# Does anybody remember Doghouse Reilly? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 11, 2011, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-remember-doghouse-reilly/574285 "2011-03-11T07:43:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-remember-doghouse-reilly/574285/1 "2011-03-11T07:43:02Z")
All thanks to TubaDiva: [I’m baaaack](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=600277). I couldn’t go on living the lie. Also, what with all the zombies popping up lately, I found I had a tendency to argue with myself. (which was absolutely never my intention) So . . . howdy! ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-remember-doghouse-reilly/574285/2 "2011-03-11T13:00:46Z")
No. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-remember-doghouse-reilly/574285/3 "2011-03-11T13:12:23Z")
Understandable, as you’re a relative newbie. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-remember-doghouse-reilly/574285/4 "2011-03-11T13:18:22Z")
Welcome back. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-remember-doghouse-reilly/574285/5 "2011-03-11T13:26:37Z")
Waasn’t he a regular on the Carol Burnett show or something? Big glasses, helmet hair, comedienne? ---
**Author:** ![cuauhtemoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecb155/32.png) [@cuauhtemoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuauhtemoc)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-remember-doghouse-reilly/574285/6 "2011-03-11T13:41:55Z")
I remember your name, I always liked it. I didn’t know back then it was from the Raymond Chandler novel/film noir classic, “The Big Sleep”, but then I read the book and said “Oh! That’s where that name came from!” I love it when that happens. ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2011, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-remember-doghouse-reilly/574285/7 "2011-03-11T13:57:21Z")
Hmmm…I could have checked here before I ‘guessed’…Oh well… ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2026, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anybody-remember-doghouse-reilly/574285/8 "2026-10-26T17:17:33Z")
Marlowe introduces himself as Doghouse Reilly to Carmen Sternwood when she asks for his name, using it as a tough-sounding alias because he does not trust her.