# Are you really shocked, SHOCKED? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 6, 2005, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-really-shocked-shocked/283377 "2005-01-06T13:29:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-really-shocked-shocked/283377/1 "2005-01-06T13:29:51Z")
Enough with the “I was shocked, SHOCKED to find blah blahing blah blah”. [Dan Savage](http://www.theonionavclub.com/savagelove/index.php?issue=4101) is the most recent purveyor of the shock-shock I’ve seen. You’re “shocked”, we get it. If you need to modify it, try “very shocked”. If you’re from Boston, try “wicked shawcked”. Gen-Y, you’re “hella shocked”. Valley girl, you’re “like totally shocked to the max.” Barista, “double shocked, half-decaf, skinny latte”. Marketer, maybe you’re “Sup-A-Shocked” or “Meg-A-Shocked”. What you no longer shall be is “shocked, SHOCKED”. Captain Renault was “shocked, shocked” to find gambling going on in Rick’s. You, you’re just repeating a 50 year old joke which has been repeated by 8 million other people. Worst of all, you’ve devalued my normal amount of shock. “I’m shocked that you would urinate on my carpet.” _Well, Trunk can’t be too shocked, or he would have said “shocked, shocked”. I shall now defecate on his couch._ ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-really-shocked-shocked/283377/2 "2005-01-06T13:41:56Z")
I am shocked, SHOCKED, that some posters do boring and repitive crap for no discernible reason. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-really-shocked-shocked/283377/3 "2005-01-06T13:49:00Z")
I am shocked SHOCKED that you would resort to a trite and shopworn phrase like “blah blahing blah blah”, when then you could have used “etcetera”, “so on & so forth” or the much more clever “yadda yadda”. Oh, and your apartment stinks. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-really-shocked-shocked/283377/4 "2005-01-06T13:58:28Z")
I am not shocked anytime American Electric Power has an outage. I am grounded in the reality that they do not have the juice to get things fixed. I can no longer generate outrage. There’s no utility in it. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-really-shocked-shocked/283377/5 "2005-01-06T14:07:26Z")
The point behind the reduplicated “shocked” is that Claude Rains’ character is portrayed as being an amoral hypocrite – as he utters the line, he is picking up his winnings from the gambling that he is “shocked, shocked” to find going on at Rick’s Place. So it is said, originally and when properly used as a homage to Casablanca, with more than a touch of irony. To give an example, I would be **truly** shocked to see a post from **Otto** opposing gay marriage – but I would be “shocked, shocked” to see a statement from Fred Phelps or James Dobson opposing it. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-really-shocked-shocked/283377/6 "2005-01-06T14:15:59Z")
> [@cricetus](#): > > I am shocked, SHOCKED, that some posters do boring and repitive crap for no discernible reason. I, too, am shocked, SHOCKED, that some posters do boring and repitive crap for no discernible reason. ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-really-shocked-shocked/283377/7 "2005-01-06T14:18:37Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > I, too, am shocked, SHOCKED, that some posters do boring and repitive crap for no discernible reason. Boring and repetitive crap for no discernible reason? I’m shocked, SHOCKED! ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-really-shocked-shocked/283377/8 "2005-01-06T14:29:24Z")
[mixmaster mode ON] Shocked! Shocked! Shocked! sh… sh… sh… sho… sho… Shocked! Shocked! Shocked! [mixmaster mode OFF] Dude, something smells like shit in here. I think it’s coming from the couch. ---
**Author:** ![usar\_jag](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f0a364/32.png) [@usar\_jag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usar_jag)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-really-shocked-shocked/283377/9 "2005-01-06T14:31:00Z")
Shock \*me??? SHOCK YOU!!! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-really-shocked-shocked/283377/10 "2005-01-06T14:34:09Z")
Boom shocka-shocka-shocka boom shocka BOOM ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-really-shocked-shocked/283377/11 "2005-01-06T14:35:53Z")
I once found a shock in Trunk’s underpants… ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-really-shocked-shocked/283377/12 "2005-01-06T14:37:07Z")
Shock is all you need… Being shocked, SHOCKED, means you never have to say you’re sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-really-shocked-shocked/283377/13 "2005-01-06T14:40:40Z")
I just can’t wait until the sense-of-humor-police beauracracy is fully staffed so that I can run all my little in-jokes past them to ensure that someone who doesn’t share my sense of humor isn’t offended by my use of movie references, music references, Monty Python references, Fawlty Towers references, and/or Discworld references. MST3K references, Drew Carey references, CBS evening news references, death-ray references, Opal references… Sheesh. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-really-shocked-shocked/283377/14 "2005-01-06T14:54:24Z")
> [@This Year's Model](#): > > I just can’t wait until the sense-of-humor-police beauracracy is fully staffed so that I can run all my little in-jokes past them to ensure that someone who doesn’t share my sense of humor isn’t offended by my use of movie references, music references, Monty Python references, Fawlty Towers references, and/or Discworld references. I can’t wait until the day that having a sense-of-humor, actually means HAVING. A. SENSE. OF. HUMOR. instead of having the ability to repeat what other people have already confirmed is humorous. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-really-shocked-shocked/283377/15 "2005-01-06T15:01:36Z")
> [@Trunk](#): > > I can’t wait until the day that having a sense-of-humor, actually means HAVING. A. SENSE. OF. HUMOR. instead of having the ability to repeat what other people have already confirmed is humorous. So there is no humor unless it is 100% original and derived from no other source whatsoever? Interesting. ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-really-shocked-shocked/283377/16 "2005-01-06T15:12:37Z")
Shock it to ME? ---
**Author:** ![Earthworm\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@Earthworm\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthworm_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-really-shocked-shocked/283377/17 "2005-01-06T15:22:07Z")
I, on the other hand, am neither shocked nor SHOCKED to discover a cornucopia of posters coming into this thread to do exactly what the OP was bitching about. ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-really-shocked-shocked/283377/18 "2005-01-06T15:23:22Z")
> [@EddyTeddyFreddy](#): > > Boom shocka-shocka-shocka boom shocka BOOM \*Open the door get on the floor everybody walk the dinosaur. \* ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-really-shocked-shocked/283377/19 "2005-01-06T15:23:27Z")
> [@This Year's Model](#): > > So there is no humor unless it is 100% original and derived from no other source whatsoever? Interesting. Let’s face it model. Some of these little jokes and quips have simply jumped the shark. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2005, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-really-shocked-shocked/283377/20 "2005-01-06T15:23:36Z")
> [@This Year's Model](#): > > So there is no humor unless it is 100% original and derived from no other source whatsoever? Interesting. Yes, correct. That’s exactly what I said. There is no humor unless it is 100% original and derived from no other source whatsoever. That was the entire point of starting this thread. To foster discussion so we could arrive at the one defining rule of humor: there is no humor unless it is 100% original and derived from no other source whatsoever. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-really-shocked-shocked/283377.md?page=2)