# I've never figured out **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 8, 2020, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-figured-out/914690 "2020-07-08T02:16:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-figured-out/914690/21 "2020-07-09T00:39:47Z")
Just found this as well. > **[Various - Cooperative Forest Fire Prevention Campaign - 1964](https://www.discogs.com/release/13762100-Various-Cooperative-Forest-Fire-Prevention-Campaign-1964)** > > View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1964 Vinyl release of "Cooperative Forest Fire Prevention Campaign - 1964" on Discogs. Note: The Crying Trees. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/wZML9f4vpbo/maxresdefault.jpg "The Crying Trees") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZML9f4vpbo) ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-figured-out/914690/22 "2020-07-09T00:45:29Z")
@Lancia, a bit of music to trigger the Gyruss nostalgia. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QgbgUrp1a70/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AHsBIAC4AOKAgwIABABGDYgWShyMA8=&rs=AOn4CLDPXN_h4KUH1uVOXgF6Z3Y2LsPRMQ "Sky - Toccata (Video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgbgUrp1a70) ---
**Author:** ![Ziberian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/919ad9/32.png) [@Ziberian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ziberian)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-figured-out/914690/23 "2020-07-09T00:49:41Z")
Check Facebook for a Frankfort ‘Remember When’ or historical group, or one for the county. Nearly every town/county has at least one such group, which almost always includes lots of photos of old buildings such as the one you’re looking for. If that fails, a newspaper from the time period when it opened will have a photo, usually on the front page. ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-figured-out/914690/24 "2020-07-09T01:34:58Z")
I remember a set of cards from the late 80s that featured various monsters or mythological creatures. They were larger than regular playing cards, maybe about the size of a standard index card. One card in particular was a Will-o’-the-wisp, and IIRC there were something like 10-20 cards in the set. The front had an illustration and the back a short description. They were definitely not Magic the Gathering cards, as this would have been before even Alpha was released. Any ideas what I might be remembering? ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-figured-out/914690/25 "2020-07-09T02:04:39Z")
When we lived in southern Massachusetts between 1995 and 1997 there was a nearby store that sold remainder lots, much like Big Lots and Ocean State Job Lots does now. In addition to selling Areo chocolate bars before they were generally imported into the US, they sold Chuck E Cheese brand pizza flavored crackers. They were not particularly good yet strangely addictive. We bought boxes and boxes of the things for the few months they sold them. And in the 20-odd years since neither of us has ever found a single picture online of them, and no mention of them either. I know that they existed and can only imagine that they were a trial product that this store ended up with a lot of. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-figured-out/914690/26 "2020-07-09T02:47:33Z")
@Lobotomyboy incredible, I never really figured I’d hear that thing again! You got some serious Google-fu there! ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-figured-out/914690/27 "2020-07-09T03:21:46Z")
Awesome! As so often happens I couldn’t tell you how I got there. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-figured-out/914690/28 "2020-07-09T04:26:20Z")
> [@jaycat](#): > > Despite much googling, I’ve never been able to ascertain the D.C.-area band that did “This One’s For You, Carla,” circa 1970 or so. It’s on Youtube, have you tried asking the poster? ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-figured-out/914690/29 "2020-07-09T04:34:47Z")
There is no site anymore that lists heavyweight recognized champions from the pre- Jack Johnson era. These used to be listed in World Almanacs, 20 years ago, with details of challengers, locations, dates – but now all sites have been scrubbed of that. ---
**Author:** ![Tusculan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-figured-out/914690/30 "2020-07-09T05:55:44Z")
When I was a toddler (early seventies) there was an upbeat ditty on the radio, going ‘London, (dee dee dee dee dum, tadada, dadada dum, London, dee dee dee dee dum)…’ I must have heard it several times to have it stick in my head. However, I have never been able to discover what the song was. Tried Shazam and a few similar services. The text of course is not very helpful: there are many songs from that era with the word London. The ones I checked didn’t match my memory. One thing I’ve thought about is that it wasn’t a pop song but rather a commercial. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-figured-out/914690/31 "2020-07-09T08:03:43Z")
Yes it can be very difficult to track down ad jingles, if that’s what it turns out to be. ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-figured-out/914690/32 "2020-07-09T12:11:24Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > It’s on Youtube, have you tried asking the poster? If you mean “I like to eat apples and bananas,” that’s not the one. Thanks though. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-figured-out/914690/33 "2020-07-09T13:14:13Z")
They are all available in Wikipedia starting with John L. Sullivan himself. Their records are listed in individual articles: [List of world heavyweight boxing champions - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_world_heavyweight_boxing_champions) ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-figured-out/914690/34 "2020-07-09T14:21:09Z")
They all were lost when the U.S.S. Titanic sank. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2020, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-figured-out/914690/35 "2020-07-12T05:08:29Z")
@lobotomyboy63 incredible, I never really figured I’d hear that thing again! You got some serious Google-fu there! > [@AHunter3](#): > > • From the mid 1960s in early elementary, a song taught to us about a horse and its mom. I want the lyrics if not an actual recording. The lyrics I can recall: > > Eat the grass upon the hill > Drink cool water from the pool > _something something, something else and_ > Leafy shade is nice and cool > > Do you know this wobbly colt > Standing 'side me by the lane > Soon a handsome horse will be > This shiny colt _blah blah blah blah_ You’d think the unexpected success of @Lobotomyboy finding the Crying Trees song would satiate me, but no… Here’s what the song about the colt sounds like, in case that helps: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/s2TM9HghFnU/hqdefault.jpg "The Unidentified Colt Song") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2TM9HghFnU) ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2020, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-figured-out/914690/36 "2020-07-12T05:35:01Z")
I’m drawing a blank. Part reminds me of “Jesus Loves Me.” As you may know, in the past many times composers would set new words to old melodies…are you hearing “This Old Man” or the Barney Song? Londonderry Air (an all time favorite) also became Danny Boy, for that matter. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxnb1A8ds0A) P.A. Grainger collected folk songs—sometimes from a person on his deathbed, according to my high school band director. I get that a song is important. Random moment of childhood songs: [Señor Don Gato Lyrics - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqpvy8p-WzQ) ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2020, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-figured-out/914690/37 "2020-07-12T05:56:24Z")
PS Here’s the one that took me a long time to find. I probably found others covering it, but I wanted this one. So don’t give up! [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/rjoulEYvNe8/maxresdefault.jpg "They Took John Away") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjoulEYvNe8) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2020, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-figured-out/914690/38 "2020-07-12T10:34:24Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > • Children’s song on a 45 RPM record about a character called “Pixie Dixie”, no relationship to the mouse characters. I remember a lot of the lyrics on that one… > > Even Rudolph needs Pixie Dixie > Just before he leads the sleigh > That is why on Christmas eve > Santa never lost his way > Delivering toys to {?} kids > For you to find on Christmas day > Pixie Dixie is always laughing > > Can’t find any trace of it How about [this](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vEA64Wg_DWI)? ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2020, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-figured-out/914690/39 "2020-07-12T12:03:42Z")
That’s it! Mixie Pixie, not Pixie Dixie. Thanks!! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2020, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-figured-out/914690/40 "2020-07-12T14:19:39Z")
> [@AHunter3](#): > > That’s it! Mixie Pixie, not Pixie Dixie. Thanks! De nada. But in that light — of me finding it only by figuring you were off by a detail — let me toss in a possibility about the orphanage from that other post: [this](https://m.facebook.com/IOOFKY/posts/748973701963393) mentions a Kentucky orphanage, an “Odd Fellows Orphans Home”, now demolished, complete with an address and a couple of images. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-figured-out/914690.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ive-never-figured-out/914690.md?page=3)