# Vowels **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 22, 2008, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowels/464692 "2008-09-22T16:19:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![nd\_n8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/439d5e/32.png) [@nd\_n8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nd_n8)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowels/464692/21 "2008-09-24T13:11:37Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > I was walking up Broadway, ya know, and there was this incredible looking Swedish girl, having a Cappuccino across the street from Lincoln Center. > > I started talking to her; she said her name was Lola. Her English wasn’t too good, but we wound up spending about five hours together just hanging out. > > So we go back to my place. We get high, we get really into each other. It was love about to happen–I’m serious. > > And then all of a sudden she gets up, and she says “hey, I really gotta leave.” > > Damn. Operator! Operator! What’s happening operator?! Mommy? Mommy? Mommy!! Where are you Mommy? I can’t see you I can’t see you Mommy! All artists, potentially, are the victims of their desire to be unique Just observe it Don’t fight it Work it. ---
**Author:** ![nd\_n8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/439d5e/32.png) [@nd\_n8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nd_n8)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowels/464692/22 "2008-09-24T13:15:27Z")
No mommy, don’t do it again Don’t do it again I’ll be a good boy I’ll be a good boy, I promise No mommy don’t hit me Oh-oohh Why did you have to hit me like that mommy? Don’t do it! You’re hurting me Oh-oohh! Why did you have to be such a bitch? ---
**Author:** ![nd\_n8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/439d5e/32.png) [@nd\_n8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nd_n8)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowels/464692/23 "2008-09-24T13:18:44Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > Does anybody here know Johnny? Are you Johnny? There was one guy named Johnny but he was a total geek, he always had food in his braces. > > Oh God this is like that movie Citizen Kane, you know, where you later find out Rosebud was a sled. This is the post that caused me to figure it out, although I think perhaps your post title refers to the wrong person. They both have the same name though. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowels/464692/24 "2008-09-24T13:36:17Z")
Is this anything? I’m seeing plenty of nonsense and maybe some stoned rambling, but that’s not quite enough to make a thread. This is locked. ETA: **Koxinga** explained what’s going on, so I’ve moved this to the Game Room. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowels/464692/25 "2008-09-24T14:38:28Z")
> [@nd\_n8](#): > > Operator! Operator! > What’s happening operator?! > > Mommy? Mommy? Mommy!! > Where are you Mommy? > I can’t see you > I can’t see you Mommy! > > All artists, potentially, are the victims of their desire to be unique > > Just observe it > > Don’t fight it > > Work it. I think you’ve got it! But why did I choose the title “Vowels”? (ETA: Thanks, Marley!) ---
**Author:** ![nd\_n8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/439d5e/32.png) [@nd\_n8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nd_n8)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowels/464692/26 "2008-09-24T16:54:39Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > I think you’ve got it! But why did I choose the title “Vowels”? > > (ETA: Thanks, Marley!) Yes, thank you **Marley** , it is an evil sick and twisted game here. I’m actually suprised **Inigo** didn’t figure it out before me. And… You chose the title Vowels for the same reason I chose the title Viral in post 22. Yes, I have figured out your game and the underlying theme. I’ll leave it at that, as it is most devious, to let others figure it out. ---
**Author:** ![nd\_n8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/439d5e/32.png) [@nd\_n8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nd_n8)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowels/464692/27 "2008-09-24T17:09:26Z")
I was in my room and I was just like staring at the wall thinking 'bout everything, but then again I was thinking about nothing. And then my Mom came in, and I didn’t even know she was there. She called my name but I didn’t hear her. Then she started screaming, “Mike, Mike!” And I go, “What? What’s the matter?” She goes, “What’s the matter with you?!” I go, “There’s nothin’ wrong Mom.” She goes, “Don’t tell me that, you’re on drugs!” I go, “No Mom, I’m not on drugs. I’m okay, I’m just thinking, you know. Why don’t ya give me a Pepsi?” She goes, “No, you’re on drugs!” I go, “Mom, I’m okay, I’m just thinking.” She goes, “No, you’re not thinking, you’re on drugs! Normal people don’t act in that way!” I go, “Mom, just give me a Pepsi please, all I want is a Pepsi.” And she wouldn’t give it to me! All I wanted was a Pepsi! Just one Pepsi! And she wouldn’t give it to me! Just a Pepsi! ---
**Author:** ![Indistinguishable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/90ced4/32.png) [@Indistinguishable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indistinguishable)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowels/464692/28 "2008-09-24T17:36:08Z")
They’re song lyrics, with the post title relating, I can get that much. **Vowels** : AEIOU Sometimes Y (Ebn Ozn) **Hal’s flower** : Push the Little Daisies (Ween) **McCormick’s partner has a stutter** : 19 (Paul Hardcastle) **The server’s such a minx** : I Know What Boys Like (The Waitresses) **Coffee-colored Columbine clairvoyance?** : The Homecoming Queen’s Got a Gun (Julie Brown) **Viral** : Down with the Sickness (Disturbed) **A Trade School for Cobain and Hemmingway** : Institutionalize (Suicidal Tendencies) But that’s just obvious Googling, and the first two responses played along (sort of), and the sixth response (by **Litoris** ) called the OP right out on it. So I suppose there must be yet more to it… ---
**Author:** ![nd\_n8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/439d5e/32.png) [@nd\_n8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nd_n8)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowels/464692/29 "2008-09-24T17:56:55Z")
> [@Indistinguishable](#): > > They’re song lyrics, with the post title relating, I can get that much. > > **Vowels** : AEIOU Sometimes Y (Ebn Ozn) > **Hal’s flower** : Push the Little Daisies (Ween) > **McCormick’s partner has a stutter** : 19 (Paul Hardcastle) > **The server’s such a minx** : I Know What Boys Like (The Waitresses) > **Coffee-colored Columbine clairvoyance?** : The Homecoming Queen’s Got a Gun (Julie Brown) > **Viral** : Down with the Sickness (Disturbed) > **A Trade School for Cobain and Hemmingway** : Institutionalize (Suicidal Tendencies) > > But that’s just obvious Googling, and the first two responses played along (sort of), and the sixth response (by **Litoris** ) called the OP right out on it. So I suppose there must be yet more to it… There is, in fact, one more bit of common ground (the general theme). ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowels/464692/30 "2008-09-24T18:17:04Z")
All the vowels in the OP: **oe** I a ai u oaay ya o a ee a i ieie ooi ei i ai a auio ao e ee o io ee I ae ai o e e ai e ae a oa e ni a oo oo u e ou u ei aou ie ou oee u ai ou o e o a o y ae e e i e e eay io ea oe I a oe aou o ae I eiou A e a o a ue e e u a e ay ey I eay oa eae a * * * and also: [AEIOU, and sometimes Y](http://thecadmusproject.com/2008/09/02/family-guy-aeiouand-sometimes-y/) ---
**Author:** ![bink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/439d5e/32.png) [@bink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bink)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowels/464692/31 "2008-09-24T21:03:04Z")
This is my world. You just a squirrel, tryin’ to get a nut. ---
**Author:** ![nd\_n8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/439d5e/32.png) [@nd\_n8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nd_n8)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2008, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowels/464692/32 "2008-09-25T02:54:29Z")
Every damn time I walk through that door, its the same damn thing That bitch bends over, and I forget my name - ow! ---
**Author:** ![Indistinguishable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/90ced4/32.png) [@Indistinguishable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indistinguishable)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2008, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowels/464692/33 "2008-09-25T03:01:04Z")
Ooooh… well done. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2008, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowels/464692/34 "2008-09-25T03:57:25Z")
> [@](#): > > The one thing all of these have in common is that they are all spoken parts in the song. Veil the title, quote the lyrics, spoken word. Th-th-that’s all folks. Actually, I was going for annoying 80s-90s one hit wonders. Try listening to them all in a row and see if your head doesn’t explode. (Especially Ween). ---
**Author:** ![Indistinguishable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/90ced4/32.png) [@Indistinguishable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indistinguishable)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2008, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowels/464692/35 "2008-09-25T04:11:04Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > (Especially Ween). Hey now, how can you not like “Voodoo Lady”? ---
**Author:** ![nd\_n8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/439d5e/32.png) [@nd\_n8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nd_n8)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2008, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowels/464692/36 "2008-09-25T12:10:43Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > Actually, I was going for annoying 80s-90s one hit wonders. Try listening to them all in a row and see if your head doesn’t explode. > > (Especially Ween). I was going to say '80s after listening to them all but there was some sort of reddish gray debris on my keyboard. I guess my Disturbed contribution didn’t fit and Kiss is hardly a one hit wonder but I suppose the Suicidal Tendencies work their way in nicely. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vowels/464692.md?page=1)