# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![LoverBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@LoverBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LoverBoy)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2001, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/21 "2001-04-22T05:58:10Z")
I don’t get Sue Dunhym’s name. OR Disposable Heroes. And I’m a Metallica fan. I like that song. Help :\ ---
**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, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/22 "2001-04-22T06:02:10Z")
**DLD** , you’ve just joined a vast legion of red-faced, concussed individuals. Probably only prior exposure to the drink joke enabled me to catch it on sight. I was nearly the sucker the first time I saw it played…there but for the grace of apathy go I… Sorry. I’m one of those annoying people who wasn’t surprised at the end of “Sixth Sense”. ---
**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, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/23 "2001-04-22T06:07:10Z")
**LoverBoy** , **Sue Dunhym** =“pseudonym”=“false name or alias”. Can’t help you on “Heroes”–I’m not much of a Metallica fan, so I don’t know the song. ---
**Author:** ![JamesCarroll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@JamesCarroll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JamesCarroll)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2001, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/24 "2001-04-22T06:20:04Z")
“'cuse me while I kiss this guy” Hey, if Jimi Hendrix can do it, why can’t I? ---
**Author:** ![soulmurk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@soulmurk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulmurk)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2001, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/25 "2001-04-22T06:22:25Z")
> [@](#): > > I don’t get Sue Dunhym’s name. OR Disposable Heroes. And I’m a Metallica fan. I like that song. Help Sue Dunhym = Pseudonym = a ficticious name As for Disposable Heroes, for fear of being incorrect and mocked because of it, I’ll keep that to myself 🙂 Listen to the lyrics and imagine the narrators world. ---
**Author:** ![Bboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@Bboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bboy)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2001, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/26 "2001-04-22T07:41:27Z")
When I was a little kid (way back) my older brother told me the joke about how to catch a seal: [list=1][li]cut a hole in the ice[_]place peas all around the hole[_]when a seal comes along and bends over to take a pea :: pause for effect::[/li]You kick him in the icehole. ::rimshot::[/list=1] Of course, ‘bends-over-to-take-a-pee’ humor is tailor-made for gradeschoolers, but the second part totally blew by me. I always wondered, “How can you catch him if you kick him into the ocean ?!” Then years later, when retelling it, I suddenly got it “ICEHOLE” :::eyesclosed-headslap::: ---
**Author:** ![Borborygmi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/borborygmi/32/217_2.png) [@Borborygmi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Borborygmi)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2001, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/27 "2001-04-22T15:51:06Z")
Arby’s. Roast Beef. RB’s. ohhhhh… ---
**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, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/28 "2001-04-22T16:27:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Borborygmi \* > \*\*Arby’s. Roast Beef. RB’s. > > ohhhhh… \*\* ::smacking forehead:: I **just** got that. What an idiot. > [@](#): > > _Balance said:_\*\* > Kinsey (didn’t I see you in the last \ thread?), 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. \*\* Yeah, someone else mentioned the same joke over there first. There were a whole bunch of stupid elephant jokes I never did get. _Q: Why did the elephant paint his toenails different colors? A: To hide in a bag of M&Ms._ (I was thinking, “How could an elephant even fit in a bag of M&Ms? Why would he try to hide in a bag of M&Ms?”) _Q: How do you know if an elephant’s been in your refrigerator? A: By the footprints in the butter._ (same line of thinking as above) I just never got them. I guess I just didn’t think they were funny. I got Tequila Mockingbird’s name right off, but didn’t get Sue Dunhym’s name till someone pointed it out. ---
**Author:** ![nikjohns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/53a042/32.png) [@nikjohns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nikjohns)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2001, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/29 "2001-04-22T16:43:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by oldscratch \* > \*\*no **Lyllyan** I don’t get it. explain please. \*\* its half a sign > [@](#): > > Trespassers will _be prosecuted_ ---
**Author:** ![Tretiak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a88e57/32.png) [@Tretiak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tretiak)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2001, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/30 "2001-04-22T17:33:39Z")
When I was in graduate school i used to have to walk through a faculty parking lot every day. There was always this carr with a personalized license plate BAAB. Since I figured it was either some initals or something nto obvious I gave it little thought. Then one day I noticed what make of car it was…a Saab. ::SMACK:: ---
**Author:** ![Albert\_Rose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Albert\_Rose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Albert_Rose)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2001, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/31 "2001-04-22T17:49:20Z")
> [@](#): > > _originally posted by Borborygmi_ > **Arby’s. Roast Beef. RB’s.** America’s Roast Beef! Yes Sir! ---
**Author:** ![Folkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@Folkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folkie)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2001, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/32 "2001-04-22T18:57:24Z")
Gosh, I don’t know if I want to list all the songs I heard when I was young and don’t know they were about sex. Not only does it show my naievete but it shows how old I am. “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?” “Angel of the Morning” “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right.” (…but we never did that much talking anyway…) And, on a different subject, I remember being really young and one Sunday my parents decided to go for a drive in the mountains. I remember looking at the mountains, all tree-covered, and wondering how the car could possibly drive on top of the trees? And I remember seeing Peter Pan on TV when I was young enough to think that using soap to reattach your shadow if it comes loose seemed like a good household hint. ---
**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, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/33 "2001-04-22T21:31:42Z")
Today whilst cruising with friends “Paradise By The Dashboard Light” came on. This was the first time I’d heard it since I was 8 or 9. Got to the part with the baseball announcer. :smacking forehead: D’oh! SEX! HOME RUN! I GET IT NOW! ---
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2001, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/34 "2001-04-22T21:39:43Z")
Van Halen’s hot for teacher: I brought my pencil… give me something to write on! Phallic joke, none too subtle. Got right by me. ---
**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, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/35 "2001-04-22T23:40:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by nikjohns \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by oldscratch \* > > \*\*no **Lyllyan** I don’t get it. explain please. \*\* > > its half a sign > > > [@](#): > > > > Trespassers will _be prosecuted_ > > \*\* Thanks **nikjohns**. You beat me to 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, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/36 "2001-04-22T23:43:04Z")
OTOH, When everyone started talking about “MickeyD’s” I thought they were talking about a new restaraunt. Took me a while to figure out it was just plain old McDonald’s. ---
**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, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/37 "2001-04-22T23:46:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Biggirl \* > \*\*Hey **Nachos** , I had the same experience with Van Morrison’s Moondance. It must be that dance metaphor. > \*\* You mean “Dancing In The Moonlight” ? It’s about **SEX?!?** No way! “We get it almost every night, when that moon gets all big and bright…” It’s about dancing, dancing in the moonlight, isn’t it? Oh, okay, I get it now. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2001, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/38 "2001-04-23T00:06:59Z")
[A previous thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=57253) on the same subject. ---
**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 23, 2001, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/39 "2001-04-23T00:19:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kinsey \* > You mean “Dancing In The Moonlight” ? > It’s about **SEX?!?** No way! > “We get it almost every night, when that moon gets all big and bright…” > It’s about dancing, dancing in the moonlight, isn’t it? > Oh, okay, I get it now. \*\* Nope I mean this song: _Well it’s a marvelous night for a moondance With the stars up above in your eyes A fantabulous night to make romance 'neath the color of October skies._ The song you mention is about sex too. All songs ever written are about sex. ---
**Author:** ![Nacho4Sara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Nacho4Sara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nacho4Sara)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2001, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/40 "2001-04-23T01:03:21Z")
> [@](#): > > ## its half a sign quote: > > Trespassers will be prosecuted > > * * * Okay, I still don’t get it. What does that have to do with Piglet or Pooh? Why does having half a sign make his home so great? Wouldn’t it be better if he had the whole sign? Sorry, I must be really slow. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809.md?page=3)