# "A-Ha!" Moments: Have you ever felt smart and stupid at the same time?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-ha-moments-have-you-ever-felt-smart-and-stupid-at-the-same-time/382192>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 29, 2006, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-ha-moments-have-you-ever-felt-smart-and-stupid-at-the-same-time/382192 "2006-11-29T14:41:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2006, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-ha-moments-have-you-ever-felt-smart-and-stupid-at-the-same-time/382192/61 "2006-12-02T21:53:59Z")

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I never got the idea with MSG, but then, I’ve never heard of Madison Square, and I’m the guy around here who has to be careful even in his all-college-educated family to not make people feel pop-culture ignorant.

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**Author:** ![UKCatGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a88e57/32.png) [@UKCatGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UKCatGirl)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2006, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-ha-moments-have-you-ever-felt-smart-and-stupid-at-the-same-time/382192/62 "2006-12-03T03:18:53Z")

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The Disney “D”. Boy I felt like an idiot when I realized that it was not in fact an upside-down, mirror-image “e” with a line through it. I don’t even know how I ever got that it my head, other than that it must’ve happened when I was a child and somehow just stuck.

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