# Respond to the previous poster by quoting a song lyric. **URL:** \ **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\ **Page:** 8
**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 22, 2007, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/141 "2007-04-22T16:30:10Z")
[QUOTE=GawnFishin’] We’re gonna rock this town, rock it inside out We’re gonna rock this town, make 'm scream and shout _(Stray Cats)_ [/QUOTE] Well man there ain’t a Goddamn thing that the cops can do, So line back up for a side line view Ringside seats for the neighborhood fight There’s a rumble in Brighton tonight. –Stray Cats ---
**Author:** ![Rhubarb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/59ef9b/32.png) [@Rhubarb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhubarb)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2007, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/142 "2007-04-22T16:33:47Z")
[QUOTE=SmartAleq] Well man there ain’t a Goddamn thing that the cops can do, So line back up for a side line view Ringside seats for the neighborhood fight There’s a rumble in Brighton tonight. –Stray Cats [/QUOTE] Fearlessly, the idiot faced the crowd, smiling. (Pink Floyd) ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2007, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/143 "2007-04-22T16:36:28Z")
Ok,so I’m a little bored and after reading Richard McBeef and Mr.Brownstone I figured I could write something equally as stupid.Here is the story based on the lyrics posted up to post 93…sorry it really doesn’t have much of an ending. Our story starts with John Smith and Bill McDonald standing on a street corner John: Here come old flat-top! He go groooovin’ up slowly. Bill: Groovin on a sunny afternoon. Really couldn’t get away too soon (Flat-top enters. He is an ex-mercenary that has fought in several wars originally from Ohio) John (speaking to Flat-Top): Lookin’ for fun and feelin’ groovy? Flat-Top (to John): This is no social crisis. This is you having fun. Bill (noticing a group of Hare Krishnas dancing by): Shiny happy people? What’s the matter here! Head Krishna :(Sounding like the little fag in History of the World) Happiness is an option! John (ignoring the Krishna,responding to Flat-top): What it is ain’t exactly clear. Head Krishna (In same voice): On a clear day You can see forever! Krishna #2 (Seems to be on drugs)) I can see for miles and miles, I can see for miles and miles, miles and miles and miles and miles and miles Oh yeah… Bill (to Krishna #2,hiding behind John,teasingly says) You Can’t see me. (continues to tease, tapping Krishna on the head) Hello. Is there anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear me. (A cow enters) Cow: Where have all the cowboys gone? Head Krishna: And where all the gods? (A man walks slowly by) John (Pointing at the man): God Damn! The pusher man. Krishnas (Chanting as a group): Come on push it you can do it Come on prove it nothing to it Come on use it let’s get through it Come on push it you can do it. (Krishnas coral the cow and prance off looking for cowboys) (John,Bill and Flat-Top are left standing on the corner, John starts describing the fight he had with his girlfriend(who used to date Bill) last night outside their house, her name is IT) John: I gave her a push, I gave her a shove. Push, Push, in the bush. Bill: Ahh _psssst_ push IT. Push IT good. Push-push IT real good. John: If you want me to, I will. Bill: Thank you for being a friend. John: That’s what friends are for. Flat-top: If your friends are there then everything’s all right. I’ve got friends in low places. Some people claim that there’s a woman to blame But I know it’s nobody’s fault (Flat-top seems to go into a trance and starts muttering, barely audible) 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 It’s dark as a dungeon way down in the mine. Bill (grabs Flat-Top by the shoulders and shakes him): Hold your head high and reach the top Let the world see what you have got Hold your head up, hold your head up Hold your head up, hold your head high John (joining in): Stand tall. Flat-Top: (Having flashbacks from the wars): 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 Wreathed in smoke in Lebabnon\* Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball Starkwether, Homicide, Children of Thalidomide (John and Bill are now looking on in stunned silence,wondering what they should do) (Flat-Top continues his rambling nonsense): This old man, he played four, Choose de Gaulle or civil war! Come back president, govern by decree, Referendum, oui, oui, oui! Four dead in Ohio…(repeated several times) (Flat-top is now crying) 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 I went back to Ohio, but my city was gone (Now screaming) If I had a rocket launcher Some son-of-a-bitch would die. (John and Bill look at each other and shrug and go into the Bar across the street,as they enter the bar they hear Flat\_top still ranting) Flat-Top: C’mon you women and don’t be late I’ll give you a ride in my Rocket 88. (As John and Bill take a seat at the bar, Jeopardy is playing on the TV.Alex asks about a woman astronaut) John (In response to Jeopardy) Ride, Sally Ride. (John asks Bill about how Flat-Top met IT(who also used to date her) Bill: Well he remembers the nights when the stars they burned bright And she let him go all the way Said IT was different that time 'cause she said take your time Slow down let me show you the way (John ask Bill about his first time with It): We made love in my Chevy van And that’s all right with me. But I’m crazy 'bout a Mercury… gonna buy me a Mercury and cruise IT up and down the road. (John asks Bill why he and IT broke up) (Bills describes the pet names they had for each others genitalia,since they had first made love in his van down by the dam) Bill: I drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry. John: (agreeing with Bill) When the levee breaks, I’ll have no place to stay. Bill: Like a rock, I was strong as I could be We were young and strong and runnin’ against the wind John: She’s like the wind. (A woman named Mary who just got off work from the gas station is sitting nearby. She is smoking a cigarette,overhearing the conversation Mary says): “They call the wind Mariah,the wind!” cries Mary. (She drops her cigarette on her lap igniting the fuel she had spilt on herself at work) Bartender:(Screaming at John and Bill) PUT OU THE FIRE!!! John and Bill(In unison) WE DIDN”T START THE FIRE!!! (in the background we hear a song on playing on the Juke Box) ashes to ashes funk to funky we know major tom’s a junky strung out on heaven’s high hitting an all time low (this reminds Bill how IT was always calling him the wrong name and nagging) Bill (griping about IT) Well “Tom, do this” and “Tom, do that”, and “Tom, don’t do that”, Count the cash, clean the oven, dump the trash, Oh your loving is a rare and a copacetic gift. I Don’t Wanna go on With You Like That. Bartender(Explaining to John and Bill he is closing up): If you gotta go, go now, or else you gotta stay all night. John(pointing to a customer at the end of the bar): Well, there’s a man down there… Might be your man, I don’t know. asked your mother if you were at home, She said yes, but you weren’t alone. Bartender: Leave me alone, get out of my face! John(walks away and calls IT on his cell phone,we pick up the conversation midway) …And if you live by the rules of “it’s over” then I’m sure that that makes sense. I just made you up to hurt myself. (we hear ITs voice on the phone) IT: Who made who, who made you? If you made them and they made you Who are you? (IT is now screaming) Who? Who? Who? Who? (In the background the TV is just finishing a cereal commercial) TV announcer: Life! John(still on phone with IT): I can’t live, ‘cause livin’ is without you IT: You’re no picnic either, babe And that’s one of the things I loved about you. Its kind of tough to tell a scruff the big mistake he’s making. Billy, don’t be a hero. (John gets infuriated by being called Billy,runs over to Bill,still sitting at the bar and smashes a pool cue over his head) (The scene shifts to a court room,3 years later due to a mix up in the legal system) Prosecuting attorney: Johnny’s been a very bad boy! Judge (speaking to John): Bad boys, bad boys Whatcha gonna do, whatcha gonna do When they come for you? (Judge asks the Prosecutor where the victim is) Prosecutor: Billy Mack is a detective down in Texas. You know ,he knows just exactly what the facts is. (at that very moment Bill unexpectedly walks in) Bill: O the line forms on the right dear Now that Mackie’s back in town. Prosecutor (to Bill): They were askin if you were around, How you was, where you could be found. Bill (adressing prosecutor by her first name) Maureen It’s hard to explain You’ll never call round to see me again You’ll never meet my new friends. Prosecutor: But you got to have friends. The feelings oh so strong. You got to have friends To make that day last long. Bill (explaining his difficulties after the assault) I’ve seen lonely times when I could not find a friend(but now) I get by with a little help from my friends John(sees his sister,Rhonda walk in the court room jumps up and yells) Help me Rhonda! Help, Help me Rhonda! Help! I need somebody. Help! Not just anybody! Rhonda: Trouble me, disturb me with all your cares and your worries. John: Yesterday All my troubles seemed so far away Now it looks as though they’re here to stay. Rhonda: Yesterday’s gone… Yesterday’s gone! (John is now on the witness stand describing the hours after the attack) And I raaan, I ran so far awaaay And I raaan, I ran all night and daaay (Prosecutor asks what happened to Mary): John: She ran calling wildfire. The End? ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2007, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/144 "2007-04-22T16:38:32Z")
[QUOTE=Rhubarb] Fearlessly, the idiot faced the crowd, smiling. (Pink Floyd) [/QUOTE] The lights go down The stage is set The man in the wings breaks out in sweat A backstage joker spiked his coke While the dressing room was full of smoke (Moody Blues) ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2007, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/145 "2007-04-22T16:43:44Z")
Sorry bout the frowns…too late for the edit. spose to be ( ---
**Author:** ![Jeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2007, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/146 "2007-04-22T17:10:40Z")
[QUOTE=SnakesCatLady] The lights go down The stage is set The man in the wings breaks out in sweat A backstage joker spiked his coke While the dressing room was full of smoke (Moody Blues) [/QUOTE] and the combo went back to New York the jukebox has to take a leak and the carpet needs a haircut and the spotlight looks like a prison break cause the telephone’s out of cigarettes and the balcony’s on the make and the piano has been drinking the piano has been drinking… (Tom Waits) ---
**Author:** ![GawnFishin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9bcb4/32.png) [@GawnFishin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GawnFishin)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2007, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/147 "2007-04-22T17:21:49Z")
[QUOTE=Jeff] and the combo went back to New York the jukebox has to take a leak and the carpet needs a haircut and the spotlight looks like a prison break cause the telephone’s out of cigarettes and the balcony’s on the make and the piano has been drinking the piano has been drinking… (Tom Waits) [/QUOTE] And the piano sounds like a carnival And the microphone smells like a beer _(Billy Joel)_ ---
**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 22, 2007, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/148 "2007-04-22T17:28:35Z")
[QUOTE=GawnFishin’] And the piano sounds like a carnival And the microphone smells like a beer _(Billy Joel)_ [/QUOTE] Oh, it’s beer, beer, beer, That makes you feel so queer! On the farm, on the farm Oh, it’s beer, beer, beer, That makes you feel so queer! On the Leland Stanford Jr Farm! My eyes are dim, I cannot see I have not brought my specs with me! –UC Chico drinking song, circa mid 1950s ---
**Author:** ![SnakesCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@SnakesCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakesCatLady)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2007, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/149 "2007-04-22T17:35:07Z")
[QUOTE=SmartAleq] Oh, it’s beer, beer, beer, That makes you feel so queer! On the farm, on the farm Oh, it’s beer, beer, beer, That makes you feel so queer! On the Leland Stanford Jr Farm! My eyes are dim, I cannot see I have not brought my specs with me! –UC Chico drinking song, circa mid 1950s [/QUOTE] 99 bottles of beer on the wall 99 bottles of beer Take one down Pass it around 98 bottles of beer on the wall… ---
**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 22, 2007, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/150 "2007-04-22T17:43:48Z")
[QUOTE=SnakesCatLady] 99 bottles of beer on the wall 99 bottles of beer Take one down Pass it around 98 bottles of beer on the wall… [/QUOTE] 99 Decision Street, 99 ministers meet To worry, worry, super-scurry Call the troops out in a hurry This is what we’ve waited for This is it boys, this is war The president is on the line As 99 red balloons go by. ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2007, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/151 "2007-04-22T17:52:28Z")
War! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing! ---
**Author:** ![GawnFishin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e9bcb4/32.png) [@GawnFishin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GawnFishin)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2007, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/152 "2007-04-22T18:01:35Z")
[QUOTE=Zabali\_Clawbane] War! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing! [/QUOTE] A four week operation when each step could mean your last one on two legs It was a war within yourself. But you wouldn’t let your mates down til they had you dusted off So you closed your eyes and thought about something else. _(Redgum)_ ---
**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 22, 2007, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/153 "2007-04-22T18:24:43Z")
[QUOTE=GawnFishin’] A four week operation when each step could mean your last one on two legs It was a war within yourself. But you wouldn’t let your mates down til they had you dusted off So you closed your eyes and thought about something else. _(Redgum)_ [/QUOTE] Back at home a young wife waits Her Green Beret has met his fate He has died for those oppressed Leaving her this last request –Barry Sadler ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2007, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/154 "2007-04-22T18:27:38Z")
[QUOTE=SmartAleq] Back at home a young wife waits Her Green Beret has met his fate He has died for those oppressed Leaving her this last request –Barry Sadler [/QUOTE] she had two babies one was six months one was three in the war of '44 every telephone ring every heartbeat stinging when she thought it was God calling her oh would her son grow to know his father (Paula Cole) ---
**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 22, 2007, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/155 "2007-04-22T18:31:09Z")
[QUOTE=Zabali\_Clawbane] she had two babies one was six months one was three in the war of '44 every telephone ring every heartbeat stinging when she thought it was God calling her oh would her son grow to know his father (Paula Cole) [/QUOTE] And the cat’s in the cradle and the silver spoon Little boy blue and the man on the moon When you comin’ home dad? I don’t know when, but we’ll get together then son You know we’ll have a good time then –Harry Chapin ---
**Author:** ![Gukumatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@Gukumatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gukumatz)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2007, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/156 "2007-04-22T18:38:42Z")
[QUOTE=SmartAleq] And the cat’s in the cradle and the silver spoon Little boy blue and the man on the moon When you comin’ home dad? I don’t know when, but we’ll get together then son You know we’ll have a good time then –Harry Chapin [/QUOTE] If you believed they put a man on the moon, man on the moon If you believe there’s nothing up my sleeve, then nothing is cool – R.E.M. ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2007, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/157 "2007-04-22T18:42:00Z")
[QUOTE=Gukumatz] If you believed they put a man on the moon, man on the moon If you believe there’s nothing up my sleeve, then nothing is cool – R.E.M. [/QUOTE] Believe, believe in me, believe In the resolute urgency of now And if you believe there’s not a chance tonight Tonight, so bright Tonight We’ll crucify the insincere tonight We’ll make things right, we’ll feel it all tonight We’ll find a way to offer up the night tonight The indescribable moments of your life tonight The impossible is possible tonight Believe in me as I believe in you, tonight (Smashing Pumpkins) ---
**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 22, 2007, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/158 "2007-04-22T18:46:43Z")
[QUOTE=Zabali\_Clawbane] Believe, believe in me, believe In the resolute urgency of now And if you believe there’s not a chance tonight Tonight, so bright Tonight We’ll crucify the insincere tonight We’ll make things right, we’ll feel it all tonight We’ll find a way to offer up the night tonight The indescribable moments of your life tonight The impossible is possible tonight Believe in me as I believe in you, tonight (Smashing Pumpkins) [/QUOTE] Today, while the blossoms still cling to the vine I’ll taste your strawberries, I’ll drink your sweet wine. A million tomorrows shall all pass away Ere I forget all the joy that is mine, today –The New Christy Minstrels ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2007, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/159 "2007-04-22T19:07:33Z")
[QUOTE=SmartAleq] Today, while the blossoms still cling to the vine I’ll taste your strawberries, I’ll drink your sweet wine. A million tomorrows shall all pass away Ere I forget all the joy that is mine, today –The New Christy Minstrels [/QUOTE] Like strawberry wine and seventeen The hot July moon saw everything My first taste of love oh bittersweet Green on the vine Like strawberry wine – Deana Carter ---
**Author:** ![Jeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2007, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990/160 "2007-04-22T19:15:39Z")
It’s been a long slow collision, I’m a pitbull, you’re a dog, Baby you’re foul in clear conditions But you’re handsome in the fog I need some fine wine and you, you need to be nicer For the good times and the bad times we know will come (The Cardigans) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/respond-to-the-previous-poster-by-quoting-a-song-lyric/400990.md?page=9)