# I'm a bookkeepers Son **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 14, 2007, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-bookkeepers-son/407954 "2007-06-14T03:49:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-bookkeepers-son/407954/1 "2007-06-14T03:49:12Z")
I don’t want to hurt no one. Well, I crossed my old man back in Oregon. Don’t take me alive. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-bookkeepers-son/407954/2 "2007-06-14T04:17:45Z")
Got a case of dynamite I could hold out here all night ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-bookkeepers-son/407954/3 "2007-06-14T05:28:19Z")
Yes, I crossed my old man back in Oregon. Don’t take me alive. ---
**Author:** ![minlokwat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minlokwat/32/2844_2.png) [@minlokwat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minlokwat)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-bookkeepers-son/407954/4 "2007-06-14T10:45:58Z")
Agents of the law, Luckless pedestrians. I know you’re out there… –Googling the lyrics = cheating– I’m pretty sure I could do this one and most every other SD song from memory. ---
**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:** [June 14, 2007, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-bookkeepers-son/407954/5 "2007-06-14T11:26:21Z")
> [@](#): > > –Googling the lyrics = cheating– > I’m pretty sure I could do this one and most every other SD song from memory. The Straight Dope has songs? (I’m so out of it that I had to google the lyrics to learn this meant Steely Dan.) ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-bookkeepers-son/407954/6 "2007-06-14T11:51:53Z")
With rage in your eyes and your megaphones (FWIW I didn’t cheat) ---
**Author:** ![minlokwat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minlokwat/32/2844_2.png) [@minlokwat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minlokwat)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-bookkeepers-son/407954/7 "2007-06-14T12:53:08Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham] The Straight Dope has songs? [/QUOTE] If it did, some of the lyrics from this song could apply. In stanza 2, you have: “Can you hear the evil crowd? The lies and the laughter?” Pit-denizens who have found themselves on the wrong end of a pile-on must have similar thoughts. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-bookkeepers-son/407954/8 "2007-06-14T12:56:04Z")
I used to be a bookmaker’s Clerk. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-bookkeepers-son/407954/9 "2007-06-14T13:07:59Z")
Wasn’t this song written about Charles Whitman? ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-bookkeepers-son/407954/10 "2007-06-14T13:26:59Z")
I am _not_ the fig plucker’s son, but I will pluck figs 'til the fig plucker comes. Try that one ten times fast. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-bookkeepers-son/407954/11 "2007-06-14T13:28:42Z")
A man of my mind can do anything. That’s my second favorite SD song. ---
**Author:** ![zagloba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/977dab/32.png) [@zagloba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zagloba)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-bookkeepers-son/407954/12 "2007-06-14T13:31:01Z")
I’m not a pheasant plucker, I’m a pheasant plucker’s mate. ---
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-bookkeepers-son/407954/13 "2007-06-14T17:27:59Z")
I _have_ no son. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-bookkeepers-son/407954/14 "2007-06-14T17:32:03Z")
[QUOTE=Bookkeeper] I _have_ no son. [/QUOTE] Well, drink your big black cow and get out of here, then. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-bookkeepers-son/407954/15 "2007-06-14T17:36:35Z")
I was smoking with the boys upstairs when I heard about the whole affair. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-bookkeepers-son/407954/16 "2007-06-14T17:58:59Z")
I know what I’ve done. I know all at once who I am. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-bookkeepers-son/407954/17 "2007-06-14T18:14:00Z")
I hear my inside The mechanized hum of another world How about: I’ve seen you on the beach and I’ve seen you on TV Two of a billion stars it means so much to me ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-bookkeepers-son/407954/18 "2007-06-14T18:29:53Z")
I am never going back to my old school. ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-bookkeepers-son/407954/19 "2007-06-14T18:35:23Z")
My Daddy was a bankrobber He never hurt nobody ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2007, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-bookkeepers-son/407954/20 "2007-06-14T19:38:30Z")
[QUOTE=Kythereia] I hear my inside The mechanized hum of another world How about: \*\* I’ve seen you on the beach and I’ve seen you on TV Two of a billion stars it means so much to me\*\* [/QUOTE] I had to Google that. It’s…Duran Duran. :eek: Away ye beasty. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-a-bookkeepers-son/407954.md?page=2)