“Every Good Burger Deserves Fries” (EGBDF music mnemonic)
Entry in progress -- B.P."Every Good Burger Deserves Fries" is a mnemonic for E-G-B-D-F, the notes on the lines of the treble clef. Other EGBDF mnemonics include "Every Good Boy…
“Every time I come home my dog runs at me like he’s hoping we will finally nail the lift from Dirty Dancing”
Dogs are often very happy when an owner comes home, frequently jumping on the owner. "Every time I come home my dog runs at me like he’s hoping we will finally nail the lift from Dirty…
“Everybody bites on the Big Apple” lyric in the Cat Stevens song “New York Times” (1978)
"New York Times" is a song on the album Back to Earth (1978) by Cat Stevens. He would convert to Islam and take a long break from music, and his next album (credited to "Yusuf/Cat…
“Everybody has two businesses—his own business and show business”
"Everybody/Everyone has two businesses -- his own and show business" is one of the oldest entertainment sayings. "Thoughtless souls who mouth the old wheeze that everyone has two…
“Everybody wants to get into the act”
"Everybody wants to get into the act" (or "Everybody wants ta get inta da act") was a catchphrase of Manhattan-born comedian and entertainer Jimmy Durante (1893-1980). The song…
“Exit, stage left”
The stage direction "Exit, stage left" was the catchphrase of the cartoon lion Snagglepuss, whose cartoons appeared on The Yogi Bear Show in the 1960s. The line indicated that Snagglepuss…
“Fame” (1980)
"Fame" was written by Michael Gore (music) and Dean Pitchford (lyrics) and performed by Irene Cara for the movie Fame (1980). The movie was about New York's High School of Performing…
“Farting in bed is just sheet music”
"Sheet music" has nothing to do with bed sheets, but there are jokes. "Why did the composer spend all his time in bed? He wrote sheet music" was printed in the Home News Tribune…
“Find someone who makes you feel the same way music does”
"When you find someone who makes you feel the same way music does, that's when you found someone special" is a music saying that has been printed on many images. "If someone…
“Fools rush in and get the best seats”
"For fools rush in where angels fear to tread" was written by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) in An Essay on Criticism (1711). The line is famous and has many parodies. "Fools rush in and…
“For my next trick, I will eat a percussion instrument in a bap. Drum roll please”
A "drum roll" isn't a sandwich (such as a "drum" in a "roll"), but there's a joke: "For my next trick, I will eat a percussion instrument in a bap. Drum…
“Fracture a femur” (version of “break a leg,” meaning good luck)
"Fracture a femur" is another way of saying "break a leg" in the theater, where it is bad luck to wish someone good luck. "'Fracture a femur' is certainly poetic…
“Fun fact: Out of the 400,000 people who attended Woodstock, 637,000 are still alive today”
The Woodstock Music and Art Fair on August 15-16, 1969 became synonymous with the counterculture of the 1960s. A great many people claim to have been there, and there's a joke. "Fun fact:…
“Get your hero up a tree, throw stones at him, then get him down” (playwriting adage)
The three act structure of drama has been described as: Act One -- get your hero character up a tree,Act Two -- throw stones/rocks at him, andAct Three -- get him down. The…
“Ghostbusters” (1984, 1989)
Ghostbusters (1984) was a blockbuster comedy film, directed by Ivan Reitman, with a script by and starring Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. Comic actor Bill Murray was the lead…
“Give My Regards to Broadway” (1904)
This standard is now 100 years old. We're able to reproduce the lyrics in full. George M. Cohan's statue stands in the heart of Time Square, at Duffy Square, on the same traffic island as…
“God Bless New York City, My Big Apple Pie” (song by Y’all, 1995)
The folk/county duo "Y'all" (James Dean Jay Byrd and Seven Cheslik-DeMeyer) recorded the song "God bless New York City (my Big Apple pie)" on the album Big Apple Pie…
“God shared his grapes with me” (“America the Beautiful” mondegreen)
"God shared his grapes with me" is a mondegreen of "God shed his grace on thee," a line in the patriotic hymn "America the Beautiful." The misheard lyric has been…
“Gongs are just really flat bells”
Gongs have been compared to cymbals and bells. "A gong is really just a squinting cymbal #asianjoke" was posted on Twitter on April 9, 2012. "A gong is just an asian status…
“Good bass players stay out of treble”
"Good bass players stay out of treble" -- "treble" is a joke on the word "trouble" -- is a saying that has been printed on many images. "Bass players try to stay…