# Spike Jones?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spike-jones/70512>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 28, 2001, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spike-jones/70512 "2001-06-28T20:16:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![trose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f9ae1b/32.png) [@trose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/trose)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2001, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spike-jones/70512/21 "2001-06-29T23:45:40Z")

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> **One of the things that people don’t understand about Dad’s kind of music is, when you replace a C-sharp with a gunshot, it has to be a C-sharp gunshot or it sounds awful.**

I think there’s a life lesson in there somewhere.

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**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2001, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spike-jones/70512/22 "2001-06-30T01:02:00Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Olentzero \*
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> > \*Originally posted by exchicagoan \*  
> > In the 80s I worked, for a period of time, with Doodles Weaver’s daughter. She had lots of great stories.
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> Holy mother of all that is Spiked… can I touch you??
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> Forget Kevin Bacon, man, now I know someone with a Doodles Weaver number of 2. Dang!!

Doodles Weaver was also Sigourney Weaver’s uncle.

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**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2001, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spike-jones/70512/23 "2001-06-30T03:38:03Z")

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Alas, I miss _The Ed Sullivan Show._ Spike Jones, Senor Wences (HE was SURREAL!), and plate spinners. Damn, that show woulda been GREAT high!

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**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2001, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spike-jones/70512/24 "2001-06-30T06:18:27Z")

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and if it was it should have been in bold print!

**Yes, We Got No Bananas** _we got no bananas, today_

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