# 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:** 13
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/241 "2005-11-16T19:06:08Z")
> [@Art Vandelay](#): > > 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…” You know I see the same shit every day The landscape looks so bleak I think I’ll take the first one of you That does something unique… - Ani DiFranco ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/242 "2005-11-16T19:07:57Z")
> [@fishbicycle](#): > > 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. Wait a minute–according to that IMDB quote, you were right and the previous two had it backwards. The pellet was originally _supposed_ to be in the vessel, but in the end it was in the flagon. ---
**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, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/243 "2005-11-16T19:48:16Z")
> [@August West](#): > > 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 Bingo… oh yeah and thanks for the correction… " ---
**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, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/244 "2005-11-16T19:50:15Z")
> [@Ghanima](#): > > You know I see the same shit every day > The landscape looks so bleak > I think I’ll take the first one of you > That does something unique… > > - Ani DiFranco Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner. So, I’ll post another ‘popular music’ reference: “The guy at the pump has got a lot of soul. He sings ‘Merry Christmas’ to you just like Nat King Cole.” ---
**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, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/245 "2005-11-16T20:02:15Z")
OK, I’m done hitting myself. Guess I didn’t need to. I still have out: “When I’m by myself or with someone…uh, Burt.” And here’s a new one: “A dream date in knee pads with Paul Williams.” ---
**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, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/246 "2005-11-16T20:02:53Z")
Character 1 : “Are you aware that I can crush your skull like an eggshell ?” Character 2 : "Please don’t crush my skull like an eggshell. ---
**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, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/247 "2005-11-16T21:09:26Z")
> [@Art Vandelay](#): > > Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner. I believe that’s a reference to an earlier post in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/248 "2005-11-16T21:14:05Z")
> [@fishbicycle](#): > > “A dream date in knee pads with Paul Williams.” The Tubes … What Do you Want From Life? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Corrado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e4f/32.png) [@John\_Corrado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Corrado)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/249 "2005-11-16T21:30:14Z")
(singing) “Any old Ein, any old Ein, any-any-any-old Einstein; Any old time, any old time, any-any-any-old timestream…” ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/250 "2005-11-16T21:55:08Z")
“I had a yen for pink quail eggs” ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/251 "2005-11-16T22:24:37Z")
Seeing I didn’t get any bites on this one… _Oh Jesus, you bring me peace When you keeping away them po-lice._ …I’ll flip the card and reveal that it’s from the classic satirical novel _A Confederacy of Dunces._ Jones, the porter at the Night of Joy, sings this while sweeping out the place. Here’s a movie line: “Nice shoes. You make those in prison?” ---
**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, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/252 "2005-11-16T22:25:30Z")
Death ray, fiddlesticks. It doesn’t even slow them down. ---
**Author:** ![Vevila](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc8723/32.png) [@Vevila](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vevila)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2005, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/253 "2005-11-16T22:35:54Z")
> [@dangermom](#): > > A favorite of mine, but pretty obvious: > > As we swoop low on trees or sweep under carpets > We could dive into suns though it’s not recommended That’s from the band The Chills, from the album Submarine Bells,and the song is Heavenly Pop Hit. I love that album 🙂 ---
**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, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/254 "2005-11-16T23:01:55Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Death ray, fiddlesticks. It doesn’t even slow them down. It’s from an old Chas Addams cartoon. Originally in the _New Yorker_, I believe. ---
**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 17, 2005, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/255 "2005-11-17T03:54:24Z")
Here’s one… Geeez I’m goin’ crazy out there at the lake! ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/256 "2005-11-17T04:34:50Z")
“…do you know where I can get a little action?” And I says “what kinda action?” And he says “woman action. What kinda guy do you think I am?” And I says “well, what kinda place do you think this is? We don’t do that kinda thing around here…” That’s all I can remember at the moment. It’s from _Fargo_, the scene where the guy (presumably a bartender) is describing an encounter he had with a customer, and which eventually leads to Sheriff Marge finding the tan Cutlass Ciera. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/257 "2005-11-17T05:14:20Z")
> [@well he's back](#): > > 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. No! Kudos to you for not google cheating! ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/258 "2005-11-17T05:49:01Z")
You are not expected to understand this. Where is the Wing of Zock? Who is Egbert B. Gebstadter? “This series of books is affectionately dedicated to the Type 650 computer once installed at Case Institute of Technology, in remembrance of many pleasant evenings.” > [@](#): > > 1. Handcuff yourself to Lenin’s tomb. > 2. Handcuff yourself to Nicholas Katzenbach and shout: “We shall not be moved!” > 3. Travel to Havana. “It was as if, in some delightful way, his secret gave him a fortress, a wall behind which he could retreat into heavenly seclusion.” “When I hear a man proclaiming himself and ‘average, honest, open fellow,’ I feel pretty sure that he has some definite and perhaps terrible abnormality to conceal—and his protestation of being average and honest and open is his way of reminding himself of his misprision.” ---
**Author:** ![bizzwire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/958977/32.png) [@bizzwire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bizzwire)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/259 "2005-11-17T06:54:59Z")
[QUOTE=Derleth 1. Handcuff yourself to Lenin’s tomb. 2. Handcuff yourself to Nicholas Katzenbach and shout: “We shall not be moved!” 3. Travel to Havana."[/QUOTE] I forget the title, but I’m gonna guess that this is from Tulie Kupferberg’s Vietnam-era book on how to avoid the draft. (_1001 ways to avoid the draft_?) ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/260 "2005-11-17T07:04:56Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > > [@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. It was Terry Jones. [This site](http://home.earthlink.net/~dlarkins/slang-pg.htm) on Jazz Age slang suggests that “posilutely” was in common use at the time. I just happened to have been browsing over 1920s lingo recently. Long story. 🙂 Try these, one obvious and one not so much: “Did you get the grasses?” “Can I eat first?” “I don’t know why you’ll do things if you don’t mean it.” “I meant it! I just forgot.” “You can get the grasses after you finish eating.” “Thank you.” “And try to find some water. We’re going to need water if we plan on hiding out here.” “Yes, comrade! Anything else?” “…You know, we could’ve had these eggs in a quiche.” and “The years tear us apart I’m young and now you’re old But you’re still in my heart And the memory won’t grow cold” “What’s _my_ first name?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904.md?page=14)