# If them Brits can play Mornington Crescent on here, then we can play MacArthur Park! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 13, 2005, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-them-brits-can-play-mornington-crescent-on-here-then-we-can-play-macarthur-park/294331 "2005-03-13T15:20:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-them-brits-can-play-mornington-crescent-on-here-then-we-can-play-macarthur-park/294331/21 "2005-03-16T11:12:56Z")
The dock of the bay? ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2005, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-them-brits-can-play-mornington-crescent-on-here-then-we-can-play-macarthur-park/294331/22 "2005-03-16T14:58:45Z")
Don’t sleep in the subway, darling. Don’t stand in the pouring rain. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-them-brits-can-play-mornington-crescent-on-here-then-we-can-play-macarthur-park/294331/23 "2005-03-18T17:26:18Z")
Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-them-brits-can-play-mornington-crescent-on-here-then-we-can-play-macarthur-park/294331/24 "2005-03-18T17:29:56Z")
As Pat Metheny would put it, As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls. ---
**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:** [March 18, 2005, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-them-brits-can-play-mornington-crescent-on-here-then-we-can-play-macarthur-park/294331/25 "2005-03-18T17:52:40Z")
I seem to be in **Gettysburg** , where there’s The Devil to Pay, and we must Hold At All Costs when the Southerners reach their High Water Mark. ---
**Author:** ![tisiphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tisiphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tisiphone)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-them-brits-can-play-mornington-crescent-on-here-then-we-can-play-macarthur-park/294331/26 "2005-03-18T18:58:17Z")
Hmmmmm. Since I seem to be down in the swampland where anything goes :eek: , I better be Leaving Louisiana… ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-them-brits-can-play-mornington-crescent-on-here-then-we-can-play-macarthur-park/294331/27 "2005-03-18T19:58:53Z")
I wish I was [in Dixie Land](http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/dixie.html) , but instead I am in [Boring](http://www.petshopboys.net/html/interviews/behaviuor001.shtml) , [a town in Maryland](http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tips/getAttraction.php3?tip_AttractionNo==3824) (the above is not meant to be taken literal, despite the fact I am from Maryland.) ---
**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:** [March 19, 2005, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-them-brits-can-play-mornington-crescent-on-here-then-we-can-play-macarthur-park/294331/28 "2005-03-19T02:25:00Z")
I’ve gone down to the Paradise Cuty, where the grass is green and the girls are pretty. ---
**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:** [March 19, 2005, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-them-brits-can-play-mornington-crescent-on-here-then-we-can-play-macarthur-park/294331/29 "2005-03-19T02:48:23Z")
> [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](#): > > I’ve gone down to the Paradise Cuty, where the grass is green and the girls are pretty. _CITY_, damn it, c_ **I** _ty! ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-them-brits-can-play-mornington-crescent-on-here-then-we-can-play-macarthur-park/294331/30 "2005-03-19T02:58:34Z")
I’m in Lilydale, a couple miles from Stockton Gala Days. Bemus Point on July Sunday, by the trolley I go. (Top THAT for obscurity!) ---
**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:** [March 19, 2005, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-them-brits-can-play-mornington-crescent-on-here-then-we-can-play-macarthur-park/294331/31 "2005-03-19T04:55:01Z")
I’m in New York City, where it’s raing, it’s poring, it’s raining on the streets of New York City. Now I find myself in Heaven. It’s rainin’, it’s rainin’, it’s rainin, deep in heaven! Rainin’ deeo in Heaven! Now in The Wasteland. Welcome to The Wasteland, where you’ll find ashes. Nothing but ashes. [http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/dream\_theater/albums.jhtml](http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/dream_theater/albums.jhtml) (see “Falling Into Infinity”) ---
**Author:** ![davmilasav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@davmilasav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davmilasav)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-them-brits-can-play-mornington-crescent-on-here-then-we-can-play-macarthur-park/294331/32 "2005-03-19T14:23:39Z")
> [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](#): > > Now in The Wasteland. Welcome to The Wasteland, where you’ll find ashes. Nothing but ashes. Is that a Teenage Wasteland? :::Ow! Hey! Cut it out!::: ---
**Author:** ![mike1dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@mike1dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mike1dog)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-them-brits-can-play-mornington-crescent-on-here-then-we-can-play-macarthur-park/294331/33 "2005-03-19T15:06:24Z")
Starkville City Jail ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-them-brits-can-play-mornington-crescent-on-here-then-we-can-play-macarthur-park/294331/34 "2005-03-19T15:45:10Z")
Don’t go writing hot checks down in Mississippi, and there ain’t no good chain gangs. ---
**Author:** ![davmilasav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@davmilasav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davmilasav)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-them-brits-can-play-mornington-crescent-on-here-then-we-can-play-macarthur-park/294331/35 "2005-03-19T17:36:32Z")
Me, I work in Galveston, Oh, Galveston! ---
**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:** [March 19, 2005, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-them-brits-can-play-mornington-crescent-on-here-then-we-can-play-macarthur-park/294331/36 "2005-03-19T20:07:15Z")
I’ve gone down to Panama. Panama, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh! ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-them-brits-can-play-mornington-crescent-on-here-then-we-can-play-macarthur-park/294331/37 "2005-03-20T02:55:26Z")
Did you know that Graham Parker has a song that mentions the [Hudson Valley Mall](http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/02/13/mall.shooting/)? ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-them-brits-can-play-mornington-crescent-on-here-then-we-can-play-macarthur-park/294331/38 "2005-03-20T08:51:52Z")
Hey, if Freddy Cannon can do **Palisades Park** … ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2005, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-them-brits-can-play-mornington-crescent-on-here-then-we-can-play-macarthur-park/294331/39 "2005-03-20T16:08:48Z")
Please come to Boston for the springtime. I’m already there. ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2005, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-them-brits-can-play-mornington-crescent-on-here-then-we-can-play-macarthur-park/294331/40 "2005-03-21T00:28:22Z")
Nashville cats been pickin’ since they were three. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-them-brits-can-play-mornington-crescent-on-here-then-we-can-play-macarthur-park/294331.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-them-brits-can-play-mornington-crescent-on-here-then-we-can-play-macarthur-park/294331.md?page=3)