# Where have you been? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 5, 2006, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-you-been/375433 "2006-10-05T22:16:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-you-been/375433/21 "2006-10-06T05:03:51Z")
[QUOTE=Shoshana] Constantinople. You? [/QUOTE] Waiting for a date in Istanbul. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-you-been/375433/22 "2006-10-06T05:05:23Z")
Curses! ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-you-been/375433/23 "2006-10-06T10:32:17Z")
On a highway of diamonds. Why d’you ask? ---
**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 6, 2006, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-you-been/375433/24 "2006-10-06T13:16:21Z")
“Ive been to Paradise but I’ve never been to me.” I hate that song too, so I figured it was best to post it now, and get it over with. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-you-been/375433/25 "2006-10-06T13:30:20Z")
I’ve been to town. I’ve walked the boulevards and on the beach. I’ve learned some things that only time can teach. You ask me why it is I frown; I guess it’s 'cause I’ve been to town.\* \*A shiny button if you can remember who wrote that. ---
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-you-been/375433/26 "2006-10-06T13:48:27Z")
[QUOTE=Inigo Montoya] Leon Russell has my heart with his cover of it. That’s Leon _Russell_, not Leon _Redbone_. I might implode laughing if I listened to a Redbone cover of it. 😃 [/QUOTE] I’ll try it Inigo. ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-you-been/375433/27 "2006-10-06T14:38:56Z")
I have been to seek a wife She’s the joy of my life She’s a young thing and cannot leave her mother. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-you-been/375433/28 "2006-10-06T15:00:28Z")
[QUOTE=swampbear] You mean [Where’ve You Been](http://www.songbirdcry.com/where.htm) by Cathy Mattea. It makes me mist up too. [/QUOTE] That’s the one. I’ve been up. I’ve been down. Take my word, I’ve been 'round. ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-you-been/375433/29 "2006-10-06T15:29:27Z")
[Where Are You Going?](http://www.usfca.edu/~southerr/wgoing2.html) ---
**Author:** ![MostlyClueless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@MostlyClueless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MostlyClueless)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-you-been/375433/30 "2006-10-06T15:41:33Z")
The lavatory. What’d I miss? ---
**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:** [October 6, 2006, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-you-been/375433/31 "2006-10-06T17:04:59Z")
[Somewhere Where They Can’t Find Me](http://sglyrics.myrmid.com/sounds.htm#track05) ---
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-you-been/375433/32 "2006-10-06T19:17:02Z")
Where have all the cowboys gone? ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2006, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-you-been/375433/33 "2006-10-06T19:36:46Z")
**Inigo Montoya** , the OP is a one-liner that provides little direction for discussion in the thread other than to be seen as an invitation for post-padding. Which is what this thread has turned into. I’m afraid this thread is closed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-have-you-been/375433.md?page=1)