# I'm getting a thing for Koko Taylor **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 25, 2007, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-a-thing-for-koko-taylor/431178 "2007-12-25T03:12:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2007, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-a-thing-for-koko-taylor/431178/1 "2007-12-25T03:12:18Z")
Is there a place I can go, a pill I can take, or a group I can join? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2007, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-a-thing-for-koko-taylor/431178/2 "2007-12-25T03:26:07Z")
Who is Koko Taylor? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2007, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-a-thing-for-koko-taylor/431178/3 "2007-12-25T03:30:53Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace] Who is Koko Taylor? [/QUOTE] Perhaps there is still hope… A rather unattractive [Blues singer.](http://www.amazon.com/Deluxe-Koko-Taylor/dp/B00005UF1W/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1198553315&sr=8-2) Okay, she’s coyote ugly. But listen to _I’m a Woman._ ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2007, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-a-thing-for-koko-taylor/431178/4 "2007-12-25T03:33:52Z")
It’s not about the look. It’s about the feel. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2007, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-a-thing-for-koko-taylor/431178/5 "2007-12-25T03:33:53Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace] Who is Koko Taylor? [/QUOTE] [A singer.](http://www.kokotaylor.com/news.html) I’m not sure why getting “a thing” for her would be a problem unless the “thing” was physical attraction and the person so affected would normally not find near-octagenarian ladies of matronly aspect to be attractive. (She was really pretty cute forty and fifty years ago.) Having a “thing” for her music would seem to be not a problem in any way. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2007, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-a-thing-for-koko-taylor/431178/6 "2007-12-25T03:46:53Z")
[QUOTE=tomndebb] She was really pretty cute forty and fifty years ago. [/QUOTE] Yes, she was. Thanks for the link. ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2007, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-a-thing-for-koko-taylor/431178/7 "2007-12-25T03:49:48Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace] It’s not about the look. It’s about the feel. 🙂 [/QUOTE] You know what they say… you can turn the light off with ugly… ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2007, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-a-thing-for-koko-taylor/431178/8 "2007-12-25T04:04:15Z")
Saw her live two blocks from my house a few years back. Akron, Ohio. $15. Thought I’d died and gone to heaven. ---
**Author:** ![Annie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2007, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-a-thing-for-koko-taylor/431178/9 "2007-12-25T04:15:57Z")
[Classic Koko](http://youtube.com/watch?v=oxCa16-nxtM) ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2007, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-a-thing-for-koko-taylor/431178/10 "2007-12-25T04:47:45Z")
Thanks, Annie. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2007, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-a-thing-for-koko-taylor/431178/11 "2007-12-25T05:02:15Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] Is there a place I can go, a pill I can take, or a group I can join? :eek: [/QUOTE] For the pill, I get spam for Viagra every now and then. I will be happy to pass it on to you. As for where you take her and what you plan to do with her when you get there you are on your own. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2007, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-a-thing-for-koko-taylor/431178/12 "2007-12-25T05:04:28Z")
So, ya’ll are sayin’ I should put a case of Old Milwaukee in the trunk and drive over to her place? ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2007, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-a-thing-for-koko-taylor/431178/13 "2007-12-25T05:50:17Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] So, ya’ll are sayin’ I should put a case of Old Milwaukee in the trunk and drive over to her place? [/QUOTE] [It’s what Benny Hill would do.](http://dobedobedo.stumbleupon.com/tag/uk/) > [@](#): > > Oh, give me an older woman every time, every time, > Give me an older woman every time. > They don’t yell, and they don’t tell, and oh, they’re grateful as hell, > So give me an older woman every time. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2007, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-a-thing-for-koko-taylor/431178/14 "2007-12-25T13:34:47Z")
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan] [It’s what Benny Hill would do.](http://dobedobedo.stumbleupon.com/tag/uk/) [/QUOTE] I think a woman who sings the Blues like that _would_ yell…a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2007, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-a-thing-for-koko-taylor/431178/15 "2007-12-25T13:39:29Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] I think a woman who sings the Blues like that _would_ yell…a lot. [/QUOTE] Yes, but it’d probably be the _good_ kind of yelling, like, “Oh God! Don’t stop! Don’t stop! Don’t ever fuckng stop!” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2007, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-getting-a-thing-for-koko-taylor/431178/16 "2007-12-25T14:39:16Z")
[QUOTE=Tuckerfan] Yes, but it’d probably be the _good_ kind of yelling, [/QUOTE] Yes, and a woman who can “Shake hands with the Devil and make him crawl in the sand” would probaly be rather creative in what she yelled, too.