# Verbose song lyrics **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [November 19, 2010, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-lyrics/561244 "2010-11-19T18:44:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 22
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-lyrics/561244/421 "2010-11-29T17:08:00Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > The speaker is precisely like the scaled-down replica or simulacrum of an O-8 land forces officer, possessing a library of geological, botanical, and zoological data, as well as of the historical wielders of Anglic sovereignty, and of a datastore of armed combats in a range typified by small towns located approximately 40 kilometres from Brussels and Athens respectively. “I am the very model of a modern major-general, I’ve information vegetable, animal, and mineral, I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical, From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical…” - Gilbert & Sullivan ---
**Author:** ![fuzzypickles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9d8465/32.png) [@fuzzypickles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fuzzypickles)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-lyrics/561244/422 "2010-11-29T17:35:40Z")
> [@StusBlues](#): > > That would be “Black Metal” by one Cradle of Filth. Technically correct, except the original artist was [Venom](http://www.venomslegions.com/). _(Cradle of Filth…sheesh!)_ 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-lyrics/561244/423 "2010-11-29T18:01:01Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > “I am the very model of a modern major-general, > I’ve information vegetable, animal, and mineral, > I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical, > From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical…” - Gilbert & Sullivan _ **Polycarp** executes a brisk salute to **Biffy** for his accurate answer._ ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-lyrics/561244/424 "2010-11-29T18:48:19Z")
> [@](#): > > Allow the situation of which we are speaking to continue in its present state or lack thereof. Let It Be??? mmm ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-lyrics/561244/425 "2010-11-29T19:06:36Z")
An apparently unknown occurrence has taken place in my vicinity I am at a loss to precisely appreciate what, specifically, it all entails If you direct your gaze in the direction I am indicating, you will note a chap who has possession of a harm-causing device This aforementioned gentleman is engaging me in conversation, he is giving notice that I must exercise great caution My cerebrum contains within it indications that it would behoove you and I to terminate, group of wet-behind-the-ears individuals, pray tell, describe audio waves All of humankind fix your eyes upon an object that is descending mmm ---
**Author:** ![Corner\_Case](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/corner_case/32/234_2.png) [@Corner\_Case](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corner_Case)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-lyrics/561244/426 "2010-11-29T20:36:51Z")
Temporally it is the ordinal Latin opening one before the meaning of life, the universe, and everything Existing as a quaternary device in order to keep the calendar year synchronized with the astronomical or seasonal year An imaginary part compelled impelling in the urban center of Timaeus’ and Critias’ dialogue Heart’s song possession was located in a mercantile establishment Therefore an imaginary part agreed to temporary payment of a dasyatidae owned by another Homogeneously similar, the dasyatidae was excessively and undesirably emitting thermal radiation Verbose Title soaked liquid mental images and emotions during periodic unconsciousness ---
**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:** [November 29, 2010, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-lyrics/561244/427 "2010-11-29T20:53:43Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > An apparently unknown occurrence has taken place in my vicinity > I am at a loss to precisely appreciate what, specifically, it all entails > If you direct your gaze in the direction I am indicating, you will note a chap who has possession of a harm-causing device > This aforementioned gentleman is engaging me in conversation, he is giving notice that I must exercise great caution > My cerebrum contains within it indications that it would behoove you and I to terminate, group of wet-behind-the-ears individuals, pray tell, describe audio waves > All of humankind fix your eyes upon an object that is descending > mmm For What It’s Worth. ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-lyrics/561244/428 "2010-11-29T21:00:01Z")
**Polycarp** , #393 B. Already given C. Father Figure, George Michael That’s all I wanted Something special something sacred - In your eyes For just one moment To to bold and naked At your side Sometimes I think that you’ll never Understand me Maybe this time is forever… Say it can be #405, Spinning Wheel - Blood, Sweat, and Tears **Mean Mr. Mustard** , #410, Billy Jean, Michael Jackson. Hentor, #415, ah. **StusBlues** , correct and correct. **Mean Mr. Mustard** , #425, Something’s Happening Here - Buffalo Springfield There’s something happening here What it is ain’t exactly clear There’s a man with a gun over there Telling me I got to beware I think it’s time we stop, children, what’s that sound Everybody look what’s going down ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-lyrics/561244/429 "2010-11-29T21:14:09Z")
Awesome thread! I can’t believe how many you guys have guessed right. I have only been able to figure out three of them. Did anyone figure out #50? It felt like I almost had it but I got distracted and now I can’t figure it out. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-lyrics/561244/430 "2010-11-29T21:33:48Z")
> [@tr0psn4j](#): > > Awesome thread! I can’t believe how many you guys have guessed right. I have only been able to figure out three of them. > > Did anyone figure out #50? It felt like I almost had it but I got distracted and now I can’t figure it out. It was “Boyz In The Hood” by N.W.A. (although I always preferred the [Dynamite Hack](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMlPVpXtkJY) cover). ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-lyrics/561244/431 "2010-11-29T22:44:39Z")
Which individual is responsible for allowing the canines a point of egress? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-lyrics/561244/432 "2010-11-29T22:56:59Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > Which individual is responsible for allowing the canines a point of egress? I’m not sure, who? Who? Who? Who? ---
**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-lyrics/561244/433 "2010-11-29T22:59:15Z")
> [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](#): > > Which individual is responsible for allowing the canines a point of egress? Bark! Bark! Bark! ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-lyrics/561244/434 "2010-11-29T23:46:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Mean Mr. Mustard, #425, Something’s Happening Here - Buffalo Springfield For what it’s worth, the song title is For What It’s Worth. mmm ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-lyrics/561244/435 "2010-11-30T03:11:32Z")
> [@Corner\_Case](#): > > Temporally it is the ordinal Latin opening one before the meaning of life, the universe, and everything > Existing as a quaternary device in order to keep the calendar year synchronized with the astronomical or seasonal year > An imaginary part compelled impelling in the urban center of Timaeus’ and Critias’ dialogue > Heart’s song possession was located in a mercantile establishment > Therefore an imaginary part agreed to temporary payment of a dasyatidae owned by another > Homogeneously similar, the dasyatidae was excessively and undesirably emitting thermal radiation > > Verbose Title > > soaked liquid mental images and emotions during periodic unconsciousness Wet Dream, Kip Addotta I have no idea what this song sounds like, but that’s what I found after Googling “stingray atlantis lyrics” and looking for a title with “dream” in it. Yes, I cheated. A lot. ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-lyrics/561244/436 "2010-11-30T03:33:03Z")
(a) If it is alright with you, I would like you to become aware of me and at least know what my appellation is. I have significant amounts of money and know quite a lot about what is stylish. The time that I’ve been alive and inhabiting these parts is quite considerable. I have obtained a vast number of intangible aspects of people that could possibly be of use to them after their physical bodies stop functioning, all without their permission, and have caused those people to doubt in the existence of a higher power. (b) Take into your lungs the gaseous matter that surrounds you. You shouldn’t be timid of desiring the betterment of the welfare of others. Move on to somewhere else, but make sure that I am not separated from you. Visually peruse your immediate vicinity. Decide on a piece of land that you can call your own. © We will initially halt our journey in the capital of the most northwestern country of South America, where we will inspect that country’s agricultural lands. The local inhabitants will turn the sides of their mouths up in our presence and will hand over to us small portions of what they toil their life away to produce. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-lyrics/561244/437 "2010-11-30T03:58:12Z")
436b- Breathe, by Pink Floyd mmm ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-lyrics/561244/438 "2010-11-30T10:29:59Z")
> [@glowacks](#): > > If it is alright with you, I would like you to become aware of me and at least know what my appellation is. I have significant amounts of money and know quite a lot about what is stylish. The time that I’ve been alive and inhabiting these parts is quite considerable. I have obtained a vast number of intangible aspects of people that could possibly be of use to them after their physical bodies stop functioning, all without their permission, and have caused those people to doubt in the existence of a higher power. Sympathy for the Devil - Rolling Stones ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-lyrics/561244/439 "2010-11-30T12:14:04Z")
These (from page 5) seem to remain unsolved. Mutual oral sex used to be the same thing as an inexpensive sample of the type of the intermediate state of matter that is produced when hexoses contained in extracts of the non-climacteric fleshy structures regularly produced by Vitis labrusca (or some closely related species) are broken down anaerobically. ```auto Is there a person who will inform you that the most opportune moment has already passed? Is there a person who will inform you that objects are not large (not to such an extent, anyway)? ``` The present human settlement is ejaculating in a manner similar to a spectral emission city. Every mutual association is sealed toward the bottom. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2010, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-lyrics/561244/440 "2010-11-30T12:36:43Z")
> [@glowacks](#): > > We will initially halt our journey in the capital of the most northwestern country of South America, where we will inspect that country’s agricultural lands. The local inhabitants will turn the sides of their mouths up in our presence and will hand over to us small portions of what they toil their life away to produce. _Our first stop is in Bogota / To check Columbian fields / The natives smile and pass along / A sample of their yield / Sweet Jamaican pipe dreams …_ A Passage to Bangkok - Rush > [@njtt](#): > > Is there a person who will inform you that the most opportune moment has already passed? > Is there a person who will inform you that objects are not large (not to such an extent, anyway)? Drive - Cars. Didn’t someone answer that already? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-lyrics/561244.md?page=21) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/verbose-song-lyrics/561244.md?page=23)