Obvious things about a creative work you realize after the millionth time (OPEN SPOILERS POSSIBLE)

If “how did that make you feel” is a great line, you must be spellbound by your local newscast.

It’s a good joke, that someone commiting such tortures would ask such a mundane question. But it is mundane. The bad guys in that movie are businesslike.

In Vonnegut’s “Cat’s Cradle”, the illegal religion to which everyone belongs has a tradition on which two people touch the bottoms of their feet together so that their souls can mingle. Years after reading that the first time and probably having read it a couple of times in between, I was telling a friend about the plot of the book and saying it out loud caused the peseta to fall. Souls=soles. D’uh.

Also, took me a couple of times through the Magic Christian (possibly my favorite movie, though it is not for everyone) to realize that Peter Sellers’ character was gay. Makes the opening scene a bit funnier, once you know that.

I have a smirking dragon shaped bong my mother gave me many years ago whose name is Yurasis. Few people figure that one out too! :wink:

“Your ass is dragon”?

“Your ass is draggin’.”

As in, “You’re not working fast enough/hard enough.”

Dragonass by Anne McCaffeine.

For a bong it could also be “your ass is grass”.

Your mother gave you a bong?

Maybe SmartAleq’s real name is Rae Dawn?

Yes she did, and no unfortunately it’s not. Just several generations of herbalists in my family… :innocent:

I’ve never heard that before. I just read the lyrics, and still think it’s a stretch. Did Van Morrison say that’s what it’s about?

I was in my 30s before I realized the the “F” in F-Troop might stand for a word they couldn’t say on TV.

“Indeed!”

“You were not put on this earth to ‘get it’ Mr Burton”

Why is everyone discussing the Winkies’ chant when the subject was supposed to be the flying monkies’ chant? Or did NetTrekker write the latter and mean the former?

I think nearly every 18 year old boy I’ve ever been around has made this tired joke. Usually while giggling girlishly.

And while *also *missing the line that was the *actually controversial *one when the song was released: “My, how you have grown.” Which could be a reference to pregnancy–a little bit hard to achieve through anal.

That’s okay. It was a couple of decades before it occurred to me that the “KRP” in “WKRP” might somehow not be meant to suggest “carp,” as Les said it did in one epsiode.

This despite having seen the episode in question when it first aired, and completely missing the import of the line “what else would it be?”

I always figured it was controversial because of the implication that she was quite young when they started makin’ love in the green grass, never looked at it that way. Interesting.

IIRC, I got that particular bit of info from my mother, that being her recollection of the attitudes about the song when it was released. “My mom says so!” isn’t much of a cite, but our family is known for being a bunch of crapheads* who tend to kill at games like Trivial Pursuit–especially Mom.

*A self-selected term meaning “people who remember a bunch of useless crap.”

It’s been awhile since I last saw the film, and I was thinking they were one and the same. If not, what does NetTrekker think the chant is, as I can find nothing about a “flying-monkey chant.”

I don’t know what the hell I was dreaming this morning, but I woke up thinking about the title of Dylan’s song Love Minus Zero/No Limit. I never noticed in all the decades this song has been around, and wiki doesn’t mention it either, that in tennis LOVE=ZERO.

Good one, Bobby.