# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![medstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f07891/32.png) [@medstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/medstar)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/61 "2008-04-09T00:29:07Z")
I mentioned this in another thread in Cafe Society, but here it is again. I noticed that On Broadway theatres gave out Tony awards, but Off Broadway theatres handed out Obie awards. I wondered if O B were a famous actor, producer, etc who the awards were named after, but I finally figured out that Obie was short for Off Broadway. Only took me about 20 years. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Controvert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@The\_Controvert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Controvert)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/62 "2008-04-09T00:51:29Z")
“[Summer of '69](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTf52IsksKI)” works just as well without the apostrophe. ---
**Author:** ![MichaelQReilly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@MichaelQReilly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelQReilly)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/63 "2008-04-09T00:58:34Z")
I was an ambitious reader as a child, taking on quite a few books that were out of my league. As a result there were several words that aren’t pronounced like they are spelled that I never made the connection between. For example, it probably wasn’t until I was 13 or so that I realized that “jeneer” and genre were the same thing, that “Puhmonia” and Pneumonia aren’t two different illnesses, and that the “Nazzees” and the Nazis were the same people. ---
**Author:** ![Helena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c68b51/32.png) [@Helena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/64 "2008-04-09T01:09:45Z")
On the Winnie-the-Pooh theme, I only just recently realized that Owl and Rabbit are a _real_ owl and rabbit. (Not stuffed like the other animals.) ---
**Author:** ![athelas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@athelas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/athelas)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/65 "2008-04-09T01:25:23Z")
[QUOTE=MichaelQReilly] I was an ambitious reader as a child, taking on quite a few books that were out of my league. As a result there were several words that aren’t pronounced like they are spelled that I never made the connection between. For example, it probably wasn’t until I was 13 or so that I realized that “jeneer” and genre were the same thing, that “Puhmonia” and Pneumonia aren’t two different illnesses, and that the “Nazzees” and the Nazis were the same people. [/QUOTE] Ah, I had gadget and gad-get. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/66 "2008-04-09T01:42:30Z")
[QUOTE=Gregor Samsa] 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. [/QUOTE] You win. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/67 "2008-04-09T02:56:02Z")
[QUOTE=athelas] Ah, I had gadget and gad-get. [/QUOTE] Mine was the moment of dawning light when I realized that “epi-faney” and epiphany were the same. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/68 "2008-04-09T03:16:32Z")
[QUOTE=OpalCat] Mine was the moment of dawning light when I realized that “epi-faney” and epiphany were the same. [/QUOTE] You had an epiphany about the word “epiphany”? ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/69 "2008-04-09T03:23:19Z")
[QUOTE=KneadToKnow] _The Matrix_. Morpheus believes Neo is “The One.” What just occurred to me the other day? _Neo_ and _one_ are anagrams. :smack: [/QUOTE] This took me a long time … about an _eon_ :eek: ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/70 "2008-04-09T03:32:31Z")
[QUOTE=ShibbOleth] You had an epiphany about the word “epiphany”? [/QUOTE] Yes. I was just trying to phrase it without actually using the word. ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/71 "2008-04-09T03:54:57Z")
I didn’t _just_ get this one, but it was definitely obvious. There’s a news show on Louisiana public television called [Louisiana: The State We’re In](http://www.lpb.org/programs/swi/). One day, it aired after something else my mother and I were watching on PBS. “Well, duh,” I snickered, “_of course_ Louisiana is the state we’re in!” When Mom finished laughing five minutes later, she pointed out that “the state we’re in” has another meaning. ETA: I think I was in college when this happened. Possibly late high school, but definitely old enough to know better. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/72 "2008-04-09T13:26:38Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] 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 [/QUOTE] I think that \*\*Hal \*\*would like all of these. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/73 "2008-04-09T13:38:31Z")
[QUOTE=Snickers] I think that \*\*Hal \*\*would like all of these. [/QUOTE] Plus, perhaps, _Embraceable Ewe._ ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/74 "2008-04-09T13:41:56Z")
After watching the _Wizard of Oz_ countless times - first the yearly broadcast on network, then weekly viewing on VHS with TheKid when she was little - I was 30 beofre I realized the farmhands were the Scarecrow, Lion, and Tin Man. Duh. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/75 "2008-04-09T13:43:46Z")
[QUOTE=KneadToKnow] _The Matrix_. Morpheus believes Neo is “The One.” What just occurred to me the other day? _Neo_ and _one_ are anagrams. :smack: [/QUOTE] In fairness, I came into this movie after the opening scenes and thought his name was NEIL the entire movie. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/76 "2008-04-09T13:46:11Z")
There’s an old standard _But Not For Me_ that’s one of those “list songs” of things that are not for the person doing the singing. At some point “knot” gets mentioned in the context of “wedding knot” and then it’s said (paraphrasing), “but there’s no knot for me” (or similar – I could go find the lyrics, but that’s not the point). It took me years to get the message. Before that I just thought it was stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/77 "2008-04-09T13:47:28Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] In fairness, I came into this movie after the opening scenes and thought his name was NEIL the entire movie. [/QUOTE] And then you’d wonder about his LINE? ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/78 "2008-04-09T13:49:34Z")
On the word theme, I too was embarrassingly old before I realized that the word “eunuch” I’d seen in print and a “unick” that meant a castrated man were the same thing. :smack: I mean, geez, what on earth did I think a eunuch was when I read it? (I think, a slave, which is what they generally were.) ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/79 "2008-04-09T13:55:22Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] And then you’d wonder about his LINE? [/QUOTE] Well, I hadn’t realized I had missed the first 10 minutes of the flick and was sitting in a hospital ICU waiting room’s tv watching the missing first minutes going, " They made another MATRIX _that_ fast? and then " Oh, his name is NEO." I only figured out in the last 5 years that **Y.M.C.A** was a gay oriented song. I never paid attention to the lyrics when I was a lass. It was all about the _cowboy_. That tall hot looking gay cowboy. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/80 "2008-04-09T13:57:22Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] Well, I hadn’t realized I had missed the first 10 minutes of the flick and was sitting in a hospital ICU waiting room’s tv watching the missing first minutes going, " They made another MATRIX _that_ fast? and then " Oh, his name is NEO." I only figured out in the last 5 years that **Y.M.C.A** was a gay oriented song. I never paid attention to the lyrics when I was a lass. It was all about the _cowboy_. That tall hot looking gay cowboy. [/QUOTE] And to think how long it took for _Brokeback Mountain_ to arrive. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401.md?page=5)