# Is this the real life? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 11, 2007, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-real-life/391778 "2007-02-11T23:16:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2007, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-real-life/391778/1 "2007-02-11T23:16:32Z")
Is this just fantasy? ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2007, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-real-life/391778/2 "2007-02-11T23:25:49Z")
He’s just a drunk boy, he needs our sympathy ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2007, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-real-life/391778/3 "2007-02-11T23:26:42Z")
Caught in a landslide. ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2007, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-real-life/391778/4 "2007-02-11T23:27:54Z")
No escape from reality. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2007, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-real-life/391778/5 "2007-02-11T23:29:54Z")
It has just occurred to me that this might cause me to face the ignominy of another “Some threads are just too trivial” closing, so, er, anyone watch the rugby? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2007, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-real-life/391778/6 "2007-02-11T23:38:45Z")
[QUOTE=jjimm] anyone watch the rugby? [/QUOTE] Is that the football game you guys play in your underwear instead of armour? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2007, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-real-life/391778/7 "2007-02-11T23:42:17Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] Is that the football game you guys play in your underwear instead of armour? 🙂 [/QUOTE] In a way: it’s a game played by men with odd shaped balls. ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-real-life/391778/8 "2007-02-12T00:47:01Z")
[QUOTE=jjimm] anyone watch the rugby? [/QUOTE] Bismillah, NO! Can’t understand a ball game where they deliberately design the ball so that it won’t roll. What’s the point of having a ball, then? ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-real-life/391778/9 "2007-02-12T00:47:41Z")
Any way the wind blows, doesn’t really matter… to me… ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-real-life/391778/10 "2007-02-12T00:50:38Z")
[QUOTE=Usram] Bismillah, NO! Can’t understand a ball game where they deliberately design the ball so that it won’t roll. What’s the point of having a ball, then? [/QUOTE] It makes sense when you learn the history of the game. At Rugby school they were playing soccer one day. A certain William Webb-Ellis got bored of just using his feet, so picked up the ball and ran it over the goal line, thus winning the match. After the game, on his way back to the changing room, he asked the referee what he should do with the ball. The ref told him. And that accounts for its shape. ---
**Author:** ![Ximenean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/aca169/32.png) [@Ximenean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ximenean)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-real-life/391778/11 "2007-02-12T00:58:24Z")
Hmm, they also say that Beelzebub has a devil for a sideboard, but I don’t believe that either ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-real-life/391778/12 "2007-02-12T01:12:11Z")
Scaramouche, Scaramouche - [rubbish Brand-like comedian] What’s **that** all about, eh?[/rubbish Brand-like comedian] _does Fandango_ ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-real-life/391778/13 "2007-02-12T01:16:59Z")
I have always wondered why Mr Mercury chose the French name of a creepy Commedia Del’Arte character to sing about. In fact, the entire Commedia tradition creeps me out (harlequins, pierrots, punch and judy et al). Which reminds me, I went to the home of the Grand Guignol in Lyon last year, and that creeped me out too. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-real-life/391778/14 "2007-02-12T01:38:40Z")
[QUOTE=jjimm] In fact, the entire Commedia tradition creeps me out (harlequins, pierrots, punch and judy et al). [/QUOTE] Me too. The whole clown thing (which I guess is derived) as well. ---
**Author:** ![Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/c4cdca/32.png) [@Quiddity\_Glomfuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quiddity_Glomfuster)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-real-life/391778/15 "2007-02-12T01:49:17Z")
Does anybody listen to that in their car and not do just a leetle bit of the Wayne’s World head bop? ---
**Author:** ![hocow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hocow/32/4112_2.png) [@hocow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hocow)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-real-life/391778/16 "2007-02-12T05:09:36Z")
[QUOTE=Quiddity Glomfuster] Does anybody listen to that in their car and not do just a leetle bit of the Wayne’s World head bop? [/QUOTE] I do a full blown re-enactment of that scene in my car. True story: I was in a car on the highway when this song came on the radio. We passed a car and I saw the entire family inside doing the same exact thing. It was surreal. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-real-life/391778/17 "2007-02-12T17:39:44Z")
It’s a fine line Are you real or not? By the light of day? ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-real-life/391778/18 "2007-02-12T17:58:50Z")
[QUOTE=Usram] Bismillah, NO! Can’t understand a ball game where they deliberately design the ball so that it won’t roll. What’s the point of having a ball, then? [/QUOTE] Tucks much more nicely under the arm that way. And flies better when kicked, as it has a smaller cross-sectional area to volume ratio than a round ball. ---
**Author:** ![unfinished\_symphony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d9b06d/32.png) [@unfinished\_symphony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unfinished_symphony)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-real-life/391778/19 "2007-02-12T18:15:02Z")
[QUOTE=Usram] Hmm, they also say that Beelzebub has a devil for a sideboard, but I don’t believe that either [/QUOTE] _sniggers_ and spare him his life from these pork sausages. btw when i see your name **jjimm** i picture a stutterer ---
**Author:** ![brewha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@brewha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brewha)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2007, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-real-life/391778/20 "2007-02-12T18:23:01Z")
Can we get this thread deleted? Or at least get the thread name changed? I can’t scroll by it without getting that damn song stuck in my head! Thunderbolt and Lighting! Veddy Veddy Frightning! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-this-the-real-life/391778.md?page=2)