# "Saturday, in the park, I think it was the 4th of July..." **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 27, 2011, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-in-the-park-i-think-it-was-the-4th-of-july/594289 "2011-08-27T14:28:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-in-the-park-i-think-it-was-the-4th-of-july/594289/121 "2011-08-31T19:06:53Z")
Hopefully, the gales of November won’t come early. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-in-the-park-i-think-it-was-the-4th-of-july/594289/122 "2011-08-31T19:16:43Z")
nm ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-in-the-park-i-think-it-was-the-4th-of-july/594289/123 "2011-08-31T19:30:53Z")
The gales of November turn gloomy at sundown. You better take care. Les tempêtes de Novembre tournent sombre au coucher du soleil. Tu ferais mieux de prendre soin. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-in-the-park-i-think-it-was-the-4th-of-july/594289/124 "2011-08-31T19:40:33Z")
I’m not sure what day it was, but… On the day I was born, the nurses all gathered 'round, and they gazed in wide wonder, at the joy they had found… ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-in-the-park-i-think-it-was-the-4th-of-july/594289/125 "2011-08-31T20:07:20Z")
> [@Enright3](#): > > I’m not sure what day it was, but… > > On the day I was born, the nurses all gathered 'round, and they gazed in wide wonder, at the joy they had found… Were Autumn Leaves in the air? ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-in-the-park-i-think-it-was-the-4th-of-july/594289/126 "2011-08-31T21:10:14Z")
On the contrary, it was Springtime for Hitler. ---
**Author:** ![Smorfie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e495f1/32.png) [@Smorfie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smorfie)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-in-the-park-i-think-it-was-the-4th-of-july/594289/127 "2011-09-01T12:49:22Z")
> [@](#): > > I’m not convinced it was even really Saturday. It could have been Tuesday Afternoon. > [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](#): > > Who can hang a name on you? Still, I’m going to miss you… But if I could walk I’d get my gun and put her in the ground… but as you say I might miss. Ruby, Ruby, when will you be mine? ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-in-the-park-i-think-it-was-the-4th-of-july/594289/128 "2011-09-01T13:31:27Z")
> [@Enright3](#): > > I’m not sure what day it was, but… > > On the day I was born, the nurses all gathered 'round, and they gazed in wide wonder, at the joy they had found… It was a cold and grey Chicago morn ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-in-the-park-i-think-it-was-the-4th-of-july/594289/129 "2011-09-01T14:30:51Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > It was a cold and grey Chicago morn While, here in California, all the leaves were brown… ---
**Author:** ![Tapiotar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3be4f8/32.png) [@Tapiotar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapiotar)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-in-the-park-i-think-it-was-the-4th-of-july/594289/130 "2011-09-01T14:38:52Z")
Maybe he spent the day in the passed future, but his night was in white satin. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-in-the-park-i-think-it-was-the-4th-of-july/594289/131 "2011-09-01T14:40:04Z")
> [@ministryman](#): > > Were Autumn Leaves in the air? > [@kunilou](#): > > On the contrary, it was Springtime for Hitler. And the sky is a hazy shade of winter. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-in-the-park-i-think-it-was-the-4th-of-july/594289/132 "2011-09-01T14:41:11Z")
But there ain’t no cure for the summertime blues. ---
**Author:** ![Steophan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steophan/32/9595_2.png) [@Steophan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steophan)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-in-the-park-i-think-it-was-the-4th-of-july/594289/133 "2011-09-01T18:48:19Z")
It’s the 33rd of August, Lord And I’m finally coming down Eight days from Sunday Finds me Saturday bound ---
**Author:** ![Cheez\_Whia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d26b3c/32.png) [@Cheez\_Whia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheez_Whia)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-in-the-park-i-think-it-was-the-4th-of-july/594289/134 "2011-09-01T18:50:45Z")
Ia it 25 or 6 to 4? I get so confused. ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-in-the-park-i-think-it-was-the-4th-of-july/594289/135 "2011-09-01T18:50:51Z")
You guys make me crazy! My heart aches and I’m going to California. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-in-the-park-i-think-it-was-the-4th-of-july/594289/136 "2011-09-02T00:32:39Z")
> [@Marconi\_N.Cheese](#): > > Do you think this thread will still be alive in the Year 2525? > [@ministryman](#): > > Only if man is still alive… > > Signs are good, we made it past 1999… I’m sure it will make it until the year One Million and a Half, when humankind is enslaved by Giraffe. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-in-the-park-i-think-it-was-the-4th-of-july/594289/137 "2011-09-02T01:42:20Z")
> [@ministryman](#): > > Were Autumn Leaves in the air? Oh sure, there were Trees…swaying in the summer breeze, Showing off their silver leaves, As we walked by… ---
**Author:** ![Marconi\_N.Cheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Marconi\_N.Cheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marconi_N.Cheese)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-in-the-park-i-think-it-was-the-4th-of-july/594289/138 "2011-09-02T01:48:28Z")
> [@Don\_Draper](#): > > Oh sure, there were Trees…swaying in the summer breeze, Showing off their silver leaves, As we walked by… Here we come, walkin’ down the street, get the funniest looks from everyone we meet. ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-in-the-park-i-think-it-was-the-4th-of-july/594289/139 "2011-09-02T02:18:38Z")
This thread makes me as sad as a white bird… in a golden cage… on a winter’s day… all alone… ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2011, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-in-the-park-i-think-it-was-the-4th-of-july/594289/140 "2011-09-02T02:25:17Z")
> [@Ca3799](#): > > This thread makes me as sad as a white bird… in a golden cage… on a winter’s day… all alone… Aw. Well, just pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag, and smile, smile, smile. You’ll be okay. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-in-the-park-i-think-it-was-the-4th-of-july/594289.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/saturday-in-the-park-i-think-it-was-the-4th-of-july/594289.md?page=8)