# Why did she run calling "Wildfire"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 1, 2005, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-she-run-calling-wildfire/292502 "2005-03-01T22:42:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-she-run-calling-wildfire/292502/121 "2005-08-30T21:56:34Z")
Sugar Walls and The girl is mine ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-she-run-calling-wildfire/292502/122 "2005-08-30T21:59:56Z")
Afternoon delight is no longer one of the worst songs ever. Since the _Anchorman_ scene at least used it to generate some laughs. Many other songs have caused nothing but pain since creation. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-she-run-calling-wildfire/292502/123 "2005-08-30T23:11:40Z")
> [@Dung Beetle](#): > > It is my firm belief that there are some songs out there that everyone likes, but no one will admit to liking, and “Afternoon Delight” tops the list. Go ahead, deny that you love it. I, for one, do not believe you! > > “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” is another. Given the fact that my parents claim that Afternoon Delight was playing when I was conceived, no, **I don’t like that song**. I used to like The Lion Sleeps Tonight, though. ---
**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:** [August 31, 2005, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-she-run-calling-wildfire/292502/124 "2005-08-31T01:04:29Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > Given the fact that my parents claim that Afternoon Delight was playing when I was conceived, no, **I don’t like that song**. Let’s all take a moment here to envision \*\*elfkin477’s \*\* parents having sex. Oh yeah. That’s a great song. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-she-run-calling-wildfire/292502/125 "2005-08-31T05:33:47Z")
Just how did this five-month-old thread get revived? ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-she-run-calling-wildfire/292502/126 "2005-08-31T13:46:12Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > but I draw the line at “You Light Up My Life.” I had gone many years without that … that… thing crossing my mind. I hate you now. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-she-run-calling-wildfire/292502/127 "2005-08-31T13:57:18Z")
Originally posted by **Dooku** : > [@](#): > > If you could read my mind, love > What a tale my thoughts could tell > Just like an old time movie > 'Bout a ghost from a wishing well Pepper Mill and I were discussing this, and the only movie we know of about a “ghost from a wishing well” is **The Time of Their Lives** , an Abbott and Costello film from 1946. Lou Costello is one of the Revolutionary War Era ghosts. (Eye-catching Marjorie Reynolds is the other one). This pretty much ruins the image as a romantic one for me. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2005, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-she-run-calling-wildfire/292502/128 "2005-08-31T18:14:43Z")
But nobody in the whole thread, ancient or not, has mentioned that truly revolting song that was popular when I was in high school: Ohio Express’s **Yummy Yummy** \*Yummy, yummy, yummy I got love in my tummy and I feel like a lovin’ you; The Love you’re such a sweet thing good enough to eat thing and that’s just a what I’m gonna do.\* etc., ad nauseum. (And where _is_ that pukey smiley when we need it?) ---
**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:** [August 31, 2005, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-she-run-calling-wildfire/292502/129 "2005-08-31T18:45:32Z")
> [@Mama Tiger](#): > > Yummy, yummy, yummy > I got love in my tummy > and I feel like a lovin’ you; It’s far more bearable if you hear it in Homer Simpson’s voice. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-she-run-calling-wildfire/292502/130 "2005-09-01T04:13:11Z")
MacArthur Park holds no terrors for me, however nonsensical the lyrics. See, I can’t ‘hear’ the lyrics in my head; all I can hear is the instrumental version by Maynard Ferguson’s band. That rocks seriously. ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-she-run-calling-wildfire/292502/131 "2005-09-01T04:43:40Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > \you know that 10CC song–“I’m Not in Love”? I spent my whole life (until last year) thinking that the whispered part was, “requesting quiet; requesting quiet.” I’m probably going to be sorry I asked, but what WERE they saying in the whispered part? [sub]I’ve always thought it was "big boys don’t cry…big boys don’t cry…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-she-run-calling-wildfire/292502/132 "2005-09-01T10:57:31Z")
_Big boys don’t cwy . . . big boys don’t cwy . . . big boys don’t cwy. . ._ ---
**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:** [September 1, 2005, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-she-run-calling-wildfire/292502/133 "2005-09-01T16:17:11Z")
> [@Mama Tiger](#): > > Ohio Express’s **Yummy Yummy** That was part of the bubblegum genre of pop music–it was supposed to be sickeningly sweet. Remember the Archies (“Sugar, Sugar”), and the Cuff Links (“Tracy”), and so on. No sex and drugs from this kind of rock-n-roll, but then, there wasn’t supposed to be. On the subject of seventies animal death songs, does anybody remember Henry Gross’ “Shannon”? Took me a while before I listened closely to the lyrics, then I finally realized what it was about: the singer’s dead dog. At least Wildfire gets to run away; Shannon just floats out to sea, lifeless. And we danced to this at high school! ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-she-run-calling-wildfire/292502/134 "2005-09-01T18:04:02Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > That was part of the bubblegum genre of pop music–it was supposed to be sickeningly sweet. Remember the Archies (“Sugar, Sugar”), and the Cuff Links (“Tracy”), and so on. No sex and drugs from this kind of rock-n-roll, but then, there wasn’t supposed to be. > > On the subject of seventies animal death songs, does anybody remember Henry Gross’ “Shannon”? Took me a while before I listened closely to the lyrics, then I finally realized what it was about: the singer’s dead dog. At least Wildfire gets to run away; Shannon just floats out to sea, lifeless. And we danced to this at high school! That song STILL chokes me up. Yes , I am a soft hearted wussy. Shannon was his Irish Setter, BTW. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-she-run-calling-wildfire/292502/135 "2005-09-01T19:08:34Z")
What - six months and no one has mentioned that ghastly trucker song “Teddy Bear”? And I once believed it was: _You picked a fine time to leave me, Lucille, With four hundred children and a crop in the field…_ I guess no one else heard. Not even the chair. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-she-run-calling-wildfire/292502/136 "2005-09-01T19:14:07Z")
Lucille is 40% of the way to becoming Shub-Niggurath ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-she-run-calling-wildfire/292502/137 "2005-09-01T19:46:04Z")
> [@Sauron](#): > > The official worst rock/pop song in the world (according to readers of Dave Barry’s column) is Donna Summer’s “MacArthur Park.” Interestingly, I don’t think I’ve ever heard this song. Fittingly enough, this song was performed quite seriously on Disco Night by the winner of the last edition of American Idol. If that is not a statement about American Idol, I don’t know what is. And yes, I was watching it…but only to participate in the SDMB threads, of course… ---
**Author:** ![Foaming\_Cleanser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f05b48/32.png) [@Foaming\_Cleanser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foaming_Cleanser)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2005, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-she-run-calling-wildfire/292502/138 "2005-09-01T19:49:14Z")
God, this discussion forced me to fire up the mp3 engine and play the Beach Boys’ version of The Locomotion (the Beach Boys’ version because it’s the best and it has all that cool inside-stuff discussion at the beginning and they were so anti-establishment that James Watt banned them, bless his heart). ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2005, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-she-run-calling-wildfire/292502/139 "2005-09-02T03:32:40Z")
> [@Greywolf73](#): > > Now, if there was a contest for Creepiest song ever, I’m pretty certain by Conway Twitty would win fair and square. [“You’ve never been this far before”](http://www.lyricsxp.com/lyrics/y/you_ve_never_been_this_far_before_conway_twitty.html). :eek: _Shudder_ “Bum, bum, bum” I HATE THIS SONG–even more than I hate that other Twitty tune, _Tight Fittin’ Jeans_. _Shudder_ indeed! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-she-run-calling-wildfire/292502.md?page=6)