# Jules Verne--Good Golly!  What brilliance!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jules-verne-good-golly-what-brilliance/269435>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 15, 2004, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jules-verne-good-golly-what-brilliance/269435 "2004-10-15T19:35:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jules-verne-good-golly-what-brilliance/269435/21 "2004-10-18T01:49:11Z")

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> [@Cisco](#):
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> Oh no you don’t. You were caught! Ha! I keep a list of people who thought Onion articles were real and laugh myself to sleep at night while reading it :D.

Always glad to provide a laugh but…  
Will no one here vouch for me? :eek: :eek: I’m as silly as they get because of the Onion!

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**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jules-verne-good-golly-what-brilliance/269435/22 "2004-10-18T03:18:14Z")

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> [@Cisco](#):
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> By the way, what’s an el train? I always thought people were saying L train, as in “I didn’t want to walk all the way to the M train.”

No, no! Yo have to _Take the A Train_!

Sorry, **Nightwatch Trailer**. I couldn’t resist.

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**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jules-verne-good-golly-what-brilliance/269435/23 "2004-10-18T05:02:24Z")

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> [@Inigo Montoya](#):
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> Always glad to provide a laugh but…  
> Will no one here vouch for me? :eek: :eek: I’m as silly as they get because of the Onion!

I’m just ripping on you man. It’s cool ;).

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**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jules-verne-good-golly-what-brilliance/269435/24 "2004-10-18T13:53:26Z")

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> [@Chronos](#):
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> Then you also have all the things he predicted which have not come to pass, like the multi-purpose appliance, which serves as a piano, a living room set, a commode, and a kitchen.

What are you talking about? I thought everybody had one of those …

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