Daily conversation: What is the worst possible answer?

[MikeTheActuary]

8/29/26
What is the worst song for a musical road to play?

"Beep, Beep" by the Playmates.

[kphoger]

The Sounds of Silence.

All of them?

[kphoger]

"Beep, Beep" by the Playmates.

But it only works correctly if you keep speeding up along that stretch.

[formulanone]

Mashing on the Motorway

[kphoger]

01 SEP 2026

Name a song that's about roads, even though most people don't realize it is.

[Big John]

01 SEP 2026

Name a song that's about roads, even though most people don't realize it is.

Stairway to Heaven

[kurumi]

01 SEP 2026

Name a song that's about roads, even though most people don't realize it is.

"Needed" - Brent Faiyaz

[NE2]

01 SEP 2026

Name a song that's about roads, even though most people don't realize it is.

Doot Doot (6 7)

[kphoger]

01 SEP 2026

Name a song that's about roads, even though most people don't realize it is.

Most people think that, while The Long and Winding Road by the Beatles was inspired by an actual road on the Kintyre Peninsula, its lyrics are just a wistful metaphor for Paul McCartney's own life.  However, it's really a tirade against new urbanists and their push to replace roads with pedestrian and bicycle facilities.  Thus, the first line:  "The long and winding road that leads to your door will never disappear".

[IowaTraveler]

01 SEP 2026

Name a song that's about roads, even though most people don't realize it is.

The alphabet song was originally written to help drivers remember the order of the exits on the alphabet loop in Kansas City.

[JayhawkCO]

01 SEP 2026

Name a song that's about roads, even though most people don't realize it is.

Hot Child in the City is about urban 3dis in the South.

[kphoger]

Hot Child in the City is about urban 3dis in the South.

[I-55]

01 SEP 2026

Name a song that's about roads, even though most people don't realize it is.

Fix You - Coldplay

[GaryV]

01 SEP 2026

Name a song that's about roads, even though most people don't realize it is.

"We Three Kings" - following star shields

[kphoger]

"We Three Kings"

westbound road trip in a pre-GPS era

[I-57/Route 66 Fan]

I've Been Everywhere, for people at a control city planning meeting to celebrate the places they signed. 

[jlam]

I've Been Everywhere, for people at a control city planning meeting to celebrate the places they signed. 

ha, we need to write a version of this for those questionable excellent control cities like Limon and those cities along I-80 in Pennsylvania.

[The_Ginger]

01 SEP 2026

Name a song that's about roads, even though most people don't realize it is.

Dizzy Fingers by Benny Goodman was written to express the feeling in your meat gloves fingers after going through a roundabout or the average West Virginia mountain road.

[1995hoo]

01 SEP 2026

Name a song that's about roads, even though most people don't realize it is.

"Lemon" by U2 from the Zooropa album. Bono pronounces the word "lemon" more like "li-mon" with a short "i" and a slightly long "o" (not quite like "moan," but sort of). What people don't realize is that he was singing about a control city in Colorado and he sounded out the name based on its spelling, not knowing that the people there pronounce it with a long "i" and a schwa.

[kphoger]

20 AUG 2026

Propose a solution to the I-35/35E/35W mess in Dallas–Fort Worth and the Twin Cities.

Sign a 35/35E/35W concurrency from Denton to Burnsville.

[hotdogPi]

9/2/2026: We have signs for boundaries: state lines, time zones, continental divides, lines of latitude, etc. Pick another boundary type that should have signage.

[1995hoo]

9/2/2026: We have signs for boundaries: state lines, time zones, continental divides, lines of latitude, etc. Pick another boundary type that should have signage.

Boundaries between cellular phone towers (cell site location information).

[kphoger]

9/2/2026: We have signs for boundaries: state lines, time zones, continental divides, lines of latitude, etc. Pick another boundary type that should have signage.

ZIP+4 postal codes

[NE2]

9/2/2026: We have signs for boundaries: state lines, time zones, continental divides, lines of latitude, etc. Pick another boundary type that should have signage.

Thickly settled.

[Sapphuby]

9/2/2026: We have signs for boundaries: state lines, time zones, continental divides, lines of latitude, etc. Pick another boundary type that should have signage.

personal boundaries