# Stump the dope with your most obscure reference **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 13, 2005, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904 "2005-11-13T22:59:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/201 "2005-11-16T02:49:04Z")
> [@Dragwyr](#): > > “I’ve heard of unisex but I’ve never had it.” Michael Palin as a man in the street during a Monty Python sketch. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/202 "2005-11-16T02:51:31Z")
How about a line I still quote (usually under my breath) almost weekly. “Next step, rocket science.” –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Moe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moe/32/2972_2.png) [@Moe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moe)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/203 "2005-11-16T02:57:26Z")
> [@Robot Arm](#): > > I remember the exchange, but I have to admit I didn’t remember it was with you. Bonsai are still doing one or two reunion shows a year, and new CDs when they get enough material. And The Bottom Line has closed since that show, hasn’t it? It has indeed, which is quite sad. It was a wonderful venue for some of the best music of many genres. Just checked the Bonsai site and unfortunately neither of the listed shows are near me. ☹ And while I’m posting I’ll add one more clue to my referrence. To recap: **"I can crawl again"** Hint: there was a doper a few years ago who had an extended quote from this movie as his/her sig. Hint2: bizarre 70s movie. The lead was played by an actor who also played a recurring role on M.A.S.H. Hint3: the movie was a psychedelic version of Jesus Christ set as a western. Hint4: it also had that little “the plane the plane!!” guy in it. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/204 "2005-11-16T03:26:54Z")
> [@Cliffy](#): > > “Next step, rocket science.” Oh my god! I muffed it! The line is “Next **stop** , rocket science.” :smack: –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/205 "2005-11-16T03:28:09Z")
Here are a few - > [@](#): > > ``` > But possibly I am something more than I suppose myself to be, and perhaps all those perfections which I attribute to God are in some way potentially in me, although they do not yet disclose themselves, or issue in action > > ``` > [@](#): > > IT HAD BEEN a bad night, and when he tried to drive home he had a terrible argument with his car. > [@](#): > > The old gentleman is rusty to look at, but is reputed to have made good thrift out of aristocratic marriage settlements and aristocratic wills, and to be very rich. > [@](#): > > I hope you like baked beans & square-dancing as much as I do! > [@](#): > > “That will do. I have as much more to add to it. We must push for Carson City through the mountains. You had best wake Lucy. It is as well that the servants do not sleep in > the house.” > [@](#): > > Hence it happens that the whole interest of history lies in the fortunes of the poor. Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world. > [@](#): > > We are often aware that we have been dreaming, but we do not know of what we have dreamed; and we are so well used to this fact- that the dream is liable to be forgotten- that we do not reject as absurd the possibility that we may have been dreaming even when, in the morning, we know nothing either of the content of the dream or of the fact that we have dreamed . > [@](#): > > While he was speaking, the bell of the engine rang, and we dashed away, after dropping a few passengers, but receiving no new ones. Rattling onward through the Valley, we were dazzled with the fiercely gleaming gas-lamps, as before. But sometimes, in the dark of intense brightness, grim faces, that bore the aspect and expression of individual sins, or evil passions, seemed to thrust themselves > through the veil of light, glaring upon us, and stretching forth a great dusky hand, as if to impede our progress. ---
**Author:** ![ms.deanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b3f665/32.png) [@ms.deanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ms.deanna)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/206 "2005-11-16T05:51:39Z")
“…now go get your fuckin’ shine box!” ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/207 "2005-11-16T05:54:43Z")
I still have one out: “When I’m by myself or with someone…uh, Burt.” Here’s another: “Three thousand munchkins and a troll.” ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/208 "2005-11-16T06:06:17Z")
What’s so unpleasant about being drunk? ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/209 "2005-11-16T06:11:18Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > What’s so unpleasant about being drunk? Ask a glass of water. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/210 "2005-11-16T06:18:24Z")
> [@fishbicycle](#): > > I still have one out: > > “When I’m by myself or with someone…uh, Burt.” > > Here’s another: > > “Three thousand munchkins and a troll.” I still have one out, too: “It…all…started with this…condom factory.” “‘Were you in an accident?’ ‘No, me father was a tree’.” ---
**Author:** ![bizzwire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/958977/32.png) [@bizzwire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bizzwire)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/211 "2005-11-16T06:50:42Z")
> [@fishbicycle](#): > > In the flagon with the dragon. “The Court Jester” (Danny Kaye). Unless I’m mistaken, the flagon with the dragon holds the brew that it is true; the pellet with the poison is in the vessel with the pestle. ---
**Author:** ![bizzwire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/958977/32.png) [@bizzwire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bizzwire)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/212 "2005-11-16T07:08:38Z")
> [@Moe](#): > > It has indeed, which is quite sad. It was a wonderful venue for some of the best music of many genres. > > Just checked the Bonsai site and unfortunately neither of the listed shows are near me. ☹ > > And while I’m posting I’ll add one more clue to my referrence. > > To recap: **"I can crawl again"** > > Hint: there was a doper a few years ago who had an extended quote from this movie as his/her sig. > > Hint2: bizarre 70s movie. The lead was played by an actor who also played a recurring role on M.A.S.H. > > Hint3: the movie was a psychedelic version of Jesus Christ set as a western. > > Hint4: it also had that little “the plane the plane!!” guy in it. _Greaser’s Palace_? ---
**Author:** ![bizzwire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/958977/32.png) [@bizzwire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bizzwire)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/213 "2005-11-16T07:11:34Z")
> [@ms.deanna](#): > > “…now go get your fuckin’ shine box!” _Goodfellas_ I’m on fire. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/214 "2005-11-16T07:31:26Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > “‘Were you in an accident?’ > ‘No, me father was a tree’.” That’s that peg-armed and -legged sailor on _Family Guy_. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/215 "2005-11-16T07:35:27Z")
> [@bizzwire](#): > > Unless I’m mistaken, the flagon with the dragon holds the brew that it is true; the pellet with the poison is in the vessel with the pestle. They broke the chalice from the palace. They replaced with with a flagon. With a figure of a dragon. Is the pellet with the poison in the flagon with the dragon? No! The pellet with the poison is in the vessel with the pestle, the flagon with the dragon has the brew that is true. By Jove, I think he’s right. ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/216 "2005-11-16T08:11:42Z")
> [@ArchitectChore](#): > > pancakes in the Age of Enlightenment That’s from Mikey during breakfast in “Swingers.” (I should have just said, “Hey, can I jump your ignorant bones?”) I’m probably not the first one ID that one. Mine is usally the last line in my phone conversation with my buddy Todd: \*\*“I have to go kill everybody.” \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/217 "2005-11-16T08:18:11Z")
> [@Rodd Hill](#): > > “I’ll have a croque monsieur, the paella, two mutton pills and a stein of mead!” “I’ll just take two injections of Femislim.” “Two . . . chili dogs . . .” – _Futurama_, “Roswell That Ends Well” On preview, I see that **kaylasdad** already got it, but I’ve got the followup dialogue, so I’m posting it anyway. Mine are below. I expect someone to get the first three, and I will be mightily surprised if someone gets the fourth. “Not you. Hugh.” “What about the day you took me to skatetown USA? It was raining and there wasn’t anywhere we could play. We skated backwards while we held onto each other’s hands, made up choreography to KC and the Sunshine Band.” “tenshi ga hohoemu to koi wa hajimaru no tenshi ga hohoemu to koi wa umaku yuku kitto umaku yuku” " “À Benibanane,” C’est comme ça qu’on les aime pour pas payer de droits, ni à la SABAM, ni à la SACEM" ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/218 "2005-11-16T08:23:51Z")
> [@Bambi Hassenpfeffer](#): > > “Not you. Hugh.” Star Trek: The Next Generation, the naming of Hugh the Borg. ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/219 "2005-11-16T08:33:46Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > Star Trek: The Next Generation, the naming of Hugh the Borg. I knew someone would get it quickly. The episode name was “I, Borg”, making it another reference all on its own. Here’s another one: “Who expects small things to last when even the largest get lost? People forget years and remember moments. Seconds and symbols are left to sum things up . . . Love, in its simplest form, becomes a word.” ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/220 "2005-11-16T08:43:48Z")
> [@astro](#): > > I hope you like baked beans & square-dancing as much as I do! Man, I hate cubicle roommates… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904.md?page=12)