3 (possibly erroneous) facts you have learned from songs

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1. Rasputin was Russia's greatest love machine
2. All romantics meet the same fate some day, cynical and drunk, and boring someone in some dark cafe.
3. Personality reflects name.

It has to be the first three you think of.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Friday, 9 June 2006 23:28 (twenty years ago)

1. it ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it. that's what gets results.

2. the only way is up.

3. alan ladd was a good man.

(christ, that last one's obscure. i can't even remember who sang it.)

superb thread. but ... shouldn't it be on ILM?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 9 June 2006 23:31 (twenty years ago)

actually, if someone can point me in the direction of that alan ladd song, i'd be very grateful.

seriously: from what weird part of my subconscious did i dredge that up?

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 9 June 2006 23:32 (twenty years ago)

1. nothing from nothing means nothing.
2. life is life.
3. love is real, real is love.

How deep...

― emekars (emekars), Friday, 9 June 2006 23:33 (twenty years ago)

1. I felt like a gringo.
2. We don't only sing, but we dance as good as we walk.
3. I'm a loser, baby, so why don't you kill me.

― The Jazz Guide to Penguins on Compact Disc (Rock Hardy), Friday, 9 June 2006 23:38 (twenty years ago)

1. And so this is Christmas.
2. I'm through with sleepin' on the sidewalk.
3. Gimme gimme shock treatment.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 9 June 2006 23:38 (twenty years ago)

1. Don't tug on Superman's cape.
2. Don't spit into the wind.
3. Don't leave me now.

― Abbott (Abbott), Friday, 9 June 2006 23:41 (twenty years ago)

1. when papa died, all he left us was alone
2. it was the landlords and the railroads that laid poor jesus in his grave
3. billy joel didn't start the fire, it was caused by the rotation of the earth

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 10 June 2006 00:04 (twenty years ago)

1.There won't be snow in Africa this Christmas.
2. Brain damage on the mike don't manage.
3. Video killed the radio star.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Saturday, 10 June 2006 00:46 (twenty years ago)

1. the greatest love of all is happening to me
2. the greatest love of all is easy to achieve
3. learning to love yourself, it is the greatest love of all

― miracle baby (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 10 June 2006 00:51 (twenty years ago)

1. lemonade was a popular drink, and still is
2. michael j. fox was alex p. keaton
3. there are twelve people in the world, the rest are paste

― joseph (joseph), Saturday, 10 June 2006 01:18 (twenty years ago)

1. Love is like oxygen
2. Love is thicker than water
3. You can act real rude and be forcibly removed and you can act like an imbecile

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Saturday, 10 June 2006 01:38 (twenty years ago)

3. "No you won`t fool the children of the revolution" (With lofty rhetoric and a low-budget pyrotechnics show, the children of the revolution can be fooled. Sorry, Marc.)

2. After months in the hospital and $33K in medical bills I came to the conclusion that Wild Horses can and will drag you wherever they damn well please.

1. "That there's no success like failure, and that failure's no success at all." http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/3270/headexplode7bi.gif

― Cunga (Cunga), Saturday, 10 June 2006 01:49 (twenty years ago)

1. there are more chickens than humans
2. more monopoly money is printed than real money
3. the oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old

ok, they're all from the same song

― sunny successor (katharine), Saturday, 10 June 2006 02:18 (twenty years ago)

1. Of war and peace, the truth just twists and it's curfew gull apparently justs glides.

2. Rapper Jay-Z has at least ninety-nine problems, but fortunately, a bitch isn't one of them.

3. That the humpty dance is definitely your chance, so you'd better do the hump.

― jay blanchard (jay blanchard), Saturday, 10 June 2006 02:33 (twenty years ago)

1. There are nine million bicycles in Beijing
2. The black will be black and the white will be white but the blues are still blue
3. there's no-one quite like grandma

― ailsa (ailsa), Saturday, 10 June 2006 02:33 (twenty years ago)

1. It is actually hard being a pimp. I would have thought that was one of the easiest jobs. But since I suppose many prostitutes have drug problems, maybe keeping them together enough to produce a reasonable revenue stream is something of a chore.
2. Girls, rather than wanting stability, respect, or monetary gain, just want to have fun. Just like me!
3. California should be divided into two states, because I guess everybody in the North hates those in the South, and vice-versa. It's like they have daggers in their eyes!

― nickn (nickn), Saturday, 10 June 2006 03:40 (twenty years ago)

1. girls are sadistic much are realistic looking for a man make them opportunistic.
2. its like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder how i keep from going under
3. cant touch that

― sunny successor (katharine), Saturday, 10 June 2006 03:51 (twenty years ago)

1. David Duchovny doesn't love me, but I don't really know why not.
2. When I think about you I touch myself (but I don't even know who you are!)
3. Everything counts in large amounts.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Saturday, 10 June 2006 04:00 (twenty years ago)

1. Fish is Rakim's favourite dish
2. Nice guys can be mouth breathers
3. Bitches aint shit but hos and tricks

― splates (splates), Saturday, 10 June 2006 05:06 (twenty years ago)

1. Jerry was a racecar driver, and apparently drove goddamn fast.
2. A fish nailed to a cross on the wall will start quoting Kafka
3. Cigarettes will kill you (gee thanks Ben Lee, I would never have known)

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 10 June 2006 05:37 (twenty years ago)

1. Although you can promise to do anything for love, there are still things this claim doesn't cover.
2. The oldest and the youngest addition to the list of endangered species are young black men.
3. It's another world at the theatre, but you just pretend not to notice all the years they've been there.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 10 June 2006 07:00 (twenty years ago)

1. 0+2=1
2. He will never let sugarbush go
3. This is a dangerous city (this IS a dangerous city)

― Øystein (Øystein), Saturday, 10 June 2006 07:05 (twenty years ago)

1. There are no women in Alaska
2. There are no Creoles in Vermont
3. There's no coast of Nebraska

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Saturday, 10 June 2006 07:17 (twenty years ago)

i love this thread.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 10 June 2006 09:51 (twenty years ago)

1. The house someone in Madness grew up in was situated in the middle of the street.
2. There's no truth to the rumours.
3. We love repetition.

― The Vintner's Lipogram (OleM), Saturday, 10 June 2006 10:07 (twenty years ago)

Dunno, but Pat Benetar was otm about love being a battlefield.
Oh, hang on....
1. We all live in a yellow submarine
2. Loneliness is the greatest aphrodisiac
3. Robert Deniro is waiting, talking Italian.

― dr lulu (dr lulu), Saturday, 10 June 2006 10:12 (twenty years ago)

1. You can't always get what you want
2. The reflex is a lonely child, waiting in the park
3. Sweet dreams are made of this

― Zora (Zora), Saturday, 10 June 2006 10:16 (twenty years ago)

1. Tropical diseases can give you coughs and wheezes.
2. There's a dead man up the chimney, some call him Old Saint Nick.
3. You should never shove a banger up your arse on Hallowe'en.

A NO PRIZE for anyone who can therefore work out what I've been watching this morning.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Saturday, 10 June 2006 10:28 (twenty years ago)

1. love is all around
2. what the world needs now is love sweet love
3. we are the world

― alicer (alicereed), Saturday, 10 June 2006 10:36 (twenty years ago)

1. The Sun is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace.
2. You don't need anything after an ice cream.
3. When you're young, you find inspiration in anyone who's ever gone and opened up a closing door.

― JimD (JimD), Saturday, 10 June 2006 10:47 (twenty years ago)

1. Life is short and love is always over in the morning
2. Sometimes it happens, feelings die
3. The trick is to keep breathing

― Zora (Zora), Saturday, 10 June 2006 13:23 (twenty years ago)

1. The love you take is equal to the love you make
2. Your hair keeps growing after you die
3. The guy in the skeleton costume came up to the guy in the superman suit and ran through him with a broadsword

― Steve Schneeberg (Steve Goldberg), Saturday, 10 June 2006 13:34 (twenty years ago)

1. I was the bird that buzzed the bee that stole the honey. Me!
2. People ain't no good.
3. The years go fast but the days go slow.

― Simon H. (Simon H.), Saturday, 10 June 2006 13:43 (twenty years ago)

1. You can't rollerskate in a buffalo herd.
2. (because I told you before ohhhh) You can't do that.
3. You won't see me.

This has been done before, no?

― jim wentworth (wench), Saturday, 10 June 2006 14:17 (twenty years ago)

1. I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man.
2. Every breath you take, I'll be watching you.
3. You won't see me.

― The Jazz Guide to Penguins on Compact Disc (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 10 June 2006 14:21 (twenty years ago)

Uh...

― jim wentworth (wench), Saturday, 10 June 2006 14:28 (twenty years ago)

haha sorry, you reminded me of the creepy stalker songs.

― The Jazz Guide to Penguins on Compact Disc (Rock Hardy), Saturday, 10 June 2006 14:33 (twenty years ago)

1. Elvis is everywhere
2. There is a light that never goes out
3. All you need is love

― Surfer_Stone_Rosalita (Surfer_Stone_Rosalita), Saturday, 10 June 2006 15:03 (twenty years ago)

1. all he wanted was a goddamned pepsi but his mom wouldn't give it to him.
2. rivers cuomo looks just like buddy holly.
3. corey hart will never surrender wearing his sunglasses at night because he is by your side.

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 10 June 2006 15:37 (twenty years ago)

1. She knew what boys liked
2. Boys liked her
3. Don't know what you've got 'til it's gone and it ain't easy to get back. It takes so long.

― Uri Frendimein (Uri Frendimein), Saturday, 10 June 2006 15:54 (twenty years ago)

1. You'd better watch out for that guy. He is not that fat!
2. You'll die with the rose still on your lips.
3. We're jumping someone else's train.

― Annabelle Lennox (Arachne), Saturday, 10 June 2006 16:11 (twenty years ago)

1. It's not easy being green.
2. There is water underground.
3. History never repeats.

― slugbuggy (slugbuggy), Saturday, 10 June 2006 21:33 (twenty years ago)

1. Life is very long when you're lonely.
2. The only way to change things is to shoot men who arrange things.
3. The devil always has the finest tunes.

― darren (darren), Saturday, 10 June 2006 22:03 (twenty years ago)

and that Life is
1. a minestrone
2. what you make it
3. a rollercoaster

― darren (darren), Saturday, 10 June 2006 22:04 (twenty years ago)

1. If I were to wonder whether I should try to do some more, I can rest easy knowing that the answer is 25 or 6 to 4.
2. Gambling's for fools, but that's the way I like it (baby)
3. Posh Spice takes it up the arse.

― Crimea River (Mark C), Saturday, 10 June 2006 22:45 (twenty years ago)

If you can't be with the one you love, well then, love the one you're with.
Though she may be cute, she's just a substitute.
No pill's gonna cure my ills.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 10 June 2006 22:59 (twenty years ago)

1. There's a natural mystic blowing through the air
2. I want to ride my bicycle
3. No man can be my equal

― ALLAH FROG (Mingus Dew), Saturday, 10 June 2006 23:12 (twenty years ago)

1. Music makes the people come together
2. People are still having sex
3. Sex is natural, sex is good

― LeRooLeRoo (Seb), Sunday, 11 June 2006 01:40 (twenty years ago)

1. Dizzy Gallespie plays the sax
2. There's three of us but we're not the Beatles
3. Establish close ties like Jerry Seinfeld and George Costanza

― Chris L (Chris L), Sunday, 11 June 2006 03:31 (twenty years ago)

1. A-B-C is easy as 1-2-3.
2. It's in the trees!
3. Midnight is where the day begins.

― salexandra (salexander), Sunday, 11 June 2006 05:05 (twenty years ago)

SHe told me she worked in the mrning and started to laugh

"I told her I didn't incral understating the laugh"

― Mr Jones (Mr Jones), Sunday, 11 June 2006 05:38 (twenty years ago)

1. I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.
2. England is mine, and it owes me a living.
3. Everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the moon.

― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Sunday, 11 June 2006 11:08 (twenty years ago)

1. The whole world just got smaller.
2. Words are very unnecessary.
3. Time flies by when you're the driver of a train.

― ledge (ledge), Sunday, 11 June 2006 11:45 (twenty years ago)

1. some stupid with a flare gun burned the place to the ground
2. In the desert you can't remember your name
3. jeremiah was a bullfrog

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Sunday, 11 June 2006 12:09 (twenty years ago)

1. it's hard being a man living in a garbage pail
2. women are strong, they are invincible -- if they have to, they can do anything
3. it's lonely out in space

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 11 June 2006 12:33 (twenty years ago)

i think this reveals an awful lot about us all.

also:

3. Posh Spice takes it up the arse.

this made me chortle muchly.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 11 June 2006 14:11 (twenty years ago)

1. Trent Reznor hurt himself today, and so did Johnny Cash.
2. I am permitted to ring Anita Ward's bell.
3. I got the love Candi Stanton needs to see her through.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Sunday, 11 June 2006 15:50 (twenty years ago)

1. Ed Ball helped Patrick McGoohan excape from something or other.
2. Paula Abdul doesn't like cigarettes, but doesn't mind if her beau does.
3. Also, she fucks cats.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Sunday, 11 June 2006 16:16 (twenty years ago)

unseemly typo.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Sunday, 11 June 2006 16:17 (twenty years ago)

Hahaha!

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Sunday, 11 June 2006 16:17 (twenty years ago)

1. when the shit goes down, i better be ready
2. everybody needs somebody to love
3. guns don't kill people, wappers do

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 11 June 2006 16:45 (twenty years ago)

1. Dirty don't got no problem with you fucking him.
2. Dirty does have a problem with you not fucking him.
3. White Castle fries only come in one size.

― mummy wrapped in bacon (nickalicious), Monday, 12 June 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

1. Sathington Willoughby penned the bill to ban marihuana use in the United States.
2. Never drive a car when you're dead.
3. Two, and apparently only two, scientists are racing for the cure that is the prize.

― mummy wrapped in bacon (nickalicious), Monday, 12 June 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

1. Castles made of sand melt into the see, eventually.
2. Everybody wants prosthetic foreheads on their real heads.
3. The daddy mac will make you jump, jump.

― mummy wrapped in bacon (nickalicious), Monday, 12 June 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

1. god is dead
2. no one cares
3. if there is a hell, i'll see you there

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 12 June 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

1. Dirty Deeds done dirt cheap.
2. There's a bathroom on the right.
3. Buba shot the jukebox.

― Wiggy (Wiggy), Monday, 12 June 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

1) You've got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em

2) Know when to walk away, and know when to run

3) Never count your money while you're sitting at the table, as there will be time enough for counting when the dealing is done.

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Monday, 31 July 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

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