# Whoomp! I'm officially out of touch

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoomp-im-officially-out-of-touch/932155>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** commercials-ads\
**Created:** [February 3, 2021, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoomp-im-officially-out-of-touch/932155 "2021-02-03T18:25:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2021, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoomp-im-officially-out-of-touch/932155/21 "2021-02-07T19:38:27Z")

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“Come on, I’m talking about stew”

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**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2021, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoomp-im-officially-out-of-touch/932155/22 "2021-02-07T19:44:14Z")

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In dirty times  
You shouldn’t have to sell your clothes  
In black or white  
They really, really ought to glow

Those one track minds  
They took you for a Clorox boy  
Kiss them goodbye  
You shouldn’t have to scrub for clean  
You shouldn’t have to scrub for clean (Shout, shout)

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**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2021, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoomp-im-officially-out-of-touch/932155/23 "2021-02-07T20:44:24Z")

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Applause.

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**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2021, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoomp-im-officially-out-of-touch/932155/24 "2021-02-07T22:21:30Z")

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> [@Grrr](#):
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> I remember there was a car commercial that played Ozzy’s “Crazy Train”.
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> That song was considered too “edgy” to be played on the radio back in my day. Now they’re playing it on a wholesome family type commercial.

If there’s one universal truth, no matter how cool and edgy you think your music is when you are a kid, eventually it becomes the soundtrack for car and snack commercials.

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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2021, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoomp-im-officially-out-of-touch/932155/25 "2021-02-08T03:46:00Z")

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> [@DigitalC](#):
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> Little known fact but their song was a total rip off from 95 South’s lesser known [Whoot there it is](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBwvFBxf_Eg&ab_channel=trinideryck) which came out a little earlier that same year.

According to the video I linked, it was just a really common phrase at the time. Neither group believed the other stole it from them, and they would even do “battle of the bands” type stuff for charity together.

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