# 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:** 25
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/481 "2011-10-04T05:32:10Z")
> [@Sir\_Prize](#): > > (1) By the time I’m sober I’ve forgotten what I’ve had. What does everybody tell me? It’s cool to be a cat. > [@njtt](#): > > What happened in the old days, when a young man walked by? All the people stepped back (they stepped BACK)! ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/482 "2011-10-04T05:36:16Z")
> [@Labdad](#): > > Rain asphalt? > My little boy safe inside > (see my reply to “Saddest Songs in the World” thread Both right. Man, that’s a lot of posts in a row - sorry, folks. What is it that you can trust fear to do? ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/483 "2011-10-04T06:53:37Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > The sun through yellow curtains, and a rainbow on the wall. > > 1. But, in a typical case of American blind justice, nobody ever looked at 'em. > > Smokin’ in the boys room. Correct! What about the others? ---
**Author:** ![Sodalite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@Sodalite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sodalite)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/484 "2011-10-04T07:56:08Z")
> [@Sir\_Prize](#): > > (5) What’s your function? Hooking up words and phrases and clauses. > [@Spoons](#): > > Why is it Judy’s turn to cry? Cause Johnny’s come back to me. ---
**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 4, 2011, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/485 "2011-10-04T08:01:54Z")
> [@maggenpye](#): > > Not a deadhead, never heard ripple. “Ripple” by Jerry Garcia / Grateful Dead. Listen, at: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/xcOg5bxVOLs/hqdefault.jpg "Ripple, Grateful Dead, Me on vocals, Video Pictorial.") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcOg5bxVOLs) This is an amateur (AFAIK) third-party rendition, but **very** good, and with a **fantabulous** slide show of New England fall foliage pics! ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/486 "2011-10-04T08:16:07Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > “Ripple” by Jerry Garcia / Grateful Dead. > Listen, at: > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcOg5bxVOLs](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcOg5bxVOLs) > > This is an amateur (AFAIK) third-party rendition, but **very** good, and with a **fantabulous** slide show of New England fall foliage pics! Sorry - really not my thing. Still no answers to: 1 What do you (a ga) do after you push the pineapple? 2 If the photo’s on the dashboard, and every streetlight reveals it in reverse, what have you been doing? 3 Badger twelve times, then what? ([link](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIyixC9NsLI)for those who give up completely - cause it’s a bit of a cheat) ---
**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 4, 2011, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/487 "2011-10-04T08:17:08Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > I think I’ll go out to Alberta. Why? > > How many eight-by ten color glossy photos with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one were offered as evidence? Alberta: Weather’s good there in the fall, got some friends I can go to workin’ for. (had this question, essentially, a few days ago.) Alice’s Restaurant question also, about a page back. (#451) Now this: As a kid, I sat on a fence, wondering about people’s lack of common sense. What did I crave? I saw elephants and tambourines playing in the band. Where? (Didn’t say if the tambourines were green, though. Or the elephants either.) Why don’t I want anybody to tell what train I’m on? ---
**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 4, 2011, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/488 "2011-10-04T08:26:46Z")
Super star, who are you? What rolls through your brief moment in time? Sparks fly from the fingertips of this restless spirit. What does she have in her eyes? ---
**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 4, 2011, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/489 "2011-10-04T12:15:14Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > I saw elephants and tambourines playing in the band. Where? (Didn’t say if the tambourines were green, though. Or the elephants either.) Lookin’ out my back door. > [@Senegoid](#): > > Sparks fly from the fingertips of this restless spirit. What does she have in her eyes? The moon. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/490 "2011-10-04T13:47:33Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > Super star, who are you? Jesus Christ? (Though I doubt if that is the only answer that will fit.) ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬ What is the present diet of the man from Mars? Where did a child of God, walking along the road, tell me he was going? ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/491 "2011-10-04T13:52:50Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > What is the present diet of the man from Mars? > > Where did a child of God, walking along the road, tell me he was going? The Man from Mars now only eats cars. The child of God was going down to Yasgur’s farm, gonna join in a rock and roll band. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/492 "2011-10-04T13:58:57Z")
How/where did I spend the last year (couldn’t have gotten much higher)? What will it take for her to get what she came for? Why can’t he be a man? ---
**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 4, 2011, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/493 "2011-10-04T14:01:19Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > What will it take for her to get what she came for? > > Why can’t he be a man? A word. He doesn’t smoke the same cigarettes as me. ---
**Author:** ![MacLir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@MacLir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacLir)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/494 "2011-10-04T14:54:25Z")
The seventy days mentioned as a wrong answer is the right answer to another attempt at reform. Who was it, and what ended it (presumably)? ---
**Author:** ![MacLir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@MacLir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacLir)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/495 "2011-10-04T14:58:47Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > 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.) Blondie / Debbie Harry - Heart of Glass Pain in the Ass ---
**Author:** ![Ferd\_Burfel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@Ferd\_Burfel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferd_Burfel)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/496 "2011-10-04T16:22:21Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > M is for the mudflaps on my pickup… what are the rest of the letters, and what do they stand for? O is for the oil i put on my hair T is for T-Bird H is for Haggard E is for eggs R is for … REDNECK! What 2 cars raced into Deadman’s curve? What kind of car goes beep-beep, beep-beep, beep-beep-beep? What 2 cars raced on the strip where the road is wide? What 2 cars did Nadine get into? ---
**Author:** ![MacLir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@MacLir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacLir)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/497 "2011-10-04T16:26:37Z")
> [@Ferd\_Burfel](#): > > What kind of car goes beep-beep, beep-beep, beep-beep-beep? Nash Rambler ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/498 "2011-10-04T16:34:04Z")
> [@Ferd\_Burfel](#): > > What 2 cars raced into Deadman’s curve? > > What kind of car goes beep-beep, beep-beep, beep-beep-beep? > > What 2 cars raced on the strip where the road is wide? > > What 2 cars did Nadine get into? A Stingray and an XKE Nash Rambler (already answered) A fuel-injected Stingray and a 413 A coffee-colored Cadillac and a Yellow Cab ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/499 "2011-10-04T16:48:13Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > Green. Of course. > [@Enginerd](#): > > All the people stepped back (they stepped BACK)! Yes. These days, of course, he’s got sweet fuck all! > [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > The Man from Mars now only eats cars. No, certainly not. He got past that stage quite a while ago. > [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > The child of God was going down to Yasgur’s farm, gonna join in a rock and roll band. That’s true, though. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2011, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755/500 "2011-10-04T17:01:01Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > No, certainly not. He got past that stage quite a while ago. > . Oh yeah. Now he only eats guitars. I was thinking of a different diet. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755.md?page=24) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-from-songs/597755.md?page=26)