# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2014, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-stupid-songs-have-taught-you/706950/121 "2014-12-13T21:47:22Z")
The Sun is a mass of incandescent gas. ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce7236/32.png) [@Mona\_Lisa\_Simpson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lisa_Simpson)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2014, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-stupid-songs-have-taught-you/706950/122 "2014-12-13T21:51:10Z")
Oh, in the late 80s I had to correct a friend. “Whiskey and Rye” is not a a miexed drink. Well, not usually, despite the fact that the “good old boys” drink it at the levy. Along with Lime in the Coconut we could start a thread about how songs are not always recipes! ---
**Author:** ![medstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@medstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/medstar)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2014, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-stupid-songs-have-taught-you/706950/123 "2014-12-13T22:13:22Z")
Apparently, Idina Menzel excelled in mathematics because she mentioned the word fractals in the song, “Let It Go”, from Frozen. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2014, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-stupid-songs-have-taught-you/706950/124 "2014-12-13T23:13:23Z")
Rasputin was Russia’s greatest love machine, lover of the Russian queen. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-stupid-songs-have-taught-you/706950/125 "2014-12-14T01:57:10Z")
Falling in love at the Copa will get your boyfriend killed and make you lose your mind while you drink yourself half-blind. Falling in love with a Mexican girl in the West Texas town of El Paso will end up with you feeling a bullet go deep in your chest. When you dance with someone in a little cafe just the other side of the border, odds are she belongs to bad man Jose. For that matter if you’re cutting a rug at a place called The Jug with a girl named Linda Lou, you’d better take three steps toward the door. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2014, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-stupid-songs-have-taught-you/706950/126 "2014-12-14T03:10:17Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > The Sun is a mass of incandescent gas. Nah. [The sun is a miasma of incandescent plasma.](http://youtu.be/u-KyciKHw-g) ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2014, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-stupid-songs-have-taught-you/706950/127 "2014-12-15T03:22:56Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > **House:** Well, like the philosopher Jagger once said, “You can’t always get what you want.” > > [later] > > **Cuddy:** Oh, I looked into that philosopher you quoted, Jagger, and you’re right, “You can’t always get what you want,” but as it turns out “if you try sometimes you get what you need.” To expand on an earlier post: Peter: Brian, can I see that paper for a sec? Huh… that’s odd… I thought that would big news. Brian: You thought what would be big news? Peter: Well there seems to be an absence of a certain ornithological piece: a headline regarding mass awareness of a certain avian variety. Brian: What are you talking about? Peter: Oh have you not heard? It was my understanding that everyone had heard… Brian: Heard what? Stewie: Brian Don’t! Peter: OH WELL THE BIRD, BIRD, BIRD, BIRD BIRD IS THE WORD. OH WELL THE BIRD, BIRD, BIRD, BIRD BIRD IS THE WORD. OH WELL THE BIRD, BIRD, BIRD, BIRD BIRD IS THE WORD. OH WELL THE BIRD, BIRD, BIRD, BIRD BIRD IS THE WORD. BRIAN DON’T YOU KNOW ABOUT THE BIRD? WELL PETER IS GOING TO TELL YOU ABOUT THE BIRD. OH WELL THE BIRD, BIRD, BIRD, BIRD BIRD IS THE WORD. OH WELL THE BIRD… SURFINNN BIRD. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2014, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-stupid-songs-have-taught-you/706950/128 "2014-12-19T00:53:33Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > I learned a thing or two from Charlie, don’tcha know. But was it as useful as what to do with a hundred-weight of yeast and some copper line? ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2014, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-stupid-songs-have-taught-you/706950/129 "2014-12-19T01:00:05Z")
I learned that if you get a copper kettle and a copper coil, and cover it with new-made corn mash, never more will you toil. But don’t use no green nor rotten wood: they’ll get you by the smoke. ---
**Author:** ![Mehak50](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/858c86/32.png) [@Mehak50](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehak50)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2014, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-stupid-songs-have-taught-you/706950/130 "2014-12-22T10:50:07Z")
hmmm thats amazing. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2014, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-stupid-songs-have-taught-you/706950/131 "2014-12-22T13:02:11Z")
> [@Soylent\_Juicy](#): > > [http://www.idolator.com/5078568/journey-confuses-two-million-more-people-about-detroits-geography](http://www.idolator.com/5078568/journey-confuses-two-million-more-people-about-detroits-geography) > > [http://archive.wzzm13.com/news/article/193931/82/Finally-the-South-Detroit-lyric-solved](http://archive.wzzm13.com/news/article/193931/82/Finally-the-South-Detroit-lyric-solved) > > At least “The Heart of Rock and Roll Is Still Beating” in _Detroit!_ Really? I thought they were singing “The Hall of Rock and Roll is in Cleveland”. and it, is, too > **[Home](https://rockhall.com/)** > > Discover the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and dive into the world of legendary artists, groundbreaking music, and the cultural impact of rock and roll. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2014, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-stupid-songs-have-taught-you/706950/132 "2014-12-22T13:38:59Z")
I learned that my boy had grown up just like me. ---
**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:** [December 22, 2014, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-stupid-songs-have-taught-you/706950/133 "2014-12-22T14:12:50Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > I learned that my boy had grown up just like me. But I’m completely mystified why there’s a cat in a cradle with a silver spoon – WTF does a cat need a spoon for? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2014, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-stupid-songs-have-taught-you/706950/134 "2014-12-22T14:17:15Z")
Remember when mountains came out of the sky and just stood there? That was weird, man. ---
**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:** [December 22, 2014, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-stupid-songs-have-taught-you/706950/135 "2014-12-22T16:47:59Z")
I didn’t know that besides phones, you can learn stuff through grape vines. ---
**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:** [December 22, 2014, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-stupid-songs-have-taught-you/706950/136 "2014-12-22T16:49:30Z")
I also didn’t know there are “sugar pies”. “Honey bunches” sound good too. Where do I get them? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2014, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-stupid-songs-have-taught-you/706950/137 "2014-12-22T17:19:54Z")
Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs, and what’s wrong with that? I still wonder, though, what love’s got to do with it? ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2014, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-stupid-songs-have-taught-you/706950/138 "2014-12-22T17:26:16Z")
Some stupid with a flare gun burned the Montreux Casino to the ground in December of 1971. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2014, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-stupid-songs-have-taught-you/706950/139 "2014-12-22T17:34:18Z")
Fat bottom girls do make the rocking world go 'round. Especially if this year’s collection of hits is to be believed. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2014, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-stupid-songs-have-taught-you/706950/140 "2014-12-22T17:38:12Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Really? > > I thought they were singing “The Hall of Rock and Roll is in Cleveland”. > and it, is, too > > [http://rockhall.com/](http://rockhall.com/) Hah, that’s how I’m going to sing it from now on. I’ve been there too. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-stupid-songs-have-taught-you/706950.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-stupid-songs-have-taught-you/706950.md?page=8)