# 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:** 12
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/221 "2005-11-16T08:58:27Z")
A 1943 calendar from Joey’s Garage in Elk Hill, Ohio–specifically the months of February through May. ---
**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, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/222 "2005-11-16T12:39:01Z")
> [@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. Sorry, you’re mistaken. You got it backwards. ---
**Author:** ![polljoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3be4f8/32.png) [@polljoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/polljoe)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/223 "2005-11-16T12:57:31Z")
Stumper "Who wrote The Brothers Grimm "? Ehren Kruger ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/224 "2005-11-16T16:27:37Z")
“It must have been more of a _tiff_ then.” ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/225 "2005-11-16T16:34:21Z")
What Cartoon Character had an adventure entitled “I’m Dreaming of a Wide Isthmus”? _Cartoon_ character – not “The Wackiest Ship in the Army”. ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/226 "2005-11-16T16:38:57Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > Star Trek: The Next Generation, the naming of Hugh the Borg. Interesting, because the line originally comes from the movie “What’s Up, Doc?” ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/227 "2005-11-16T16:41:15Z")
> [@fishbicycle](#): > > “Three thousand munchkins and a troll.” 50,000 pounds of bananas, the live version. > [@Der Trihs](#): > > “It must have been more of a tiff then.” Yellowbeard. “Don’t let them see you, stay out of the sun, and _be yourselves._” ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/228 "2005-11-16T16:42:20Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > I have a quote I love to use because no one will ever recognize the source. Ever. > > “Absolutely toast. Nothing could be futher from the handbag.” > > No googling. I haven’t even checked to see if it’s on google, actually. 5 pages and no answer that I saw. And no, it ain’t on Google. It looks like something from the Monty Python sketch “Thripshaw’s disease”. But I don’t remember that line specifically, so perhaps it’s from a version that was in a book or on a record? Or in the film :“And Now For Something Completely Different” ---
**Author:** ![Foaming\_Cleanser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f05b48/32.png) [@Foaming\_Cleanser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foaming_Cleanser)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/229 "2005-11-16T17:04:58Z")
“Great. They’ve got Clarence Darrow. We’ve got Larry, Moe and Curly.” ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/230 "2005-11-16T17:26:39Z")
"I just want to get one thing clear. I don’t work on January 8… …'cause that’s Elvis’s birthday." ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/231 "2005-11-16T17:30:55Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > 50,000 pounds of bananas, the live version. > > Yellowbeard. Yup. Love that scene. ---
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/232 "2005-11-16T17:37:21Z")
astro - is your "IT HAD BEEN a bad night, and when he tried to drive home he had a terrible argument with his car. " from The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul ? It sounds familiar; I’m trying not to cheat on these. Another: There will days like this, days and days. ---
**Author:** ![kingpengvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@kingpengvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingpengvin)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/233 "2005-11-16T17:43:27Z")
> [@bizzwire](#): > > “now get your fuck’n shine box” > _Goodfellas_ > > I’m on fire. I’ll one up you! It was said by Billy Batts to Tommy. This is what sent Tommy over the edge leading to him and Jimmy whacking the guy. Here is one “I’m having a good time because you don’t know if we’re nude or not!” “Get out” “Me and my brother here are nude” ---
**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, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/234 "2005-11-16T17:54:06Z")
> [@bizzwire](#): > > _Greaser’s Palace_? DING DING DING!!! We have a winner ladies and gentlemen. Bonus points to whoever can name the doper who had the extended quote from this movie as his/her sig a few years ago, and the quote itself. I’m eligible for this bonus as well, because I can’t remember who it was, nor the exact quote. ---
**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, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/235 "2005-11-16T18:20:53Z")
> [@scotandrsn](#): > > 5 pages and no answer that I saw. And no, it ain’t on Google. > > It looks like something from the Monty Python sketch “Thripshaw’s disease”. But I don’t remember that line specifically, so perhaps it’s from a version that was in a book or on a record? Or in the film :“And Now For Something Completely Different” Nope, not Python. ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/236 "2005-11-16T18:31:17Z")
> [@Rodd Hill](#): > > “Ha-ha-ha-ha! Wonderful woman. Very free-spirited. We’re all very fond of her.” That’s from The Big Lebowski, spoken of Mrs. Lebowski > [@Roadfood](#): > > “Today you come into some money, tomorrow you get hit by a Buick. It’s the Yin and Yang.” I’m guessing this is from My Name Is Earl > [@kingpengvin](#): > > Movie > “I’ll Crush your head like a nut… but I won’t because I need you!” It’s “I COULD crush your head like a nut…” and it’s from Strange Brew. Max Von Sydow says it to the manager of the Elsinore Brewery ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/237 "2005-11-16T18:39:49Z")
> [@fishbicycle](#): > > Sorry, you’re mistaken. You got it backwards. From the IMDB: Hawkins: I’ve got it! I’ve got it! The pellet with the poison’s in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true! Right? Griselda: Right. But there’s been a change: they broke the chalice from the palace! Hawkins: They _broke_ the chalice from the palace? Griselda: And replaced it with a flagon. Hawkins: A flagon…? Griselda: With the figure of a dragon. Hawkins: Flagon with a dragon. Griselda: Right. Hawkins: But did you put the pellet with the poison in the vessel with the pestle? Griselda: No! The pellet with the poison’s in the flagon with the dragon! The vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true! Hawkins: The pellet with the poison’s in the flagon with the dragon; the vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true. Griselda: Just remember that. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/238 "2005-11-16T18:45:26Z")
Nobody guessed two of mine, so I’m re-posting them, and adding a few more. OLD: From popular music: “Your mother needs you now, She’s getting old. Her face was pretty, But you let her go.” From film: “This is a lock of his hair! This is a tooth he lost! And this bottle, it’s the smell of him…This is the smell of him. Oh God! THE SMELL OF HIM!” NEW: From comic books: “Woman, have you not foreseen that you are to marry this tree?” From television: “I’ll tell you what you can do with that offer…you can kiss my ass.” From popular music: “Some guy tried to shove up against me in a crowded subway car, Some guy tried to feed me a stupid line in some stupid bar…” From film: “I"M just as wanted as the rest of you all are!” ---
**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, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/239 "2005-11-16T18:56:27Z")
My apologies. Several of the Google entries on that phrase have got it backwards, too. I’ll just be over here in the corner, hitting myself. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/240 "2005-11-16T19:05:00Z")
> [@Foaming Cleanser](#): > > “Great. They’ve got Clarence Darrow. We’ve got Larry, Moe and Curly.” That sure sounds like DA Adam Schiff in “Law & Order.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904.md?page=13)