# Holy crap! I just got... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 1, 2012, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-i-just-got/642666 "2012-12-01T11:43:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-i-just-got/642666/61 "2012-12-06T02:05:33Z")
> [@Nunzio\_Tavulari](#): > > The Beatles was a play on Buddy Holly’s band, The Crickets. To extend the musical pun, be **E** t was replaced with be **A** t. Additionally, Lennon, who always had a penchant for puns and similar wordplay, noted that you could turn “Beatles” around and get “Les Beat”, which he thought looked French and cool. ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-i-just-got/642666/62 "2012-12-06T02:23:06Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > When\*\* Liam Gallagher\*\* finally left Oasis/his brother Noel, he formed a band call **Beady Eye** specifically to get sorted next to The Beatles… Let’s hope he likes the Beastie Boys too, because they’re going to come in between “Beady” and “Beatles”. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-i-just-got/642666/63 "2012-12-06T04:47:12Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Yes, as in “to go on a bender”. It’s rather old fashioned, though, and I can’t remember the last time I heard it seriously used in that sense. Huh. I’ve heard “bender” as a drinking binge used quite commonly in my circles. I never thought of it as old-fashioned at all. ---
**Author:** ![thirdwarning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@thirdwarning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdwarning)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-i-just-got/642666/64 "2012-12-06T05:06:29Z")
> [@JSexton](#): > > Didn’t the Simpsons have Bee Jewelers? I’ll leave their implied slogan as an exercise for the reader. Every Buss begins with B? ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-i-just-got/642666/65 "2012-12-06T05:35:04Z")
> [@cjepson](#): > > Like realizing that an elbow is called that because when you bend your arm it looks like the letter… No. It’s from the archaic unit of measure the ell, which in turn derives from the Old Germanic \*_alinâ._ ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-i-just-got/642666/66 "2012-12-06T16:07:55Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > No. It’s from the archaic unit of measure the ell, which in turn derives from the Old Germanic \*_alinâ._ Well, that makes it a double entendre! Even cooler! ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-i-just-got/642666/67 "2012-12-06T17:52:38Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Huh. I’ve heard “bender” as a drinking binge used quite commonly in my circles. I never thought of it as old-fashioned at all. I always figured a binge to be a short period of intense drinking, while a bender had to be for multiple days. That may be too fine a distinction, but it always had that connotation to me. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-i-just-got/642666/68 "2012-12-06T18:52:26Z")
I am embarassed to admit how many of these things I never got either. The Beatles, sure. But In-Sink-Erator? Bender? Think Geek’s tagline? Not a clue before reading this thread. An aside: Screw Kay Jewelers right to hell. The only more annoying jewelry tagline is “He went to Jared.” ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-i-just-got/642666/69 "2012-12-06T19:36:43Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > Just FYI, there’s no need to capitalize the _the_s in these sentences, even if it’s part of the proper name. It’s perfectly correct to refer to the Beatles, the Crickets, the English Beat, etc. That’s fine, but I prefer it the way I write it. Feels righter to me. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2012, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-i-just-got/642666/70 "2012-12-06T20:15:43Z")
And I think the Band Name ‘Rare Earth’ is a play on ‘Common Ground.’ ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-i-just-got/642666/71 "2012-12-07T00:39:02Z")
Well, today I wrote a parody of Country Joe and the Fish’s “Fixin-to-Die Rag” (“Well, it’s 1-2-3, What are we fightin’ for? / Don’t ask me I don’t give a damn. / Next stop is Vietnam …”) and only just consciously noticed that the count-up in the song goes from 1-2-3 to 5-6-7–in order to make “for” at the end of the last line a pun (and possibly get “eight” from “gate” later). ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-i-just-got/642666/72 "2012-12-07T02:01:31Z")
> [@cjepson](#): > > I always used to think that the Beat Generation was called that because of the beat of the music they listened to. I was kind of taken aback when I learned it [originally](beat generation wiki origin of name) meant “beaten down”. . . . OK. I had to look up Beat Generation and as I was reading the wiki article, I find this. > [@](#): > > The musical group Steely Dan is named after a steam-powered dildo in Burrough’s Naked Lunch. :eek: I so very much did not know that. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-i-just-got/642666/73 "2012-12-07T16:37:28Z")
> [@Sam\_A.Robrin](#): > > Well, today I wrote a parody of Country Joe and the Fish’s “Fixin-to-Die Rag” (“Well, it’s 1-2-3, What are we fightin’ for? / Don’t ask me I don’t give a damn. / Next stop is Vietnam …”) and only just consciously noticed that the count-up in the song goes from 1-2-3 to 5-6-7–in order to make “for” at the end of the last line a pun (and possibly get “eight” from “gate” later). Sometime recently I finally realized John Lennon’s cleverness in the song “Because”… inserting the phrases “the world turns” and “the wind blows” in verses 1 and 2 respectively. _Because THE WORLD is round it TURNS me on Because THE WIND is high it BLOWS my mind_ ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-i-just-got/642666/74 "2012-12-07T17:54:56Z")
> [@Bill\_Door](#): > > I always figured a binge to be a short period of intense drinking, while a bender had to be for multiple days. That may be too fine a distinction, but it always had that connotation to me. No, you’re right, a “bender” usually takes place at least over a weekend, maybe over a week. You don’t go on a one-night “bender.” (At least not the way I know the word.) ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-i-just-got/642666/75 "2012-12-07T17:56:44Z")
Last night I finally figured out that Flo Rida is a dude from Florida. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-i-just-got/642666/76 "2012-12-07T18:18:54Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > Last night I finally figured out that Flo Rida is a dude from Florida. And of course, a rapper calls his rap style his ‘flow’, and speaks of ‘riding’ the beat. So Flo Rida rides the flow. I hate Flo Rida with a passion. Not the person, I heard the person is cool. I hate his music. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-i-just-got/642666/77 "2012-12-07T18:47:03Z")
How are you guys with drag names? “Hi, I’m Miss Demeanor!” ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-i-just-got/642666/78 "2012-12-07T22:39:14Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > How are you guys with drag names? > > “Hi, I’m Miss Demeanor!” I like Sharon Needles. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2012, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-i-just-got/642666/79 "2012-12-07T23:30:19Z")
I’m a big fan of Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar novels, and have read through the entire series three or four times. I just found a FAQ page with questions for the author and she pointed out that Bard Stefan is Tylendel resurrected, and that Herald Myste is actually Mercedes Lackey (who I knew was called “Misty” by her friends). I honestly didn’t catch either of those two in any of the times I read through the series. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2012, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-i-just-got/642666/80 "2012-12-08T01:25:36Z")
> [@thirdwarning](#): > > Every Buss begins with B? No, but every buzz begins with “bee.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-i-just-got/642666.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-i-just-got/642666.md?page=5)