# 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:  [@booklover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/booklover)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2002, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oooooohhhhh-now-i-get-it/131894/61 "2002-10-24T17:56:49Z")
Can’t remember any of my own, but a bunch of us were sitting around discussing singers when one person piped up with “She’s like a gay version of Melissa Etheridge.” She was totally astonished to find out that Melissa Etheridge is not straight.
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### Author:  [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2002, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oooooohhhhh-now-i-get-it/131894/62 "2002-10-24T18:36:13Z")
From “Jack and Dianne”
[singing]
…let it rock
let it roll
let the PAPA BEAR (?!?)
come 'n save my soul
[/singing]
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### Author:  [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2002, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oooooohhhhh-now-i-get-it/131894/63 "2002-10-24T19:28:09Z")
[It’s “Bible Belt,” actually, Winston, not Papa Bear](http://www.mellencamp.com/albums/fool/jack.html).
But don’t feel bad. For years, I thought Corey Hart was singing, “Don’t step away from the guy in shades, oh no.”
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### Author:  [@Kricket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kricket)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2002, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oooooohhhhh-now-i-get-it/131894/64 "2002-10-25T07:40:31Z")
It took me forever to get the three men and a bar joke.
One day it just dawned on me out of the middle of nowhere and I busted laughing.
“Two men walked into a bar…the third one ducked”
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### Author:  [@Encinitas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Encinitas)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2002, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oooooohhhhh-now-i-get-it/131894/65 "2002-10-25T19:02:26Z")
I was way into my 30’s before I found out that the machine that plays songs in bars is not a “Juice Box”.
I also was recently informed that things are not “Honkey Dory”.
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### Author:  [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2002, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oooooohhhhh-now-i-get-it/131894/66 "2002-10-25T23:38:24Z")
> [@](#):
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> Lobsang I’ve never really paid attention to The Matrix, but I think they were used as an energy source, or battery. So it’s a reference to the Duracell slogan “You can’t top the Copper Top.”
That would probably explain why I never got it. I never saw that slogan. We probably didn’t get the same ads here in britain.
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### Author:  [@Yossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yossarian)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2002, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oooooohhhhh-now-i-get-it/131894/67 "2002-10-26T02:48:17Z")
Here’s one:
We rented one of those Remington Steele as James Bond Movies, and during the credits–a mere 2 hours ago–I realized that the “swirly circle” that begins each movie by tracking James Bond is the view from inside a gun (hence, the rifling–a-ha!) that is pointed at 007 held by someone who wishes James ill and is subsequently shot by the secret agent.
And all these years, I thought it was just a swirly circle thingy.
I’m 31.
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### Author:  [@typhoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typhoon)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2002, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oooooohhhhh-now-i-get-it/131894/68 "2002-10-26T04:34:31Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by DarkWriter \*
> \*\*But there was one that I just didn’t get. “I snatch kisses, and vice versa.” For the life of me, it just didn’t register. I kept thinking “And kisses snatch me? That doesn’t make any sense.”
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> It wasn’t until I was about 16 or 17 that I remembered that button and finally realized what it meant. :o\*\*
Okay, could somebody explain this one?
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### Author:  [@B.Pants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Pants)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2002, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oooooohhhhh-now-i-get-it/131894/69 "2002-10-26T04:52:55Z")
snatch kisses
kiss snatches
snatch=vagina
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### Author:  [@Azure\_Eternity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azure_Eternity)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2002, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oooooohhhhh-now-i-get-it/131894/70 "2002-10-26T05:08:05Z")
It took me years to connect the written words “hors d’oeuvre” with how it was pronounced - I thought they were two completely seperate words. In my defense, I realized my mistake when I was ten or so. Plus, those sneaky French had it in for me by spelling the words strangely.
Also, I always thought that old song went, “I’m going to the jack-o-lantern/ Gonna get married” I suppose a chapel would make more sense, but the thought of a tiny couple being wed in a pumpkin is priceless.
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### Author:  [@Ell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ell)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2002, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oooooohhhhh-now-i-get-it/131894/71 "2002-10-26T05:37:01Z")
[Homer]mmmmm… hors d’oeuvres[/Homer]
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### Author:  [@Rossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rossarian)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2002, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oooooohhhhh-now-i-get-it/131894/72 "2002-10-26T05:42:17Z")
I’d try to think of something that I could add to this conversation, but I’m learning something new every third post or so. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2002, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oooooohhhhh-now-i-get-it/131894/73 "2002-10-26T06:00:33Z")
> [@](#):
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> _Originally posted by **Alice** _:
> \*\*Same friend singing Meatloaf and Cher:
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> “Ever since I can remember I’ve been hanging round with George”\*\*
So did this friend think that George rhymed with point? 😃
[sub]Or was it “Daddy never noticed, now he’ll finally get the porridge?”[/sub]
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### Author:  [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2002, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oooooohhhhh-now-i-get-it/131894/74 "2002-10-26T11:28:58Z")
“SAVE A TREE…EAT A BEAVER!”
I saw this on a bumper sticker when I was a little kid and thought it was funny. After all, beavers eat trees, so killing all the beavers would save trees, right? Har dee har har. I liked it so much that I drew a bunch of cartoons, complete with a giant buck-toothed rodent on a spit. I think I even passed some out to relatives at Christmas.
It wasn’t until my mid-20s that it finally hit me…
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### Author:  [@Another\_Primate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Another_Primate)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2002, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oooooohhhhh-now-i-get-it/131894/75 "2002-10-26T12:20:43Z")
> [@](#):
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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) \*\*
Wow! Thanks for sharing that. Never knew that. Lucky, Shep, Spot: Those all make sense. But Fido didn’t, til now.
-Another Primate
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### Author:  [@Another\_Primate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Another_Primate)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2002, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oooooohhhhh-now-i-get-it/131894/76 "2002-10-26T12:42:22Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Muad’Dib \*
> \*\*My dad (in his mid fifties) told that just last month, he finally got “what 's black and white and red all over?”. \*\*
I distinctly remember what my fifth grade classroom looked like because of a riddle I’d seen for years, but never understood. The “got it!” moment is embedded in my memory.
Riddle:
How do you get down from an elephant?
A: You don’t. You get down from a duck.
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### Author:  [@Another\_Primate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Another_Primate)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2002, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oooooohhhhh-now-i-get-it/131894/77 "2002-10-26T12:45:40Z")
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> \*Originally posted by jr8 \*
> \*\*… whose real name is Margaret or “Peggy”. The umpteenth time through the series, it suddenly occurred to me they might be the same person. Or is this just wild speculation? \*\*
‘Peggy’ is a common nickname for ‘Margaret’. I have no idea why, though. Makes even less sense than ‘Jack’ for ‘John’.
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### Author:  [@Mister\_Damage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Damage)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2002, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oooooohhhhh-now-i-get-it/131894/78 "2002-10-26T17:06:18Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Pantellerite \*
> \*\*Here’s one:
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> We rented one of those Remington Steele as James Bond Movies, and during the credits–a mere 2 hours ago–I realized that the “swirly circle” that begins each movie by tracking James Bond is the view from inside a gun (hence, the rifling–a-ha!) that is pointed at 007 held by someone who wishes James ill and is subsequently shot by the secret agent.
>
> And all these years, I thought it was just a swirly circle thingy.
>
> I’m 31. \*\*
D’oh! :smack:
I never sussed this, either. I always thought it looked like a shutter on a camera, which doesn’t make the most sense…
…for the record, I’m 30.
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### Author:  [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2002, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oooooohhhhh-now-i-get-it/131894/79 "2002-10-26T17:22:17Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Another Primate \*
> \*\*
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> ‘Peggy’ is a common nickname for ‘Margaret’. I have no idea why, though. Makes even less sense than ‘Jack’ for ‘John’. \*\*
See this old thread [Why are you a Dick](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=7747&highlight=peggy+and+margaret). I believe it will clear some things up for you, although probably not with the “oooooh…now I get it” sort of impact that the ones in this thread provide.
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### Author:  [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2002, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oooooohhhhh-now-i-get-it/131894/80 "2002-10-26T21:43:59Z")
I heard the following riddle when I was 8 and thought it the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard, I mean, it just made no damned sense whatsoever! I must of spent the better part of two months trying to puzzle it out and then I gave up, though it still crossed my mind on and off. It wasn’t until I was 21 that I realized that I was just an idiot - 13 years of not understanding the following:
"If April Showers bring May Flowers, what do Mayflowers bring?
Pilgrims!"
:smack:
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