# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![JR\_Brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JR\_Brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JR_Brown)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2008, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/101 "2008-04-09T23:15:49Z")
[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] The merest suspicion of a shadow of a thought of such a thing had not so much as begun to cross my mind before reading his thread. 😃 While waking to the train just this Monday night (or possibly Tuesday, I forget), I was musing on a Dorothy Sayers mystery (set, of course, in England) featuring a college porter, and my impression that these so-called porters really didn’t carry much if anything; they mostly just sat around guarding the door… at which point the thought drifted by: port=carry, hmm, port=door, hey! :eek: JRB ---
**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, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/102 "2008-04-09T23:18:22Z")
[QUOTE=JR Brown] The merest suspicion of a shadow of a thought of such a thing had not so much as begun to cross my mind before reading his thread. 😃 While waking to the train just this Monday night (or possibly Tuesday, I forget), I was musing on a Dorothy Sayers mystery (set, of course, in England) featuring a college porter, and my impression that these so-called porters really didn’t carry much if anything; they mostly just sat around guarding the door… at which point the thought drifted by: port=carry, hmm, port=door, hey! :eek: JRB [/QUOTE] I wouldn’t be surprised to find one drinking some port, too. ---
**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, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/103 "2008-04-09T23:19:55Z")
And listing a bit to port. ---
**Author:** ![MrSquishy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@MrSquishy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrSquishy)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/104 "2008-04-10T01:03:20Z")
[QUOTE=Ellen Cherry] Are you familiar with the sexual position called 69? [/QUOTE] Sure, but does that have something to do with the song? Am I dense? ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/105 "2008-04-10T12:30:45Z")
[QUOTE=Missy2U] Me too. It wasn’t until I was with my husband that I found out the Village People were gay. [/QUOTE] Not all of them. I know Village Cop Ray Simpson and his wife and daughter. Did you know that Valerie Simpson of Ashford & Simpson is his sister? Speaking of sheep songs, the best one is Dolly Parton’s “Ewe Come Again” ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/106 "2008-04-10T12:54:35Z")
This isn’t an _obvious_ thing, but my ah ha! moment was during the movie **Traffic**. [Miguel Ferrer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_Ferrer) was being interrogated and his voice reminded me of the emperor in **Dune**. Waitaminnit! Miguel Ferrer? [Jose Ferrer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Ferrer)? Pow! ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/107 "2008-04-10T18:04:38Z")
[QUOTE=The Controvert] “[Summer of '69](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTf52IsksKI)” works just as well without the apostrophe. [/QUOTE] Are you actually saying that “Summer of 69” is about 69 the sex act? Because I don’t think so in this case. I think it’s just as it seems… 1969. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/108 "2008-04-10T18:13:16Z")
[QUOTE=Enright3] Are you actually saying that “Summer of 69” is about 69 the sex act? Because I don’t think so in this case. I think it’s just as it seems… 1969. [/QUOTE] I read an interview with Bryan Adams where it was originally going to be titled “Summer of '75”, but his record label made him change it (even though Adams was 9 in the summer of '69) because “No one gives a shit about the 70s.” ---
**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:** [April 10, 2008, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/109 "2008-04-10T19:50:49Z")
I just last night, while watching _Groundhog Day_ realized that the whole story about the groundhog and the shadow and the winter is all just supposed to be a dark joke. Because there’s _always_ six more weeks of winter after Feb 2. And, the only way you couldn’t see your shadow is in the middle of a storm. So the winter is either long or it’s long _and_ hard. ---
**Author:** ![spifflog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@spifflog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spifflog)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/110 "2008-04-10T20:02:02Z")
[QUOTE=simply\_cats] 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.” [/QUOTE] I don’t think I’ve ever seen the term AUCE in my life. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/111 "2008-04-10T20:12:42Z")
For a couple of years I though there were two singers: The one I heard about called “Fiancee” and the one I read about called “Be-younce.” ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/112 "2008-04-10T20:16:16Z")
[QUOTE=spifflog] I don’t think I’ve ever seen the term AUCE in my life. [/QUOTE] Nor have I, but there was a sense of recognition when I saw AUCE, because I immediately thought of the weird jazz song that Nat King Cole and lately Diana Krall have sung where the lyrics have things like (pardon my spelling) “Frim Fram Sauce, AUCE-on-fay, and Sha-fa-fa on the side.” I may have to go locate the real lyrics if anybody challenges that the song exists. But that’s exactly what I thought of. ---
**Author:** ![Meltdown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Meltdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meltdown)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/113 "2008-04-10T20:17:44Z")
[QUOTE=MrSquishy] 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”. [/QUOTE] :smack: And it was only just now that I realized that as well. Reading it, I guess I always kind of assumed it was pronounced “seg.” I’m not sure why it never dawned on me that I never heard “seg” in actual conversation. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/114 "2008-04-10T20:30:51Z")
[QUOTE=Meltdown] :smack: And it was only just now that I realized that as well. Reading it, I guess I always kind of assumed it was pronounced “seg.” I’m not sure why it never dawned on me that I never heard “seg” in actual conversation. [/QUOTE] :smack: :smack: My contribution, which I think I’ve mentioned before, is what I discovered last Christmas. When in ‘‘The 12 Days of Christmas,’’ my true love gives me _six geese a laying_, those geese are in fact laying… _eggs._ My freshman year of college I once remarked I was the EP-i-tohm of coolness. (Epitome. The weird thing is, I knew how to say it. For some reason, I just pronounced it the way I always do inside my head, incorrectly. I still get teased about that.) I’m also now confused about the correct pronunciation of _genre_ because myself and everyone I know say, JON-ruh, not jen-EER. ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/115 "2008-04-10T20:44:12Z")
[QUOTE=Enright3] Are you actually saying that “Summer of 69” is about 69 the sex act? Because I don’t think so in this case. I think it’s just as it seems… 1969. [/QUOTE] Exactly. Wouldn’t the lyrics have been something like: > [@](#): > > Head standin’ on a mama’s porch > You told me it would last forever > Oh the way you held my wand > I knew that it was now or never > Those were the best days of my life ---
**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 10, 2008, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/116 "2008-04-10T21:25:49Z")
[QUOTE=iamthewalrus(:3=] Because there’s _always_ six more weeks of winter after Feb 2. And, the only way you couldn’t see your shadow is in the middle of a storm. So the winter is either long or it’s long _and_ hard. [/QUOTE] What’s funny is that it struck me one day that Spring begins on March 21, essentially seven weeks after Groundhog Day. Which means that either of the groundhog’s predictions (six more weeks of winter, early spring) are equally right or wrong at all times. Making Groundhog Day basically Schrödinger’s Cat Day. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/117 "2008-04-10T21:34:28Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] > [@JR Brown](#): > > The merest suspicion of a shadow of a thought of such a thing had not so much as begun to cross my mind before reading his thread. > > While waking to the train just this Monday night (or possibly Tuesday, I forget), I was musing on a Dorothy Sayers mystery (set, of course, in England) featuring a college porter, and my impression that these so-called porters really didn’t carry much if anything; they mostly just sat around guarding the door… at which point the thought drifted by: > > ``` > port=carry, > hmm, > port=door, > hey! > > ``` I wouldn’t be surprised to find one drinking some port, too. [/QUOTE] Or possibly [porter](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter_(beer)). ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/118 "2008-04-10T21:41:59Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] I can’t help but be reminded of the racehorse named Hoof Hearted… [/QUOTE] Hoof Hearted in the lead, Ice Melted coming up fast… Joe ---
**Author:** ![xanthous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/53a042/32.png) [@xanthous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xanthous)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/119 "2008-04-10T22:00:54Z")
I only recently really deconstructed the name “The Beatles” in my head. That name (and that band) has been in my life since I was born, so I never really thought about what the name means. It’s not just a play on the word “beetle”, it’s also a play on the word “beat”. Like, I just never “got” it before now… d.u.h. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2008, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/120 "2008-04-10T22:06:29Z")
[QUOTE=xanthous] I only recently really deconstructed the name “The Beatles” in my head. That name (and that band) has been in my life since I was born, so I never really thought about what the name means. It’s not just a play on the word “beetle”, it’s also a play on the word “beat”. Like, I just never “got” it before now… d.u.h. [/QUOTE] However apochryphal the story, I like that they modeled their name after The Crickets (Buddy Holly) and that earlier they were The Quarrymen (for guys who dig rock, perhaps). John and Paul did enjoy twisting words about. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401.md?page=7)