# 5 years later—"Oh, I get it now!" (spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 20, 2003, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-years-later-oh-i-get-it-now-spoilers/214358 "2003-11-20T20:05:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![seal\_cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2003, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-years-later-oh-i-get-it-now-spoilers/214358/21 "2003-11-22T15:25:46Z")
My wife was raised southern baptist. She was told the only reason Jesus drank wine was because \*the water was bad in those days. \* Believed until she was 35. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2003, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-years-later-oh-i-get-it-now-spoilers/214358/22 "2003-11-22T18:21:27Z")
Well, the water certainly wasn’t all that clean back then. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2003, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-years-later-oh-i-get-it-now-spoilers/214358/23 "2003-11-22T19:47:46Z")
Three for me: There’s a line in **A Chorus Line** : “When I was five I remember my mother/ dug earrings out of the car/ I knew that they weren’t hers but it wasn’t/ somthing you’d want to discuss”. For years, I thought this implied that the mother was a jewel thief Then there’s the **Doonesbury** strip where Duke, while Ambassador to China, says that it’s been his dream to “drop acid on the Great Wall”. I assumed that he meant he actually wanted to take a beaker of H2SO4 and pour it onto the wall. Finally, I just recently fully understood a pun in the pun-filled song _Wet Dream_, which is all fish references. "She said ‘hey big boy, you’re really a game fish. What’s your name?’ I said ‘Marlin’ ". It just a few days ago occurred to me that a Marlin is not only a fish, it’s a GAME fish, ie, one that people fish for. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2003, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-years-later-oh-i-get-it-now-spoilers/214358/24 "2003-11-22T21:31:09Z")
In _Pulp Fiction_ Uma Thurman snorts John Travolta’s heroin and goes into cardiac arrest. I always figured she was a complete dumb@$$ for snorting some random unknown drug she found in someone’s pocket. Then my little sister pointed out the throwaway line by Eric Stoltz when Travolta’s character bought the stuff. The one about how he was out of balloons, so would a baggie be OK? thus implying that had it been in a balloon, _like it was supposed to be_, she would have known it was heroin, instead of automatically assuming it was cocaine. Ohhhhhhhhh. The character’s still a dumb@$$. ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2003, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-years-later-oh-i-get-it-now-spoilers/214358/25 "2003-11-22T22:14:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dryga\_Yes \* > \*\*I’ve read all five books (in English), but I didn’t get either Diagon Alley or Knockturn Alley until now. Yikes. \*\* I still don’t get it. Will someone fill me in? ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2003, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-years-later-oh-i-get-it-now-spoilers/214358/26 "2003-11-22T22:29:23Z")
Diagon Alley = diagonally Knockturn Alley = nocturnally ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2003, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-years-later-oh-i-get-it-now-spoilers/214358/27 "2003-11-23T02:49:05Z")
I once was in a D&D group where one of the other player’s character was named Sir Cocksmith. (His coat of arms depicted an iron rooster being hammered on an anvil). Years later I had occasion to look up the derivation of the word “smith” in the dictionary, and read that it’s related to the word “smite”: to beat or pound upon. Suddenly I go “D-UUUUH!!!” ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2003, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-years-later-oh-i-get-it-now-spoilers/214358/28 "2003-11-23T15:35:42Z")
This is sorta one: In Joan Crawford’s career-defining role in the 1968 classic “Berserk!,” the circus performers (The Skinny Man, Bearded Lady, Little Person, and Strong Man) perform a quartet. I first saw this movie when I was about 12 years old (and not again untile last year, 30 years later), and didn’t realize that the voiced were dubbed (well, all except the Skinny Man). When the Strong Man sang his part, he had this great _tenor_ voice. Similarly, the Little Person had a great _bass_ voice. Unrelated to the OP, this movie had a very touching love scene in it featuring 64-year-old Joan Crawford, and 38-year-old Ty Hardin. "I haven’t seen a kiss that uncomfortable since Richard Gere kissed Jodie Foster in “Sommersby.” ---
**Author:** ![shijinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@shijinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shijinn)\ **Post date:** [November 24, 2003, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-years-later-oh-i-get-it-now-spoilers/214358/29 "2003-11-24T09:53:47Z")
when i realised so many of those ‘romantic’ love songs were all about explicit sex. (yes, i don’t pay attention to lyrics much.) ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-years-later-oh-i-get-it-now-spoilers/214358/30 "2003-11-26T11:38:01Z")
This made me feel **really** dumb. Before I met Mr. Rilch, I had seen **Superman** at least 20 times. Flash forward to 1998, when he bought a laserdisk boxed set that had been released for the 20th anniversary. Teenaged Lana Lang is flirting with teenaged Clark Kent. Mr. Rilch: I think it’s so cool that they dubbed Christopher Reeve’s voice for that kid. Me: …Yeah!..neat. :::runs upstairs to check IMDB::: “Young Clark Kent…Jeff East”. Although to be fair, there was one **hell** of a resemblance. And considering how young Reeve was at the time, I’m mildly surprised that they didn’t just have him play the scenes straight up. ---
**Author:** ![ILovCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e99b99/32.png) [@ILovCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ILovCoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-years-later-oh-i-get-it-now-spoilers/214358/31 "2003-11-26T12:02:33Z")
Rilchiam-sorry, I am confused. Do you mean they that they did dub CR’s voice for Jeff East’s or that it wasn’t dubbed and Jeff sounds similar to CR? It took me a while to realize that the phrase “No news is good news” can mean both-The lack of new information is a good sign–as well as–All new information is unfortunate/unwanted. And only recently did I realize that Allibaba could be saying, “Open! says me.” ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-years-later-oh-i-get-it-now-spoilers/214358/32 "2003-11-26T12:17:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ILovCoffee \* > \*\*Rilchiam-sorry, I am confused. Do you mean they that they did dub CR’s voice for Jeff East’s or that it wasn’t dubbed and Jeff sounds similar to CR? > \*\* CR’s voice was dubbed for JE’s. But they looked so much alike, I think I can be forgiven for thinking JE **was** CR. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/5-years-later-oh-i-get-it-now-spoilers/214358.md?page=1)