# It's Billie Joe McAllister Day (annual thread) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 3, 2015, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mcallister-day-annual-thread/721553 "2015-06-03T17:32:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mcallister-day-annual-thread/721553/1 "2015-06-03T17:32:48Z")
I have a frog destined for some girl’s neck at the picture show… [Obligatory Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZt5Q-u4crc) ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mcallister-day-annual-thread/721553/2 "2015-06-03T17:48:58Z")
I’ve got some hay to bale… ---
**Author:** ![txtumbleweed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/278dde/32.png) [@txtumbleweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/txtumbleweed)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mcallister-day-annual-thread/721553/3 "2015-06-03T17:51:31Z")
I remember he never had a lick of sense, what ever happened to him? ---
**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:** [June 3, 2015, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mcallister-day-annual-thread/721553/4 "2015-06-03T17:54:03Z")
And yet, for a song so beloved by this board,[it garnered a mere 7% of the vote](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=733958) for the best #1 song of the year in which it was released. Granted, it was a good year. ---
**Author:** ![Enter\_the\_Flagon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Enter\_the\_Flagon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enter_the_Flagon)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mcallister-day-annual-thread/721553/5 "2015-06-03T18:18:47Z")
How can we be sure that Billie Joe wasn’t pushed off the HootchieKootchie Bridge? People can claim that they were out cuttin’ cotton all they want; that doesn’t mean they can’t sneak off for a bit of revenge over the frog incident. ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mcallister-day-annual-thread/721553/6 "2015-06-03T18:33:00Z")
> [@txtumbleweed](#): > > I remember he never had a lick of sense, what ever happened to him? Pass the biscuits, please. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mcallister-day-annual-thread/721553/7 "2015-06-03T18:38:14Z")
Nice looking boy though. Looked a lot like that Robbie Benson in the moom pitchers. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mcallister-day-annual-thread/721553/8 "2015-06-03T18:52:28Z")
Gotta go. Meeting a client up on Choctaw Ridge. ---
**Author:** ![Simplicio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c37758/32.png) [@Simplicio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simplicio)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mcallister-day-annual-thread/721553/9 "2015-06-03T19:04:14Z")
Lets go to the quarry^H^H^H bridge and throw stuff off there. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mcallister-day-annual-thread/721553/10 "2015-06-03T19:16:01Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > Lets go to the quarry^H^H^H bridge and throw stuff off there. Cant; there’s five more acres in the lower forty I’ve got to plow ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mcallister-day-annual-thread/721553/11 "2015-06-03T19:27:53Z")
> [@Enter\_the\_Flagon](#): > > How can we be sure that Billie Joe wasn’t pushed off the HootchieKootchie Bridge? > > People can claim that they were out cuttin’ cotton all they want; that doesn’t mean they can’t sneak off for a bit of revenge over the frog incident. 'Cause he was pushed off the Tallahatchee Bridge. The HootchieKootchie Bridge is in Charo County. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mcallister-day-annual-thread/721553/12 "2015-06-03T22:00:00Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > Cant; there’s five more acres in the lower forty I’ve got to plow …but it’s a shame about Billie Joe, anyhoo. ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mcallister-day-annual-thread/721553/13 "2015-06-03T22:05:26Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Gotta go. Meeting a client up on Choctaw Ridge. I’d change that client meet if I were you. You’re unlikely to get his business. Seems like nothin’ ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mcallister-day-annual-thread/721553/14 "2015-06-03T22:32:48Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > And yet, for a song so beloved by this board,[it garnered a mere 7% of the vote](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=733958) for the best #1 song of the year in which it was released. A travesty, of course. I blame Sepp Blatter & Co. ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2015, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mcallister-day-annual-thread/721553/15 "2015-06-03T22:47:41Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Gotta go. Meeting a client up on Choctaw Ridge. Don’t forget the flowers. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mcallister-day-annual-thread/721553/16 "2015-06-04T02:43:48Z")
I can’t remember saying so before, and don’t want to go looking it up, but **Zoe** and I met face-to-face for the first time **30 years ago** to the day. we had spent the previous three months getting acquainted on BBS’s on our C64s and on the phone. We married 1/1/1986. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2015, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mcallister-day-annual-thread/721553/17 "2015-06-04T03:07:44Z")
All I know is, it was another sleepy, dusty Delta day. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mcallister-day-annual-thread/721553/18 "2015-06-05T01:11:22Z")
A year has come and gone since we had a thread 'bout Billy Joe. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mcallister-day-annual-thread/721553/19 "2015-06-05T01:14:50Z")
Sure hope that virus ain’t goin round agin. They do that, y’know. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2015, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mcallister-day-annual-thread/721553/20 "2015-06-05T01:34:37Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Granted, it was a good year. That’s Sinatra–When I was 95, it was a very g… .