# Things stupid songs have taught you **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 11, 2014, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-stupid-songs-have-taught-you/706950 "2014-12-11T16:51:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-stupid-songs-have-taught-you/706950/201 "2015-01-22T20:46:14Z")
The Greeks don’t want no Freaks. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-stupid-songs-have-taught-you/706950/202 "2015-01-22T20:52:00Z")
Also, my cash ain’t nothin’ but trash. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2015, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-stupid-songs-have-taught-you/706950/203 "2015-01-24T19:12:54Z")
Video killed the radio star. ---
**Author:** ![Mrs.Munster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f14d63/32.png) [@Mrs.Munster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs.Munster)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-stupid-songs-have-taught-you/706950/205 "2015-01-27T18:19:42Z")
The Battle of New Orleans took place in 1814. Got me one more correct on a history test once! ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-stupid-songs-have-taught-you/706950/206 "2015-01-27T19:52:22Z")
We are all just prisoners here of our own device. Also, things in this life change very slowly if they ever change at all, so take it easy and don’t let the sound of your own wheels make you crazy. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-stupid-songs-have-taught-you/706950/207 "2015-01-27T20:14:48Z")
I thought it was food, but no, LOVE will keep us alive. ---
**Author:** ![Wolf333](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf333/32/3460_2.png) [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-stupid-songs-have-taught-you/706950/208 "2015-01-27T20:19:18Z")
Speaking of love, did you know it’s a battlefield? ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-stupid-songs-have-taught-you/706950/209 "2015-01-28T03:09:16Z")
And history has repeatedly shown that nature proves mans’ foolishness. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-stupid-songs-have-taught-you/706950/210 "2015-01-28T03:32:49Z")
How to pronounce Nabakov (rhymes with “shake and cough”). Though apparently I learned wrong. ---
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-stupid-songs-have-taught-you/706950/211 "2015-01-28T03:39:14Z")
Mashed potatoes can be your friend. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-stupid-songs-have-taught-you/706950/212 "2015-01-28T03:42:51Z")
Somewhere downtown there man in a factory, putting peaches in a can (and that’s where they come from). ---
**Author:** ![crucible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@crucible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crucible)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-stupid-songs-have-taught-you/706950/213 "2015-01-28T15:09:17Z")
Camptown ladies sing this song, “Doo-dah, Doo-dah” and, Camptown racetrack’s five miles long. ---
**Author:** ![crucible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@crucible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crucible)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-stupid-songs-have-taught-you/706950/214 "2015-01-28T15:12:25Z")
Catholic girls start much too late,… Only the good die young. ---
**Author:** ![crucible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@crucible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crucible)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-stupid-songs-have-taught-you/706950/215 "2015-01-28T15:18:16Z")
Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike They’ve all come to look for America I wondered a lot about that until he told us what they were doing. Don’t you ever wonder, when you see all the cars on the road, where the fuq all those people are going? Simon told us. Plus, the best line he ever wrote: The moon rose over an open field. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-stupid-songs-have-taught-you/706950/216 "2015-01-28T16:47:10Z")
That “myself” and “someone else” rhyme. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-stupid-songs-have-taught-you/706950/217 "2015-01-28T17:26:34Z")
In this ever-changing world in which we live in when you got a job to do, you got to do it well…you got to give the other fellow hell. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-stupid-songs-have-taught-you/706950/218 "2015-01-28T17:40:47Z")
> [@CaptMurdock](#): > > In this ever-changing world in which we live in when you got a job to do, you got to do it well…you got to give the other fellow hell. In which we’re living sounds a lot like in which we live in if you don’t enunciate clearly. ---
**Author:** ![crucible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@crucible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crucible)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-stupid-songs-have-taught-you/706950/219 "2015-01-28T17:41:24Z")
there’s a hill overlooking the town of El Paso, where you can see Rosa’s Cantina below. ---
**Author:** ![crucible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@crucible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crucible)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-stupid-songs-have-taught-you/706950/220 "2015-01-28T17:56:48Z")
the piano sounds like a carnival And the microphone smells like a beer ---
**Author:** ![Imaginary\_Muffins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/71e660/32.png) [@Imaginary\_Muffins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imaginary_Muffins)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-stupid-songs-have-taught-you/706950/221 "2015-01-28T18:19:32Z")
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