Incorrect information gleaned from song lyrics

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

The Under 8's are fed a lot of misleading information about animal society in general

[Jah Womble]

Have to say I don't recall at that age especially buying into these songs/stories as 'factual', however.

[Artificial Hipster]

Back on track, Jesus Christ, as far as we know, didn't 'die on a bed of spikes' as suggested by the J&MC on their Reverence hit.

I'm not sure he ever went to Chicago either.

[Fussbudget]

Bad, bad, Leroy Brown

Completely different thread but this is one of those cultural references which I've only come across in Friends, so now if I see it mentioned all I can think of is "oh it's that mysterious thing they were talking about in Friends". See also Lou Gehrig's disease, George Stephanopoulos, Old Yeller etc. (not totally sure if all of those are even real things)

[sw2borshch]

Old Yeller was a dog that shouted about custard.

[ursus arctos]

The kid in that film just died

[Fussbudget]

Old Yeller was a dog that shouted about custard.

Isn't that Roobarb? Is that the joke? I'm so confused

[Gas In Name Only]

There is usually snow in Africa at Christmas

[3 Colours Red]

Lou Gehrig's disease

The USian name for motor neurone disease, named after the baseball player who was one of the first - if not THE first - high-profile person to be diagnosed with it.

[ursus arctos]

George Stephanopoulos

Bill Clinton press secretary, ABC News talking head, "Washington insider"

Old Yeller

Extremely maudlin Disney film from the late 50s about a boy and his dog.

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

Completely different thread but this is one of those cultural references which I've only come across in Friends, so now if I see it mentioned all I can think of is "oh it's that mysterious thing they were talking about in Friends". See also Lou Gehrig's disease, George Stephanopoulos, Old Yeller etc. (not totally sure if all of those are even real things)

This is george Stephanopulous

[Fussbudget]

Brill, thanks everyone, and not a lmgtfy link in sight either

[Benjm]

In a head to head tragic pooch-off, who would jerk the most tears; Old Yeller or Old Shep?

[Jah Womble]

Then of course there's Shannon - Carl Wilson's deceased Irish setter, immortalised in rather cloying song by Henry Gross.

[elguapo4]

Marley wins hands down

[Nocturnal Submission]

I got a pet collie as a child off the back of bursting into tears at the end of a Lassie film.

[Sits]

Crowded House - Weather With You:

Julius Caesar, and the Roman Empire
Couldn’t conquer the blue skies

Well clearly they couldn’t, but a pedantic historical analysis tells us that Julius Caesar and the Roman Empire couldn’t even attempt to conquer the blue skies together, since Caesar (as Dictator not Emperor) ruled the Republic not the Empire which was founded after he died.

[sw2borshch]

Completely different thread but this is one of those cultural references which I've only come across in Friends, so now if I see it mentioned all I can think of is "oh it's that mysterious thing they were talking about in Friends". See also Lou Gehrig's disease, George Stephanopoulos, Old Yeller etc. (not totally sure if all of those are even real things)

Old Yeller was if course also the epithet hurled by one of the Gatlin boys at Tommy, The Coward of the County.