# The Straight Dope gets mentioned in an online 80's lyric quiz. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 21, 2003, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-gets-mentioned-in-an-online-80s-lyric-quiz/214555 "2003-11-21T19:08:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2003, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-gets-mentioned-in-an-online-80s-lyric-quiz/214555/21 "2003-11-22T16:56:32Z")
A pathetic 62.75 – my memory is geared to remember music, not lyrics, so it’s not that surprising. It probably didn’t help that I tended to put in comic answers where I didn’t know the correct one (You mean the answers aren’t “gorillas in the mist” or “lay a mint on my pillow”?). But I got the three bonus questions easily. And I resent being called a Yuppie. Hmph. ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2003, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-gets-mentioned-in-an-online-80s-lyric-quiz/214555/22 "2003-11-22T17:27:51Z")
I retook the test because I missed the “event you were born before.” I now have the more respectable 102.35. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2003, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-gets-mentioned-in-an-online-80s-lyric-quiz/214555/23 "2003-11-22T17:31:39Z")
I got 91. It correctly realised that I grew up to this stuff (just about!) ---
**Author:** ![umop\_ap\_sdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@umop\_ap\_sdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umop_ap_sdn)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2003, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-gets-mentioned-in-an-online-80s-lyric-quiz/214555/24 "2003-11-22T19:50:39Z")
I’d have nailed that third bonus question if they had said “giddy-up”. ---
**Author:** ![mkl12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@mkl12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mkl12)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2003, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-gets-mentioned-in-an-online-80s-lyric-quiz/214555/25 "2003-11-22T22:23:47Z")
I don’t know when I was born. Before the church lady? Before Just Say Know? I was born in 1978, where does that put me? (And I only got 35 points, but I didn’t start learning English till 1989) ---
**Author:** ![Orange\_Skinner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3be4f8/32.png) [@Orange\_Skinner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orange_Skinner)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2003, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-gets-mentioned-in-an-online-80s-lyric-quiz/214555/26 "2003-11-23T00:01:03Z")
There were two or three questions with multiple blanks that I knew all but one of the blanks and didn’t get anything for. I demand compensation. I was born in '86 and I got a 62.2. ---
**Author:** ![TeaElle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@TeaElle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaElle)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2003, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-gets-mentioned-in-an-online-80s-lyric-quiz/214555/27 "2003-11-23T03:03:42Z")
Just a note – if we’re all going to go flocking over there to see the SD mention, please give a thought to dropping a micropayment to the creator. Her bandwidth charges were through the roof when the quiz took off beyond her expectations, last month it was to the tune of $150. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jesleigh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/58f4c7/32.png) [@jesleigh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jesleigh)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2003, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-gets-mentioned-in-an-online-80s-lyric-quiz/214555/28 "2003-11-23T03:30:31Z")
90.25…and I wasn’t born until 1984 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2003, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-gets-mentioned-in-an-online-80s-lyric-quiz/214555/29 "2003-11-23T08:43:54Z")
108.35, and I ain’t sayin’ when I was born. [sub]Long, long time ago… [/sub] ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2003, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-gets-mentioned-in-an-online-80s-lyric-quiz/214555/30 "2003-11-23T13:40:32Z")
Y’all are gonna hate me. I got a 172.5. No, really. In my defense, I was born in 1971, so I grew up to this stuff, plus I’m a college deejay whose show focuses on 80s music, Frank Zappa and Tom Waits. So if I don’t know this stuff, I’m screwed. Robin ---
**Author:** ![shannablu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8baadc/32.png) [@shannablu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shannablu)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-gets-mentioned-in-an-online-80s-lyric-quiz/214555/31 "2003-11-26T02:08:37Z")
I got 121.5. I would have had more, but I thought Jessie was the female spelling of the name instead of Jesse. ---
**Author:** ![Dragon\_Phoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Dragon\_Phoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragon_Phoenix)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-gets-mentioned-in-an-online-80s-lyric-quiz/214555/32 "2003-11-26T12:47:02Z")
87.5 without guessing. And I made the same Jesse mistake. (born in '57) ---
**Author:** ![Heart\_On\_My\_Sleeve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/77aa72/32.png) [@Heart\_On\_My\_Sleeve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heart_On_My_Sleeve)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-gets-mentioned-in-an-online-80s-lyric-quiz/214555/33 "2003-11-26T19:57:45Z")
I got 95.5. Some of them were hard with the few words given. But I did get some weird ones. And I would have gotten Elvira too if instead of doing oom-pa-ba-mau-mau, they would have said oom-pa-ba, oom-pa-ba, oom-pa-ba-mau-mau. I roller-skated to that song at the roller rink. Born in 1970, I probably should’ve done better… ---
**Author:** ![FTWpislam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d2c977/32.png) [@FTWpislam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FTWpislam)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-gets-mentioned-in-an-online-80s-lyric-quiz/214555/34 "2003-11-27T01:14:07Z")
wow. we got mentioned in an online quiz… Horrah. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-gets-mentioned-in-an-online-80s-lyric-quiz/214555/35 "2003-11-27T01:56:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by shannablu \* > \*\*I would have had more, but I thought Jessie was the female spelling of the name instead of Jesse. \*\* Jessie is the female spelling of that name. Remember the song goes “I wish that I had Jesse’s girl.” Unless the person he’s referring to is a lesbian, Jesse is a man. ---
**Author:** ![Ender\_Will](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Ender\_Will](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ender_Will)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-gets-mentioned-in-an-online-80s-lyric-quiz/214555/36 "2003-11-27T08:40:17Z")
52.3 Second lowest so far, but since I wasn’t born until '84 and never watched MTV until about five years ago, I don’t feel too bad about it. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-gets-mentioned-in-an-online-80s-lyric-quiz/214555/37 "2003-11-27T12:51:02Z")
Yeah, but the song is called “Jessie’s Girl”. That is the correct spelling of the song title. Yes, I know. Jesse is a man and Jessie is a woman. Whoever wrote the song made a mistake. Robin ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-gets-mentioned-in-an-online-80s-lyric-quiz/214555/38 "2003-11-27T13:19:02Z")
59.6. I was born just before Woodstock too. But I was only really into '60s music in the '80s, and that’s my only excuse. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-straight-dope-gets-mentioned-in-an-online-80s-lyric-quiz/214555.md?page=1)