The Straight Dope gets mentioned in an online 80's lyric quiz.

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.

I retook the test because I missed the “event you were born before.” I now have the more respectable 102.35.

I got 91. It correctly realised that I grew up to this stuff (just about!)

I’d have nailed that third bonus question if they had said “giddy-up”.

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)

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.

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. :slight_smile:

90.25…and I wasn’t born until 1984 :wink:

108.35, and I ain’t sayin’ when I was born.

[sub]Long, long time ago… [/sub]

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

I got 121.5. I would have had more, but I thought Jessie was the female spelling of the name instead of Jesse.

87.5 without guessing. And I made the same Jesse mistake.
(born in '57)

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…

wow. we got mentioned in an online quiz…

Horrah.

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.

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.

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

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.