# 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:** 18\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/121 "2010-01-12T15:19:27Z")
You’ll love them if you like eating tasteless slime. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2010, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/122 "2010-01-12T15:48:36Z")
Grits are just a delivery system for butter, bacon, cheese and the like. I love them, but truthfully you’re not missing much. ---
**Author:** ![Neptunian\_Slug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce7236/32.png) [@Neptunian\_Slug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neptunian_Slug)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/123 "2010-01-14T05:19:33Z")
I have never seen Animal House or Caddyshack. I have never spoken with anyone I went to high school with since the last day of school. I have never eaten a tomato. People here in Philadelphia are surprised that I have never been to the Jersey Shore. I tell them I have been to A.C. many times, but apparently that doesn’t count. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Il_Palazzo)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/124 "2010-01-14T05:24:17Z")
I’ve never seen more than five consecutive minutes of any James Bond movie. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/125 "2010-01-14T06:04:01Z")
I never watched a full episode of _Seinfeld_ or _Friends_. Surprises people because I’m a big movie and tv fan. I’m just not into shows about self-absorbed people. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/126 "2010-01-14T06:31:53Z")
> [@Barking\_Dog](#): > > And count me in for never seeing It’s a Wonderful Life, or any reality show you can name. Ditto I’m a voracious reader, and, after watching the newest Sherlock movie in the theater, I realized I’d never actually read any Sherlock Holmes stories. I devoured Agatha Christie in Jr High and I think I just got tired of mysteries. But come on; Holmes is classic, right? So I am now reading a compendium of Holmes stories, though in true Tao fashion, I managed to pick up the SECOND volume, so all of these stories are from after he ‘died’. ---
**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 14, 2010, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/127 "2010-01-14T07:15:15Z")
I had never even heard of J.D. Salinger or The Catcher in the Rye until my freshman year of college. Pathetic! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/128 "2010-01-14T17:24:51Z")
> [@Neptunian\_Slug](#): > > I have never eaten a tomato. Wow. Is that by design or by happenstance? I assume you’ve eaten tomato products, right? _boggled_ ---
**Author:** ![Neptunian\_Slug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce7236/32.png) [@Neptunian\_Slug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neptunian_Slug)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/129 "2010-01-14T17:42:37Z")
> [@The\_Weird\_One](#): > > Wow. Is that by design or by happenstance? I assume you’ve eaten tomato products, right? _boggled_ I have eaten tomato products, like spaghetti sauce or ketchup. Mom fed me a fresh tomato once or tried at least. It got spit out because it tasted like shit, and I have never had the desire to give it another shot. I don’t care how good you think they are, but they ain’t. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/130 "2010-01-14T17:43:41Z")
Popped my cherry yesterday - my American Idol cherry that is! My daughter will be heading back to college this weekend, and we were just hanging out when she said she wanted to watch AI. She was incredulous that i had never seen a second of it. When it came on she couldn’t believe that I had never heard the theme song. Apparently I kept asking really stupid questions along the lines of “who’s that?” and “why are they doing that?” which ANYONE would know. Uh - can’t say I’m going to be checking back in anytime soon. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/131 "2010-01-14T18:17:09Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Grits are just a delivery system for butter, bacon, cheese and the like. I love them, but truthfully you’re not missing much. Sorta like oatmeal with a drawl. ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/132 "2010-01-14T19:34:22Z")
> [@Barking\_Dog](#): > > I’ve never been hungover. I’ve been fall-down piss stinking drunk (not proud of it, but it’s happened) but never hungover. > > And count me in for never seeing It’s a Wonderful Life, or any reality show you can name. You’re in for a treat. (The hangover that is) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/133 "2010-01-14T19:41:13Z")
> [@Neptunian\_Slug](#): > > I have eaten tomato products, like spaghetti sauce or ketchup. > > Mom fed me a fresh tomato once or tried at least. It got spit out because it tasted like shit, and I have never had the desire to give it another shot. I don’t care how good you think they are, but they ain’t. Fair enough. ---
**Author:** ![Haunted\_Pasta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/94ad74/32.png) [@Haunted\_Pasta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Haunted_Pasta)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/134 "2010-01-14T20:50:07Z")
Lots of things already mentioned, including never been drunk, never seen _The Godfather_ or _Apocalypse Now_, never been skiing, and never watched any of a reality show. Actually, the last time I made a point of regularly watching any show was a couple of seasons of Seinfeld circa 1993-1994, so the odds are good that I’ve never seen a moment of any regular TV series you can name that’s been put out since then. Not quite as significant, but I’ve never eaten at Sonic, despite eating plenty of fast food over the years and it being common where I live. For a long time my avoidance has been due to fear of embarrassment, because I honestly don’t know whether they have tables inside or if it’s all just drive-in. Drive-in has NO appeal for me at all- I damn sure don’t want to sit and eat in my car instead of sitting at a table. But, I don’t want to go inside to order at the counter and find myself walking into the kitchen or something and look like the idiot who didn’t know that Sonic had only drive-in and drive-thru service. Which is exactly what I am, I just don’t want to LOOK like it. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/135 "2010-01-14T21:12:15Z")
Never tweeted, used an emoticon, and have only texted twice in my life. Never seen _American Idol_ or _Survivor_, and have never seen _Casablanca_ all the way through. A tangent about classic films - I did see _The Maltese Falcon_, and I thought it was the most cliched, hackneyed pastiche of film noir detective movies I had ever seen. Then it occurred to me that it was cliched precisely because it had _established_ all those hardboiled private eye film cliches. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/136 "2010-01-14T22:49:20Z")
> [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](#): > > I had never even heard of J.D. Salinger or The Catcher in the Rye until my freshman year of college. Pathetic! I’ve never read _Catcher_. Odd, due to my childhood/teen angst/alienation. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/137 "2010-01-16T00:31:29Z")
> [@slowmovingvehicle](#): > > Never tweeted, used an emoticon, and have only texted twice in my life. Never seen _American Idol_ or _Survivor_, and have never seen _Casablanca_ all the way through. > > A tangent about classic films - I did see _The Maltese Falcon_, and I thought it was the most cliched, hackneyed pastiche of film noir detective movies I had ever seen. Then it occurred to me that it was cliched precisely because it had _established_ all those hardboiled private eye film cliches. Shakespeare has the same problem, I’ve noticed… ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2010, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664/138 "2010-01-16T00:35:41Z")
I don’t Tweet. I have no texting plan. I have never seen a single frame of **The Sopranos**. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-saw-casablanca-things-people-are-incredulous-of/523664.md?page=6)