# Ridiculously obvious stuff you just got
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [April 8, 2008, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401 "2008-04-08T00:27:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2008, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/1 "2008-04-08T00:27:06Z")
_The Matrix_. Morpheus believes Neo is “The One.”
What just occurred to me the other day? _Neo_ and _one_ are anagrams.
:smack:
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### Author:  [@ASAKMOTSD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASAKMOTSD)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2008, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/2 "2008-04-08T00:36:58Z")
See above…
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### Author:  [@Bibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bibby)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2008, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/3 "2008-04-08T00:37:54Z")
This is local but still funny. We have a strip club here that’s called “TD’s”. As in Touch Down’s, right? Well guess what I just figured out … when you say “TD’s” fast? Yep, that’s what they’re advertising: Titties!! Bet everyone else in town knew about that but me. :smack:
Bibby
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### Author:  [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2008, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/4 "2008-04-08T00:42:24Z")
Welcome aBoard, **Bibby**! Good one!
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### Author:  [@Kuboydal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kuboydal)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2008, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/5 "2008-04-08T01:07:59Z")
Just before my recent trip to South America I looked at Ecuador on the globe and realized it was located on the equator and so…
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### Author:  [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2008, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/6 "2008-04-08T01:20:54Z")
[QUOTE=Bibby]
This is local but still funny. We have a strip club here that’s called “TD’s”. As in Touch Down’s, right? Well guess what I just figured out … when you say “TD’s” fast? Yep, that’s what they’re advertising: Titties!! Bet everyone else in town knew about that but me. :smack:
Bibby
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Tucson or Albuquerque? I’ve worked at both of the TD’s in Tucson (3+ years at the East side, one weekend at the West side). Alternate interpretations: Table Dances; Topless Dancers; Tony \_\_\_\_ the owner’s initials, that I can’t remember right now. (“Touch Down’s” never occurred to me, by the way.)
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### Author:  [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2008, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/7 "2008-04-08T01:42:55Z")
It wasn’t until I mentioned it at work a couple of years ago that I realized the intended joke with character names in the Winnie the Pooh series. There was one character named Kanga whose son was named Roo. I didn’t realize that you put them together to form Kangaroo :smack: . What’s really embarassing is that both characters are pretty obviously kangaroos.
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### Author:  [@Bibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bibby)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2008, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/8 "2008-04-08T01:43:17Z")
Yes, I’m in Tucson! I have tread where the famous Opal Cat once tread! I bow in homage!
Bibby
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### Author:  [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2008, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/9 "2008-04-08T01:50:36Z")
Haha! Yeah I danced at TD’s on Speedway for several years. It was a lot different then, though, based on my visit there about 2 years ago. It kind of sucks now, from what I could tell.
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### Author:  [@HubZilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HubZilla)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2008, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/10 "2008-04-08T01:58:48Z")
I thought it was strange that Nebraska’s state nickname was The Cornhusker State. After all, who would’ve thought of naming a state after a college football team?
As it turned out, I wasn’t backwards. The nickname did indeed come from the football team:
> [@](#):
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> The 1945 Legislature changed the official state name to the
> “Cornhusker State”. The name is derived from the nickname for the University of Nebraska athletic teams - the “Cornhuskers”
> **[State Nicknames Massachusetts - New Jersey](https://www.50states.com/bio/nickname3.htm)**
>
> Answers the question: How did our state get it's nickname?
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### Author:  [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2008, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/11 "2008-04-08T02:17:47Z")
[QUOTE=Bibby]
Yes, I’m in Tucson! I have tread where the famous Opal Cat once tread! I bow in homage!
Bibby
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Psst! Just took this for ya, for the hell of it: [TD’s!](http://gallery.opalcat.com/albums/OpalCat2008/tds.jpg)
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### Author:  [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2008, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/12 "2008-04-08T03:36:07Z")
Boulder, CO has the **Bus Stop** , as it’s silly name topless bar. Many a naive freshman at CU has taken the wrong cab. Or right, maybe.
In “North by Northwest” our hero ends up on a flight to North Dakota on Northwest Air. Doh!
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### Author:  [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2008, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/13 "2008-04-08T04:53:58Z")
[QUOTE=Darth Nader]
Boulder, CO has the **Bus Stop** , as it’s silly name topless bar. Many a naive freshman at CU has taken the wrong cab. Or right, maybe.
In “North by Northwest” our hero ends up on a flight to North Dakota on Northwest Air. Doh!
[/QUOTE]
Sorry to have to do this but [nitpick]…he is actually going from Chicago to **South** Dakota on Northwest Air.[/nitpick] It still makes him going North by Northwest though.
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### Author:  [@malkavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkavia)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2008, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/14 "2008-04-08T05:23:00Z")
I was relieved to discover that no one in their right mind was trying to market “Waterburgers”, but trying to tell us “Whataburger” their burgers were.
I was also completely impressed that Arbys = RB’s = Roast Beef’s = Roast Beef Sandwiches.
That’s 30 years well spent, huh? Yep, it’s a good thing I’m pretty. :smack:
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2008, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/15 "2008-04-08T05:45:04Z")
[QUOTE=OpalCat]
Psst! Just took this for ya, for the hell of it: [TD’s!](http://gallery.opalcat.com/albums/OpalCat2008/tds.jpg)
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Whoa.
Hi, **Opal**!
I find “How _YOU_ doin’?” to be _so_ last week, don’t you? 🙂
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### Author:  [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2008, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/16 "2008-04-08T05:45:31Z")
[QUOTE=malkavia]
I was relieved to discover that no one in their right mind was trying to market “Waterburgers”, but trying to tell us “Whataburger” their burgers were.
I was also completely impressed that Arbys = RB’s = Roast Beef’s = Roast Beef Sandwiches.
That’s 30 years well spent, huh? Yep, it’s a good thing I’m pretty. :smack:
[/QUOTE]
Sadly, no. Stands for Raffel Brothers, the restaurant founders (scroll to bottom of page).
> **[FACT CHECK: Is Arby's Roast Beef 'Liquid Meat'?](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/arbys-liquid-meat/)**
>
> Is Arby's roast beef made from a paste, gel, powder, or liquid?
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2008, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/17 "2008-04-08T05:47:21Z")
[QUOTE=installLSC]
It wasn’t until I mentioned it at work a couple of years ago that I realized the intended joke with character names in the Winnie the Pooh series. There was one character named Kanga whose son was named Roo. I didn’t realize that you put them together to form Kangaroo :smack: . What’s really embarassing is that both characters are pretty obviously kangaroos.
[/QUOTE]
Well, _Kanga_ is pretty obviously a kangaroo. Roo reminds me more of a washcloth.
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### Author:  [@ShermanAter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShermanAter)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2008, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/18 "2008-04-08T07:25:44Z")
I have always been a huge fan of Jackson Browne. I played that album _Runnin’ on Empty_ till it was worn out.
I got a chance to see him and his band, 15 years or so after that album was released and they were absolutely great. I mean they hit every note of every song. I couldn’t have been more pleased.
Then they played _Rosie_
And I finally got it.
I laughed so hard I damn near pee’d myself.
Here is a link to the song. I hope you like it.
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCDIrrKKUTs)
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### Author:  [@NightRabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NightRabbit)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2008, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/19 "2008-04-08T07:43:41Z")
It took a thread similar to this one for me to realize that michelangelo’s statue of david is the _same_ david as the one from david and goliath. I knew they were both david, I just… didn’t connect the dots.
It also took an embarassingly long time before I got “dew drop inn”.
There was another very recent one but now I can’t remember…
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### Author:  [@TPWombat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TPWombat)
#### Post date: [April 8, 2008, 8:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/20 "2008-04-08T08:56:03Z")
**Watchmen** : Human bean juice = human _being_ juice!!!
Took 22 years.
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