# Intellectualize song lyrics game

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intellectualize-song-lyrics-game/189056>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 17, 2003, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intellectualize-song-lyrics-game/189056 "2003-07-17T03:58:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Electronic\_Chaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Electronic\_Chaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electronic_Chaos)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intellectualize-song-lyrics-game/189056/1 "2003-07-17T03:58:47Z")

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Shamelessly stolen from a **Something Awful** Comedy Goldmine.

Post a lyric to a song, that’s been smartened up a little bit, then someone has to guess what the song is. I’ll start it rolling.

_There are females in my living room engaging in intercourse,  
and they are not departing until six o’clock in the AM_

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**Author:** ![MrBoy1967](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@MrBoy1967](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrBoy1967)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intellectualize-song-lyrics-game/189056/2 "2003-07-17T07:00:48Z")

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Its some rap tune like “Area Codes” isn’t it?

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**Author:** ![bluecanary](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bluecanary/32/3614_2.png) [@bluecanary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluecanary)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intellectualize-song-lyrics-game/189056/3 "2003-07-17T12:38:44Z")

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Yeah it definitely sounds like rap. 50 cent?

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**Author:** ![newcrasher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b3f665/32.png) [@newcrasher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcrasher)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intellectualize-song-lyrics-game/189056/4 "2003-07-17T13:18:30Z")

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OK I have another…

“‘Perchance is there an appropriate egress route’, the jovial harlequin asked of the footpad. ‘Discomfiture abounds here, and mollification is not mine’”

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**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intellectualize-song-lyrics-game/189056/5 "2003-07-17T13:20:24Z")

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_All along the watchtower_??

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**Author:** ![newcrasher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b3f665/32.png) [@newcrasher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcrasher)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intellectualize-song-lyrics-game/189056/6 "2003-07-17T13:27:19Z")

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yup…

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**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intellectualize-song-lyrics-game/189056/7 "2003-07-17T13:33:12Z")

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No reason to be depressed:  
Father has come into possession of a most splendid new reticule!

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**Author:** ![petelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/71c47a/32.png) [@petelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/petelin)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intellectualize-song-lyrics-game/189056/8 "2003-07-17T15:21:12Z")

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xgxlx, isn’t that from “gin and juice” i think the line goes something like: “there are bitches in the living room gettin it on, and they ain’t leavin’ til six in the morning?”

I don’t usually listed to rap, but I love The Gourd’s version of this song.

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**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intellectualize-song-lyrics-game/189056/9 "2003-07-17T15:23:41Z")

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> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Biffy the Elephant Shrew \*  
> \*\*No reason to be depressed:  
> Father has come into possession of a most splendid new reticule! \*\*

Papa’s go a brand new bag?

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**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intellectualize-song-lyrics-game/189056/10 "2003-07-17T18:19:36Z")

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The temperature in this living area is rising considerably.  
In order to remain comfortable, it is advisable to remove all garments, post-haste.

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**Author:** ![MrBoy1967](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@MrBoy1967](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrBoy1967)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intellectualize-song-lyrics-game/189056/11 "2003-07-17T18:31:29Z")

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Nelly “Hot in herre”

(misspelling is his)

How about:

“You are the (paradoxical) visible manifestation of the refraction of white light through natural precipitation in an area lacking illumination”

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intellectualize-song-lyrics-game/189056/12 "2003-07-17T18:35:47Z")

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Returned in a rather dark color. Collapsed upon my sleeping pallet. Perhaps too long has passed since my leaving, it pleases me to have returned.

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**Author:** ![Mars\_Horizon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mars_horizon/32/2804_2.png) [@Mars\_Horizon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mars_Horizon)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intellectualize-song-lyrics-game/189056/13 "2003-07-17T18:45:42Z")

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Propel (x3) your craft - carefully down the aqueous solution  
Ecstatically (x4), existence is but an illlusion!

😃

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**Author:** ![MrBoy1967](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@MrBoy1967](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrBoy1967)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intellectualize-song-lyrics-game/189056/14 "2003-07-17T19:04:51Z")

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Johnny-AC/DC’ s “Back in Black”

Mars- the old standard “Row, Row, Row your boat”

“Supply me with propellant, supply me with some kind of exposed incendiary, supply me with everything I want”

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**Author:** ![Electronic\_Chaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Electronic\_Chaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electronic_Chaos)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intellectualize-song-lyrics-game/189056/15 "2003-07-17T19:12:28Z")

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MrBoy: careful, metallica might sue you! (Fuel)

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**Author:** ![Maastricht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e57/32.png) [@Maastricht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maastricht)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intellectualize-song-lyrics-game/189056/16 "2003-07-17T19:25:26Z")

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Damn! No way I’ll be able to quote Alanis Morisette in this thread.

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**Author:** ![moejuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@moejuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moejuck)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intellectualize-song-lyrics-game/189056/17 "2003-07-17T19:25:55Z")

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Cranium, deltoid, anterior cruciate ligament and phalanges

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**Author:** ![big\_alex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e56c9b/32.png) [@big\_alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/big_alex)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intellectualize-song-lyrics-game/189056/18 "2003-07-17T19:38:40Z")

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head and shoulders, knees and toes…

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_Bravo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_bravo/32/493_2.png) [@Johnny\_Bravo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Bravo)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intellectualize-song-lyrics-game/189056/19 "2003-07-17T19:41:49Z")

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Head, shoulders, knees and toes (knees and toes!).

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**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2003, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/intellectualize-song-lyrics-game/189056/20 "2003-07-17T20:29:17Z")

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“A senescent female who, for reasons unfathomable to me, consumed a muscus domesticus, faces possible demise.”

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