# ZILCH!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zilch/13502>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 7, 2000, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zilch/13502 "2000-02-07T20:04:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![the\_Scarlet\_Pimpernel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f1d935/32.png) [@the\_Scarlet\_Pimpernel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_Scarlet_Pimpernel)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2000, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zilch/13502/1 "2000-02-08T06:37:00Z")

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Mister Dobolina, Mister Bob Dobolina…

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Ass-Toaster Extraordinaire, SDMBSRC

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**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2000, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zilch/13502/2 "2000-02-08T06:44:00Z")

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Nevermind the furthermore, the plea is self-defense.

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**Author:** ![WIGGUM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WIGGUM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WIGGUM)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2000, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zilch/13502/3 "2000-02-08T06:58:00Z")

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Alright, I give up. I did an exhaustive search, and I couldn’t find the artist of that song. I loved that song, and can’t for the life of me remember who did it. Please tell me now or my head is going to explode.

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**Author:** ![Delta-9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@Delta-9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Delta-9)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2000, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zilch/13502/4 "2000-02-07T20:04:00Z")

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Was it not on one of the Monkees’ albums?

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The odds that the bread will fall butter side down are directly proportional to the cost of the carpet.

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**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2000, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zilch/13502/5 "2000-02-07T20:19:00Z")

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Yep, it’s the Monkees.

Mistadobalina, Mistabobdobalina, Mistabobdobalina,  
won’t you quit  
you really make me sick with ya fraudulent behavior  
you’re gonna make me flip and then an army couldn’t save ya  
why don’t you behave ya little rugrat  
take a little tip from the tabloid  
because I know I’m not paranoid  
when I say I saw ya tryin’ to mock me  
now you and your crew are on a mission tryin’ to hawk me  
but it isn’t happenin’ ya fraudulent foes  
you used to front big time now I suppose  
that everything’s cool since the style of apparel you adopted  
you used to make fun of but now you wanna rock it  
so you gotta kick it with the homies  
but D-E-L is already hip to your cronies  
me and CM-PX thought about this and never have we seen a  
brother who could look like Mista, Mista, Mistadobalina…

And yadda, yadda, yadda

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**Author:** ![Intriguing\_Question\_Mark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ee59a6/32.png) [@Intriguing\_Question\_Mark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intriguing_Question_Mark)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2000, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zilch/13502/6 "2000-08-30T00:53:58Z")

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Zilch was just a rhyming thing they picked up on the road, no writer or anything, like any rhyming game. Though I do know where the never mind the furthermore the plea is self defence is from.