# The Song Synonym Thread
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263
**Category:** The Game Room
**Created:** [March 9, 2014, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263 "2014-03-09T13:05:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 10
### Author:  [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2014, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/181 "2014-04-04T21:27:13Z")
> [@Ponch8](#):
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> “On Top of the World” - Carpenters
Technically, it’s just “Top of the World,” but yes.
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### Author:  [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2014, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/182 "2014-04-04T21:32:26Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#):
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> Folsom Prison Blues - Johnny Cash
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> Rouse me from my slumber on the feast day of St. Jerome
Wake Me Up When September Ends - Green Day
You are tasked with removing them from their location no later than the time of the Jewish Sabbath.
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### Author:  [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2014, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/183 "2014-04-04T22:53:48Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#):
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> You are tasked with removing them from their location no later than the time of the Jewish Sabbath.
Get 'em Out by Sunday! - Genesis
Toronto Pearson’s Code
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### Author:  [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2014, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/184 "2014-04-04T23:02:25Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#):
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> Get 'em Out by Sunday! - Genesis
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> Toronto Pearson’s Code
Uhh, “The Jewish Sabbath,” or what I call Shabbes, ends at sundown on Saturday. It starts at sundown on Friday.
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2014, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/185 "2014-04-04T23:02:28Z")
Toronto Pearson’s Code - YYZ by Rush
Get Down, Planarian!
(He’s a buddha, what did you expect?)
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### Author:  [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2014, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/186 "2014-04-05T18:28:53Z")
> [@Leaffan](#):
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> The vibrations that propagate as a mechanical wave of pressure and displacement, through some medium, that do not result in movement of the tympanic membrane.
> [@RivkahChaya](#):
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> Sounds of Silence.
::Hey I felt guilty for using Rayleigh scattering. Now I don’t know…::
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### Author:  [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2014, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/187 "2014-04-05T21:27:41Z")
I’ve lost track of what we’re supposed to be solving.
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### Author:  [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2014, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/188 "2014-04-05T21:43:32Z")
This one (for which I have NO clue whatsoever):
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#):
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> Get Down, Planarian!
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2014, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/189 "2014-04-05T21:56:16Z")
Gotta get off the computer for a few days due to sinus problems and I couldn’t let y’all hang that long:
Get Down, Planarian! = “Funky Worm” by Ohio Players
I’ll pass
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### Author:  [@yawuntz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yawuntz)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2014, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/190 "2014-04-05T22:05:21Z")
cracker felid
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### Author:  [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2014, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/191 "2014-04-05T23:45:06Z")
> [@Ayatollah Yawuntz](#):
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> cracker felid
Honky Cat - Elton John
None of Us Triggered the Conflagration
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### Author:  [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2014, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/192 "2014-04-05T23:49:16Z")
We Didn’t Start the Fire - Billy Joel
Wife of Edgar G.
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### Author:  [@yawuntz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yawuntz)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2014, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/193 "2014-04-06T00:26:30Z")
Mrs. Robinson, Simon & Garf
Untamed object
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### Author:  [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2014, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/194 "2014-04-06T01:03:18Z")
Wild Thing - The Troggs, Sam Kinison, etc.
A Chinese-American stir-fry dish which, according to legend, was invented by a19th-century immigrant cook who threw together a bunch of leftovers and claimed it was a delicacy from his homeland.
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2014, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/195 "2014-04-06T02:45:07Z")
Chop Suey - System of a Down
The initial slice has the greatest penetration
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### Author:  [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2014, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/196 "2014-04-06T04:31:13Z")
First Cut is the Deepest - Rod Stewart
When’s the Present?
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### Author:  [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2014, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/197 "2014-04-06T05:59:37Z")
How Soon Is Now? - The Smiths
Our 16th President has been modified to achieve more horsepower.
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### Author:  [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2014, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/198 "2014-04-06T06:02:31Z")
Hot Rod Lincoln - Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen
Next: The thoroughfare does not have a terminus, nor do the festivities cease.
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### Author:  [@Tread](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tread)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2014, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/199 "2014-04-06T06:31:39Z")
The Road Goes on Forever (And The Party Never Ends) Joe ELy
Tread has not even once visited Tread
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### Author:  [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2014, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-song-synonym-thread/683263/200 "2014-04-06T09:17:11Z")
I’ve Never Been to Me - Charlene
A game played on a device in which the player operates a plunger to shoot a ball down or along a slanted surface having obstacles and targets one who practices magic; a sorcerer or magician.
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