# Trivia from songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 27, 2011, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755 "2011-09-27T12:07:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 23
**Author:** ![LAV25](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/97f17d/32.png) [@LAV25](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LAV25)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2011, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/441 "2011-10-02T06:01:27Z")
> [@tumbleddown](#): > > You borrowed it. Bingo! The doctor told me to try to have fun at all costs. Why do I think he’s an idiot? You prefer to believe hat it has no effect on you, but it would be more accurate to say that you have an unhealthy dependency on this. What is it? If I perish before tomorrow, I’ll be quite the joyous ghost. Who will I chase, and where? ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheField](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@LilyoftheField](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheField)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2011, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/442 "2011-10-02T06:09:03Z")
> [@LAV25](#): > > You prefer to believe hat it has no effect on you, but it would be more accurate to say that you have an unhealthy dependency on this. What is it? You’re going to have to face it, you’re addicted to love…! ---
**Author:** ![Sodalite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@Sodalite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sodalite)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2011, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/443 "2011-10-02T07:20:30Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > You were acting like it was the end of the world. > [@Ponch8](#): > > Only to be with you. Both right. It’s after 3 AM. Why am I still up playing this game? Wait, don’t answer that. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2011, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/444 "2011-10-02T15:22:35Z")
> [@LAV25](#): > > The doctor told me to try to have fun at all costs. Why do I think he’s an idiot? He’s a fool, 'cuz nothing compares 2 U. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2011, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/445 "2011-10-02T18:57:29Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > I changed my locks, got a new phone number, sold my old car, and started dressing differently. What else did I change trying to get away from you? I changed the tracks underneath the train. I also changed the name of this town. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2011, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/446 "2011-10-02T22:41:15Z")
Yes indeed. Which demon has me in its sway? ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/447 "2011-10-03T01:15:28Z")
(A softball if there ever was one…) There may be no end to the things that you can do, but what one thing do you have to lay off of? ---
**Author:** ![Trick\_Rider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Trick\_Rider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trick_Rider)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/448 "2011-10-03T01:55:47Z")
As your boogie man, what am I hear to do? And when? What are the chances of anything coming from Mars? ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/449 "2011-10-03T04:10:09Z")
> [@cornflakes](#): > > (A softball if there ever was one…) > > There may be no end to the things that you can do, but what one thing do you have to lay off of? My BLUE SUEDE SHOES! ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/450 "2011-10-03T04:28:47Z")
> [@Trick\_Rider](#): > > What are the chances of anything coming from Mars? A million to one, he said. After you push the pineapple, what do you do? or ago do do do, as it were ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/451 "2011-10-03T04:56:05Z")
Hi, all, I’m baaaaaaaaaaaaaack! I can only stay a short while tonight. Gotta spend at least a LITTLE time in the real world once in a while. I’m in a bind, I’m way behind! (Who am I? 😛 Oh, wait, we already had a question about THAT song.) But this brings up the subject of tormented souls. Here are two, by the same singer: (1) My personal declaration of independence: I don’t care what you say anymore! What don’t I need you telling me? Whose life is this anyway? (2) I lament the deficiencies of my education, finding it wondrous that I can think at all. What did I learn in high school? What better source of knowledge do I see now? In other news: Here’s a song about another supposedly real-life happening, sort of: (3) The winter holiday season grows nigh! Once upon a time, my friends and I went to a Thanksgiving party at the living quarters of another friend (who, incidentally, runs a restaurant with anything you want on the menu). We helped her take out the garbage, only to get arrested later (just me, not my friends). (a) What did I get arrested for? (b) Why did the prosecution’s case collapse? (c) Now, having an arrest record can really f. u. your life even if you aren’t convicted, but my arrest ultimately turned out to be a blessing. Why? (d) What real-life person in this song later played himself in the movie? I mean, what **other** real-life person? Speaking of people playing themselves in movies (okay, that’s just a little off-topic here, sorry): Marcel Marceau once played bit-part as himself in a movie, in which he _actually spoke out loud_! What did he say? Back to holiday songs… (4) I made myself a Jewish-holiday-themed toy, but had to wait for it to dry. What did I make it out of? All right, another easy softball, even easier that Blue Suede Shoes: (5) I rocked my baby to sleep with a lullaby, in what very exposed outdoor venue? # – Senegoid ---
**Author:** ![Sodalite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@Sodalite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sodalite)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/452 "2011-10-03T04:58:05Z")
> [@Trick\_Rider](#): > > As your boogie man, what am I hear to do? And when? I’m here to do whatever I can. Be it early mornin’, late afternoon, or midnight, it’s never too soon. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/453 "2011-10-03T05:30:27Z")
Here’s another one that’s been stuck in my ear for the last few weeks, now maybe I’ll stick it in all your ears too, dear dopers: (1) A smallish sinusoidal waveform unexpectedly appeared in an undisturbed liquid medium. The two most usual causes were notably absent, though. (Of course, that’s why the medium was undisturbed! 😛 ) What were those absent causes? Hint: Jerry Garcia (2) This one borders on NSFW, maybe it really is, so I conceal it in a spoiler tag. Dear dopers, read if and only if you dare! The more genteel among you[sup][who?][/sup] will be shocked, SHOCKED! This female singer once had love, but seems to have confused it with mere flatulence. (a) Perhaps because her lover was apparently an alien silicon-based life form, having a heart made of what? (b) Where was it painful? (Note: Many of this singer’s performances omit this line.) ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/454 "2011-10-03T05:46:58Z")
**CORRECTION** From a few posts above: These two are **NOT** by the same singer! (Oops.) Sorry about that. > [@](#): > > (1) My personal declaration of independence: I don’t care what you say anymore! What don’t I need you telling me? Whose life is this anyway? > > (2) I lament the deficiencies of my education, finding it wondrous that I can think at all. What did I learn in high school? What better source of knowledge do I see now? ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/455 "2011-10-03T08:22:17Z")
1. My Life, Billy Joel 2. Crap + Kodachrome 3 a. littering b. blind judge c. avoiding conscription d. officer obie 1. you made your dredl out of clay 5 in the tree top Don’t know the first spoilered song, but the second is heart of glass, which can be a pain in the ass. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/456 "2011-10-03T09:10:10Z")
> [@maggenpye](#): > > 1. My Life, Billy Joel > 2. Crap + Kodachrome > > 3 > a. littering > b. blind judge > c. avoiding conscription > d. officer obie > > 1. you made your dredl out of clay > > 5 in the tree top > > Don’t know the first spoilered song, but the second is heart of glass, which can be a pain in the ass. Maggenpye, you some smart! The better source of knowledge in Kodachrome: I can see the writing on the wall The “first spoilered song” (miniature sinusoidal waveforms . . .) “Ripple” by Jerry Garcia / Grateful Dead “Ripple in still water When there is no pebble tossed Nor wind to blow” Now go back a few pages and look at the “ornithology” quiz I posted yesteday. Somebody got the black bird and the blue bird, but nobody got the other three yet! Do you know the (slightly off-topic) Marcel Marceau question? # – Senegoid ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Prize](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@Sir\_Prize](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Prize)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/457 "2011-10-03T12:16:16Z")
> [@Trick\_Rider](#): > > As your boogie man, what am I hear to do? And when? I’m here to do whatever I can be it early morning, late afternoon or midnight it’s never too soon. I see that Sodalite already answered this.:smack: ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/458 "2011-10-03T12:36:11Z")
> [@tumbleddown](#): > > The moon starts to glow and disappear, then when the time is really right, the centipede crawls. Bless you, **tumbleddown** , for getting this one right! I don’t wanna think about that centipede no more. _sob_ ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/459 "2011-10-03T15:08:49Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > My BLUE SUEDE SHOES! +1 What do I get? And why? ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2011, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/460 "2011-10-03T19:58:02Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Maggenpye, you some smart! > The better source of knowledge in Kodachrome: > > I can see the writing on the wall > > The “first spoilered song” (miniature sinusoidal waveforms . . .) > > “Ripple” by Jerry Garcia / Grateful Dead > > “Ripple in still water > When there is no pebble tossed > Nor wind to blow” > > Now go back a few pages and look at the “ornithology” quiz I posted yesteday. Somebody got the black bird and the blue bird, but nobody got the other three yet! > > Do you know the (slightly off-topic) Marcel Marceau question? > > # – Senegoid Marcel Marceau had the only speaking part in Silent Movie. No-ne’s got the inapple question either. Not a deadhead, never heard ripple. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755.md?page=22) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755.md?page=24)