# Game: spot the obscure movie/book/etc.. references in doper's nicks **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 1, 2004, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-spot-the-obscure-movie-book-etc-references-in-dopers-nicks/277544 "2004-12-01T19:00:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2004, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-spot-the-obscure-movie-book-etc-references-in-dopers-nicks/277544/201 "2004-12-03T22:36:26Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > I assumed that, too **Annie X-mas**. > > Anyone know the reference for my username? i was going to guess that old coartoon on _The Electric Company_ until i remembered that it was Letterman, not Wordman. ---
**Author:** ![sinjin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@sinjin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sinjin)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2004, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-spot-the-obscure-movie-book-etc-references-in-dopers-nicks/277544/202 "2004-12-03T22:38:10Z")
> [@Ichini Sanshigo](#): > > My old screen name (smilla) was a literary reference, but not an obscure one. I don’t think. Would that be “Smilla’s Sense of Snow” by Peter Hoeg? ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2004, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-spot-the-obscure-movie-book-etc-references-in-dopers-nicks/277544/203 "2004-12-03T22:39:39Z")
> [@AugestWest](#): > > Mine is misspelled because some non-posting person has the correctly spelled version. Anybody? Pearlie Baker? You don’t happen to be happily deceased, would you? ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2004, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-spot-the-obscure-movie-book-etc-references-in-dopers-nicks/277544/204 "2004-12-03T23:55:44Z")
> [@down by law](#): > > actually, when i registered for the website, i was listening to digable planet’s “borough check” from the criminally underrated album, “blowout comb.” I stand corrected. 🙂 However, I think it’s safe to say that **Happy Scrappy Hero Pup** took his name from the in-demand kids flick in _Clerks_. ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2004, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-spot-the-obscure-movie-book-etc-references-in-dopers-nicks/277544/205 "2004-12-04T00:55:38Z")
Thought of another one: **Nutty Bunny** takes her name from a _Kids in the Hall_ sketch: “I’m Nutty Bunny Number Two! You like me and … me like you!” ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2004, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-spot-the-obscure-movie-book-etc-references-in-dopers-nicks/277544/206 "2004-12-04T01:42:34Z")
> [@Hamlet](#): > > I cam’t remember, Cam U? Go away–and plague me no more. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2004, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-spot-the-obscure-movie-book-etc-references-in-dopers-nicks/277544/207 "2004-12-04T01:56:15Z")
**Prisoner 24601** (who made a total of 53 posts) is named after the hero of _Les Miserables._ ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2004, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-spot-the-obscure-movie-book-etc-references-in-dopers-nicks/277544/208 "2004-12-04T02:26:22Z")
**Sam Stone** is from the John Prine song. There’s a hole in daddy’s arm, where all the money goes… ---
**Author:** ![dinahmoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dinahmoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dinahmoe)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2004, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-spot-the-obscure-movie-book-etc-references-in-dopers-nicks/277544/209 "2004-12-04T05:02:01Z")
I’m a Zappa tune. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2004, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-spot-the-obscure-movie-book-etc-references-in-dopers-nicks/277544/210 "2004-12-04T14:45:46Z")
> [@dinahmoe](#): > > I’m a Zappa tune. I couldn’t say where she’s coming’ from, But I just met a lady named dinah-moe humm She stroll on over, say look here, bum, I got a forty dollar bill say you can’t make me cum (y’jes can’t do it) ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2004, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-spot-the-obscure-movie-book-etc-references-in-dopers-nicks/277544/211 "2004-12-04T17:32:38Z")
Sigh. Forgotten again. Ah, well. I’ll just assume mine is so obvious no one felt the need to mention it. ---
**Author:** ![dotchan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@dotchan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dotchan)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2004, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-spot-the-obscure-movie-book-etc-references-in-dopers-nicks/277544/212 "2004-12-04T17:55:03Z")
Mine’s really not that obscure, but the “-chan” suffix probably confuses people. I’m the cute one. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-spot-the-obscure-movie-book-etc-references-in-dopers-nicks/277544/213 "2004-12-05T00:38:53Z")
> [@Gangster Octopus](#): > > i was going to guess that old coartoon on _The Electric Company_ until i remembered that it was Letterman, not Wordman. You’re right - that’s not it. ---
**Author:** ![Raygun99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Raygun99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raygun99)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-spot-the-obscure-movie-book-etc-references-in-dopers-nicks/277544/214 "2004-12-05T00:45:37Z")
**stately plump buck mulligan** – the first line of James Joyce’s Ulysses. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-spot-the-obscure-movie-book-etc-references-in-dopers-nicks/277544/215 "2004-12-05T05:08:22Z")
> [@Aesiron](#): > > (the Dioscuri, an alternate name for the Gemini). “We are the Dioscuri…Leda bore us long ago.” Having flashbakcs to several years ago. Girl I was dating was in Helen, and that monologue’s always stuck in my head. Mostly because I knew the guys who played (was it Castor and Pollux?), and, during rehearsals, they’d always improvise how they did the scene. One time, they’d be Beavis & Butthead, the next Martin and Lewis. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-spot-the-obscure-movie-book-etc-references-in-dopers-nicks/277544/216 "2004-12-05T05:25:47Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > Sigh. Forgotten again. Ah, well. I’ll just assume mine is so obvious no one felt the need to mention it. Smeggin’ hell! We all knew where your name was from! Now where’s my vindaloo? ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-spot-the-obscure-movie-book-etc-references-in-dopers-nicks/277544/217 "2004-12-05T06:53:04Z")
> [@Exapno Mapcase](#): > > To nitpick, Exapno Mapcase is the humorous transliteration Harpo gave to seeing his name in Cyrillic characters on a Russian poster. > [@Harpo Marx](#): > > Харпо Маркс Brilliant. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Crandolph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7cd45c/32.png) [@Crandolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crandolph)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-spot-the-obscure-movie-book-etc-references-in-dopers-nicks/277544/218 "2004-12-05T07:06:20Z")
I assume **owlstretchingtime** is from the _Monty Python’s FC_ episode of that title. ---
**Author:** ![Crandolph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7cd45c/32.png) [@Crandolph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crandolph)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-spot-the-obscure-movie-book-etc-references-in-dopers-nicks/277544/219 "2004-12-05T07:07:25Z")
…or was that the alternative original name of the show (_Python_)? I forget… ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2004, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-spot-the-obscure-movie-book-etc-references-in-dopers-nicks/277544/220 "2004-12-05T11:57:08Z")
> [@Crandolph](#): > > …or was that the alternative original name of the show (_Python_)? I forget… Owl Stretching Time was one fo several alternative titles considered for the show. Most of the losers (including this one) were used as episode titles in the first season. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-spot-the-obscure-movie-book-etc-references-in-dopers-nicks/277544.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/game-spot-the-obscure-movie-book-etc-references-in-dopers-nicks/277544.md?page=12)