# Jokes (and other things) that you didn't get until much, much later. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 5, 2004, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-and-other-things-that-you-didnt-get-until-much-much-later/248815 "2004-06-05T15:36:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2004, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-and-other-things-that-you-didnt-get-until-much-much-later/248815/61 "2004-06-08T05:16:50Z")
When I was in high school, a girl told me about an exchange she had with her father when she was about five years old: “Dad, what’s a tuba?” “The square root of a fourba.” Then one day, in a fourth-grade math lesson, she had to burst out laughing. ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2004, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-and-other-things-that-you-didnt-get-until-much-much-later/248815/62 "2004-06-08T05:56:59Z")
> [@vertizontal](#): > > For years I read the comic strip **“The Lockhorns”** before it occurred to me that the married couple constantly “lock horns” over something. … :smack: ---
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2004, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-and-other-things-that-you-didnt-get-until-much-much-later/248815/63 "2004-06-08T14:24:53Z")
The jingle for Kay Jewelers goes “Every Kiss begins with Kay.” I thought is was just your average lame slogan meaning you need to buy someone diamonds to get them to kiss you. One day it finally dawned on me and I yelled out: OH! every Kiss begins with ‘K’ !! Unfortunately, I was in the MIDDLE of a kiss at the time, and GonzoGal won’t let me forget it… :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Ashes\_Ashes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Ashes\_Ashes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashes_Ashes)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2004, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-and-other-things-that-you-didnt-get-until-much-much-later/248815/64 "2004-06-08T21:29:23Z")
Circle K, the convinience store chain; it’s name means ‘okay.’ I will not tell you how I was before I finally thought to question why a store would be named something as odd as Circle K. ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2004, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-and-other-things-that-you-didnt-get-until-much-much-later/248815/65 "2004-06-09T00:33:43Z")
I just recently made the connection between the comic strip character Sally Forth and the idiomatic expression of the same name. In a different vein, I was born in a small gold mining town in the Sierra Nevada mountains. (No, really.) My dad owned a restaurant/bar for part of the time we were there, and it was called The Ore House. I didn’t get the double meaning there until my early twenties. ---
**Author:** ![Bob\_Scene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Bob\_Scene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob_Scene)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2004, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-and-other-things-that-you-didnt-get-until-much-much-later/248815/66 "2004-06-09T00:36:58Z")
It was several years after I first saw the “Flaming Homer” episode of the Simpsons before I realized that “Flaming Homer” and “Flaming Moe” are both supposed to sound like “Flaming Homo.” Now I can only sit around and wonder what else those sneaky Simpsons writers have slipped past me. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Asbestos\_Mango](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@The\_Asbestos\_Mango](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Asbestos_Mango)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2004, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-and-other-things-that-you-didnt-get-until-much-much-later/248815/67 "2004-06-09T00:48:58Z")
Well, let’s see. I had owned, and frequently listned to, Deep Purple’s _Perfect Strangers_ album for about three years when, one day, in the middle of the song “Knocking at Your Back Door”, I heard the line… “So we put her on the hit list/ of a common, cunning linguist/ a master of many tongues” and realized it was a reference to ORAL SEX!!! Also, I saw the first Batman movie about three years before I saw _Enter the Dragon_ for the first time, so when I was watching Bruce Lee’s nunchucka-fu with the bad guys deciding they don’t want to mess with this guy and running away, I was reminded of the opening scene of _Batman_. Then I remembered that _Enter the Dragon_ had been made first… ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2004, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-and-other-things-that-you-didnt-get-until-much-much-later/248815/68 "2004-06-09T03:50:07Z")
> [@](#): > > The “Eat Me” cake parade float from Animal House. When I was a kid, and to be honest, even a teenager, that was just about cake (and not so funny, either). This is also a reference to Alice in Wonderland. At one point there’s a bottle of liquid that reads, “Drink Me” and a cake that reads, “Eat Me”. One made her big, the other small (I think). On the jewish thing (something I hadn’t a clue about until much later) after seeing The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine countless times on TV since the 70s, only last year did it suddenly occurred to me what the, **“Are you blue-ish? You don’t look blue-ish”** line meant… ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2004, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-and-other-things-that-you-didnt-get-until-much-much-later/248815/69 "2004-06-09T07:30:49Z")
> [@Hail Ants](#): > > “Are you blue-ish? You don’t look blue-ish”[/color]\*\* line meant… Mel Brooks did something similar in _Spaceballs_. The lead character, Lonestar, has just rescued the Princess of the planet Druid, and she is in the back of his spaceship loudly complaining about the accomodations. Lonestar says to his partner (whose name I forget - played by John Candy), “Oh great! I’m stuck with a Druish Princess!” His partner replies, “Funny, she doesn’t look Druish…” ---
**Author:** ![AzRaek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/azraek/32/16739_2.png) [@AzRaek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AzRaek)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2004, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-and-other-things-that-you-didnt-get-until-much-much-later/248815/70 "2004-06-09T07:42:21Z")
Id heard some joke when I was very young where a lady called her boyfriend Drambuie, because hes a fancy liquor. I finally got it about a year ago, working in a liquor store. ---
**Author:** ![PookahMacPhellimey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pookahmacphellimey/32/3175_2.png) [@PookahMacPhellimey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PookahMacPhellimey)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2004, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-and-other-things-that-you-didnt-get-until-much-much-later/248815/71 "2004-06-09T07:58:36Z")
> [@Ichbin Dubist](#): > > The old Bugs Bunny cartoons are full of references to contemporary (I assume Warner Brothers) movies that I didn’t get when I was a kid. A standout for me is a joke on “The Lost Weekend” – a drunk is sitting at a bar, pushing his typewriter towards the bartender, who says “Here’s your change, Mr. Milland” and gives him a bunch of little typewriters in return. (Ray Milland played an alcoholic writer who was always hocking his typeweriter for booze money.) > > And, um, this is my first post after 2 years of noble silence. You broke your silence just to post that? Class. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2004, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-and-other-things-that-you-didnt-get-until-much-much-later/248815/72 "2004-06-09T08:10:18Z")
> [@xvxdarkknightxvx](#): > > When I first read the joke, the only interpretation I could think of was that the one guy was so above Superman that he used him as a cigarette lighter. I don’t think I’d ever get the true meaning on my own. “Match” is never used in that context where I’m from. Really? People in your area never say stuff like “Wally the Weakling is no match for Superman”? Because that’s exactly the context and meaning in which it’s used in that joke… ---
**Author:** ![RobuSensei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/919ad9/32.png) [@RobuSensei](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobuSensei)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2004, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-and-other-things-that-you-didnt-get-until-much-much-later/248815/73 "2004-06-09T10:19:19Z")
I suppose this would fall in the “and other things” category referenced in the thread title… While I was a sophomore in high school, I was fairly good friends with a girl who was reputed to be the class slut. (Turns out there were multiple claimants for that one.) Anyway, one day, she turned to me after class and asked me, "Is the second date too soon to have sex with someone?) I must’ve mumbled something nonsensical in reply. However, _five years later,_ I suddenly realized what the response _should_ have been: “I dunno; go out with me a couple of times, and I’ll tell you.” I did get the chance to tell her this, a couple of years after I thought of it. She was quite amused. (whew!) ---
**Author:** ![williamweigand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b3f665/32.png) [@williamweigand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/williamweigand)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2004, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-and-other-things-that-you-didnt-get-until-much-much-later/248815/74 "2004-06-09T13:20:15Z")
> [@pesch](#): > > How about the magic spell Bullwinkle casts? > > _Eeney meaney, > Chili beaney, > the spirits are about to speak!_ Actually , I remember this as : Eeby Deeby, Chili beaney The **Masters** are about to speak! And it took me a long time to realize , since this exchange between B & R was always before a commercial break , that the Masters were their advertisers! (Please correct me if I’m mistaken about any of this.) ---
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2004, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-and-other-things-that-you-didnt-get-until-much-much-later/248815/75 "2004-06-09T14:33:48Z")
> [@Phase42](#): > > Mel Brooks did something similar in _Spaceballs_. The lead character, Lonestar, has just rescued the Princess of the planet Druid, [nitpick] That’s planet Druidia. [/nitpick] off to hang my head in shame… ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2004, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-and-other-things-that-you-didnt-get-until-much-much-later/248815/76 "2004-06-09T15:04:31Z")
It was well after I first read Alan Moore’s **Watchmen** that i realized that the character Rorschasch literally saw everything in Black and White, and that his mask (with its symmetrical pattrns in black and white fluid that never mixed to form gray) was symbolic of this. > [@](#): > > Actually , I remember this as : > > Eeby Deeby, > Chili beaney > The Masters are about to speak! > > And it took me a long time to realize , since this exchange between B & R was always before a commercial break , that the Masters were their advertisers! > > (Please correct me if I’m mistaken about any of this.) Sorry, but “Spirits” is correct. And it _is_ “Eeny Meanie”. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2004, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-and-other-things-that-you-didnt-get-until-much-much-later/248815/77 "2004-06-09T15:08:16Z")
from Come Together: > [@](#): > > Got to be a joker, he just do what he please For the longest time, I thought that line simply meant that jokey-type people are less inhibited, and thus do what they please. About a year ago I realized there’s also the implication that, just as the joker in a pack of cards can be any card, the person in question can do what he please. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2004, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-and-other-things-that-you-didnt-get-until-much-much-later/248815/78 "2004-06-09T15:51:43Z")
I remember back in grade school reading class we were doing the “read a paragraph outloud” rounds. I came across the word hors d’oeuvres and without batting an eye read it as “whores-dee-oh-vores”. The teacher laughed and said “or-derves”. I had no idea what she was talking about or what she was refering to. I looked at my other classmates and they shrugged and gave me puzzled looks as well. I just thought “that was weird” and kept on reading. ---
**Author:** ![Eman\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Eman\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eman_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2004, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-and-other-things-that-you-didnt-get-until-much-much-later/248815/79 "2004-06-09T16:25:33Z")
I LOVE **Life of Brian** … For the longest time, I thought it was “Incontinentia Bucket”. Which made no sense. Then I got the DVD, put on the captions, and it was “Incontinentia Buttocks”. Which I still didn’t get. Until a few months ago,and I now feel like a total doofus for not getting it in the first place. Biggus Dickus I get, though… ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2004, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-and-other-things-that-you-didnt-get-until-much-much-later/248815/80 "2004-06-09T16:35:20Z")
> [@Ellen Cherry](#): > > Or am _I_ not getting something? (Which is certainly possible. I didn’t get the “squash it” joke.) Well, it works better as a verbal joke. Try saying it put loud instead of reading it. DD [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-and-other-things-that-you-didnt-get-until-much-much-later/248815.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jokes-and-other-things-that-you-didnt-get-until-much-much-later/248815.md?page=5)