BREAKING: Tree that Bobby Goldsboro planted for Honey in 1968 now a fashionable end table

[Miles Archer]

Is nothing sacred?

[3catwoman3]

1. I detested that song, and...

...still do.

I hope it won't be today's earworm.

[Miles Archer]

8. I felt the same way

I have no idea why it popped into my head today, but I decided to share my pain.

[tonekat]

14. I treat it as hazardous material

A friend who had tapes of a NYC station that would host interesting people like William S. Burroughs, etc. I can't remember the call letters, but one thing they presented was an S&M parody of "Honey".

See the welts, how big they've grown...

[Thomas Hurt]

2. a stiff breeze and he'd get lift off with that collar.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

6. Haha

Now THOSE are 5.00 lightbulbs...sigh.

[cyclonefence]

3. But, oh, what a gorgeous table!

Fuck Honey. I want that table.

[Freddie]

4. Was that song a true story?

Still dreck though.

[Miles Archer]

9. I checked Wikipedia, seems that it is "just a song" without a real-life backstory

They also shared this:

The Cincinnati Enquirer reported that the song frequently appears on "worst songs of all-time" lists,[4] and in April 2006, Todd Leopold of CNN named it the "Worst Song of All Time."[5] In the 1970s when radio DJ Tony Blackburn was going through his divorce with his wife Tessa Wyatt, he regularly played "Honey" and would comment live on air about how much he missed his wife.[6] This was parodied in the "mockumentary" Smashie and Nicey: The End of an Era.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_(Bobby_Goldsboro_song)

[Achilleaze]

5. Rainy Days and Wooden End Tables Always Get Me Down

It's all so very very very sad.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

7. Very sad indeed. I remember her well and had their albums.

Folks at the end of their lives by choice need to be supported in spades. A very lonely and hopeless place to be. There just isn't any do-overs when it comes to 'the sideways'. What happens to people when that time comes? What do they need the most? Wish we knew, and better yet had a way for people to alert others...sort of a HOTLINE TO HEAVEN (really us eh?) AND I wish there was a pill for it...like the millions of commercials for superficial stuff every day. Isn't there something we all collectively can do? I thought when we lost other movie stars we idolized we'd start doing better. If we had President Clinton we'd be moving forward from where we were. Not anguishing and preparing for 'do over's'. We are certainly in it deep.

[Miles Archer]

10. Shannon is gone, I've heard

"Shannon" was written about the death of Beach Boys member Carl Wilson's Irish Setter of the same name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon_(song)

[zanana1]

11. Dammit.

That stupid song always makes me cry!

[msongs]

12. "what the heck/hugged my neck" - possible the clunkiest line in recorded music history nt

[nolabear]

13. That damned song came out just after my mother died at 32.

Having it come on the radio when we were in the car (the only time I was near my father at the time) was excruciating. I hated the situation, I hated that stupid song...thank goodness now it’s kust musically nauseating.

[kwassa]

15. The Smothers Brothers did a hilarious satire called "Honey House"

where they did a tour through the house of Honey as the song was being sung. I can't find a clip of it, though.

[Dave Starsky]

16. See the tree, how big it's grown...

But, friend, it hasn't been too long...

It wasn't big.

I laughed at her and she got mad,
The first day that she planted it...

Was just a twig.

That is some Leonard Cohen level poetry there.