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…
"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/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" (or "Everybody wants ta get inta da act") was a catchphrase of Manhattan-born comedian and entertainer Jimmy Durante (1893-1980). The song…
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" 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…
"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…
"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…
"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…
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" 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…
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:…
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) 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…
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…
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" 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 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" -- "treble" is a joke on the word "trouble" -- is a saying that has been printed on many images. "Bass players try to stay…
Entry in progress -- B.P. Another GBDFA mnemonic is "Good Burritos Don't Fall Apart." An ACEG mnemonic is "All Cows Eat Grass." EGBDF mnemonics include “Every Good Boy…