fried Rice Baby” ---
**Author:** ![FallenAngel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@FallenAngel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FallenAngel)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2002, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-ice-baby/110573/18 "2002-05-25T06:42:05Z")
You know, I thought I’d gotten over my desire to club that soulpatch sporting weasel like a baby seal for defiling the collaboration between Queen and David Bowie (both of whom had more talent in their public hair than Ice could ever dream of tapping into). Guess what, I was wrong. The thought of that BVD skidmark still performing has me wanting to grab a tire iron. NOTE: Thoughts of actual violence greatly over-exaggerated for rhetorical effect. ---
**Author:** ![sandalwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@sandalwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandalwood)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2002, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-ice-baby/110573/19 "2002-05-25T07:59:26Z")
I remember going to a Vanilla Ice concert when I was 13… _shrudder_ I’ve never been the same since ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2002, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-ice-baby/110573/20 "2002-05-25T08:13:38Z")
Queen and Bowie did have some talented **public** hair, all right. Anyway, I’ve always wondered, and I know someone (vanilla) here can tell me – what does “word to your mother” mean, anyway? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ice-ice-baby/110573.md?page=2)