# Question about "Ode to Billy Joe"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-ode-to-billy-joe/139161>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 27, 2002, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-ode-to-billy-joe/139161 "2002-11-27T18:08:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-ode-to-billy-joe/139161/41 "2011-02-27T16:33:01Z")

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> [@Oakminster](#):
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> Maybe they threw a zombie off the bridge?
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> That noted, I will observe, as I usually do in threads about this song, that jumping off the Tallahatchie Bridge is highly unlikely to result in a fatality. Sprained ankle, maybe a broken leg…but the bridge simply isn’t very high, and the bottom is soft mud.

Unlikely maybe feet first, but [taking a header would probably do it](http://bridgehunter.com/photos/10/79/107980-M.jpg).  
Eta: Oh and **Contrapuntal** , your post had me giggling few a few minutes!

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**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2011, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-ode-to-billy-joe/139161/42 "2011-02-27T16:47:39Z")

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> [@Oakminster](#):
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> Maybe they threw a zombie off the bridge?

Or maybe just brains. You know the ones that Billy Joe never seemed to use.

I knew this was a zombie thread because I looked this thread up last year when one of my patients had a CD with this song and a bunch of other sort of story songs and one hit wonder types on it. I spent a bunch of time thinking about and looked up these threads. I didn’t post though, because I fear the zombie apocalypse.

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**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2011, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-ode-to-billy-joe/139161/43 "2011-02-28T00:59:36Z")

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Yeah, it’s a zombie, but I just have to add this:

> [@marinwood](#):
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> One of those idiot producers was none other than Max “Jethro Bodine” Baer, Jr.

So, makes it official then?

(Thanks, Geoffrey Rush!)

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**Author:** ![Mikemike2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikemike2/32/305_2.png) [@Mikemike2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mikemike2)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-ode-to-billy-joe/139161/44 "2011-06-23T15:16:32Z")

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These zombie threads show a lot of popular posters who have left or been banned. ☹

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