# Remembering 'Gotcha Ya' **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 22, 2021, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remembering-gotcha-ya/947078 "2021-07-22T20:53:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remembering-gotcha-ya/947078/1 "2021-07-22T20:53:49Z")
I was thinking about the old days of the SDMB. Memes and such. Every time I see the word “gotcha” I think of gotcha ya. Remember Opal? Sweet, polarizing Opal and her 2 line non-lists? Anybody want to walk down memory lane? Are there enough old timers left? Do you remember a post about analingus and golden retrievers… who was that? This is not meant to turn into a thread bashing long gone members, be respectful. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remembering-gotcha-ya/947078/2 "2021-07-22T21:10:29Z")
I cannot forget the tale of the prehensile anus. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remembering-gotcha-ya/947078/3 "2021-07-22T21:29:41Z")
[Dopers are burning dogs in World of Warcraft.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-burning-dog-legion-new-members/538292) During the Winter of Our Missed Content, I got the notion to create a SDMB-themed table in [Visual Pinball](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Pinball). Got as far as naming one ramp “driveway”, another ramp “parkway”, and “gotcha ya” for the ball drain then realized that I don’t have the talent or patience required for an entire table. ---
**Author:** ![mikecurtis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikecurtis/32/3284_2.png) [@mikecurtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikecurtis)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remembering-gotcha-ya/947078/4 "2021-07-22T21:37:01Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > This is not meant to turn into a thread bashing long gone members, be respectful. And yet you chose to bash opal in your second sentence… ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remembering-gotcha-ya/947078/5 "2021-07-22T21:46:09Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > I cannot forget the tale of the prehensile anus. We had an employee who, multiple times, covered the bathroom walls with shit. Like, I understand that maybe he had something going on (he’d usually leave right afterwards), but how did he get it **everywhere**? I always thought of that thread when it happened. And, who can forget The Horror of Blimps. I think that’s been immortalized in other places around the web. [Checks], yup, it’s on plenty of other boards as well. Some of them seemed to claim the story as their own, no idea if those posters were Scylla as well. Speaking of which, I had it in my head that that was a Master Wang-Ka thread…so there’s another memory, the Master Wang-Ka stories. I seem to recall one about setting his kitchen on fire. And was it on this board that someone posted about a, um, dirty hotel hot tub or did I read that somewhere else? And Masturbating like a motherfuck. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remembering-gotcha-ya/947078/6 "2021-07-22T22:36:19Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > We had an employee who, multiple times, covered the bathroom walls with shit. Like, I understand that maybe he had something going on (he’d usually leave right afterwards), but how did he get it **everywhere**? Finger painting? Yes, I have encountered the results of this in a public stall. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remembering-gotcha-ya/947078/7 "2021-07-22T22:47:28Z")
“Rio,” by Duran Duran. 1920s-Style Death Rays. And who was it that came up with, “Penis ensues”? ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remembering-gotcha-ya/947078/8 "2021-07-22T22:54:05Z")
Pan-fried semen! And, would you shoot your child if they were pinned in a burning car? ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remembering-gotcha-ya/947078/9 "2021-07-22T23:05:01Z")
For the last 5 years “GotchaYa” has been my default way of saying, “I understand.” No one seems to think it’s a strange expression or pronunciation. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remembering-gotcha-ya/947078/10 "2021-07-22T23:25:23Z")
I remember all of this. But only Opal will get my recognition. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remembering-gotcha-ya/947078/11 "2021-07-23T00:05:34Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Finger painting? God I hope not, that’s somehow worse than any other way I could have imagined it happening. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remembering-gotcha-ya/947078/12 "2021-07-23T00:12:24Z")
> [@mikecurtis](#): > > And yet you chose to bash opal in your second sentence… I certainly did not read it that way. I believe Opalcat would have approved. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remembering-gotcha-ya/947078/13 "2021-07-23T00:19:03Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > a post about analingus and golden retrievers… who was that? …oldscratch, wasn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Mars\_Horizon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mars_horizon/32/2804_2.png) [@Mars\_Horizon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mars_Horizon)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remembering-gotcha-ya/947078/14 "2021-07-23T01:41:25Z")
I remember Yer Pal, (Satan, of course) ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remembering-gotcha-ya/947078/15 "2021-07-23T02:10:05Z")
This thread eats stupid food for breakfast. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remembering-gotcha-ya/947078/16 "2021-07-23T03:13:47Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > 1920s-Style Death Rays. If I recall it was 1920s-Style “Death Rays” and the quotes are important. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remembering-gotcha-ya/947078/17 "2021-07-23T03:46:47Z")
IIRC, “penis ensues” was olivesmarch4th, now known as @Spice_Weasel. We used to use “when come back bring pie” to mean all sorts of things, but I don’t think that was unique to us. There were the welcome threads with Mariah the Squid and the nameless Goat. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remembering-gotcha-ya/947078/18 "2021-07-23T03:51:40Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > And was it on this board that someone posted about a, um, dirty hotel hot tub or did I read that somewhere else? You’re damn right there was [diarrhea in the jacuzzi.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diarrhea-in-the-jacuzzi/342245) I live through that heinous trauma, I’m sure as shit not letting some other board get all the credit! ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remembering-gotcha-ya/947078/19 "2021-07-23T03:54:38Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > there was [diarrhea in the jacuzzi.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/diarrhea-in-the-jacuzzi/342245) I live through that heinous trauma, I’m sure as shit not letting I see what you did there. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remembering-gotcha-ya/947078/20 "2021-07-23T04:12:56Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > IIRC, “penis ensues” was olivesmarch4th, now known as @Spice_Weasel. I think it was someone else, but I can’t find the origin via my phone. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/remembering-gotcha-ya/947078.md?page=2)