# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2001, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/41 "2001-04-23T01:23:09Z")
**Nacho4Sara** : There was a sign out in front of Piglet’s house that said “Trespassers Will” because the words “be prosecuted” were broken off. He said his father’s name was Will. Trespassers Will. Which is what the sign said. So to Piglet, Pooh and all their friends, this was a really neat sign with Piglet’s father’s name on it. To grown-ups out in Movie-Viewing land, this is amusing because we know it’s a Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted sign. Get it yet? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@Bboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bboy)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2001, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/42 "2001-04-23T06:35:22Z")
**AlbertRose** said: > [@](#): > > **America’s Roast Beef! Yes Sir!** I think, given the nature of this thread, maybe it should be _painfully_ simple: **A** merica’s **R** oast **B** eef! **Y** es **S** ir! Hey!.. A foreheadsmacking smilie! See y’all later. I’m off to another thread! ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2001, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/43 "2001-04-23T11:35:13Z")
Oh, _now_ I get what this thread is about! [smacking forehead…] ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2001, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/44 "2001-04-23T11:49:33Z")
Won’t all this head smacking give you guys concussion? I needed help with the “Trespassers Will” thing, but mainly 'cause I’m not a Pooh fan. And aren’t “Heroes” a brand of condoms? ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2001, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/45 "2001-04-23T12:00:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ice Wolf \* > **I needed help with the “Trespassers Will” thing, but mainly 'cause I’m not a Pooh fan.** Do these moments ever happen to you out of the blue, without instigation? I used to watch Fraggle Rock when I was younger, on which program was a character called “(Uncle) Travelling Matt”, who travelled around and sent postcards back to Fraggle Rock. Years, and I mean _years_, later, I was walking down the street and all of a sudden, somewhere deep in my brain, a connection was made: **Travelling Matt = travelling matte (special effect technique)** _D’oh!_ ---
**Author:** ![Bboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@Bboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bboy)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2001, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/46 "2001-04-23T15:59:41Z")
Hey all. Here’s the latest [Smilie](http://www.geocities.com/banalboy/smilie.html) that I have submitted to the [Request for a new Smilie](http://www.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=61630) thread. Thank you all for the inspiration. I hope everyone can find a use for this one. I know I will. -_If the Higher-ups vote it in, that is…_ > [@](#): > > **jr8** said: > **Travelling Matt = travelling matte (special effect technique)** Wow. I always thought Travellng Matt was a twist on Welcome mat. ---
**Author:** ![Bboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@Bboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bboy)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2001, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/47 "2001-04-23T16:10:58Z")
Sorry about that. Try this link. [Request for a new Smilie](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=61630). This one works in ‘Preview’ mode. I don’t know how I screwed that up. (insert headsmack Smilie here) I usually don’t have any problems with URLs. ---
**Author:** ![Tommy\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Tommy\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tommy_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2001, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/48 "2001-04-23T16:18:33Z")
Great smilie **Bboy**! I, too, took a long time figuring out **Sue Dunhym’s** name. For the longest time I thought that it had something to do with sex (Sue Done-Him), but I couldn’t figure it out. My older second cousin told me a joke, which I then went and repeated for the whole family (I guess I was about 5 or 6). It took me forever to figure out why my cousin got in so much trouble. Now remember this is around the height of popularity for _The Six Million Dollar Man_. The title character was played by Lee Majors, who was married at the time to Farrah Fawcett. The joke went: Q: Why did the six million dollar man kill the plumber? A: Because he screwed the wrong faucet. I guess I was about 20 when I figured out it wasn’t just some joke about plumbing and why my cousin got in so much trouble. [SMACK] ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2001, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/49 "2001-04-23T16:18:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bboy \* > > > [@](#): > > > > **jr8** said: > > **Travelling Matt = travelling matte (special effect technique)** > > Wow. I always thought Travellng Matt was a twist on Welcome mat. To be specific: “ **TRAVELLING MATTE** : A process shot in which foreground action is superimposed on a separately photographed background by optical printing.” Something with which the Muppeteers would likely be familiar, yes? I can’t believe that took me so long to get. Slightly less long, I saw the “Lazarus Bowl” episode of the X-Files last night for the second time, in which Scully jokes to Mulder “I think Tea Leoni has a little crush on you.” Suddenly it occurs to me: aren’t/weren’t Duchovny and Leoni dating or married or something? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mermaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@The\_Mermaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mermaid)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2001, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/50 "2001-04-23T16:56:22Z")
While watching videos on MTV or VH1 or the like, I noticed that there are a lot of people guesting on everybody else’s videos. The artist’s names would read Moby feat Gwen Stefani, or Destiny’s Child Feat Wyclef, or A B Feat C. You get the idea. I spent a few minutes looking for this Feat person who seemed to be in _every_ video before I realized that Feat was short for Featuring. :insert head-slapping smilie here: ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2001, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/51 "2001-04-23T20:21:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Biggirl \* > \*\*All songs ever written are about sex. \*\* Sure puts _Dare to be Stupid_ in a new light, then… (Will someone please explain the “Disposable Heroes” reference already?) ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2001, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/52 "2001-04-24T13:23:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by The Mermaid \* > **I spent a few minutes looking for this Feat person who seemed to be in _every_ video before I realized that Feat was short for Featuring. > :insert head-slapping smilie here:** This reminded me of another one about me. I’m a big fan of “ER.” There is often a line of dialogue that says, “I’m going to **turf** him to Psych” or “She needs to be **turfed** to Cardiac Care” or whatever. I would always wonder what “turf” had to do with moving someone to another department. It was only after a few years that I finally made the connection: “turf” = “TRF” = “transfer.” D’oh! [head-slapping smilie] ---
**Author:** ![False\_God](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ee7513/32.png) [@False\_God](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/False_God)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2001, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/53 "2001-04-24T13:53:59Z")
Uh, about the Arby’s thing… Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader did a feature about the genesis of fast food chains in, IIRC, the fifth or sixth edition. In addition to the fact that Pizza Hut is so named because the founders bought a hut-shaped building and had a limited marquee (Well, “Pizza” fits, but “chamber”, “destination”, or “Place” won’t fit…hmmm…“HUT!” That fits!); they also brought up the fact that the Arby’s chain was founded by the Raffel brothers, who argued over the name of the chain. Finally, they just decided to use phonetic for RB (Raffel Brothers’) and that’s where the name came from. In re the OP, I had a fifth grade science teacher who insisted the Ramones were asking for “date bread”… “Twenty-twenty-four hours hours to go/ I wanna piece of date bread” ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2001, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/54 "2001-04-24T13:55:31Z")
During Watergate, when they were trying to get Nixom to testify, there was a political cartoon with a young woman waiting outside the Oval Office and an aide saying to Nixon “There’s a Sue Peena here for you.” I finally got it about two years later. _smack_ ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2001, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/55 "2001-04-25T00:28:34Z")
I’m sure you’re all familiar with the “Knights of the Round Table” skit in **Holy Grail**. For years, Mr. Rilch thought the last line was “I have to push the broom a looooot…” When I heard him singing it that way, I explained to him what a pram was. He insisted momentarily that it was “broom”, but I reminded him that his way didn’t rhyme. Oh well. I never noticed, till he pointed it out, the shot of Sir Belvedere tying the coconut to the swallow and letting it fly free. ---
**Author:** ![Folkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@Folkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folkie)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2001, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/56 "2001-04-25T02:00:07Z")
Two days ago I saw “O Brother Where Art Thou?” for the second time (showing on campus for two bucks). That’s when I figured out who the devil was to whom Tommy sold his soul: “The law is a human institution…” The references to the Muppets reminded me of the most recent short-lived Muppet show, which will certainly have some people smacking their forheads in a few years. Por ejemplo, there was an episode with Billy Crystal and they showed Miss Piggy trying out for the starring role of When Harry Met Sally. Naturally they did the famous restaurant scene. How do you show that on a children’s show? Billy’s character said the woman he was supposed to date had backed out because of a cold. Miss Piggy argued that it was possible to convincingly fake a… sneeze. Frank Oz/Miss Piggy went on to do Sally’s entire scene. Then a old woman muppet told the waiter “I’ll have what SHE’S having, only with less pepper.” In ten years some former kids are going to see the original movie and go “oh…” ---
**Author:** ![Bboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ea924/32.png) [@Bboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bboy)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2001, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/57 "2001-04-25T05:09:33Z")
**Tommy the Cat** , Thanks for the kind words. Around here, they put a lot of emphasis on the smooth-running-board concept and are focussing their efforts toward that cause. The smilies unfortunately, take a back seat. Phooey. There goes all the hooplah, the fanfare, my immortality. Ah well, maybe one day in a smooth-running-message-board cyber-world, we will all be using a smilie or two drawn up by yours truely. -Bboy ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2001, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/58 "2001-04-25T09:27:43Z")
Walking through a Virgin Megastore with my mate. Walk past a stand saying videos £8 each or three for £15. “Why would anyone want three of the same video?” I ask. “Uh, it means three of any video, not just three of the same,” my mate reminds me. “Yeah, duh I was joking,” I retort. (Oh no I wasn’t, three of the same video? thanks brain, SMACK!) ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2001, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/59 "2001-04-25T11:29:56Z")
In my family I’m famous for saying “Wow! The trees have leaves!” ---
**Author:** ![Heloise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e36b37/32.png) [@Heloise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heloise)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2001, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809/60 "2001-04-25T13:25:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by brother rat \* > \*\*In my family I’m famous for saying “Wow! The trees have leaves!” \*\* That sounds me after getting glasses the first time. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-get-it-the-forehead-smacking-thread/62809.md?page=4)