# Ridiculously obvious stuff you just got **URL:** \ **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:** 3
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/41 "2008-04-08T17:58:03Z")
Not wanting to push the Mondegreen spinoff any more than has already been done, and not wanting to stress how long its been since I became aware of it, I’ll go ahead and say that the lyrics to Mairzy Doats, which was all the rage when I was a toddler, finally became clear when I listened to the “explanation” part of the song. And to save those of you who couldn’t care less the trouble of googling or whatever, they’re: Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy. And kids’ll eat ivy, too, wouldn’t you? The WWII years were replete with this sort of nonsense. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/42 "2008-04-08T18:20:56Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy. And kids’ll eat ivy, too, wouldn’t you? [/QUOTE] Which always makes me want to answer, “Hell, no!” I mean, I know food was rationed during WW2, but that’s going too far… ---
**Author:** ![Emily\_Litella](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emily_litella/32/3370_2.png) [@Emily\_Litella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emily_Litella)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/43 "2008-04-08T18:26:05Z")
The arrow in the Fed Ex logo was pointed out to me recently, but it’s not really that obvious. You can see each letter of Toyota in the Toyota logo too if you look for it. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/44 "2008-04-08T19:01:36Z")
[QUOTE=ShermanAter] 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. ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/WCDIrrKKUTs/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/WCDIrrKKUTs?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque [/QUOTE] Care to let us in on the joke? Bearing in mind that some of us have never heard of Jacksone Browne? ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/45 "2008-04-08T19:38:40Z")
[QUOTE=MaxTheVool] Care to let us in on the joke? Bearing in mind that some of us have never heard of Jacksone Browne? [/QUOTE] Hint: Rosie isn’t a real person. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/46 "2008-04-08T20:31:52Z")
Some of us were also bored to tears by about 15 seconds into the song and aren’t going to listen to all of it, so…? ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/47 "2008-04-08T20:53:01Z")
[QUOTE=OpalCat] Some of us were also bored to tears by about 15 seconds into the song and aren’t going to listen to all of it, so…? [/QUOTE] In the beginning you think that it’s about a woman named Rosie but you eventually figure out that Rosie is the guy’s hand as in “Rosie Palmer.” _Rosie, it’s just you and me again tonight_. ---
**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/48 "2008-04-08T21:08:26Z")
I never made the David & Goliath -\> Michelangelo’s David connection either, but I didn’t feel so bad after studying it in an Italian Renaissance class. It doesn’t look like most depictions of David ([Donatello’s](http://dasanpiero.googlepages.com/donatellodavid9.jpg/donatellodavid9-custom;size:502,900.jpg), for instance), and it was remarked at the time of its creation that it looked more like Apollo than David (which it does). Also, [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”. :smack: [/QUOTE] :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/49 "2008-04-08T21:36:59Z")
[QUOTE=hajario] “Rosie Palmer.” [/QUOTE] I prefer “Madame Palm and her five comely daughters.” ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/50 "2008-04-08T21:45:25Z")
[QUOTE=hajario] In the beginning you think that it’s about a woman named Rosie but you eventually figure out that Rosie is the guy’s hand as in “Rosie Palmer.” _Rosie, it’s just you and me again tonight_. [/QUOTE] Lot’s of other clues there “you wear my ring” Biggest being - “When I turn out the lights, I’ve got to hand it to me” ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/51 "2008-04-08T21:47:51Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy. And kids’ll eat ivy, too, wouldn’t you? [/QUOTE] I always thought it was “…A kid’ll eat ivy too…” you know, like a young goat, not a child. I remember this because my sister used to ask me what the heck a kiddle was. 🙂 …as well as maresydotes and doseydotes. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/52 "2008-04-08T21:51:56Z")
And I forgot to do mine, well actually the wife’s. I’m a transplant to the Kansas City area and within a few months of arriving here I visited a park in **Ja** ckson **Co** unty **Mo** -Missouri having a lake in it called Lake **Jacomo**. Years later my sweet bride who lived in Jackson County and who frequented the park her whole life asked me once if Jacomo was some kind of native American name.:smack: ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/53 "2008-04-08T22:03:42Z")
[QUOTE=BubbaDog] Lot’s of other clues there [/QUOTE] Yeah, I know, but I only had a fifteen second attention span in which to get the point across. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/54 "2008-04-08T22:04:15Z")
Hey, y’all, I just had the heavy thought that many of the songs that include the innocent word “you” may take on an entirely different meaning if “ewe” is substituted. Not that any of these really do the trick, but maybe there are some better ones around: Ewe’re driving me crazy I love Ewe Ewe’re the cream in my coffee I say a little prayer for ewe Ewe belong to me I’ll see ewe in my dreams ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/55 "2008-04-08T22:07:44Z")
[QUOTE=Onomatopoeia] I always thought it was “…A kid’ll eat ivy too…” you know, like a young goat, not a child. I remember this because my sister used to ask me what the heck a kiddle was. 🙂 …as well as maresydotes and doseydotes. [/QUOTE] You could be right. I started to use that version, but something about “kids’ll” as opposed to “kid’ll” was running through my mind. (I was thinking about goats in either case.) Maybe the “official lyrics” exist online. I didn’t look before posting. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/56 "2008-04-08T22:38:40Z")
[QUOTE=Onomatopoeia] I always thought it was “…A kid’ll eat ivy too…” [/QUOTE] It is. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/57 "2008-04-08T22:39:51Z")
> **[Mairzy Doats](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mairzy_Doats)** > > “Mairzy Doats” is a novelty song written and composed in 1943 by Milton Drake, Al Hoffman, and Jerry Livingston. It contains lyrics that make no sense as written, but are near homophones of meaningful phrases. The song's title, for example, is a homophone of "Mares eat oats". > The song was first played on radio station WOR, New York, by Al Trace and his Silly Symphonists. It made the pop charts several times, with a version by the Merry Macs reaching No. 1 in March 1944. The song was also a numbe... ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/58 "2008-04-08T22:48:01Z")
[QUOTE=OpalCat] > **[Mairzy Doats](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mairzy_Doats)** > > "Mairzy Doats" is a novelty song written and composed in 1943 by Milton Drake, Al Hoffman, and Jerry Livingston. It contains lyrics that make no sense as written, but are near homophones of meaningful phrases. The song's title, for example, is a homophone of "Mares eat oats". > The song was first played on radio station WOR, New York, by Al Trace and his Silly Symphonists. It made the pop charts several times, with a version by the Merry Macs reaching No. 1 in March 1944. The song was also a num... [/QUOTE] Thanks. I checked for the “kids’ll” version and only found one hit. It was a chat page. So much for my memory’s version. ---
**Author:** ![Gregor\_Samsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@Gregor\_Samsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gregor_Samsa)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/59 "2008-04-08T23:16:54Z")
I always thought the song “Shake Your Booty” meant shake your foot (you know, your boot) until maybe two years ago when it finally dawned on me. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2008, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/60 "2008-04-08T23:32:41Z")
[QUOTE=hajario] Yeah, I know, but I only had a fifteen second attention span in which to get the point across. [/QUOTE] My confession: I saw JB in concert when the song first came out and didn’t know it either until he intro’d the song with a story about the unlucky soundman who was the subject of the song. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401.md?page=4)