# Oooooohhhhh.... Now I get it.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oooooohhhhh-now-i-get-it/131894
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [October 12, 2002, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oooooohhhhh-now-i-get-it/131894 "2002-10-12T00:33:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2002, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oooooohhhhh-now-i-get-it/131894/1 "2002-10-12T00:33:44Z")
I was commuting to school the other day on I-5 listening to Talk of the Nation on NPR when I suddenly realized “Wait a minute… I don’t think Bob Dylan was actually singing about everyone getting hit with rocks…”
Anyone else have any embarrassing, years later, realizations?
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### Author:  [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2002, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oooooohhhhh-now-i-get-it/131894/2 "2002-10-12T01:03:01Z")
ya lost me though…
dylan could have been sing about pelting rocks. he does have a tendency to mumble a bit.
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### Author:  [@Yossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yossarian)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2002, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oooooohhhhh-now-i-get-it/131894/3 "2002-10-12T14:12:59Z")
“If I said you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me?”
for years I thought was a sincere attempt by the singer to politely compliment a lady without offending her.
I was in my mid-twenties, for crissakes, before it hit me.
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### Author:  [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2002, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oooooohhhhh-now-i-get-it/131894/4 "2002-10-12T14:21:56Z")
> [@](#):
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> ya lost me though…
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> dylan could have been sing about pelting rocks. he does have a tendency to mumble a bit.
While he is indeed the Mumble King, “Everybody must get stoned” is pretty clear 😉
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### Author:  [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2002, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oooooohhhhh-now-i-get-it/131894/5 "2002-10-12T15:01:42Z")
Your embarrassment does not compare to mine in my Cafe Society plea for help in locating the desired song “The Dangerous Dyke” aka “The Dangerous Type” as one astute Doper guessed.
:o
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### Author:  [@neofishboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neofishboy)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2002, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oooooohhhhh-now-i-get-it/131894/6 "2002-10-12T22:16:07Z")
“Young Frankenstein” - a movie I’ve seen dozens of times since I was a little kid…
The scene where Cloris Leachman, candelabra in hand, is leading Teri Garr and Gene Wilder up the castle stairs…
“Stay close to ze candles! Ze staircase … can be treacherous.”
I was 25 before I noticed that the candles weren’t lit.
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### Author:  [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2002, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oooooohhhhh-now-i-get-it/131894/7 "2002-10-12T22:55:34Z")
I can one up you on that.
When I first saw pictures of Jhonen Vasquez I thought that he was well, a lesbian.
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### Author:  [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2002, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oooooohhhhh-now-i-get-it/131894/8 "2002-10-12T23:18:41Z")
A year ago I ralized out of no where why dogs are named Fido.
(Fido = Fideles = Faithful)
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### Author:  [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2002, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oooooohhhhh-now-i-get-it/131894/9 "2002-10-12T23:49:31Z")
thank you, francesca. i was trying to figure out which dylan song the op was talking about.
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### Author:  [@Soup\_du\_jour](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soup_du_jour)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2002, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oooooohhhhh-now-i-get-it/131894/10 "2002-10-13T07:24:37Z")
I kid you not when I tell you this. I only learned that Elton John was gay about four months ago. I always thought he was just an eccentric singer-guy.
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### Author:  [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2002, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oooooohhhhh-now-i-get-it/131894/11 "2002-10-13T09:07:45Z")
Elton John? Gay? :eek:
😃
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### Author:  [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2002, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oooooohhhhh-now-i-get-it/131894/12 "2002-10-14T00:54:38Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Manda JO \*
> \*\*A year ago I ralized out of no where why dogs are named Fido.
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> (Fido = Fideles = Faithful) \*\*
I just found out now thanks to your post.
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### Author:  [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2002, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oooooohhhhh-now-i-get-it/131894/13 "2002-10-14T05:37:48Z")
Wow, that Fido bit is pretty cool; I never realized that either. Good doggie.
I was 27 when I found out that “Jack” is a nickname for people named “John.” I don’t really feel bad for never figuring it out; I mean, it really makes no sense. But, when I found this out, I was of course kind of overwhelmed and began recounting all the Jacks I’ve known/heard of and realizing they were actually named John. Hmm, “John Frost”; “John and the Beanstalk”; “John Kennedy”…
JOHN KENNEDY?!? Holy crap!
My entire life I’d thought there was another Kennedy. Occasionally I’d wonder, “How come you never hear anything about JACK Kennedy anymore?” I thought he was the Silent Kennedy or something. Incredible.
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### Author:  [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2002, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oooooohhhhh-now-i-get-it/131894/14 "2002-10-14T05:39:27Z")
Mel Brooks’ **History of the World, Pt I**. Caught this for the nth time on cable a couple months back. (Actually, I think it may have been last year. Whenever.)
The scene where Mel and Danny (no, not Gibson and Glover, Brooks and Hines) are walking through the market place. Josephus passes by the ‘blind’ beggar, who greets him with “Josephus!” and holds out one hand. Josephus gives him a backhanded five, and strolls on, saying “Hey, motherf\*\*ker.”
It took me all these years to spot the sign around the beggar’s neck.
Oedipus.
Motherf\*\*ker.
Cracked me up, in a whole new way.
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### Author:  [@Muad\_Dib](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muad_Dib)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2002, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oooooohhhhh-now-i-get-it/131894/15 "2002-10-14T05:48:56Z")
_Looks at Skeezix’s post_
Huh?
_Looks again_
Ooooohhhh! Oedipus!
_LOL, as that scene finally makes sense_
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### Author:  [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2002, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oooooohhhhh-now-i-get-it/131894/16 "2002-10-14T06:03:43Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Skeezix \*
> The scene where Mel and Danny (no, not Gibson and Glover, Brooks and Hines) … \*\*
Um, isn’t that Gregory Hines, not Danny?
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### Author:  [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2002, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oooooohhhhh-now-i-get-it/131894/17 "2002-10-14T06:08:46Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Skeezix \*
> The scene where Mel and Danny (no, not Gibson and Glover, Brooks and Hines) … \*\*
Um, isn’t that Gregory Hines, not Danny?
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### Author:  [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2002, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oooooohhhhh-now-i-get-it/131894/18 "2002-10-14T07:46:20Z")
Ack. Thbft. Yep.
I’m sitting here thinking, “Mel and… wtf was his name again?” Got Mel and Danny stuck in my head, and somehow convinced m’self his name’s Daniel Hines. Oops.
[sub]Musta been **Eve of Destruction** that damaged my brain… yeah, that’s it.[/sub]
[sub]But’cha didn’t had to tell me twice.[/sub]
🙂
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### Author:  [@Eleusis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleusis)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2002, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oooooohhhhh-now-i-get-it/131894/19 "2002-10-14T09:56:59Z")
Funniest incidence of this I’ve ever heard was a friend of my dad’s in the early '70s.
There was a song that went, _“I’ll be a big man in town”_.
It came on the radio, and he sang _“I’ll be a pink Spanish clown.”_
He never heard the end of that one.
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### Author:  [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2002, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oooooohhhhh-now-i-get-it/131894/20 "2002-10-14T11:56:21Z")
Didn’t know Rupaul was gay till I read his website.
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