# Did you ever notice....

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-notice/45058
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [December 11, 2000, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-notice/45058 "2000-12-11T19:29:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2000, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-notice/45058/1 "2000-12-11T19:29:39Z")

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…that you can buy a nice shirt and wear it once or twice with no response from anybody. And then the 3rd or 4th time you wear it, about 10 people independently comment on how nice your shirt is.

…that when you’re sitting on the bowl and absolutely nothing comes out, you feel that you need to wipe anyway.

Damn! I had about 8 of these last night while trying to fall asleep, and now I can only remember 2.

I’ll try to add more as I think of them. In the mean time, please contribute your original “Did you ever notice…” thoughts.

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### Author: ![Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@Wonko\_The\_Sane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wonko_The_Sane)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2000, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-notice/45058/2 "2000-12-11T19:33:48Z")

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…The more beer you drink, the more your beer looks like pee, but the less your pee looks like beer?

\<runs away ducking\>

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### Author: ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2000, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-notice/45058/3 "2000-12-11T19:47:13Z")

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…that the later you are, the more red lights you encounter?

…that if you think of a song you haven’t heard in awhile, it will be on the radio within a week?

…that no matter how hard you push, you can’t fuck a cat?

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### Author: ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2000, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-notice/45058/4 "2000-12-11T19:49:53Z")

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… that when talking to someone with something hanging off their nose or face, face start rubbing your own nose or face for fear that you have something hanging off your nose or face.

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### Author: ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2000, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-notice/45058/5 "2000-12-11T20:29:45Z")

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That if you see only one episode of a TV show in your life, if you ever see the show again it will be a re-run of the only one you saw.

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### Author: ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2000, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-ever-notice/45058/6 "2000-12-11T20:44:00Z")

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…you hear a new word that you’ve never heard before, and then hear it being used several times by several people shortly thereafter.
