Timeline for "To be is to do" — "To do is to be" — "Do-be-do-be-do": what does this mean?
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| Jan 7, 2016 at 21:14 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | According to one user, whose suggested edit was rejected earlier today, the do-be-do-be-do can be heard in Sinatra's rendition of "Strangers in the Night". Which confirms rajah9's comment. | |
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| May 4, 2013 at 13:21 | history | edited | Karl | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 16, 2013 at 18:42 | comment | added | rajah9 | Just heard the Chairman of the Board sing "Strangers in the night" (1966). In the closing bar, he sings "do be do be do." | |
| Nov 14, 2012 at 14:47 | history | edited | RegDwigнt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 29, 2011 at 16:02 | comment | added | Karl | @Malvolio - I've been away for a while. A long while. Thanks for the reference (E. B. White). | |
| Jul 24, 2011 at 21:43 | comment | added | Michael Lorton | @TimLymington -- we were (if memory serves) talking about my joke ("Humor is like a frog...") and who said it. | |
| Apr 24, 2011 at 15:46 | comment | added | Michael Lorton | @TheRaven -- the attributions in the joke vary. Nietzsche is often invoked. @Karl -- I had always assume it to be Twain (if you're talking to me at all) but the Google-consensus is that it's E.B. White, which makes far more sense, as Twain grew up long before high-school biology became what it is today. | |
| Apr 24, 2011 at 11:10 | comment | added | The Raven | It should be pointed out that Plato and Socrates said no such things and the quotes as attributed are fanciful. | |
| Apr 24, 2011 at 9:26 | comment | added | Numerator | So funny!!! :-) | |
| Apr 24, 2011 at 8:58 | comment | added | emeraldhieu | At the first time I saw it, I also guessed it is a joke but I didn't understand. Now I do. Thank you. | |
| Apr 24, 2011 at 8:55 | vote | accept | emeraldhieu | ||
| Apr 24, 2011 at 8:32 | comment | added | Karl | I completely agree but for the sake of the question... Also, I actually heard that quote for the first time just the other day, funny you should be saying it now. Any idea where it came from? | |
| Apr 24, 2011 at 7:06 | comment | added | Michael Lorton | There's an old saying: "Humor is like a frog: you can dissect it if you want to, but the results are interesting only to professionals and the frog tends to suffer in the process." | |
| Apr 24, 2011 at 6:34 | history | answered | Karl | CC BY-SA 3.0 |