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Do you want to try the What If thread?

Asked by filmfann (52226points) March 1st, 2016

Simply pose an alternate scenario to a stated (often musical) position.

What if Billy Idol wasn’t dancing with himself?
What if Michael Jackson didn’t remember the time?
What if John Lennon wasn’t the walrus?

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rojo's avatar

What if all you need isn’t love?

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What if she and Billie Joe McCallister didn’t throw something off the Tallahatchie Bridge?

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What if Bob Dylan actually had a melodious singing voice?

What if Jim Croce could really fit time into a bottle?

chyna's avatar

What if it wasn’t just me and Bobby McGee? What if it was me and Tom Smith?

Dutchess_III's avatar

What if the gambling house hadn’t been on the Lake Geneva shoreline?

Strauss's avatar

What if it had been the House of the Settin’ Sun?

What if Scaramouche could do the fandango?

longgone's avatar

What if I shot the Sheriff and the deputy?

janbb's avatar

What if I didn’t want hold your fucking hand?

janbb's avatar

What if you didn’t put the lime in the coconut?

Dutchess_III's avatar

What if Janie didn’t get a gun?

janbb's avatar

What if God did make little green apples?

Seek's avatar

What if we didn’t have to fight for our right to party?

Seek's avatar

What if I didn’t excuse you while you kissed that guy…. sky… whatever.

Jeruba's avatar

What if sweeps were unlucky?

What if your prince were never going to come?

What if you put ‘em together and they didn’t add up to Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo? (Which always perplexed me, because if you add up two things—say, Salaga Doola and Menchicka Boola, and then one more—say, Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo—and the result of the addition is the same as one of the components, doesn’t that mean that the other two have no value? This bothered me when I was a child.)

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He DID make little green apples, @janbb. That’s the point. “If that’s not lovin’me, then all I got to say….God didn’t make little green apples and it don’t rain in Indianapolis in the summertime.”

@Seek! :P:!

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Whiat if the hangman wasn’t coming down for the gallows?

Dutchess_III's avatar

Well, it would be very long then @reijinni.

Cruiser's avatar

What if the Edmund Fitzgerald never sank?

janbb's avatar

What if we hadn’t built this city on rock and roll?

zenvelo's avatar

Huh? The walrus was Paul!

What if you pull on Superman’s cape? What if you mess around with Jim?

Dutchess_III's avatar

What if there was no midnight train to Georgia?

ucme's avatar

What if Bing Crosby spent xmas on vacation in the caribbean…snow? Dream on bitch.

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What if these boots weren’t made for walking?

ZEPHYRA's avatar

What if you’re not the one that I want?

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What if there were no stairway to heaven, only an elevator?

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What if you are a slave, Neo?

Strauss's avatar

What if I can help falling in love with you?

janbb's avatar

What if I could take my eyes off of you?

ZEPHYRA's avatar

What if I don’t say a little prayer for you?

flutherother's avatar

What if it was a moonlit night in Georgia?

janbb's avatar

@longgone What if I shot the deputy but I didn’t shoot the sherriff?

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What if I want to rock all day and party at night?

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What if the devil went down to Alabama?

flutherother's avatar

What if I want it painted green?

ARE_you_kidding_me's avatar

What would the solo to caged bird be like

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What if we see each other on the sunny side of the moon?

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What if I don’t want a whole lotta love but just a little on the side

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And if not everybody wants to rule the world?

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What if it is the end of the world as we know it and I’m not ok with it.

filmfann's avatar

This is kind of different, but what if the guy Aretha is waiting to come back got a restraining order? No more knocking on his door, no more tapping on window frame.

What if I wouldn’t follow you into the dark? Maybe the “no” light was out.

What if I’m not going to Scarborough Fair?

Cruiser's avatar

What if she wasn’t my Sharona but your Sharona?

Strauss's avatar

What if there were 50 ways to stay with your lover?

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What if we are not the world?

Seek's avatar

What if I wanted to buy the world a coke, but couldn’t teach them how to sing?

ARE_you_kidding_me's avatar

What about love on an escalator?

Brian1946's avatar

What would Dylan have meant if he wrote “Highway 69 Revisited”?

Cruiser's avatar

What if it was actually an “easy days night?” or Strawberry Fields for the time being?

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What if Bonny Tyler only had a partial eclipse of the heart?

ucme's avatar

What if Stevie Wonder just sent a text to say I love you?

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What if we all lived in a purple submarine?

yankeetooter's avatar

What if Frosty the Snowman was a sad depressed soul?

yankeetooter's avatar

What is mares eat oats and does eat oats, but little lambs are allergic to ivy?

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What if he didn’t have it coming, and you would not have done the same?

What if that’s not all that I ask of you?

What if Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer were merely pair of mild-mannered cats?

chyna's avatar

What if she was leaving on that afternoon train to Georgia.

Cruiser's avatar

What if this land is not your land or my land…now what?

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What if I couldn’t care less if I was in the land of cotton?

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What if Elvis had purple suede shoes?

chyna's avatar

What if he didn’t put a ring on it?

dxs's avatar

What if I liked big butts and lied about it?

janbb's avatar

What if it were all about the treble?

Cruiser's avatar

What if it did not smell like teen spirit….what did it really smell like?

yankeetooter's avatar

What if you should stop thinking about tomorrow?

Adagio's avatar

What if you were forgettable?

What if he was the Wichita gasman?

What if there was no yellow ribbon round the old oak tree?

Strauss's avatar

What if I had a worrisome tough feeling?

yankeetooter's avatar

What if you were simply resistible?

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What if everything you own is in a box to the right?

Adagio's avatar

What if dreams really don’t come true?

yankeetooter's avatar

What if the little lady is from San Francisco?

What is when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie that’s retinal damage?

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What if Abraham Lincoln had just settled down with his farm life like his father?

yankeetooter's avatar

What if riding in a one-horse open sleigh is actually cold, wet and bumpy?

Strauss's avatar

What if Olive, the other reindeer, never laughed or called Rudolph names?

yankeetooter's avatar

What is 5 is the loneliest number?

Strauss's avatar

What if it’s not too late?

ibstubro's avatar

What if we simply won’t rock you?

ibstubro's avatar

What if it’s only W*E*D*N*E*S*D*A*Y NIGHT!?

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What if today is FRIDAY NIGHT?

ibstubro's avatar

What if Jeremiah was a toad? Would he still be a friend of mine?

Strauss's avatar

What if I had Montana on my mind?

Adagio's avatar

What if we hopped the light fandango?

rojo's avatar

What if we couldn’t dance if we want to?

rojo's avatar

What if I didn’t want to get off my ass and jamb?

Mimishu1995's avatar

What if we all know everything?

rojo's avatar

What if I didn’t know what you were talking about
and didn’t want to go the that home out on the range?

rojo's avatar

What if one pill didn’t make you larger?

ARE_you_kidding_me's avatar

What if we want to get up and boogie

ARE_you_kidding_me's avatar

What about the house of the setting sun?

longgone's avatar

What if God’s not one of us?

@janbb I killed them both before you came along, so…at least you won’t go to jail for very long.

Seek's avatar

@Mimishu – I fear this game isn’t fair to you. Most of the responses are song lyrics that have had a few words changed. Of course, I wouldn’t expect you to have the mental pop culture catalogue of 60s-2000s music most of us are inundated with.

Are there any popular songs where you live that could be turned into “what it’s”?

For example, a children’s game called the Hokey Pokey ends with the line “and that’s what it’s all about”

So… What if the hokey pokey isn’t what it’s all about?

Strauss's avatar

What if Steven Tyler wasn’t living on the edge.

Mimishu1995's avatar

@Seek ooooooh! I see. So the whole point is about music lyrics huh? How about: what if you aren’t the love of my life?

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What if we were sleeping double in a single bed?

rojo's avatar

What if Randy Newman was not a redneck. Would did know his ass from a hole in the ground?

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What if they were livin it up at the Hotel Alabama?

Mimishu1995's avatar

What if I didn’t know you were a fool?

ARE_you_kidding_me's avatar

What if she was not the queen of my double wide trailer but my artsy urban condo

rojo's avatar

What if Matty didn’t tell Hatty about a thing she saw?

dxs's avatar

What if I weren’t Slim Shady, yes not the real Shady, and all the other Slim Shadies were not immitating?

janbb's avatar

What if Leroy Brown had decided to be good?

janbb's avatar

What if I really could save time in a bottle?

yankeetooter's avatar

What is somewhere over the rainbow, skies are actually black (because you’re so high up)?

ibstubro's avatar

What if rainy days and Mondays really make me horny?

Strauss's avatar

What if I don’t want to be close to you?

ucme's avatar

What if you found a bat out of hell inside your meatloaf?
What if they had a stairlift to heaven?
What if it was raining women?
What if Michael Jackson beat it while watching women’s tennis?

Dutchess_III's avatar

What if the rooms really WERE on fire every time he walked into the room, and everybody died?

rojo's avatar

What if the Bloodhound Gangs Roof wasn’t on fire and that M-F wouldn’t burn? And would Han Solo still be strokin’ his own Wookie?

Dutchess_III's avatar

Who let the cats out, Meow meow!

stanleybmanly's avatar

Who let the cats in

ragingloli's avatar

Who made the cats pregnant?

Dutchess_III's avatar

That didn’t even make any sense you two.

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What if Delta Dawn carried around a box of chocolates instead of a flower?

stanleybmanly's avatar

Good time Charlie’s overjoyed

janbb's avatar

@ragingloli I think I just threw up all over the library floor.

Seek's avatar

Still a better love story than Twilight.

janbb's avatar

Ask the cat about that.

Strauss's avatar

What if there were no pigeons down in Jackson Square? (Maryjane’s Last Dance)

janbb's avatar

What if I have found what I’m looking for?

flutherother's avatar

What if you touched her perfect body absentmindedly?

janbb's avatar

^ And then fed her coffee and apples?

flutherother's avatar

^^I’ve got you on my wavelength.

janbb's avatar

^^Then we’ll let the ocean answer.

ARE_you_kidding_me's avatar

What if we were hellbent for cotton?
Come on bring the quiet?
What if lemmy got the 2 of hearts and not the ace of spades?

Strauss's avatar

What if Kenny Rogers didn’t know when to hold’em?

janbb's avatar

What if there wasn’t a town in North Ontario?

chyna's avatar

What if the lion didn’t sleep tonight?

ZEPHYRA's avatar

What if I didn’t just call to say I love you…......and I don’t mean it from the bottom of my heart?

Strauss's avatar

What if I want to hold something other than your hand?

ibstubro's avatar

What if I’m really a Gemstone Cowboy?

Mimishu1995's avatar

What if everything will change my love for you?

rojo's avatar

What if Layla didn’t have Eric on his knees?

stanleybmanly's avatar

What if these boots were made for kickin?

filmfann's avatar

What if all you need is like?

ucme's avatar

What if I did like mondays?
What if I won’t survive?
What if you liked it in the gravy where you can pour it on your peas?
What if Cher did turn back time, before all that plastic surgery?
What if Madonna was like a Richard Branson, beard & all?

rojo's avatar

What if Bob did need a weatherman to tell him which way the wind blew?
What if Wild Horses could drag Mick away, would that give him Satisfaction?
What if Roger had refused to give up his pinball crown to Tommy?
What if Carol hadn’t felt the earth move?

Mimishu1995's avatar

What if Santa will never come to town?

Strauss's avatar

What if we had to go through the river and over the woods to get to grandmother’s house?

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What if Proud Mary stops turning? And she’s just—floating, floating, floating down the river?

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What if a small Prius Taxi brought back my old lady.

janbb's avatar

@stanleybmanly WAs the taxi blue?

rojo's avatar

What if Jon Fogerty can’t play Centerfield because he was stuck in Lodi again at a revival?

stanleybmanly's avatar

@janbb. I couldn’t decide on a 2
Syllable color. And what’s the opposite of taxi? And should it be “my young lady”? These are vexing questions. I better go get a drink.

Strauss's avatar

What if Merle thought he’d just stay here and eat?

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What if you picked a bad time to come back Lucille?

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@janbb what’s the opposite of yellow? The answer to everything is more alcohol.

ibstubro's avatar

What if Billy’s fiance really wanted him to be a hero?

chyna's avatar

What if you were not welcome to The Hotel California?

Strauss's avatar

What if it was another tequila sunset?

Seek's avatar

What if the dust on the bottle wasn’t fooling you about what’s inside?

rojo's avatar

What if Jesus did literally drop kick you through the goal posts?

rojo's avatar

What if short people actually did have a reason?

Seek's avatar

What if these boots weren’t made for walking?

ZEPHYRA's avatar

What if she’s a downtown girl.

Adagio's avatar

@Seek the narrow waist made me think of this although I admit the images are somewhat incongruous.

filmfann's avatar

What if your mother liked to meet very kinky girls?

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What if Rikki lost that number?

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What if you don’t call me?

Strauss's avatar

What if Nanook actually ate the Yellow Snow?

ibstubro's avatar

What if the circle is broken?

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What if all the cowboys were right here the whole time.

Strauss's avatar

What i mamas let their babies grow up to be cowboys?

rojo's avatar

What if Kurt Cobain didn’t feel stupid? Would he still be contagious?

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What if momma, I’m not coming home

ibstubro's avatar

What if I prefer you Tie Me Kangaroo Up, Sport?

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What if is was Hot Pastrami In Paradise?

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@ibstubro I’m laughing. You know how we have our own lyrics when we don’t understand the real one? Well, I always sung that song as “Johnny Kangaroo….........” It didn’t make sense but many songs didn’t to me. ;)

Buttonstc's avatar

What if the answer was NOT blowin’ in the wind?

flutherother's avatar

What if the road was short and straight?

ZEPHYRA's avatar

What if I’m not excited and I just can hide it?

Strauss's avatar

What if Mother Mary did not come to me when I found myself in times of trouble?

ZEPHYRA's avatar

What if she doesn’t work hard for her money?

Strauss's avatar

What if everybody’s workin’ on the weekend?

flutherother's avatar

What if the face was not in its jar by the door?

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And the girl with kaleidoscope eyes didn’t call?

ibstubro's avatar

What if I’m not still crazy after all these years?

ibstubro's avatar

What if the girl in the itzy bitzy teenie weenie yellow polkadot bikini was at a nudist beach? Would she still be afraid to come out of the locker?

Mimishu1995's avatar

What if I gave your heart away?

ARE_you_kidding_me's avatar

What if these refrigerators can stay right where they are. What if the money took a lot of work and the chicks are nowhere to be found

ARE_you_kidding_me's avatar

What if momma said knock you up?

ibstubro's avatar

What is the sun dudn’t come up tomorrow?
Don’t bet your bottom dollar!

Strauss's avatar

What if Peyton Manning didn’t like chicken parmesan?

ibstubro's avatar

What if I had my ass in the water, toes in the cooler?

MollyMcGuire's avatar

What if I didn’t tidy up my point of view, but still got a new attitude?

chyna's avatar

What if Jesus didn’t love Mrs. Robinson?

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What if after putting my right foot in and back out I refuse to do the Hokey Pokey? What happens to me?

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What if sweet dreams are made of Peeps? (Who am I to disagree?)

ibstubro's avatar

What if I’m a boy named Stu?

Mimishu1995's avatar

What if God is a boy?

MollyMcGuire's avatar

What if nobody knows where the boys are?

ibstubro's avatar

What if I want Argentina to cry for me?

ibstubro's avatar

What if Officer Krumke understood it was our bringing up-ke that gets us out of hand?

Strauss's avatar

What if Tevye were a rich man?

filmfann's avatar

What if your chewing gum didn’t lose it’s flavor on the bedpost overnight?

Strauss's avatar

What if they weren’t coming to take him away?

ibstubro's avatar

What if everything’s coming up magnolias but I have a sugar rose?

Strauss's avatar

What if Delta Dawn didn’t have a flower?

Soubresaut's avatar

What if darkness is my old frenemy?

ibstubro's avatar

What if He sends down His love on the wings of a flamingo?

Strauss's avatar

What if you are the weight above my wings?

MollyMcGuire's avatar

How will you see me if there are no old familiar places?

Strauss's avatar

What if Casey would waltz with the strawberry blonde, but the band didn’t play on?

filmfann's avatar

What if your mother didn’t know the song we get up and dance to?

Strauss's avatar

What if they didn’t drive Ol’ Dixie down that night?

MollyMcGuire's avatar

What if no one 5’2” had blue eyes?

stanleybmanly's avatar

Has anybody not seen my gal?

Strauss's avatar

What if he wasn’t a Pinball Wizard?

MollyMcGuire's avatar

Where would sweet home be if Alabama disappeared?

Tropical_Willie's avatar

What if Friday came before Thursday?

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What if we’re on a road to somewhere?

Strauss's avatar

What if Monday wasn’t stormy?

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What if Sunday isn’t gloomy?

MollyMcGuire's avatar

If California disappears, where will we find the hotel?

ibstubro's avatar

What if things weren’t pretty? Wouldn’t it be uggerly?

flutherother's avatar

What if your smile cast no shadow?

Tropical_Willie's avatar

What if the Eagles never stayed in “Hotel California” in Todo Santos Baja California del Sur. (They never were in Todo Santos.)

Strauss's avatar

What if there were no windmills of my mind ?

ibstubro's avatar

What if there was a tear in my sweet iced tea?

MollyMcGuire's avatar

What if she really is woman enough to take my man?

ibstubro's avatar

What if I suddenly ran Out-A-Gadda-Da-Vida??

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Waht if the European cannon isn’t here?

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What if He doesn’t have the whole world in His hands or worse yet, what if He drops it?

ibstubro's avatar

What if we sang the Peace Hymn of the Republic?

MollyMcGuire's avatar

What if there was no roof to go up on?

ibstubro's avatar

What if, after lights out, he just wants to be Mack the Spoon? Is that so wrong?

ibstubro's avatar

What if we wore our Boysenberry Beret through Blueberry Fields Forever on the way to Strawberry Hill?

Strauss's avatar

What if I never found my thrill?

stanleybmanly's avatar

What if I do sleep in the subway darlin?

Brian1946's avatar

What if you were like a stationary stone- would you be completely known?

flutherother's avatar

What if you took your left foot out put your left foot in then didn’t shake it all about?

stanleybmanly's avatar

What if I did let the green grass fool me?

Soubresaut's avatar

What if I remember how it felt before the world fell at our feet?
Hello from the other side.

MollyMcGuire's avatar

What if they couldn’t go around the world in 80 days?

Strauss's avatar

What if the Narwhals weren’t causing a commotion?

Talk about your earworm!

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What if all roads lead to Possumtrot?

MollyMcGuire's avatar

What if Yankee Doodle wasn’t dandy?

ibstubro's avatar

What if we accidentally boarded The Good Ship Sucker-punch?

Strauss's avatar

You know the Animal Crackers in my soup? What if the monkeys and rabbits pee and poop?

MollyMcGuire's avatar

What if Pharrell wasn’t at all happy?

ibstubro's avatar

What if we just tromped through the tulips?

Strauss's avatar

What if we just worried and were unhappy?

stanleybmanly's avatar

Unhappy in love, but solvent!

flutherother's avatar

What if you are old, untalented and white?

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What if there is some more cane on the Brazos?

ibstubro's avatar

What if This Time I’m in it for Money?

MollyMcGuire's avatar

What if they could only find 75 trombones?

Strauss's avatar

What if “Trouble with a ‘T’” rhymed with “G”, and that stood for golf?

MollyMcGuire's avatar

What if we didn’t twist last summer?

Strauss's avatar

@ibstubro Someone beat you to it!

What if Frosty the Snowman was a grumpy, sad soul?

MollyMcGuire's avatar

What if I try and try but just can’t walk like an Egyptian?

ibstubro's avatar

What if I only load 14 Tons? Will I still owe my soul to the company store?

That tulips version was truly scary, @Yetanotheruser!!

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What if up on the roof was just the top of a tent?

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Or down in the gutter

Strauss's avatar

What if I went down to the levee, but the devil never saw me there…

MollyMcGuire's avatar

What if you drove your Chevy to the levee and it was gone?

Strauss's avatar

What if you can’t see what that woman’s been doin’ to me?

dxs's avatar

What if Jimmy cracked corn and someone cared?

Tropical_Willie's avatar

What if Clementine was an orange not the “miner forty-niner’s” daughter.

ibstubro's avatar

What if all the shampoo in the bottle can’t wash that man right out of her hair? Can there be a conditional surrender?

Strauss's avatar

What if the “South Pacific” sailors had “dames”?

stanleybmanly's avatar

What if there IS somethin like a dame?

ibstubro's avatar

What if I’m having night-mares about day cares in the middle of my R.E.M.?

MollyMcGuire's avatar

What if the waters weren’t troubled?

ibstubro's avatar

What if You Make Me Feel… Well Used?

MollyMcGuire's avatar

What if you gave love a nice name?

Strauss's avatar

What if I could give you anything except love?

Here2_4's avatar

Splish splash what if I wasn’t taking a bath long about Saturday night?

Strauss's avatar

What if holding your hand did not get me misty?

Here2_4's avatar

What if it didn’t make my brown eyes blue?

ibstubro's avatar

What if I have silk thread and suture needles? Can I mend that heart of yours?

Strauss's avatar

@Here2_4 What if I was so full of sh*t it turned my blue eyes brown!

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What if I put the lime in the coconut, but I’m too tired to shake it all up?

ibstubro's avatar

What if I stay one toke under the line, sweet Jesus?

Strauss's avatar

@ibstubro check this out!

What if he was a complicated kind of man?

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What if everyone understands him but his woman?

Tropical_Willie's avatar

What if “Dos Equis” was Uno Equis; would Jonathan Goldsmith be the Second “most interesting man in the world”?
No longer has a job.

Strauss's avatar

@Tropical_Willie Actually, if “Dos Equis” was “Uno Equis” it would would indicate that the brewery was founded at the turn of the 10th century instead of the 20th…The original “Aztec Brewery!”

(or would it be Viking?)

(or maybe the Knights Templar?)

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@Yetanotheruser Aztec beer with cocoa and chicken blood. They don’t need Jonathan Goldsmith

Strauss's avatar

@Tropical_Willie It seems that combination could make anyone the most interesting (wo)man in the world. Haha

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What if I tore down a parking lot to make trees?

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And a little Uber Prius brought back your young lady?

ibstubro's avatar

What if another one bites, the….toast?

dxs's avatar

^^Another one bites the crust?

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What if time kept on slippin’ slippin’ slippin’ into the past? Would I fly like a turkey until imprisoned?

Strauss's avatar

What if nobody called me “Maurice”?

Here2_4's avatar

What if I were a Regal Tang?

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What if they closed down all the Goodwills and second hand stores in the WORLD?

Strauss's avatar

What if I didn’t look incredible in your granddad’s clothes from the thrift shop down the road?

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What if Mama sang bass, and Daddy sang tenor?

Strauss's avatar

Well, they did…more or less!

What Ol’ Man River wouldn’t stop talking?

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What if he do plant taters and he do plant cotton?

ibstubro's avatar

What if Mama just gave up?
Merle dead today at 79

Here2_4's avatar

did anybody actually get the Dory thing I did above?
What if Mammy’s little baby was allergic to shortnin’ bread?

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What if there were no Tobacco Road, but only Corn Road?

Strauss's avatar

What if I fought the law, and the law lost?

Dutchess_III's avatar

^^^^That would mean you shot the sheriff AND the deputy.

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What if your chewing gum picks up flavor from the bedpost overnight?

Strauss's avatar

@stanleybmanly Might not be bad if the bedpost is made of cherry! Rimshot!

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I don’t know that song @stanleybmanly.

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Wow! Going back, WAY back! Thanks for edifiin’ me.

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What if he never said “Please,” but only “Hey, Mr. Custer.”

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What if brother really can only spare a dime?
I can’t even call someone who doesn’t care.

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What if we gave a war and nobody came?

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What if they all came and there was a war?

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What if the War Pigs gathered in their masses just like jellies in their Fluther?

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^^I suppose we would all go off the rails on our crazy train^^

What if he wasn’t turned to steel In the great magnetic field

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What if we’re Livin’ La Vida Cuerdo?

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What if Happiness ran in a linear motion?

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What if I went to the lake with no Rootbeer?

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Okay, just… Ha ha

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What if they were up shit creek with a paddle?

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What if I liked Big Bugs?

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What if feelin’ good wasn’t good enough for me an’ Bobby McGee?

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What if califragalisticexpialidocious were not super?

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That would mean the sound of it is something less atrocious!

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What if God wasn’t one of us?

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@Here2_4 then it would be NOTHING!

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What if I’m Stuck at the End with You?

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What if I’m not even wondering what it is I should do.

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What if Grace were only mildly amusing?

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What if it’s only a Partial Eclipse of the Heart?

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What if every girl was crazy about a sharp witted man?

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What if Wild Horsed could drag me away?

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What if prison’s just another word for nothin left to lose?

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What if stabbing it with steely knives did kill the beast.

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What if I Just Called to Say I Love Yousef?

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What if I’m just a rich boy, everybody loves me?

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Or the lion is wide awake?

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^^ If the lion is wide awake no one, not even aardvarks, sleep.

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What if I give love a gooooooood name?
You Socksie Thing!

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What if I love every weekend people?

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What if Mickey Dolenze was going up?

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Now you got me groovin’ @Yetanotheruser!

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can I get us on retro commercials a while? Let’s see.
I can believe I ate the whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooole thing

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Manly? No, but I like it.

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“You ate it, Ralph!”

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What if I say Please Mr. UPS-man?

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….Wait a minute Mr. UPS-man….

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Where’s the pork!

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They’re…just alright.

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What if Mr Rogers was Miss Manners?

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What if Wendy’s® was cold and dry?

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What if plop plop fizz fizz oh what a hassle it is?

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What if down at the end of bologna street, it’s Heartburn Hotel?

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What if Mary had a little duck?

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What if the wheels on the bus fell off, off, off?

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What if the pages were stuck and he couldn’t turn the page?

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What if I was a salt, she was a salt, he was a salt, would you want to be a salt too?

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What if I asked, “How would you like a big, Hawaiian hug?”

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…What songs or sayings are those, @Here2_4?

What if Puff was a magic June bug?

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Commercials; Dr. Pepper, Hawaiian Punch.

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What if Whatever Bil-lee, Bil-lee?

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What if it was fun to play at the YMAA?

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What if Ajax® doesn’t clean like a white tornado?

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What if I can’t wang chung ever again?

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What if I wear a bright sport coat, and a red azalea?

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What if the song WAS about you? That always confused me as a kid. The song WAS about him, and she was singing, “I bet you think this song is about you….” OK. I was a kid. I didn’t understand irony.

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What if I prefer to be touched at night?

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What if the song was about four or five of her boyfriends not just one?

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What if All I have to do is Stream?
Stream a little stream of you?

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What if two out of three was bad? ’ Oh no, Meatloaf again?

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What if I don’t want to dance, dance, dance?

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What if I don’t want you to sit under the apple tree with anyone but Mimi?

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What if there were no chain gangs to work on?

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What if we were twerkin’ in a coal mine?

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Goin’ down down down?

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What if I Don’t Do Crewel?

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What if “Badda bop bop baaaa, I’m hatin’ it!”

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What if “Tutti Frutti” wasn’t “all rootie”?

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What if, “Coke its the Fake Thing!”

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What if I’m Mack the Spoon?

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What if you’re Mack the Spork?

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what if Rosie, the queen of Corona, hadn’t seen me and Julio down by the schoolyard?

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What if she had sapphires on the soles of her shoes?

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What if Clementine doesn’t want to be my darlin’?

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What if I still want to party like it’s 1999? Will people say that was so 17 years ago?

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What if I let you plant me in your penthouse?

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What if I want to
fight
for my right
to take a nap?

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What if you parked on a parkway and drove on a driveway?

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What if we had High Popes?

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What if I gotta get drunk and I don’t even regret it?

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What If I say you have a pitiful body? Will you hold it against me?

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What if doves laughed?

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What if we did the Catdance?

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What if I only had a brain.

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What if there was a Coupe De Ville hiding in the bottom of a CrackerJack box?

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What if her Cadillac was chartreuse and not pink?

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What if he totally rejects love of the radar variety?

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What if….it was a banana beret? RIP

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What if my P*I*R*O*G*I*S became friable today?

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♩ ♪ ♫ ♬So I guess that you and J*O*E
Are gonna ha-ave to stay.
I’m gonna fry three dozen more,
It’ll ma-ake a mess,
That’s what happens when I fry my P*I*R*O*G*I*S!♩ ♪ ♫ ♬ I

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What if turns out to be a Paradox of the Dashboard Lights?
And not a UFO

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What if the seasons never turned and turned and turned?

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Then there would never be a time to plant, a time to reap, a time to kill, a time to heal. a time to laugh, a time to weep, and so it goes…..

What if we aged backwards, were born old and grew young?

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Then we would be like benjamin button! that would be weird…

What if Harry Potter had never been published?

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Then the Millennials would have to settle for boring old Harvard instead of Hogwarts.

What if 911 never happened?

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Then the Neocons under Chaney would have had to come up with another excuse to go after Hussein. Bush would not have won a second term I guess his first win really and Obama would never have been President.

What if William Wallace really could shoot bolts of lightning out his arse?

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Then there would be the Book of William next to the Book of Eliljah.

What if JFK never got assassinated?

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I don’t know enough about American Politics and all that, but I think that things and policies that did go ahead may not have, and other things may have happened that otherwise did not

What I they find out how to time travel?

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Then history shouldn’t be a subject.
What if everyone is the same?

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That would be a scary world to live in

What if everyone answered the phone as we were first intended to do: “Ahoy hoy”

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Well, matey I suppose we would have a lot more nautical themed phone accessories. Aaaarrg.

What if you always had the correct change in your pocket for whatever you wanted?

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That would be fortuitous. haha

What if sky was yellow and the sun was blue?

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What if you could save horse in a bottle?

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What if we wore Paisley, Surge, Rakematiz and Toile?

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What if we could just fling ourselves to the ground like a 2 year old and have a rip roaring tantrum in the bank or grocery store?

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Would we get spanked?

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Am I meant to answer that @Yetanotheruser?

What if Twilight had never been published? (I am thinking that that would’ve been a good thing)

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Then the word is safe of Fifty Shades of Grey too.
Wait, were we originally supposed to be answering all the questions?
What if we reach the 100000th response?

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Then the Matrix will be exposed for what it really is.

What if you could not attend university without having at least two years full time employment.

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What if he was Hoppin Hank Glint?

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^^ That would be a solid, solid, solid.

What if Sam Stone didn’t come home?

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What if Little Bo Peep doesn’t want to find her friggin’ sheep?

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Then the big bad wo0lf will find them instead. haha

What if all annoying people would just evaporate into thin air as soon as they became annoying?

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What if the alarmists are right and all of the fishes in the deep blue sea disappear; how will Sly and his fam take that; no more joy?

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I don’t know about Sly & Family Stone, but it wouldn’t be a Three Dog Night!

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What if our pets could talk, what would they say about us?

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What if there was NO train to Clarksville, so he couldn’t take the last one?

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What if Ted Cruz dropped out of the Presidential race?

Oh, wait….....

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I thought this was about songs…?

What if it was Hotel Texas?

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Why isn’t anyone actually answering the ‘what if’s” above them? haha

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OK, so what if it was Hotel Texas, @Coloma? Could you still check out any time you want but you can never leave? Can you secede from the Hotel Texas?

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Nope, just like the Hotel California, you can check out anytime you want, but you can never leave.

What if humans had prehensile tails like monkeys?

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We did, but we weren’t homo sapiens then.

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That would put a literal spin on the old “piece of tail”!

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What if she was the Goofy Loopy Guitar Girl of Company G?

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What if we were not an American Band?

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What if she were my girl from Singapore?

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What is all his ex’s weren’t in Texas, but in California instead?

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@Yetanotheruser That rang through my head…that works, actually!

What if Gozilla wasn’t Japanese? “Oh, no! There goes Massachusetts!!” What an evil way to spell a state. Poor kindergartners.

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What if Lake Chaubunagungamaug (Lake Webster in Massachusetts) was Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg (translates to “you fish on your side. i’ll fish on my side and nobody fishes in the middle.”)

Talk about a spelling nightmare.

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What if he had sung it ass in the water, toes in the sand; would it have mattered?

https://www.google.com/search?q=toes+in+the+water+ass+in+the+sand&gws_rd=ssl

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No, @MollyMcGuire, someone’s panties would have still been in a bunch around their ass.

What is momma don’t trance, and daddy don’t bump and grind?

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What if Skynard had been from Maine? Sweet home Maine….........it just doesn’t work.

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Then Steven KIng would be from Alabama.

What if Irish eyes aren’t smiling?

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Oh big big trouble in paradise, I say. But trust me, they usually are. :)

What if Miss Lizzy refuses to strut?

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What if your best shot missed me?

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What is a Mafioso shoots you with a machine gun?

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What if she puts another notch on her Tampax box?

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What if the land of cotton was not in Dixie?

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What if Casey would polka with the with the dishwater blond?

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What if we’re still having Cool Fun in the Springtime?

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What if they went way down there and couldn’t find Kokomo?

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What if I was wasted away again in mimosaville?

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What if big girls do cry?

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What if I just couldn’t Keep on Truckin’, Mama?

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Well, I would say that if you couldn’t truck you would probably have them Walkin’ Blues Then again, what if Renee couldn’t walk away

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What if someone gets to 1mil lurve?

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What if, “Hey, Hey, We Were the Monkees But Davy Jones is Dead”?

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What if it wasn’t Timothy Leary….but Davy Jones?? OMG. It IS Davy Jones. He died in 2012. My world has just ended.

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What if there is no Winslow, Arizona?

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What if it was “the twelve of never”

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@MollyMcGuire Oh, the tales I could tell about a flatbed Ford!

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What if I started a joke which started the whole world giggling?

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What if I was the only one who didn’t laugh?

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What if we are just gonna take it?

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What if she was allergic to blue velvet?

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What if I can only find my blue tamborine?

Does that make my balloon Ugly?

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What if the giant wasn’t doing cartwheels or the statue was not wearing high heels?

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What if he’s so inept, his best shot will never hit me.

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What if we had a lot more talk, and a little less action?

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What if the Candyman never came to town?

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What if Elton had taken himself a red canoe?

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What if there were no wizard at the end of the YBR?

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What if Billy’s a coward?

Is he lip syncing in English??

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What if the pinball wizard was not really blind?

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What if this question becomes legendary?

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What if we don’t make a new page for continuation. We can’t lose our work!!!!!

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What if we stopped answering here, and moved over to here?

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I’m there, not here.

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What if I’m both places?

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What if we stay in both places?

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What if Candy Girl wants to be called Candice?

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