# Rain rain go away. Beckdawrek wants to play: A game. A thread for weather related quips, axioms or just plain observations: **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [February 26, 2021, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-rain-go-away-beckdawrek-wants-to-play-a-game-a-thread-for-weather-related-quips-axioms-or-just-plain-observations/933835 "2021-02-26T18:44:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2021, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-rain-go-away-beckdawrek-wants-to-play-a-game-a-thread-for-weather-related-quips-axioms-or-just-plain-observations/933835/1 "2021-02-26T18:44:59Z")
Rain rain go away Come again another day Baby wants to go out and play ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2021, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-rain-go-away-beckdawrek-wants-to-play-a-game-a-thread-for-weather-related-quips-axioms-or-just-plain-observations/933835/2 "2021-02-26T21:12:54Z")
Some of us would instead prefer that the snow go away; rain is fine. PS. Beck, I thought you lived in a rural area. In rural areas farmers always want to have adequate rain (although not too much). ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2021, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-rain-go-away-beckdawrek-wants-to-play-a-game-a-thread-for-weather-related-quips-axioms-or-just-plain-observations/933835/3 "2021-02-26T21:23:52Z")
Moved from the Game Room to Thread Games. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2021, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-rain-go-away-beckdawrek-wants-to-play-a-game-a-thread-for-weather-related-quips-axioms-or-just-plain-observations/933835/4 "2021-02-26T21:40:13Z")
Don’t come out tonight it’s bound to take your life There’s a bad moon on the rise. I hear hurricanes a-blowin’. I know the end is coming soon. I fear rivers over flowing. I hear the voice of rage and ruin. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2021, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-rain-go-away-beckdawrek-wants-to-play-a-game-a-thread-for-weather-related-quips-axioms-or-just-plain-observations/933835/5 "2021-02-26T21:42:47Z")
Don’t know why There’s no sun up in the sky Stormy weather… ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2021, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-rain-go-away-beckdawrek-wants-to-play-a-game-a-thread-for-weather-related-quips-axioms-or-just-plain-observations/933835/6 "2021-02-26T23:45:08Z")
Oh, sorry. Thx for fixin’ it, @Chronos ---
**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:** [February 27, 2021, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-rain-go-away-beckdawrek-wants-to-play-a-game-a-thread-for-weather-related-quips-axioms-or-just-plain-observations/933835/7 "2021-02-27T00:01:36Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/AsiTtAYm5xs/maxresdefault.jpg "It's Raining") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsiTtAYm5xs) ---
**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:** [February 27, 2021, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-rain-go-away-beckdawrek-wants-to-play-a-game-a-thread-for-weather-related-quips-axioms-or-just-plain-observations/933835/8 "2021-02-27T00:24:19Z")
Hey, there, Mr. Blue We’re so pleased to be with you ---
**Author:** ![EastUmpqua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eastumpqua/32/6025_2.png) [@EastUmpqua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EastUmpqua)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-rain-go-away-beckdawrek-wants-to-play-a-game-a-thread-for-weather-related-quips-axioms-or-just-plain-observations/933835/9 "2021-02-27T00:30:47Z")
Mackerel sky rain is nigh. > **[Mackerel sky](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackerel_sky)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > A mackerel sky is a common term for clouds made up of rows of cirrocumulus or altocumulus clouds displaying an undulating, rippling pattern similar in appearance to fish scales; this is caused by high altitude atmospheric waves. > Cirrocumulus appears almost exclusively with cirrus some way ahead of a warm front and is a reliable forecaster that the weather is about to change. When these high clouds progressively invade the sky and the barometric p... ---
**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:** [February 27, 2021, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-rain-go-away-beckdawrek-wants-to-play-a-game-a-thread-for-weather-related-quips-axioms-or-just-plain-observations/933835/10 "2021-02-27T00:52:42Z")
Harlan Ellison wrote a story about a guy who always said, “Rain, rain, go away… ,” and the rain DID – every single time. Until the one time it didn’t. The whole planet flooded. Boo hoo. ---
**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:** [February 27, 2021, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-rain-go-away-beckdawrek-wants-to-play-a-game-a-thread-for-weather-related-quips-axioms-or-just-plain-observations/933835/11 "2021-02-27T01:49:39Z")
You know, people talk an awful lot about the weather, but nobody ever _does_ anything about it. ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-rain-go-away-beckdawrek-wants-to-play-a-game-a-thread-for-weather-related-quips-axioms-or-just-plain-observations/933835/12 "2021-02-27T05:19:38Z")
Marty: Right now? It’s pouring rain. Doc: _(looks at his watch)_ Wait five more seconds. _(Exactly five seconds later the rain stops)_ Right on the tick! Amazing – absolutely amazing. Too bad the post office isn’t as efficient as the weather service. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-rain-go-away-beckdawrek-wants-to-play-a-game-a-thread-for-weather-related-quips-axioms-or-just-plain-observations/933835/13 "2021-02-27T06:22:54Z")
“Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.” --Roger Miller ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2021, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-rain-go-away-beckdawrek-wants-to-play-a-game-a-thread-for-weather-related-quips-axioms-or-just-plain-observations/933835/14 "2021-02-27T15:01:35Z")
The chances of rain (or snow, or sun) are inversely proportional to the chances that rain (or snow, or sun) is wanted. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2021, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-rain-go-away-beckdawrek-wants-to-play-a-game-a-thread-for-weather-related-quips-axioms-or-just-plain-observations/933835/15 "2021-02-28T20:17:17Z")
When the rain comes, they run and hide their heads, they might as well be dead when the rain comes. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2021, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-rain-go-away-beckdawrek-wants-to-play-a-game-a-thread-for-weather-related-quips-axioms-or-just-plain-observations/933835/16 "2021-02-28T20:23:08Z")
If you don’t like the weather in San Diego, just wait 6 months. It will be exactly the same. ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2021, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-rain-go-away-beckdawrek-wants-to-play-a-game-a-thread-for-weather-related-quips-axioms-or-just-plain-observations/933835/17 "2021-02-28T22:15:44Z")
Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. _(Misattributed to Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens], this little witticism is actually by Charles Dudley Warner. Twain frequently used the quote in his public lectures, however, with the result that for better or worse he will forever be associated with it.)_ _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2021, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-rain-go-away-beckdawrek-wants-to-play-a-game-a-thread-for-weather-related-quips-axioms-or-just-plain-observations/933835/18 "2021-02-28T22:24:10Z")
“Some caught a freight, some caught a plane Find the sunshine, leave the rain They said this town’s a waste of time I guess they’re right, it’s wastin’ mine Some gotta win, some gotta lose Good time Charlie’s got the blues.” ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2021, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-rain-go-away-beckdawrek-wants-to-play-a-game-a-thread-for-weather-related-quips-axioms-or-just-plain-observations/933835/19 "2021-02-28T22:26:44Z")
“I can see clearly now, the rain has gone…” ---
**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:** [February 28, 2021, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rain-rain-go-away-beckdawrek-wants-to-play-a-game-a-thread-for-weather-related-quips-axioms-or-just-plain-observations/933835/20 "2021-02-28T22:31:18Z")
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