# Please play your bongo drums inside the house **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 3, 2015, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-play-your-bongo-drums-inside-the-house/719182 "2015-05-03T22:24:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2015, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-play-your-bongo-drums-inside-the-house/719182/1 "2015-05-03T22:24:15Z")
I wrote a song for my neighbor today. It goes like this: \*\*Please play your bongo drums inside the house close the door and windows so your neighbors won’t grouse it’s noisy enough around here as it is without your added Bohemian riffs We got recyclers rattling their bottles and cans all the birdies that wake you at 5am auto sound systems that shake the foundations and the gamut of urban-type concatenations So please play your bongo drums inside the house it’s a frequent routine I could sure do without it’s noisy enough around here as it is without those piercing Bohemian riffs.\*\* And in case anybody asks, yes, this is the same neighbor formerly (thank god!) of the bamboo windchimes. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2015, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-play-your-bongo-drums-inside-the-house/719182/2 "2015-05-03T23:07:19Z")
If it makes you feel better … A couple days ago I took down the bamboo wind chimes we inherited from the prior owner of our place. I don’t think they’re ever going back up. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2015, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-play-your-bongo-drums-inside-the-house/719182/3 "2015-05-03T23:19:01Z")
[The most exciting sound in the world](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R4_xX8I9vQ&list=PL1D63B8A848C88E6F&index=23)! Mr. Bongo will teach you. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2015, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-play-your-bongo-drums-inside-the-house/719182/4 "2015-05-03T23:26:37Z")
\*\*concatenations… \*\*Hold on, let me get my dictionary. While you wait, enjoy the music. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2gNv_8nTf8) ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2015, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-play-your-bongo-drums-inside-the-house/719182/5 "2015-05-03T23:28:54Z")
if you play it inside you’ll annoy your housemates ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2015, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-play-your-bongo-drums-inside-the-house/719182/6 "2015-05-03T23:33:50Z")
Ah… the OP made me feel nostalgic for the old Arcata Eye Police Log, with its recurrent reports of outbursts of odious bongo bashing at the Plaza. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2015, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-play-your-bongo-drums-inside-the-house/719182/7 "2015-05-04T02:49:32Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > If it makes you feel better … A couple days ago I took down the bamboo wind chimes we inherited from the prior owner of our place. I don’t think they’re ever going back up. Aw, what a sweet thing to say. Hopefully your neighbors aren’t as grumpy as me. 😉 \*\*bobot: \*\* Whoops! I guess I meant “confabulations,” but kind of crossed with “cacophony.” > [@JRDelirious](#): > > Ah… the OP made me feel nostalgic for the old Arcata Eye Police Log, with its recurrent reports of outbursts of odious bongo bashing at the Plaza. **JRDelirious:** I am not hip to this … was this back in the glory days of actual Bohemian bongoing? Like, around the same time that the SF cops were busy going repeatedly to Lenny Bruce shows, just to make sure that they \*really were \*“obscene?” ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2015, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-play-your-bongo-drums-inside-the-house/719182/8 "2015-05-04T02:52:39Z")
> [@PSXer](#): > > if you play it inside you’ll annoy your housemates True enough! ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2015, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-play-your-bongo-drums-inside-the-house/719182/9 "2015-05-04T03:15:03Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > If it makes you feel better … A couple days ago I took down the bamboo wind chimes we inherited from the prior owner of our place. I don’t think they’re ever going back up. My lovely Japanese speaking educator explained to me that the reason my mother loved wind chimes is that… … they go up at the start of spring. They are the lovely welcoming sound of sunshine and gentle spring breezes. Then they get taken down again. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2015, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-play-your-bongo-drums-inside-the-house/719182/10 "2015-05-04T03:34:03Z")
> [@brujaja](#): > > Please play your bongo drums inside the house “Okay, sure. Just as long as I don’t have to stop also playing them outside the house.” ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2015, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-play-your-bongo-drums-inside-the-house/719182/11 "2015-05-04T17:18:39Z")
Do you want to trade places? I have a neighbor who plays bagpipes. BAGPIPES! During my nap time! I don’t think it matters if he (she?) plays them indoors or outdoors, they’re still loud. At least they’re good at it - as good as you can get with bagpipes. ---
**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:** [May 4, 2015, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-play-your-bongo-drums-inside-the-house/719182/12 "2015-05-04T17:25:24Z")
Bongos [tap tap tap] Bongos [tap tap tap] Don’t wanna go inside [tappity tap tap tappi-tappi-tappity tap tap!] Man [slap!] ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2015, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-play-your-bongo-drums-inside-the-house/719182/13 "2015-05-04T17:29:10Z")
Would the world be a poorer place if bongo drums simply did not exist? I don’t think so. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2015, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-play-your-bongo-drums-inside-the-house/719182/14 "2015-05-04T19:51:48Z")
Matthew? “Well, all right, all right, all riiiiiiiight.” ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2015, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-play-your-bongo-drums-inside-the-house/719182/15 "2015-05-04T20:36:10Z")
“Please don’t let this be Sheldon playing bongos.” [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akK4mzEZVRU) ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2015, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-play-your-bongo-drums-inside-the-house/719182/16 "2015-05-04T21:18:24Z")
I’ll trade you, too! I have a 12 year old across the street who “jams” on the trombone, poorly, with another neighborhood kid on the trumpet, also poorly. The 12 year old has a younger sister who has an amazing screaming range. We’re talking Mariah Carey ability here. It’s lovely. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2015, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-play-your-bongo-drums-inside-the-house/719182/17 "2015-05-04T21:42:15Z")
> [@brujaja](#): > > **JRDelirious:** I am not hip to this … was this back in the glory days of actual Bohemian bongoing? Like, around the same time that the SF cops were busy going repeatedly to Lenny Bruce shows, just to make sure that they \*really were \*“obscene?” Oh I’d wish. The Arcata Eye was until 2013 a local weekly newspaper in Arcata, Northern California, which gained fame in the Web age for its [rather idiosyncratically written police blotter column](http://www.arcataeye.com/category/police-log/). The column tended to portray the place as something of a magnet for the stereotypical coastal Northern CA/PNW ramblin’ crowd, and every now and then it would contain an item, often in limerick form, on a report that there had been a noise complaint in the town square involving bongos or drum circles or [both](http://www.arcataeye.com/2011/12/well-always-have-bongos-%E2%80%93-december-3-2011/).