# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/161 "2008-04-12T12:58:07Z")
[QUOTE=Bill Door] Fisher Stevens played Benjamin Jabituya in _Short Circuit_. I must be the only one in North America who didn’t know this. [/QUOTE] And at the same time as this, he was hooked up with Michelle Pfeiffer. It defied all sense. ---
**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 12, 2008, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/162 "2008-04-12T13:04:14Z")
[QUOTE=GargoyleWB] :smack: Huh. How about that. I’m normally good at spotting these things. [/QUOTE] Me too. And I loved Alien Nation. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/163 "2008-04-12T13:20:39Z")
[QUOTE=Bill Door] Fisher Stevens played Benjamin Jabituya in _Short Circuit_. I must be the only one in North America who didn’t know this. [/QUOTE] Naw. Not only did I not know he played Benjamin Jabituya, I also don’t remember the movie well enough to remember Benjamin Jabituya was in the film, nor do I know who Fisher Stevens is… ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/164 "2008-04-12T14:49:37Z")
It finally occurred to me that the region known as Kazakhstan might have something to do with “Cossack”. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/165 "2008-04-12T14:58:22Z")
[QUOTE=KneadToKnow] 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. [/QUOTE] See this thread on the timing of Groundhog’s Day: > **[Groundhog day question: calendar- season shift?](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=454126)** > > Cecil has done a couple of columns about Groundhog’s Day, but neither answers the question I have: How could there NOT be six more weeks of winter following February 2? When in recorded history did the snow melt and the grass start growing in early... ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Prize](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@Sir\_Prize](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Prize)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/166 "2008-04-12T15:25:31Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] It was a while before I realized Bart Simpson’s teacher “Mrs. Kra-bapple” was actually a play on “crab apple.” [/QUOTE] I always thought she was named after the teacher from the Lil’ Rascles. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/167 "2008-04-12T15:30:19Z")
[QUOTE=Lumpy] It finally occurred to me that the region known as Kazakhstan might have something to do with “Cossack”. [/QUOTE] I used to think this as well, but something I read once made me not so sure. I can’t find what I read before, but [url=[http://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/sympo/97summer/galiev.html](http://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/sympo/97summer/galiev.html)]here, for example, “Kazakhs” and “Cossacks” are used to refer to distinct groups. That doesn’t eliminate the possibility that the two words are etymologically related though. -FrL- ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Prize](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@Sir\_Prize](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Prize)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/168 "2008-04-12T15:34:16Z")
[QUOTE=Sir Prize] Lil’ Rascles. [/QUOTE] Little Rascals (edit window had closed) ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/169 "2008-04-12T15:51:32Z")
[QUOTE=Frylock] I used to think this as well, but something I read once made me not so sure. I can’t find what I read before, but [here, for example, “Kazakhs” and “Cossacks” are used to refer to distinct groups. That doesn’t eliminate the possibility that the two words are etymologically related though. -FrL- [/QUOTE] Okay, [url=[Kazakhs - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakhs)]here]([Traditional Institutions in Modern Kazakhstan](http://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/sympo/97summer/galiev.html)) it says the “Cosscacks ~ Kazakhs” theory is one of a few different theories as to the origin of the two terms. -FrL- ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/170 "2008-04-12T17:20:32Z")
[QUOTE=Bill Door] Fisher Stevens played Benjamin Jabituya in _Short Circuit_. I must be the only one in North America who didn’t know this. [/QUOTE] Heh. When that episode was on I said “Oh cool! It’s that guy from Short Circuit and Key West and stuff!” and my boyfriend had no idea what I was talking about ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2008, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/171 "2008-04-13T10:14:03Z")
I just got the reference of the principal’s name (Victoria) on _South Park._ :smack: ---
**Author:** ![phil417](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6bbea6/32.png) [@phil417](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phil417)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/172 "2008-04-14T06:31:13Z")
I recently finished a Pratchett Discworld book where the wizards’ home was something like “Dunromin”. It didn’t occur to me until earlier this evening that it was “Done Roaming”…is this something like the Dew Drop Inn? ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/173 "2008-04-14T07:25:02Z")
[QUOTE=Ranchoth] You think that’s bad? It took me until a couple of years ago to realize that Rabbit was supposed to be male. [/QUOTE] To be fair, he is a bit of a Drama Queen. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/174 "2008-04-14T07:49:54Z")
[QUOTE=phil417] I recently finished a Pratchett Discworld book where the wizards’ home was something like “Dunromin”. It didn’t occur to me until earlier this evening that it was “Done Roaming”..is this something like the Dew Drop Inn? [/QUOTE] Don’t know about that, but the Discworld gods hang around atop the mountain at the world’s hub, Cori Celesti, in a really tacky house called “Dunmanifestin”. ---
**Author:** ![Stoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stoid/32/272_2.png) [@Stoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stoid)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/175 "2008-04-14T08:30:28Z")
I didn’t JUSt get it, but I was very much an adult before it dawned on me that the Scarecrow was actually the smartest of the group…the Tin Man was the most loving and the Cowardly Lion actually the bravest. Duh. ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/176 "2008-04-14T08:39:23Z")
[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas] Me too. And I loved Alien Nation. :smack: [/QUOTE] That’s similar to J.K. Rowling’s Diagon Alley and Knock Turn Alley. I totally whiffed on those until Ron’s dad said in one of the movies, “Did he say diagonally?” (Apologies if I missed those somewhere else in the thread. Probably it was somewhere obvious too.) ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/177 "2008-04-14T09:33:03Z")
If you watch [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxlK4xVNe60) Youtube clip, it is the band performing. I couldn’t work out why so many umbrellas were being waved around on a fine day. It hit me how obvious it was. ---
**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 14, 2008, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/178 "2008-04-14T11:13:32Z")
Two more I have thought of: **Sports Related** I never knew the Washington Redskins were based out of DC. I always thought they were out of Washington State. My logic was that DC was too small too hold a stadium. **Religion** I went to Catholic School for 12 years. I am a daughter of a former nun. You could have pushed me over with a feather the moment it dawned on me that Jesus was jewish. I was in my late twenties when that hit me. Until then, I guess I had thought he was Catholic, or something. ---
**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 14, 2008, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/179 "2008-04-14T12:28:03Z")
For years I used the expressions “eye candy” (something nice to look at) and “nose candy” (cocaine) without realizing the connection to the two. ---
**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 16, 2008, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401/180 "2008-04-16T21:32:13Z")
[QUOTE=Stoid] I didn’t JUSt get it, but I was very much an adult before it dawned on me that the Scarecrow was actually the smartest of the group…the Tin Man was the most loving and the Cowardly Lion actually the bravest. Duh. [/QUOTE] I never got it in the movie, but my daughters are reading the book right now, and it’s quite clear there. The scarecrow is always the one who comes up with plans to get around obstacles. In the book version of _The Wizard of Oz_, I have a hunch that the Emerald City isn’t really green. All visitors and residents have green-glass goggles locked around their heads “to protect their eyes” from the dazzling greenitude. It’s possible that this is revealed in a part of the book that they haven’t read yet or I wasn’t listening to. (We also had quite a discussion about whether the premeditated murder of the wicked witch was justified, to get Oz’s help.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-obvious-stuff-you-just-got/444401.md?page=10)