I Finally Saw Casablanca: Things People Are Incredulous Of

You’ll love them if you like eating tasteless slime.

Grits are just a delivery system for butter, bacon, cheese and the like. I love them, but truthfully you’re not missing much.

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.

I’ve never seen more than five consecutive minutes of any James Bond movie.

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.

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’.

I had never even heard of J.D. Salinger or The Catcher in the Rye until my freshman year of college. Pathetic!

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.

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:

Sorta like oatmeal with a drawl.

You’re in for a treat. (The hangover that is)

Fair enough.

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.

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.

I’ve never read Catcher.

Odd, due to my childhood/teen angst/alienation.

Shakespeare has the same problem, I’ve noticed…

I don’t Tweet.
I have no texting plan.
I have never seen a single frame of The Sopranos.