# I Finally Saw Casablanca: Things People Are Incredulous Of **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 4, 2010, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664 "2010-01-04T19:34:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/41 "2010-01-05T00:48:53Z")
I never watched one minute of the OJ Simpson trial. Never read any articles about it, changed the channel when it came on the news, didn’t discuss it with anyone and actually went so far as to leave a room when some people thought it would be funny to talk about nothing but OJ (knowing that I wished to avoid it). ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/42 "2010-01-05T01:17:30Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > I’ve also never been to Disneyland/world or watched _American Idol._ > > And thanks to Dopers’ recommendations, I have bought \*Watership Down, \*but haven’t gotten around to reading it yet. Ditto on Disneyland/World and Idol. I also recommend you watch _Watership Down_, the film. It is one of the few movies which actually beautifully complement the book. Nice music as well. Q ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/43 "2010-01-05T01:17:42Z")
I’ve never had an illegal drug. I’ve never seen “Titanic” or “Gone With the Wind” or any number of classics. I’ve lived in LA all my life and have never surfed. I’ve lived in LA all my life and have never been shot at (yes, someone I once met in Hawaii was actually incredulous of this) I’ve never been to a Turkish prison. ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/44 "2010-01-05T01:32:37Z")
> [@Asimovian](#): > > I’ve never been to a Turkish prison. Do you like gladiator movies? ---
**Author:** ![Rack-a-Bones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rack-a-Bones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rack-a-Bones)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/45 "2010-01-05T01:50:15Z")
> [@delphica](#): > > Until last year, I never had an ATM card… This is the only one that has surprised me so far. I haven’t written a check in probably 4 years. That surprises some people. I’ve also never danced with the devil or snorted coke off a whore. ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/46 "2010-01-05T01:59:33Z")
Until quite recently I’d never seen any of the Godfather movies. And until I started grad school I’d never heard of Oasis. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/47 "2010-01-05T02:02:09Z")
> [@Valgard](#): > > I never watched one minute of the OJ Simpson trial. Never read any articles about it, changed the channel when it came on the news, didn’t discuss it with anyone and actually went so far as to leave a room when some people thought it would be funny to talk about nothing but OJ (knowing that I wished to avoid it). Sounds like you would have made a great juror. Q ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/48 "2010-01-05T02:04:13Z")
I live in A Winter Wonderland for 6 months out of the year and don’t skate, ski, snowshoe, cross-country ski, go sledding, or make snowmen. Shovelling the driveway and trying to keep the car from skidding off the road and landing upside down in a ditch are exercise enough, thank you. I don’t plan to do anything about it as each year I grow more resistant to setting foot outside. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/49 "2010-01-05T02:50:54Z")
I’ve never attacked ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion or watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate… Okay. I’ve never made biscuits, milked a cow, gigged frogs, played a fiddle, shot an animal, killed a snake, tasted buttermilk, or held legal residence outside of Tennessee. I am willing to do everything except kill an animal. I would kill a snake if I knew if was poisonous and I was going to be occupying the same space it was. I threw coathangers at a coiled and ready to strike copperhead one time. I would move to midcoast Maine at the drop of a hat. And I would be willing to try buttermilk if it had cornbread soaking it up. It’s just the way the glass looks after there has been buttermilk in it. I can’t make biscuits without an oven. Haven’t had one for ten or twelve years. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/50 "2010-01-05T04:11:02Z")
> [@melodyharmonius](#): > > Are there things that you haven’t done in your life that always seem to shock people? Do you plan on doing anything to change the situation? This is more common depending on location and age of the questioner, but some people are extremely surprised that I’ve never been drunk or used any drugs other than alcohol, tobacco and whatever-the-doctor-ordered. For some it has even been a revelation, as apparently I broke their notion that anybody who doesn’t get drunk as soon as the party starts can’t ever have fun or wit. One even thanked me for it! Many get angry, often I’m called a square or a liar. My brother once was extremely surprised that I’d only watched Willow once. Yes, it’s one of my favorite movies. But as I asked him, when and where would I have been able to re-watch it? When he was watching it with his dorm-mates, mine insisted on picking the 90210 reruns! Oh, and of course one of the downsides of moving often and across borders is the people who are surprised when you ask them how to do a common task. Yes, we do need to activate utilities and pay bills and go to the doctor and find rental apartments “back home” too. But amazingly enough, many of those common tasks are done differently in different countries. ---
**Author:** ![BrassyPhrase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/51 "2010-01-05T04:17:03Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > I’m a 64-year-old man who has never had sex with a woman. \ > And thanks to Dopers’ recommendations, I have bought \*Watership Down, \*but haven’t gotten around to reading it yet. The rest I get, but READ THAT BOOK! 🙂 Hug! ---
**Author:** ![BrassyPhrase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/52 "2010-01-05T04:31:00Z")
This story is on my SO. He has lived/worked in Singapore, India, China, Bahrain…on and on. He is a much more adventurous eater than I (but I’m learning!). Two nights ago, we’re talking about dinner. (I’d made soup that was in the fridge, but I wasn’t in the soup mood.) Me: I’ve been thinking about how I want fried clams. Him: \ Fried? clams? I don’t think I’ve ever had those! Me: 😕 Me: all the weird shit you have eaten and like, and you’ve never had fried clams? \ How do _you_ eat clams? Him: You know, with some soy type sauce… you dip the clams in them…Or clam chowder… Me:\ It’s fried clams tonight, then! I’m in Tx, so it’s just a chain fried food place, but dayum!! I did explain, as parents found out the hard way, that if you’re in Boston, you need to ask for clam strips not clams. (A bartender laughed her ass off at their eating ‘clam bellies’.) ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/53 "2010-01-05T05:16:39Z")
I’ve never seen Lost or Survivor or Mad Men or any of the CSI shows. Never watched any of the Godfather or Goodfellas movies. Or The Sound of Music, Gone with the Wind or LOTR movies. Never read Gone with the Wind, either, or any Ayn Rand or any Hitchhiker’s Guide to anything. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/54 "2010-01-05T07:47:19Z")
> [@Textual\_Intercourse](#): > > Incidentally, I’ve seen a video of it being done. I remember thinking that it was…impressive. > > And to stray even farther from the point, does your username have any relation to the O.S. Card books? Yes. That and my age. Or was my age. Originally I was going to change it every year on my birthday. I got around to it once, from EnderW23 to 24…and then stopped. So I guess the last change was 9 years ago yesterday. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/55 "2010-01-05T08:37:16Z")
> [@BrassyPhrase](#): > > I did explain, as parents found out the hard way, that if you’re in Boston, you need to ask for clam strips not clams. (A bartender laughed her ass off at their eating ‘clam bellies’.) _raises hand_ can someone please translate to International English? ETA: happy just-had-a-birthday, **Enderw33** ---
**Author:** ![melodyharmonius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/melodyharmonius/32/21310_2.png) [@melodyharmonius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melodyharmonius)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/56 "2010-01-05T14:59:20Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > _raises hand_ can someone please translate to International English? I’m not sure what the Texan (_wink_) means- but I’m from New England so I’ll give it a shot. For me, we ate clam bellies steamed - but the bellies always had to be washed and then soaked in clarified butter - because the bellies and necks of the clams might still have y’know, belly contents, inside. Clam strips are pre-cleaned and then battered and fried - so it’s a much more mainstream version. However, I will confess that a bucket of steamed clam bellies sounds awesome to me right now. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/57 "2010-01-05T15:06:07Z")
Ehm… what are “clam bellies” and “clam strips”? I just eat clams. The only parts of the clam I know are the shells, the foot, and the flesh. ---
**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:** [January 5, 2010, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/58 "2010-01-05T15:09:57Z")
I have never read a James Bond book or seen a James Bond movie. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/59 "2010-01-05T15:16:42Z")
I have never drunk a cup of coffee or tea. I have never read a Dr. Seuss book or seen _Sesame Street_. ---
**Author:** ![Textual\_Intercourse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Textual\_Intercourse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Textual_Intercourse)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2010, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/60 "2010-01-05T15:16:52Z")
> [@Enderw24](#): > > Yes. That and my age. Or was my age. Originally I was going to change it every year on my birthday. I got around to it once, from EnderW23 to 24…and then stopped. So I guess the last change was 9 years ago yesterday. Ahh. Happy Birthday then. And excellent name. The series is some of the best SF I’ve ever read. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664.md?page=4)