Just one of those things that the SDMB is good for?

[Zeldar]

With due credit to…

Because the Straight Dope tells me so - things learned from the Dope.

Because the Straight Dope tells me so - things learned from the Dope.
05-31-2011, 09:28 AM
don’t ask
Yesterday 10:58 PM
by Spoons
61 3,152
Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share (MPSIMS)

…for a similar idea, and to…

Stupid Corporate Buzzword - 'Learnings'

Stupid Corporate Buzzword - ‘Learnings’
06-09-2011, 05:06 PM
Chen019
Today 08:42 AM
by newcomer
39 753
Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share (MPSIMS)

…for being the immediate source for the theme of this thread with this post…

@Zeldar

[Quote=Zeldar]

[Quote=Kobal2]

It doesn’t mean anything. That’s the beauty of it.

I just hope I can remember this post the next time the issue of who said this in what movie comes up!
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This bugged me enough that I went searching for…

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/...d.php?t=413962
Mystery quote: ‘‘It doesn’t do anything. That’s the beauty of it.’’
03-25-2007, 08:19 PM
Earl Snake-Hips Tucker
08-10-2007 11:58 AM
by toadspittle
88 5,435 Cafe Society

…and I’m going to start a new thread for discussion of the linked thread and others like it that tend to hang around in our memories long after the last post has gone up.

Join me? (I’ll come back with a link to the new thread once it’s up).
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…I’d like to continue discussion of the thread that Earl Snake-Hips Tucker started back in 2007 (as opposed to tacking on to what might be deemed a zombie) but also to provide a space for observations of this same sort that you may have been provoked to share (but didn’t) at some point in the past.

In that old thread (in this post) I said

@Zeldar

I have tried in vain to locate at least one of the old threads where this phrase was batted around. My vanity search only goes back to March 2006, so (unless I didn’t post it it) they must be older than that. I was hoping to compare the comments there with the facts and see whose guess was closest.

I nominate Earl Snake-Hips Tucker for a place in the SDMB Hall of Fame for helping to fight ignorance in stellar fashion.

There’s a recent thread about how to become an “internet legend.” I think this find is an honorable way to do that very thing.

Congratulations to Earl Snake-Hips Tucker!

…and (in this post) I said

@Zeldar

Just to summarize what I’m taking from this thread and Earl Snake-Hips Tucker’s amazing find, I’m almost positive I never saw the episode in the clip. I may have seen an episode of Burke’s Law (and thus maybe this episode) but I am as nearly certain that I saw or heard this bit elsewhere.

I’m led to conclude that wherever the bit originated, and I can accept that it may not be the one Earl Snake-Hips Tucker has located, it most likely has been reused any number of times in any number of settings. The specifics of where each of us who remember it actually saw or heard it can vary – and obviously do – but the fact that none of us, until now, could find the instance we saw or heard, just goes to indicate how trivial it would have been at the time we first encountered it and thus how weak the memory of it has been.

Knowing that this one case exists just goes to prove we weren’t dreaming, and that we can trust our memories to some extent. That’s the lesson that matters to me.

Who else has memories of that old topic?

What other topics like this have hung around in your own memory?

What other noteworthy items can you present that SDMB is a cool place to bat around weird ideas?

[Zeldar]

There’s a bad link to the old thread in there. It ought to be:

Mystery quote: ''It doesn't do anything. That's the beauty of it.''

[Zeldar]

And just in case some of you engage in vanity searches, here’s the crowd from that old thread:

Who Posted?
Total Posts: 89
User Name Posts

Earl Snake-Hips Tucker 8
samclem 7
CC 5
Czarcasm 5
Dewey Finn 4
BlueSilver 3
Dijon Warlock 3
NoClueBoy 3
CandidGamera 3
Cervaise 3
Colophon 3
Ghanima 3
tanstaafl 2
Zeldar 2
Wee Bairn 2
The Hamster King 2
FriarTed 2
Scruloose 2
Pushkin 1
Number 1
Anastasaeon 1
Derleth 1
GIGObuster 1
Sean Factotum 1
panamajack 1
Mangetout 1
Duke of Rat 1
Elendil’s Heir 1
DSYoungEsq 1
gigi 1
Fern Forest 1
Achren 1
Sage Rat 1
Ranchoth 1
neutron star 1
Sir Rhosis 1
Autolycus 1
Oslo Ostragoth 1
Chronos 1
toadspittle 1
garygnu 1
ExTank 1
Evil Captor 1
Darkhold 1
Baine 1