# Respond to the previous poster by quoting a song lyric.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 20, 2007, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990 "2007-04-20T20:19:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/21 "2007-04-20T22:39:14Z")

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[QUOTE=Abby\_Emma\_Sasha]  
Push, Push, in the bush.  
[/QUOTE]

Ahh _psssst_ push it.  
Push it good.  
Push-push it real good.

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**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/22 "2007-04-20T22:51:14Z")

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[QUOTE=ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies]  
Ahh _psssst_ push it.  
Push it good.  
Push-push it real good.  
[/QUOTE]

If you want me to,I will. (Beatles)

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**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/23 "2007-04-20T22:52:58Z")

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Thank you for being a friend.

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**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/24 "2007-04-20T23:00:06Z")

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[QUOTE=Shoshana]  
Thank you for being a friend.  
[/QUOTE]

Thats what friends are for.

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**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/25 "2007-04-20T23:04:07Z")

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[QUOTE=MadTheSwine]  
Thats what friends are for.  
[/QUOTE]

If your friends are there then everything’s all right.

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**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/26 "2007-04-20T23:09:49Z")

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[QUOTE=SnakesCatLady]  
If your friends are there then everything’s all right.  
[/QUOTE]

I’ve got friends in low places.

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**Author:** ![threnodyangelfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@threnodyangelfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threnodyangelfire)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/27 "2007-04-20T23:33:45Z")

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[QUOTE=MadTheSwine]  
I’ve got friends in low places.  
[/QUOTE]

Some people claim that there’s a woman to blame  
But I know it’s nobody’s fault

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**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/28 "2007-04-20T23:53:17Z")

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Brother he showed me the gong  
Brother he showed me the ding dong ding dong  
How to kick that gong to life  
Oh, it’s nobody’s fault but mine

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**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2007, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/29 "2007-04-20T23:58:12Z")

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> [@](#):
>
> Oh, it’s nobody’s fault but mine

It’s dark as a dungeon way down in the mine.

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**Author:** ![descamisado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2007, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/30 "2007-04-21T00:09:55Z")

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[QUOTE=Shoshana]  
It’s dark as a dungeon way down in the mine.  
[/QUOTE]  
Hold your head high and reach the top  
Let the world see what you have got

S Club 7

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**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2007, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/31 "2007-04-21T00:58:18Z")

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[QUOTE=5-4-Fighting]  
Hold your head high and reach the top  
Let the world see what you have got

S Club 7  
[/QUOTE]

Hold your head up, hold your head up  
Hold your head up, hold your head high

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**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:** [April 21, 2007, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/32 "2007-04-21T01:33:02Z")

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[QUOTE=SnakesCatLady]  
Hold your head up, hold your head up  
Hold your head up, hold your head high  
[/QUOTE]  
[Stand tall](http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/burton_cummings/stand_tall.html).

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**Author:** ![IrreverentTone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@IrreverentTone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IrreverentTone)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2007, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/33 "2007-04-21T01:39:19Z")

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[QUOTE=Spoons]  
[Stand tall](http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/burton_cummings/stand_tall.html).  
[/QUOTE]

Make me be born again  
in the perfect Elvis light

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**Author:** ![hawksgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ed655f/32.png) [@hawksgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawksgirl)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2007, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/34 "2007-04-21T01:41:30Z")

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[QUOTE=Spoons]  
[Stand tall](http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/burton_cummings/stand_tall.html).  
[/QUOTE]

Stand out above the crowd  
Even if I gotta shout out loud  
'Til mine is the only face you’ll see  
Gonna stand out, staaaand out

Til ya notice me

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**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2007, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/35 "2007-04-21T01:42:54Z")

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[QUOTE=Spoons]  
[Stand tall](http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/burton_cummings/stand_tall.html).  
[/QUOTE]  
Now there’s no more oak oppression, for they passed a noble law, and the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, axe and saw.

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**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2007, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/36 "2007-04-21T01:51:06Z")

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[QUOTE=Hentor the Barbarian]  
Now there’s no more oak oppression, for they passed a noble law, and the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, axe and saw.  
[/QUOTE]

Wreathed in smoke in Lebabnon\*

\*Edit to reflect the date 🙂

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**Author:** ![GawnFishin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9bcb4/32.png) [@GawnFishin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GawnFishin)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2007, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/37 "2007-04-21T02:01:26Z")

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[QUOTE=Duke of Rat]  
Wreathed in smoke in Lebabnon\*  
[/QUOTE]

Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball  
Starkwether, Homicide, Children of Thalidomide

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**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2007, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/38 "2007-04-21T02:10:01Z")

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This old man, he played four,  
Choose de Gaulle or civil war!  
Come back president, govern by decree,  
Referendum, oui, oui, oui!

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**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2007, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/39 "2007-04-21T03:30:26Z")

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Four dead in Ohio…

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**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2007, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/40 "2007-04-21T04:01:06Z")

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And only say that you’ll be mine  
In no other arms entwine  
Down beside where the waters flow  
Down by the banks of the O-Hi-Oh

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