# Lessons I've learned from pop music **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 18, 2006, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033 "2006-07-18T16:20:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/61 "2006-07-19T01:06:10Z")
:rolleyes: Uh, haven’t you heard? The word is love. ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/62 "2006-07-19T01:09:04Z")
if you use sex as a weapon, you should stop… when looking for a hot spot, assuming you are north of Havana, look no further than the Copa Cabana… people continue to talk about the night Chicago died… you may choose not to believe it is so, but it is magic… you can actually be high on the mere belief that another person is in love with you… when all modes of communication with your upstairs neighbor fail to work, you can use a system of knocking on the ceiling or pipes to discuss your level of want… when Jeremy speaks in class, duck. ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/63 "2006-07-19T01:11:51Z")
[QUOTE=NDP] Jesus was also in Chicago before heading to New Orleans. On the way down, He turned the Mississippi River to wine. He also builds hot rods. [/QUOTE] He also took a train to the coast with the rest of the trinity. [QUOTE=Lemur866] I hope you know that this will go down on your PERMANENT RECORD. [/QUOTE] I’ve learned this handy formula. I take: 1 for my family 2 cause you left me 3 for my heartache 4 for my headache 5 for my lonely 6 for my sorrow 7 no tomorrow 8 I forget what eight is 9 for a lost god 10 for everything ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/64 "2006-07-19T01:22:54Z")
Osculation is apparently the best way to determine the depth of a man’s feelings for you. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/65 "2006-07-19T01:53:00Z")
[QUOTE=Nature’s Call] Standing ovation! Bravo! [/QUOTE] 😃 The original version is clearer. ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/66 "2006-07-19T02:02:32Z")
Love is a word? I thought love was a drug, quite possibly the one you are looking for. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/67 "2006-07-19T02:02:53Z")
Apparently, that song was not composed with me in mind. Armed conflict serves no useful purpose. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/68 "2006-07-19T02:08:11Z")
You don’t need no doctor, all you need is your baby. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/69 "2006-07-19T02:32:10Z")
Romantic feelings for another person is similar to the Earth’s natural satellite smashing into your visual organ as tho it was some form of baked Italian flavoured flat bread with savory toppings. ---
**Author:** ![brossa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brossa/32/3040_2.png) [@brossa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brossa)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/70 "2006-07-19T02:44:08Z")
Don Johnson spends a fair amount of time checking for life signs. If you get a christmas card from a hooker, the upshot is that she needs money. The passage of four hundred centuries leaves a foul odor. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/71 "2006-07-19T02:52:50Z")
Romantic feelings carry no price tag. There is no particular dress code for street dancing. _The Book of Love_ has at least four chapters. ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/72 "2006-07-19T03:50:17Z")
All the donut stores have names that sound like prostitutes. Some people say that bowling alleys got big lanes In addition to what was earlier said about Jesus, he was also a sailor. None of it really makes sense though because if he was alive today he’d be gunned down cold by the CIA. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/73 "2006-07-19T03:57:10Z")
I like to rock and/or roll all nite, and party every day. Paradise is by the dashboard lights. I would do anything for love… Why, it’s a yellow rose I have on… thanks for asking. ---
**Author:** ![ealaindraoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/fbc32d/32.png) [@ealaindraoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ealaindraoi)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/74 "2006-07-19T04:36:30Z")
If not **Everybody,** at least Somebody really should Wang Chung tonight. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/75 "2006-07-19T04:51:45Z")
[QUOTE=simster] Why, it’s a yellow rose I have on… thanks for asking. [/QUOTE] D.D.? Is that you? ---
**Author:** ![Excalibre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Excalibre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Excalibre)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/76 "2006-07-19T06:10:32Z")
Women who like to eat dinner early in the evening are tramps. Captain Smith apparently gave Pocahontas some kind of fever - likely the same one that Juliet gave Romeo. (I’m thinking it was the clap.) When you’re planning to make somebody blue, it’s courteous to tell them so yourself and not wait for them to hear it through the grapevine. Big girls don’t cry. They don’t cry-ay-ay. (They don’t cry.) While you might feel tempted to pursue mocha chocolata yaya down in old New Orleans, you’re likely to be permanently changed by the experience. Before fighting giant pink robots, make sure to take your vitamins. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is not a particularly interesting conversationalist. You can determine if a man is a cold-hearted snake by looking into his eyes (though, as others have noted, you _can’t_ use the same methodology to determine if he really loves you, as you’ll be deceived.) ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/77 "2006-07-19T06:45:42Z")
Your freedom of access to boisterous group experiences is something for which you would be wise to expect some resistance and confrontation. Yes, you gotta fight for your right to paaaaaaaaaaarty. ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/78 "2006-07-19T07:27:17Z")
When charged with homicide, being an impoverished young man from an impoverished family will not save you from Beelzebub’s devil. If you lay track, you could have a locomotive. If you return the sky, you can have an airplane. If one is clad in black with a diamond-star halo, one should make use of large, oriental percussion instruments. Everybody wants to rule the world. And you really should call Blondie. ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/79 "2006-07-19T08:01:54Z")
If Chevrolet owners drive to an embankment they will discover a distinct lack of moisture. ---
**Author:** ![mamboman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@mamboman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mamboman)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2006, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033/80 "2006-07-19T09:37:45Z")
[QUOTE=Doug Bowe] If you shoot a man in Reno, Nevada (just to watch him die) for some strange reason they’ll lock you up in a prison in California! [/QUOTE] No. the Nevada officails want to extradite him for that after he serves the 7 consecutive 99 year sentances for cutting up them hookers in San Francisco. I can’t believe that’s twice today I have had cause to make this observation. On a related note, lay off that whiskey and let that cocaine be. And if you have a hammer, you’re never satisfied. You always want more and more. mm [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lessons-ive-learned-from-pop-music/365033.md?page=5)