# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/81 "2008-04-09T14:00:05Z")
[QUOTE=Natch!] A couple months ago I laughed myself silly at a friend who hadn’t realised until that moment that cobwebs are the same as spider webs. [/QUOTE] I came to that realization when I was reading _The Hobbit_ back in high school, and Bilbo was singing to the spider, calling it “lazy cob.” Hmm. Cob = spider? COBWEB = SPIDER WEB! ---
**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:** [April 9, 2008, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/82 "2008-04-09T14:01:13Z")
[QUOTE=kaylasdad99] Plus, perhaps, _Embraceable Ewe._ [/QUOTE] That and Prince’s classics “I Would Die 4 Ewe” and “Nothing Compares 2 Ewe.” ---
**Author:** ![simply\_cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@simply\_cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simply_cats)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/83 "2008-04-09T14:13:29Z")
Well, I kept hoping that I would see an “ah-ha” moment like mine, but it seems that I am going to have to go out on a stupid limb all by my lonesome. The single biggest :smack: moment I had was when it finally came to me that “auce” shrimp and “auce” catfish were not delicacies from “Auceland”… but instead it was “All U Can Eat.” This realization is even more :dubious: because I had also seen signs that advertised AYCE whatever, and I wondered if it was the same as AUCE, just with a British spelling. That moment of realization was definitely a lightbulb moment, but also the biggest “You are not as smart as you think you are” moment. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/84 "2008-04-09T14:55:55Z")
When I was maybe 8 years old, Ray Charles’ version of “Georgia on My Mind” was very popular, and I remember being on a family trip and it was playing on the radio. I asked if he was singing about the state of Georgia or a woman named Georgia, and everybody laughed at me and said that of course it was the state. I still don’t think it was a stupid question. ---
**Author:** ![Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f0a364/32.png) [@Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rube_E.Tewesday)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/85 "2008-04-09T14:59:24Z")
[QUOTE=Sigmagirl] When I was maybe 8 years old, Ray Charles’ version of “Georgia on My Mind” was very popular, and I remember being on a family trip and it was playing on the radio. I asked if he was singing about the state of Georgia or a woman named Georgia, and everybody laughed at me and said that of course it was the state. I still don’t think it was a stupid question. [/QUOTE] Not stupid at all, according to this wiki article, which says that it was actually written about a woman, but kept deliberately ambiguous. > **[Georgia on My Mind](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_on_my_mind)** > > "Georgia on My Mind" is a 1930 song written by Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell, and first recorded that same year by Carmichael at the RCA Victor Studios at 155 East 24th Street in New York City. The song has been most often associated with singer Ray Charles, who was a native of the U.S. state of Georgia in The South of the United States, and recorded it for his 1960 album The Genius Hits the Road. > In 1979, the State of Georgia through its General Assembly of Georgia (state legislature),... ---
**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, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/86 "2008-04-09T15:05:08Z")
I forgot to mention something I learned somewhere that further illuminates the spiderweb/cobweb issue. Apparently most of the cobwebs you see are spider web “tendrils,” now coated in dust, that traveling spiders leave behind. Of course dust-covered actual webs would qualify as cobwebs as well … but to realize that the reason they’re all over the frickin’ place in basements is because of traveling spiders was sort of an ah-ha moment for me. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/87 "2008-04-09T16:47:57Z")
[QUOTE=kaylasdad99] Plus, perhaps, _Embraceable Ewe._ [/QUOTE] Isn’t ‘The Embraceable Ewes’ the name of the cheerleader squad for the Rams? Or maybe I should say ‘wasn’t’. I don’t keep up with football (American or otherwise) and couldn’t even tell you what city the Rams are in, now, let alone whether they still have cheerleaders. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/88 "2008-04-09T17:29:58Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] 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] Me too. It wasn’t until I was with my husband that I found out the Village People were gay. And I just realized a couple months ago that Keifer Sutherland and Donald Sutherland are related. ---
**Author:** ![DudleyGarrett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DudleyGarrett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DudleyGarrett)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/89 "2008-04-09T17:33:05Z")
[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 [/QUOTE] Another one of the same vein… pretty funny, too. There is a furniture store in Providence, RI called Sofa King. They had a radio spot where they advertised their couches: “These couches are Sofa King Comfortable. They’re Sofa King Beautiful!” ---
**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, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/90 "2008-04-09T17:39:41Z")
[QUOTE=DudleyGarrett] Another one of the same vein… pretty funny, too. There is a furniture store in Providence, RI called Sofa King. They had a radio spot where they advertised their couches: “These couches are Sofa King Comfortable. They’re Sofa King Beautiful!” [/QUOTE] I can’t help but be reminded of the racehorse named Hoof Hearted… ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/91 "2008-04-09T17:40:26Z")
> [@](#): > > Not stupid at all, according to this wiki article, which says that it was actually written about a woman, but kept deliberately ambiguous Well, I feel vindicated. ---
**Author:** ![MrSquishy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@MrSquishy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrSquishy)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/92 "2008-04-09T17:54:14Z")
[QUOTE=The Controvert] “[Summer of '69](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTf52IsksKI)” works just as well without the apostrophe. [/QUOTE] 😕 I don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![MrSquishy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@MrSquishy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrSquishy)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/93 "2008-04-09T17:57:47Z")
My :smack: moments: It was only a few years ago I realized the word I heard as “segway” is the same word as the one I read as “segue”. Also, I thought “esoteric” meant the exact opposite of what it really means. I thought it was similar to “generic” or “common”. One more: I also used to think “sublime” was similar in meaning to “subtle”. I don’t know why. Because they both start with “sub-”? But I was never confused about “submarine” or “substantial”. Must have been the context in which I first heard it, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![manx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@manx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manx)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/94 "2008-04-09T18:01:50Z")
[QUOTE=InvisibleWombat] I came to that realization when I was reading _The Hobbit_ back in high school, and Bilbo was singing to the spider, calling it “lazy cob.” Hmm. Cob = spider? COBWEB = SPIDER WEB! [/QUOTE] Lightbulb!! ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/95 "2008-04-09T18:13:27Z")
On cobwebs and spider webs, it’s not all that obvious: [Staff Report: Are cobwebs made by spiders?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=7696968#post7696968) And, it wasn’t until this thread that I realized that Owl and Rabbit are real, not stuffed… or that Eeyore is hee-haw. Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![MrSquishy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@MrSquishy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrSquishy)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/96 "2008-04-09T18:31:27Z")
[QUOTE=C K Dexter Haven] On cobwebs and spider webs, it’s not all that obvious: [Staff Report: Are cobwebs made by spiders?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=7696968#post7696968) [/QUOTE] [Fixed that for you.](http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mcobweb.html) ---
**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, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/97 "2008-04-09T18:59:41Z")
[QUOTE=MrSquishy] 😕 I don’t get it. [/QUOTE] Are you familiar with the sexual position called 69? ---
**Author:** ![Tool\_of\_the\_Conspiracy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tool\_of\_the\_Conspiracy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tool_of_the_Conspiracy)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/98 "2008-04-09T21:30:56Z")
[QUOTE=The Controvert] “[Summer of '69](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTf52IsksKI)” works just as well without the apostrophe. [/QUOTE] Better, when you consider that Bryan Adams was born in November of '59. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/99 "2008-04-09T21:36:30Z")
On the sliding glass door to the copy room there’s a sticker of a rainbow. I always wondered why that was there. Until the morning that the light was off inside and I didn’t notice the sticker, and walked facefirst into the glass door. Hard. ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/100 "2008-04-09T22:52:50Z")
[QUOTE=Tristan] My wife thinks this. I have tried to convince her of the truth, but she doesn’t want to hear that at all. [/QUOTE] Ask her to describe a “cob” and explain how they spin those spiderweb-like webs. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401.md?page=6)