# It's Billie Joe McAllister Day! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 3, 2014, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mcallister-day/689899 "2014-06-03T05:43:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mcallister-day/689899/21 "2014-06-03T22:51:30Z")
Seems like just yesterday we did a thread like this. I can’t believe a year has come and gone since I heard the news 'bout Billie Jo. mmm ---
**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 3, 2014, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mcallister-day/689899/22 "2014-06-03T23:56:21Z")
I’ve kept quiet all day, time to gush: OtBJ is one of the best story telling songs EVAH! Nylon guitar, silky, smoky vocals, the bass line sounds hot and tired, NO PERCUSSION, and Southern Gothic string section. A masterpiece. The pops and clicks on my 45 (remember them?) make it sound even better–more authentic, somehow. I hope she made a bazillion bux from that one. She was married to Jim Stafford. :eek: ---
**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 4, 2014, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mcallister-day/689899/23 "2014-06-04T01:19:27Z")
:p:D > [@Oakminster](#): > > “Plowing the lower forty” can be fun, ya know…;);):D:cool: 😉 😛 😃 ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mcallister-day/689899/24 "2014-06-04T04:14:18Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > You miss out on the finer things in life, such as placing a frog down the back of a girl’s dress at the Carroll County picture show. A few years pass, and–the way you feel about her, you don’t wanna play with frogs anymore. 🙂 And that’s why her brother moved to Tupelo. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mcallister-day/689899/25 "2016-06-03T17:30:33Z")
It’s Billy Joe McAllister day…again. Which is the most important remembered day in June: The third (BJM day), the sixth (Convoy day) or the sixth (D-Day)? ---
**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 3, 2016, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mcallister-day/689899/26 "2016-06-03T17:45:53Z")
Watch out for that virus goin’ 'round. ---
**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, 2016, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mcallister-day/689899/27 "2016-06-03T17:58:47Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Watch out for that virus goin’ 'round. Yeah, papa caught it and died last spring. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mcallister-day/689899/28 "2016-06-03T18:02:16Z")
I guess I don’t want to do much of anything now ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mcallister-day/689899/29 "2016-06-03T19:19:19Z")
Mama wants to know what’s happened to my appetite ---
**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, 2016, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mcallister-day/689899/30 "2016-06-03T19:37:04Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > Yeah, papa caught it and died last spring. I always wondered about this. A year has come and gone, so it’s early June again. Papa died “last” spring–but we’re still so close to spring that I would think she’d say “this spring.” If someone said to me today, “My dad died last spring” I’d think they meant spring 2015. Maybe it’s different if you grow up in the shadow of the Tallahatchee Bridge. Or maybe I’m just overthinking this. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mcallister-day/689899/31 "2016-06-03T20:01:02Z")
This thread is so 2014. The new thread is [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=794747) ---
**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 4, 2016, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mcallister-day/689899/32 "2016-06-04T01:41:51Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > This thread is so 2014. The new thread is [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=794747) If you re-make that song to 2016 standards, I’m going off the bridge. Unless Weird Al makes “Ode to Billy Joel.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-billie-joe-mcallister-day/689899.md?page=1)