# Ridiculously Obvious Stuff You Just Got, Part II **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 2, 2008, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got-part-ii/447743 "2008-05-02T12:52:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got-part-ii/447743/21 "2008-05-06T19:13:54Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] A few days ago, I just realized that Herry Monster from _Sesame Street_ is a hairy monster- hence the name. [/QUOTE] Just wait until Big Bird hits you; it’ll blow your mind. For my own: only recently did I realize that the Saturn car logo is a cropped portion of a picture of Saturn. For years I just saw it as a swoopy thing. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got-part-ii/447743/22 "2008-05-06T19:39:38Z")
[QUOTE=iamthewalrus(:3=] Just wait until Big Bird hits you; it’ll blow your mind. [/QUOTE] Not to mention Cookie Monster. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got-part-ii/447743/23 "2008-05-06T19:43:44Z")
I had an epiphany when I was reading that now closed thread. [QUOTE=Kizarvexius] Not quite as obvious to those of us on this side of the pond, but it finally occurred to me one day that “Eeyore” is the Brit speak equivalent of “hee-haw”. [/quote] I just figured out from this post that “Hee-haw” is the American version of “eeyore”, the sound the donkey makes. All the time I watched the [Hee-Haw](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hee_Haw) show back in the 60s and 70s, I thought the name came from loud laughing at corny jokes - didn’t associate it with a donkey at all. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got-part-ii/447743/24 "2008-05-06T19:59:19Z")
[QUOTE=iamthewalrus(:3=] Just wait until Big Bird hits you; it’ll blow your mind. For my own: only recently did I realize that the Saturn car logo is a cropped portion of a picture of Saturn. For years I just saw it as a swoopy thing. [/QUOTE] The Infiniti car logo shows two lines aproaching their vanishing point ‘Infiniti’. Quite clever. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got-part-ii/447743/25 "2008-05-06T20:29:30Z")
[QUOTE=iamthewalrus(:3=] For my own: only recently did I realize that the Saturn car logo is a cropped portion of a picture of Saturn.. [/QUOTE] I only figured out a few days ago what \*\*(:3= \*\* means ---
**Author:** ![Gordon\_Urquhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@Gordon\_Urquhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_Urquhart)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got-part-ii/447743/26 "2008-05-06T20:40:42Z")
“The Goodwill logo is half a smiley face,” said I. “No, the Goodwill logo is a lowercase ‘g,’” replied Mrs. Urquhart. Turns out, [we were both right](http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGLR_enUS261US262&q=%22goodwill+logo%22&um=1). ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got-part-ii/447743/27 "2008-05-06T20:48:28Z")
[QUOTE=Gordon Urquhart] “The Goodwill logo is half a smiley face,” said I. “No, the Goodwill logo is a lowercase ‘g,’” replied Mrs. Urquhart. Turns out, [we were both right](http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGLR_enUS261US262&q=%22goodwill+logo%22&um=1). [/QUOTE] :eek: That’s brilliant! ---
**Author:** ![Plynck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Plynck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plynck)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got-part-ii/447743/28 "2008-05-06T20:50:41Z")
After years of answering the question incorrectly, I just found out that the glass is really half empty. Wow, am I depressed… ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got-part-ii/447743/29 "2008-05-06T21:29:10Z")
Keeping with the “car logo” thing, I found out while taking Japanese in college that “Mitsubishi” means “three diamonds”. Hence, the logo. I didn’t realize until I heard the first Harry Potter audiobook that “Diagon Alley” was a play on “diagonally”. On the printed page, I’d never made that connection. And someone on this board also pointed out that “Knockturn Alley” is a play on “nocturnally”. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got-part-ii/447743/30 "2008-05-06T21:32:45Z")
I posted this in an earlier thread on the subject (not the recently closed one, which I didn’t read all the way through, so somebody might have brought it up there): In the _Seinfeld_ episode where Jerry makes up a voice for his girlfriend’s “talking stomach” (it mostly says “Hello! La la la…”), when he goes to sit on the park bench and ponder whether to keep the girl or stop doing the voice, Lionel Richie’s “Hello” is playing. Perfectly ties in with the storyline, yet the significance never hit me. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2008, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got-part-ii/447743/31 "2008-05-06T23:01:48Z")
[QUOTE=Gordon Urquhart] “The Goodwill logo is half a smiley face,” said I. “No, the Goodwill logo is a lowercase ‘g,’” replied Mrs. Urquhart. Turns out, [we were both right](http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGLR_enUS261US262&q=%22goodwill+logo%22&um=1). [/QUOTE] But are you ready to consider the FedEx logo? ---
**Author:** ![ArizonaTeach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/45deac/32.png) [@ArizonaTeach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArizonaTeach)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2008, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got-part-ii/447743/32 "2008-05-07T00:17:25Z")
[QUOTE=KneadToKnow] But are you ready to consider the FedEx logo? [/QUOTE] Teach me, sensei… ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2008, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got-part-ii/447743/33 "2008-05-07T00:29:37Z")
While reading an article on “House” this week, I discovered that Cameron and Chase are not their first names. That was a real :smack: moment, since I knew that Foreman was not the other guy’s first name. And now I’ve forgotten what their character’s actual first names are again (except Eric Foreman - same as “That 70’s Show”!). ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2008, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got-part-ii/447743/34 "2008-05-07T07:23:44Z")
[QUOTE=ArizonaTeach] Teach me, sensei… [/QUOTE] The FedEx logo has a hidden arrow in it if you look at it right. I’m pretty sure I learned that on this very board. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2008, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got-part-ii/447743/35 "2008-05-07T08:46:37Z")
[QUOTE=Plynck] After years of answering the question incorrectly, I just found out that the glass is really half empty. Wow, am I depressed… [/QUOTE] Actually, it’s neither. It’s half full of liquid and half full of air. And since air moves from high pressure to low pressure, you could legitimately say that it sucks instead of blows. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2008, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got-part-ii/447743/36 "2008-05-07T09:44:20Z")
For some reason, I had always assumed that pickles were made from eatin’ cucumbers, and that the difference in size was due to the pickling process shrinking them. Makes no sense if you think about it for even a moment, but I never did. Yesterday I came across the phrase “pickle cucumbers” and I suddenly realized … “Oh, yeah, they grow 'em or pick 'em young or something…” I have no excuse for this long misapprehension about pickles, I’ve picked enough cucumbers off the vine to know they are different sizes as they grow. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2008, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got-part-ii/447743/37 "2008-05-07T09:49:51Z")
[QUOTE=Evil Captor] For some reason, I had always assumed that pickles were made from eatin’ cucumbers, and that the difference in size was due to the pickling process shrinking them. Makes no sense if you think about it for even a moment, but I never did. Yesterday I came across the phrase “pickle cucumbers” and I suddenly realized … “Oh, yeah, they grow 'em or pick 'em young or something…” I have no excuse for this long misapprehension about pickles, I’ve picked enough cucumbers off the vine to know they are different sizes as they grow. [/QUOTE] That’s okay, when I was a little kid and we put in a garden in the back yard, I got mad because we were planting cucumbers and **not** planting pickles! :smack: (Yes, they did tell me that pickles were made from cukes, but I didn’t believe them. I was 3 or 4, so what do you expect?) ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2008, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got-part-ii/447743/38 "2008-05-07T12:25:58Z")
[QUOTE=Greg Charles] The FedEx logo has a hidden arrow in it if you look at it right. I’m pretty sure I learned that on this very board. [/QUOTE] Two arrows, actually- one in the F and one in the second E. Now if someone mentions the Disney logo and how the D is not a G, it’ll be just like Something Awful. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2008, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got-part-ii/447743/39 "2008-05-07T19:50:42Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] Now if someone mentions the Disney logo and how the D is not a G, it’ll be just like Something Awful. [/QUOTE] Ha! Oh man, I had to stop reading that thread when someone posted about the Fucking Disney logo for the umpteeth time, which then was followed by about twenty responses on how that was mentioned already…several times. But seriously, _why_ would you think it’s a G? It’s DISNEY! Logic dictates that it HAS to be a D, a malformed and really world looking D, yes, but it can’t be anything else! ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2008, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got-part-ii/447743/40 "2008-05-07T20:00:48Z")
Since the last thread was filled with a lot of non-Cafe Society-ish posts, and since I don’t think this one will be any different, I’ll go ahead and move this over to MPSIMS. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got-part-ii/447743.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got-part-ii/447743.md?page=3)