“Can’t catch me cause the rabbit done died”
It’s an antiquated pregnancy test, if you didn’t know.
Aerosmith

“Hello, this is the operator calling, will you accept the charges….”
Pink Floyd

There are many more I hear all the time from songs of the 60's and 70’s especially but so many more from just a little further back

What are some that come to your minds?

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Roswell, GA (Atlanta suburb)



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Put another dime in the jukebox baby

What's a dime Grandpa?



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Oh, oh, rabbit reference!

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And if you go chasing rabbits...

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“Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it."

Goodbye, cruel world, I'm off to join the circus...
Hey, Mr. Barnum, save a place for me!

(Woke up today with this ancient earworm running around in my head)

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=TC



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August West
Oh, oh, rabbit reference!

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And if you go chasing rabbits...

Alice in Wonderland reference…. It’s timeless.

"Telephone Line" is a song by English rock band Electric Light Orchestra.

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Staunton, Virginia

Puff The Magic Dragon

Though your girlfriend's a friend of mine
Here's my number and a dime
Call me anytime
if you need someone to talk to, uh

Skyy - Call Me

Now they just DM each other...

"Four Dead In Ohio"

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=TC



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gimme honda, gimme Sony, so cheap and real phony

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High on a threshold yearning to sing
Down with the dancers having one last fling

Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no

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hal
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no

I didn't understand that the first time around.

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Steve G.

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hal
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no

I didn't understand that the first time around.

I think he's saying that kids today didn't understand or see any need for the new "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" movie.

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Tiangou

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Steve G.

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hal
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no

I didn't understand that the first time around.

I think he's saying that kids today didn't understand or see any need for the new "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" movie.

I was saying what Steve G said...

I think he's saying that kids today didn't understand or see any need for the new "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" movie.


POMTL!

I said something similar to my girlfriend about the movie.

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I am that Masked Man.

All you can do, is all you can do.

There’s trouble — it's time to play the sound of my people.

Your boos mean nothing to me, I've seen what you cheer for.

Insisting on your rights without acknowledging your responsibilities isn’t freedom, it’s adolescence.

I've been to the edge of the map, and there be monsters.

We are a government of laws, not men.

Everybody counts or nobody counts.

When a good man is hurt,
all who would be called good
must suffer with him.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.

There is no safety for honest men except
by believing all possible evil of evil men.

We don’t do focus groups. They just ensure that you don’t offend anyone, and produce bland inoffensive products. —Sir Jonathan Ive

An armed society is a polite society.
And hope is a lousy defense.

You make me pull, I'll put you down.

I *love* SIGs. It's Glocks I hate.

Operator, oh could you help me place this call
You see the number on the matchbook is old and faded
She's livin' in L.A
With my best old ex-friend ray
A guy she said she knew well and sometimes hated

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Wags
Puff The Magic Dragon

Oh no! The pot song! Ban it from the airwaves!!

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Mr. Lahey: A lot of people, don’t know how to drink. They drink against the grain of the liquor. And when you drink against the grain of the liquor? You lose.

Randy: What the @#$%& are you talking about?

Not just lyrics, entire song title…

Beechwood 45789

Little GTO

Telstar

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Rick-o

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Wags
Puff The Magic Dragon

Oh no! The pot song! Ban it from the airwaves!!

I always wanted to know what an "ottomis" was and why he was frolicking in it.

"can you hear me
can you hear me at all
gotta get the operator make a telephone call"-Bad Connection by Yaz

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Le poète doit vivre beaucoup, vivre dans tous les sens. - Verlaine

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DeusxMac
Not just lyrics, entire song title…

Beechwood 45789

Little GTO

Telstar

Kodachrome

I win:

[genius.com]

A couple from Jim Croce:

Operator, oh could you help me place this call …
You don't pull the mask off that old lone ranger …

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JoeM

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Will Collier
I win:

[genius.com]

hahaha! yeah, that one...

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High on a threshold yearning to sing
Down with the dancers having one last fling

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bazookaman
Operator, oh could you help me place this call
You see the number on the matchbook is old and faded
She's livin' in L.A
With my best old ex-friend ray
A guy she said she knew well and sometimes hated

"Thank you for your time, For you've been so much more than kind. And you can keep the dime."

When she is lonely and the longing is too much
She sends a cable coming in from above
Don't need no phone at all
We've got a thing thats's a-called radar love

Golden Earring, Radar Love

Dave

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Welcome to Dave's BBQ!

Many have eaten here....

Few have died

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Lux Interior

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Rick-o

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Wags
Puff The Magic Dragon

Oh no! The pot song! Ban it from the airwaves!!

I always wanted to know what an "ottomis" was and why he was frolicking in it.

Frockled in the autumn mist.... so sang a roommate in college who could play one song on the piano. I will always hear frockled.

Blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
Blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
Blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night

Madman, drummers, bummers
Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat
In the dumps with the mumps
As the adolescent pumps his way into his hat
With a boulder on my shoulder, feelin' kinda older
I tripped the merry-go-round
With this very unpleasin', sneezin' and wheezin'
The calliope crashed to the ground

The calliope crashed to the ground!

But, she was blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
Blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
Blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
Blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night

Some silicone sister with a manager mister
Told me I got what it takes
She said, "I'll turn you on, son, into something strong
Play the song with the funky break"
And go-kart Mozart was checkin' out the weather chart
To see if it was safe outside
And little Early-Pearly came by in his curly-wurly
And asked me if I needed a ride

Asked me if I needed a ride!

But, she was blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
Blinded by the light

She got down but she never got tired
She's gonna make it through the night
She's gonna make it through the night

[Soul stirring guitar solo]

But mama, that's where the fun is
But mama, that's where the fun is
Mama always told me not to look into the eyes of the sun
But mama, that's where the fun is

Some brimstone, baritone, anticyclone, rolling stone
Preacher from the east
Says, "Dethrone the dictaphone, hit it in it's funny bone
That's where they expect it least"
And some new-mown chaperone was standin' in the corner
Watchin' the young girls dance
And some fresh-sown moonstone
Was messin' with his frozen zone reminding him of romance

The calliope crashed to the ground!

But she was blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
Blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night

(Madman drummers, bummers)
Blinded by the light
(Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat)
Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
(In the dumps with the mumps)
Blinded by the light
(As the adolescent pumps his way into his hat)
Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
(With a boulder on my shoulder, feeling kinda older)
Blinded by the light
(I tripped the merry-go-round)
Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
(With this very unpleasin', sneezin' and wheezin')
Blinded by the light
(The calliope crashed to the ground)
Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
(Now, Scott with a slingshot finally found a tender spot)
Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
(And throws his lover in the sand)
Blinded by the light
(Some bloodshot forget-me-not said daddy's within earshot)
Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
(Save the buckshot, turn up the band)
Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
(Some silicone sister with a manager mister)
Blinded by the light
Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night
(Told me I got what it takes)
(She said, "I'll turn you on, son, into something strong")

She got down, but she never got tired
She's gonna make it through the night

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Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant comes to mind, as does Jamie Brocket's Legend Of The USS Titantic

Country Joe and The Fish Fixin' To Die Rag

Ah, the classics.

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=TC

my kids loved Alice's Restaurant when they were about 13 and I introduced them to it.

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High on a threshold yearning to sing
Down with the dancers having one last fling