# Oh, I get it! The forehead smacking thread. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 21, 2001, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809 "2001-04-21T21:54:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lucki\_Chaarms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lucki\_Chaarms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucki_Chaarms)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2001, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/1 "2001-04-21T21:54:15Z")
The other day I was apparently struck down by stupid demons and decided to rent a copy of Blair Witch 2. I watched it, and then back on the DVD menu I clicked “The Secret Of Esrever” It goes on all about how when you watch the movie backwards you can see certain images or something. I didn’t likee the movie enough to bother with it, but I did wonder what the hell “The Secret Of Esrever” might be, especially since no place, person, force, etc. named Esrever was mentioned. Today I got it. Esrever is “Reverse” backwards!!! ::SMACK:: Another good one, one time when my Mom was like 10 she was riding in a car with her older sister (my aunt). Out of the blue, my aunt says out loud “Oh, I get it… the Flintstones are cave people!” Wow. MarxBoy ---
**Author:** ![moronmountain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@moronmountain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moronmountain)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2001, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/2 "2001-04-21T22:22:18Z")
My Grandma wanted to buy a **Game** -boy for my little cousin’s birthbay, but she remembered the name incorrectly and went to two stores to try to buy a **Play** boy for him instead. And she never realized until one clerk died laughing and explained that she must have meant Game-boy. ::SMACK:: ---
**Author:** ![moronmountain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@moronmountain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moronmountain)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2001, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/3 "2001-04-21T22:24:10Z")
That, and no one seems to get the joke: A cowboy walked into a bar. CLUNK. unless I explain it to them. Why? Are people really that stupid that they don’t know the alternate meanings of the word “bar”? That joke is funny every time I hear it…and explaining it ruins the fun. You guys get it, right? ---
**Author:** ![soulmurk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@soulmurk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulmurk)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2001, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/4 "2001-04-21T22:26:13Z")
I’ve been listening to Metallica’s **Disposable Heroes** since the album came out in 1986, and I’ve only just recently divined the meaning of the song 😛 ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2001, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/5 "2001-04-21T22:36:12Z")
when I was a little kid (about 8) I came across a stack of _Playboy_ mags in our basement. I looked through them and read the cartoons and jokes, many of which made no sense to me. One in particular, I remembered. Several years later, for some unknown reason, I recalled that cartoon and suddenly got it. Two people by a water cooler in an office, man and busty woman. Busty woman has tight sweater dress on with her name “Jane” on top left breast. Man says “cute, what do you call the other one”. Ok, so it wasn’t funny. ---
**Author:** ![Nacho4Sara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Nacho4Sara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nacho4Sara)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2001, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/6 "2001-04-21T22:55:25Z")
I’ve been a huge Bruce Springsteen fan for as long as I can remember. His “Born in the USA” cassette tape sat side-by-side with Cyndi Lauper, Cheap Trick and Richard Marx for most of my early childhood. My favorite songs were always “I’m On Fire” and “Dancing in the Dark.” I’ve known all the words to “Dancing in the Dark” since I was 5. I used to perform it for my family at parties. So last April, I was making out with my then-boyfriend to that CD. “Dancing in the Dark” came on, and I sat up, shrieked, and yelled, “Oh my God! This song is about _SEX_!!!” I felt so dumb for that, but the lyrics were just part of my memory, and I never bothered to analyze them from an adult viewpoint. Definitely a head-slapping moment. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2001, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/7 "2001-04-21T23:50:08Z")
Hey **Nachos** , I had the same experience with Van Morrison’s Moondance. It must be that dance metaphor. ---
**Author:** ![RocknRoll\_Killing\_Machine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5daacb/32.png) [@RocknRoll\_Killing\_Machine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RocknRoll_Killing_Machine)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2001, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/8 "2001-04-22T00:09:23Z")
I knew that a Ian Mackaye was in Minor Threat, and a Ian Mackaye was in Fugazi, but some mental block prevented me from realizing that they were the same person. ---
**Author:** ![Lucki\_Chaarms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lucki\_Chaarms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucki_Chaarms)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2001, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/9 "2001-04-22T01:27:15Z")
It was not until last year that I made the Eric Clapton - Cream connection. Come to think of it, it wasn’t until last year that I made the Ozzy Osbourne - Black Sabbath connection. ::SMACK:: MarxBoy ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2001, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/10 "2001-04-22T01:56:55Z")
I listened to the Offspring song “I Want You Bad” at least fifteen times before I got the point of it. (Bad’s not an adverb applied to want, it’s an adjective applied to you.) ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2001, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/11 "2001-04-22T02:08:30Z")
When I was little, I heard the following joke: Q: How do you get down from an elephant? A: You don’t get down from an elephant, you get down from a duck. I just did not get it, even after my mom explained it to me several times. I was still thinking, “But how do you get down from the elephant?” Dumb kid. Many years later I was in high school, must have been 11th or 12th grade, and as I grabbed my oh-so-fashionable down vest one morning, it suddenly struck me…down vest, down feathers, oooh, I get it, you don’t get down from an elephant, you get down from a duck, Oooooooooooh, okay! Duh! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2001, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/12 "2001-04-22T02:08:41Z")
Speaking of Eric Clapton: It took me years to realize that they were TWO people singing “Sunshine of Your Love”. ---
**Author:** ![bafaa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@bafaa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bafaa)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2001, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/13 "2001-04-22T02:34:32Z")
Why did the snowman pull down his pants? Because he heard the snowblower was coming. I first heard that joke when I was in the 6th or 7th grade. I didn’t get it and just forgot about it. I heard it again many years later and finally got it. ---
**Author:** ![Lyllyan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@Lyllyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lyllyan)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2001, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/14 "2001-04-22T03:41:22Z")
My daughter, who is 15, did this recently. As a toddler on up to the age of about eight, she watched Winnie the Pooh every single day. In one particular video, Piglet extolls the virtues of his home, and the fact that his dad’s name was on a sign out front. “Trespassers Will” was the dad’s name. Get it? ---
**Author:** ![oldscratch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@oldscratch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oldscratch)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2001, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/15 "2001-04-22T03:49:45Z")
no **Lyllyan** I don’t get it. explain please. ---
**Author:** ![Totoro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Totoro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Totoro)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2001, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/16 "2001-04-22T04:39:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RocknRoll Killing Machine \* > \*\*I knew that a Ian Mackaye was in Minor Threat, and a Ian Mackaye was in Fugazi, but some mental block prevented me from realizing that they were the same person. \*\* Hey, one of my best friends cousins in Ian Mackaye. He gets into all their shows and stuff for free. And I did the forehead smacking thing with **Sue Duhnym**. It took me like 4 months of posting to realize what her name meant… FOOL! ---
**Author:** ![Totoro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Totoro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Totoro)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2001, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/17 "2001-04-22T04:40:30Z")
I mean “cousins **IS** Ian Mackaye…” Damn you, me! ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2001, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/18 "2001-04-22T04:45:56Z")
I was in my twenties before I realized the lead singer from Rush was a guy. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2001, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/19 "2001-04-22T05:13:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by moronmountain \* > That, and no one seems to get the joke: > > A cowboy walked into a bar. CLUNK. Don’t worry, I get it–although I find it sufficiently amusing using the obvious definition of “bar”. The subsequent explanation to the sheriff that it just came up out of nowhere and _hit_ him is an even better image. **Kinsey** (didn’t I see you in the [last \ thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=57253)?), don’t feel bad about the “down” joke–I’ve drawn more blank looks with related remarks over the years than I have with explanations of quantum physics. I’m not sure _anyone_ gets this one immediately (I don’t remember the first time I encountered it–I may or may not have gotten it). It took my niece, blazingly intelligent girl and punster though she is, several years from the first hearing to the penny drop. **Totoro** , several people in the thread I linked were slapping themselves over **Sue Duhnym**. I’m patiently waiting for someone to mention that they didn’t “get” **Tequila Mockingbird** ’s handle at first. I actually served a Tequila Mockingbird once in college–you put a little birdseed in a shot glass, pour tequila over it, and wait for a sucker to ask the question. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dark\_Lord\_Davidson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bc8723/32.png) [@Dark\_Lord\_Davidson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Lord_Davidson)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2001, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/20 "2001-04-22T05:47:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Balance \* > \*\*I’m patiently waiting for someone to mention that they didn’t “get” **Tequila Mockingbird** ’s handle at first. I actually served a Tequila Mockingbird once in college–you put a little birdseed in a shot glass, pour tequila over it, and wait for a sucker to ask the question. 😃 \*\* Oh. My. God. Tequila Mockingbird = To Kill a Mockingbird! _wham forehead_ Boy, is my face red. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809.md?page=2)