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Do you ever use song lyrics in conversation?

  • 17-07-2012 10:48pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 972 ✭✭✭


    I sometimes use song lyrics in day to day conversation. My favourite lines are what's the story morning glory and what's the frequency kenneth for saying hello. I also tend to use parts of the river by Bruce springsteen, so if asked what I do I reply... I got a job working construction for the Johnstown Company
    But lately there ain't been much work on account of the economy.
    So have you ever used song lyrics in conversation and what lines?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    If someone asked me "whats the story morning glory?" at work I think I could punch them in the throat without fear of being fired, HR would understand.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,952 ✭✭✭Lando Griffin


    Sang to the lady in the shop that "Gonna to get a Geateax gonna get a Geateax Cake". Is that how's it spelt?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,709 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    On peoples birthdays, i tell then they're shorter of breath and one day closer to death :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,034 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    I sometimes use song lyrics in day to day conversation. My favourite lines are what's the story morning glory and what's the frequency kenneth for saying hello. I also tend to use parts of the river by Bruce springsteen, so if asked what I do I reply... I got a job working construction for the Johnstown Company
    But lately there ain't been much work on account of the economy.
    So have you ever used song lyrics in conversation and what lines?

    "Doesn't everybody" - Kristinia deBarge
    "At least to some degree" - Depeche Mode.
    ?


  • Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 32,532 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    No no nono no no nono no no no no I don't.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,798 ✭✭✭✭DrumSteve


    Yeah Afromans "Because I Got High " has given me some great excuses


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 866 ✭✭✭thund3rbird_


    Ficheall wrote: »
    "Doesn't everybody" - Kristinia deBarge
    "At least to some degree" - Depeche Mode.
    ?

    could you not just "let it be"? :o


  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,632 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,316 ✭✭✭darlett


    Sex chat

    "do do do do do do its hammertime"

    "Baby come back"

    "Did I disappoint you"

    "Baby dont cry"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 769 ✭✭✭Diego Maradona


    Yes, was just telling a mate earlier that I make a mean milkshake and all the boys came to my yard, one lad asked could I teach him and I said damn right but I'd have to charge.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭SilverScreen


    I've had entire conversations using only Smiths lyrics.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,175 ✭✭✭trashcan


    darlett wrote: »
    Sex chat

    "Did I disappoint you"
    "Leave a bad taste in your mouth ? :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,336 ✭✭✭HalloweenJack


    A friend of my brother was in the shop once and whatever he bought cost 50c. When the guy behind the counter said "Fifty cents, please", the friend replied: "You can find me in the club, bottle full of bub!"

    EDIT: A joke between me and a Brazilian friend is that whenever we toast, we say "Saúde, guerreiro!" (which means "Cheers, warrior!") instead of "Saúde!". It's a line from a song we both love.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    I use the sentence ‘Happy birthday to you‘ all the time!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,810 ✭✭✭Seren_


    Me and my brothers used to play games where we could only talk to each other using song lyrics/titles. They used to last a few days sometimes; we were so rare :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 738 ✭✭✭crazy cabbage


    Start a convo on here but we are only aloud to use song lyrics???
    .
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    .
    If I lay here
    If I just lay here
    Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
    .
    .
    .


    someone else continue


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,034 ✭✭✭Ficheall


    If I lay here
    If I just lay here
    Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
    .
    .
    .

    Sorry, no can do.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,125 ✭✭✭westendgirlie


    Start a convo on here but we are only aloud to use song lyrics???
    .
    .
    .
    If I lay here
    If I just lay here
    Would you lie with me and just forget the world?
    .
    .
    .


    someone else continue

    Get up, stand up. Stand up for your rights


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 949 ✭✭✭LoanShark


    A friend of my brother was in the shop once and whatever he bought cost 50c. When the guy behind the counter said "Fifty cents, please", the friend replied: "You can find me in the club, bottle full of bub!"

    EDIT: A joke between me and a Brazilian friend is that whenever we toast, we say "Saúde, guerreiro!" (which means "Cheers, warrior!") instead of "Saúde!". It's a line from a song we both love.

    Probably one of those moments where you just had to be there...


    The only one I tend to use is "If youre gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough" (Jackass Theme tune)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 894 ✭✭✭cian68


    You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 611 ✭✭✭Strawberry Fields


    No I never use them in conversation but sometimes I feel like I'm knocking on heavens door.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,515 ✭✭✭LH Pathe


    I also tend to use parts of the river by Bruce springsteen, so if asked what I do I reply... I got a job working construction for the Johnstown Company
    But lately there ain't been much work on account of the economy.

    this is gonna hurt a lot of people..

    doesn't stop the 'working man' charging the biggest ticket prices I've seen bar Streisand - but even then she provided a plush setting, not like the rds! 'The Boss' may say so but you don't have to pay so!

    Everybody's got a hungry heart. Bruce, has a greedy one.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 293 ✭✭0000879k


    I don't use them in conversation but I shneak them into english essays a lot :P


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,144 ✭✭✭✭Cicero


    godeas16 wrote: »
    No I never use them in conversation but sometimes I feel like I'm knocking on heavens door.

    Well it's all right, everyday is judgement day


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    I remember getting an entire chorus of a song into a conversation once. There was a group of us talking about some issue - racism or something - and I squeezed in..

    I think what we need is a great big melting pot, big enough to take the world and all it's got, keep it stirring for a hundred years or more, and turn out coffee colored people by the score

    .. I said it in a hesitant way as if I was having trouble articulating my thoughts so one or two people were nodding just before a friend who got it exploded in laughter. :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,417 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    'you scumbag, you maggot, you cheap lousy ******, merry christmas my arse, I thank god its our last.'


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,625 ✭✭✭flyswatter


    Zero1986 wrote: »
    I've had entire conversations using only Smiths lyrics.
    It's actually great fun making up imaginary Smiths song titles.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,515 ✭✭✭LH Pathe


    "Youre nothing! an object of animation. A subjective mannequin! Beaten into submission. Raping again and agaaaain.."

    The nature of the music merited it? I trust i'll.. never find myself working this into a conversation.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38 GunRunner


    Yeah, I do it quite often. I find that Manic Street Preachers or Crass lyrics work well. People think they're my own words and usually either think that I'm really intelligent or else a bit mentally I'll. :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 53 ✭✭techsavysista


    When someone says Hello?

    Hello?
    Is it ne you're looking for?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    If someone says something from a song, I have to sing said song.


    Always.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,012 ✭✭✭Plazaman


    "I'm a sex machine ready to reload...."

    Great fun when used in a Night Club - Only brings trouble when used at a Kids Birthday Party.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Music Moderators, Politics Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 22,360 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dravokivich


    brummytom wrote: »
    If someone says something from a song, I have to sing said song.


    Always.

    And i'll be there
    Forever and a day,
    Always


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    fuck da police!

    cause i'm a 'g' ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,231 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    I use "fuck you" all the time, thanks to Cee-lo my chubby pal.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 439 ✭✭Ms.M


    I want to know what love is, lads.

    Also, I want you to show me....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,916 ✭✭✭Ormus


    Here we are.

    Now entertain us.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,695 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    Last weekend at a session in a different town. Went to a girl and said "hey I just met you and this is crazy but any chance of a shift?"

    She must have loved my forwardness because it worked!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 972 ✭✭✭supernova84


    Do you have to let it linger....do you have to


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,816 ✭✭✭Acacia


    "There's no way I'm riding you, unless I'm wrecked on bags of glue."

    A Saturday-night staple of mine.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,230 ✭✭✭Merkin


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 444 ✭✭ZzubZzub


    A friend of mine has actually stopped talking to me because I'm forever doing this... But in the end, it doesn't even matter. It's MY way. My way, or the highway.

    All in all, it's just another brick in the wall.

    Bitch.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 882 ✭✭✭darragh16


    Sometimes I slyly stick them in the middle of a conversation. Then sometimes keep at it until the other person realises. Usually a good icebreaker!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,117 ✭✭✭Defiler Of The Coffin


    "She was asking for it..."

    Use that one every now and again.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,261 ✭✭✭Sonics2k


    My girlfriend used to do a lot of Roleplay in a certain MMO, so I'd often set her little challenges in the speeches she'd often have to give.

    A few months back I dared her to work the lyrics of S-Club 7's "Don't stop" into her (supposed to be) very important speech, and she managed to pull it off on the spot.

    The best part is, not a single person noticed and congratulated her on the well-written speech.
    Meanwhile we were laughing in the background.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 863 ✭✭✭GastroBoy


    This thread topic can also be flipped! As in, you say something, that unbeknown to yourself are lyrics from a song and some twat then starts singing the offending song!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭uch


    FaceKicker says NO!

    21/25



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,705 ✭✭✭Johro


    Woo-hoo.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,933 ✭✭✭holystungun9


    Money's too tight to mention.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,205 ✭✭✭Bad Panda


    Hey baby, ''Let me get some action from back section!''


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