# Oh! I just got that! (sound of hand smacking forehead) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 26, 2001, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-just-got-that-sound-of-hand-smacking-forehead/51805 "2001-01-26T01:42:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Vince\_the\_Intangible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ba8739/32.png) [@Vince\_the\_Intangible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vince_the_Intangible)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2001, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-just-got-that-sound-of-hand-smacking-forehead/51805/141 "2001-03-06T08:57:13Z")
Life. But that’s just because I haven’t gotten to the punchline yet. But somethin’ tells me that when I do, it’s gonna be a real whopper. ---
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2001, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-just-got-that-sound-of-hand-smacking-forehead/51805/142 "2001-03-06T09:13:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KJ \* > \*\*Wow, I feel proud that I knew most of these things (I’ve known the ABC/Twinkle/baa baa thing for years, and I sort of caught on that there is no Cecil thing…) But… > > A few weeks ago I was at a friend’s house listening to an MP3 of Peter Frampton singing “Do You Feel Like We Do” live. The only time I’d heard the song was 5 seconds of it from The Simpsons (I had that episode on tape…) It wasn’t until I listened to the whole MP3 that I realized…wait a minute, that’s no cheap microphone trick, he’s doing that **with his guitar!** Oh my god! That’s amazing! I can’t believe I never realized it until I listened to the MP3. They even have a little joke in that episode of The Simpsons where Jimbo says “Man…that guy’s guitar is talkin’!” I always thought he was just so stoned that he thought the guitar was making the noise, I never got that the guitar was ACTUALLY MAKING THE NOISE! (In my own defense, I did figure it out the first time I listened to the song.) I have a whole new respect for Frampton now. > \*\* It’s not that big a deal…he is using a Heil Talk Box, a device that takes the sound that would come from your speaker and plays it through a tube you can stick in your mouth - you play notes and move your mouth as if you are talking, and you get that sound. Motley Crue used it in a few songs too if I recall correctly, and I think part of the beginning of ‘Bad Medicine’ by Bon Jovi uses it too (I am so ashamed of mentioning both Motley Crue and Bon Jovi in one sentence). ---
**Author:** ![Pabitel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbce88/32.png) [@Pabitel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pabitel)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2001, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-just-got-that-sound-of-hand-smacking-forehead/51805/143 "2001-03-06T21:33:58Z")
There still seemed to be a few who had not gotten the gist of the limerick. So rather than see someone chew their own foot off. The trick is to figure out the first abbreviation and then substitute the other first letters throughout the poem. So given that M.A. usually stands for Master of Arts we get: An amorous Master of Arts Said of Cupid, the Caster of Darts From their prodigal use, He was, I deduce The John Jacob Astor of Harts. For info about the gentleman mentioned int the final stanza go to [http://www.virtualology.com/virtualpubliclibrary/halloffounders/businessfounders/JOHNJACOBASTOR.NET/](http://www.virtualology.com/virtualpubliclibrary/halloffounders/businessfounders/JOHNJACOBASTOR.NET/) ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2001, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-just-got-that-sound-of-hand-smacking-forehead/51805/144 "2001-03-06T21:53:17Z")
Maybe it’s just me but I don’t get Dave99’s rave story. Why didn’t he need to know the address? Please, someone explain it to me. Many thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2001, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-just-got-that-sound-of-hand-smacking-forehead/51805/145 "2001-03-06T22:17:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sublight \* > > Teacher: “Johnny, make a sentence containing the following words: detail, defeat, deduct, defense.” > Johnny: “Defeat of deduct went over defense before detail.” > Me (for the next 15 years): “Huh?” > > –sublight. Explai-oh wait. I get it. Ha. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Dave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/46a35a/32.png) [@Great\_Dave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Dave)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2001, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-just-got-that-sound-of-hand-smacking-forehead/51805/146 "2001-03-06T23:29:07Z")
FireUnderpantsBoobs: If the address was listed then the police would know ahead of time too. welcome to the SDMB. Interesting handle, I must say. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2001, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-just-got-that-sound-of-hand-smacking-forehead/51805/147 "2001-03-07T00:44:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BigDaddyD \* > \*\*FireUnderpantsBoobs: > If the address was listed then the police would know ahead of time too. > welcome to the SDMB. Interesting handle, I must say. \*\* Ohh. So then, do you call the phone number to find out where it’s listed, or do you just _know_? (never been to a rave yet just. ;)) Incidentally, Happy 365, Big Daddy. ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2001, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-just-got-that-sound-of-hand-smacking-forehead/51805/148 "2001-03-07T04:18:40Z")
BigDaddyD: thanks! ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2001, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-just-got-that-sound-of-hand-smacking-forehead/51805/149 "2001-03-08T13:44:32Z")
InRobert Heinlein’s novel “Time Enough for Love” (and in “The Notebooks of Lazarus Long”) one of Lazarus Long’s notes is “Have you ever noticed how thety look like orchids? Wonderful!” For years that bothered me, because it had nothing to do with anything that preceded it or followed it. I had no idea what it referred to. What were “they”? It’s a mark of my inexperience. When I reread the book years later it was immediately obvious to me that “they” referred to female genitalia. Heinlein, with his still Victorian sensibilities would never have actually identified the subject, but apparently knew the appropriate audience would “get it”. ---
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2001, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-just-got-that-sound-of-hand-smacking-forehead/51805/150 "2001-03-08T18:09:08Z")
Could Heinlein have been gay? Look up the definition of cryptorchidism. I think the resemblance is supposed to be to the bulb and not the flower. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2001, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-just-got-that-sound-of-hand-smacking-forehead/51805/151 "2001-03-08T18:45:09Z")
Chrome Spot: ``` Heinlein gay? I very seriously doubt it. The man was married twice. He describes a LOT of heterosexual behavior in his books. In I Will Fear No Evil and To Sail Beyond the Sunset he suggests female-female attraction (not sex), but never even hints at male-male attraction. And I think he would have, if it was important to him. Besides, the sense of the original quote seenms abundantly clear to me now. (But I'll look up "cryptorchidism". Next thing you know you'll be suggesting that Nero Wolfe had feelings for Archie Goodwin, revealed through his love of orchids.) ``` ---
**Author:** ![Lok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e8c25b/32.png) [@Lok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lok)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2001, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-just-got-that-sound-of-hand-smacking-forehead/51805/152 "2001-03-08T19:05:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kinsey \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by SINsApple \* > > \*\*Didja know that Twinkle,Twinkle Little Star and the ABC song are the same tune with different words? I know, I know. Even grade school kids know that, but I would just like to point out that three of us college kids were stunned by the realization last night. \*\* > > And also “Baa, Baa, Black Sheep.” > And you do know who wrote that little ditty, don’t you? \*\* Okay, I confess. I have been reading this thread trying to figure out what ABC commercials had the tune for “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” in them when I got to this message and it hit me. Not ABC network, abcdefg… letters. Duh! ---
**Author:** ![uberDave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f04885/32.png) [@uberDave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/uberDave)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2001, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-just-got-that-sound-of-hand-smacking-forehead/51805/153 "2001-03-08T19:06:16Z")
[ul] [li]Small town , no airport[/li] [li]A dear friend told me once that she hardly ever went anywhere as a child, since her dad worked and mom stayed home. So whenever her mom got her keys to get ready to go out my friend _always_ asked her mom where she was going, to which her mom replied, “I’m going crazy”. My friend never got mom’s joke and always then asked, “Can I come too?”.[/li][/ul] Dave ---
**Author:** ![JFMichael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@JFMichael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JFMichael)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2001, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-just-got-that-sound-of-hand-smacking-forehead/51805/154 "2001-04-22T00:13:00Z")
After reading the Harry Potter post, seeing the word “seeresses” just made my mind click. However, I have strong doubts as to whether this is actually a true subtlety. In Homer’s Epic _The Odyssey_ there is a woman that predicts his fate and warns him of the consequences of eating the cattle on the Sun God’s, Helios’s, island. Her name is Circe. Which is pronounced seersee. However, I am doubtful of the connection since it was not origonally written in English. Is there any pun here? Also, I had heard the joke: Q:Why was 6 upset? A:Because 7 8 9 I have discovered three levels to this joke- two of them gosh darned dirty. The first is the obvious seven **ate** 9. The second is that 69, being the number representing sex, is involved. If one considers the 6 to be the man and 9 to be the woman, then 6 is upset because his lover just got gobbled up by 7. The third level is that 7 did not ate, as in gobbled up, but as in _ate_, and you can think about that (remember 9 is the woman). Has anyone else considered any of this? ---
**Author:** ![skydyvr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@skydyvr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skydyvr)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2001, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-just-got-that-sound-of-hand-smacking-forehead/51805/155 "2001-04-22T07:39:35Z")
Actually, there was plenty of male-male stuff in his books as well…many references to kisses and bisexuality (Galahad, anyone?) While I don’t think he was gay, I think that he MAY have been bisexual…but again, that’s just my opinion. YMMV 😃 ---
**Author:** ![exchicagoan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/0ea827/32.png) [@exchicagoan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/exchicagoan)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2001, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-just-got-that-sound-of-hand-smacking-forehead/51805/156 "2001-04-22T07:47:45Z")
This has to do with SPEAKING and READING the same word. BRAVADO—I’d SAY it correctly—but would READ–BRAVE’-A-DOE. FACADE----SAID correctly----READ—FAC’-ED A city here in SO. CAL. LA CANADA (LA CANG-YA’-DA)----SAID—LA-CAN’-A-DA. Mamma mia–thud! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oh-i-just-got-that-sound-of-hand-smacking-forehead/51805.md?page=7)