# 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:** 14
**Author:** ![Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boulter_s_Canary)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/261 "2005-11-17T14:41:26Z")
> [@Biffy the Elephant Shrew](#): > > Thunderclap Newman, “Accidents” > > “It’s easy for you to say ‘Good Morning, Good Morning’ while you pour ‘sergeant pepper’ on your eggs, your eggs…” > > “Die Macht des Schicksals!” Good Ghu - Somebody else has read **‘Paperback Writer’** 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boulter_s_Canary)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/262 "2005-11-17T14:49:11Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Sorry, but no. I think that’s the one here with the most incorrect guesses. > > There are still several others of mine no one has gotten (or even guessed at). Time for a recap: > What did Katherine Mortenhoe do to make her a (fictional) celebrity? Die on camera in a world where people are immortal. - ‘The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe’ (Novel by D G Compton) and/or ‘Deathwatch’ (film). ---
**Author:** ![Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boulter_s_Canary)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/263 "2005-11-17T14:54:42Z")
> [@Der Trihs](#): > > “It must have been more of a _tiff_ then.” Yellowbeard ---
**Author:** ![Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boulter_s_Canary)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/264 "2005-11-17T14:57:48Z")
“I’d like to tell you people that I met her at a fair But I met her in a pub down by the far side of the square…” ---
**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 17, 2005, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/265 "2005-11-17T15:17:56Z")
I’d like to thank Remy Martin cognac for saving my life by being so bloody expensive. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/266 "2005-11-17T15:26:56Z")
RealityChuck writes: \> There are still several others of mine no one has gotten (or even guessed at). \> Time for a recap: \> \> [snip] \> \> What did Katherine Mortenhoe do to make her a (fictional) celebrity? \> \> [snip] I answered that clear back in post #28. ---
**Author:** ![Feydeau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Feydeau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feydeau)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/267 "2005-11-17T16:43:03Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > Who is Egbert B. Gebstadter? He is the author of a non-existent book referenced in the extensive bibliography of Hofstadter’s Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid. The biblio entry is quite odd, and very fitting if you’ve read the book. This is from memory, so I can’t tell you the title of Gebstadter’s book, only that it was publishd by Acidic Press (or Acidic Books?). ---
**Author:** ![Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boulter_s_Canary)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/268 "2005-11-17T16:54:36Z")
> [@Wendell Wagner](#): > > RealityChuck writes: > > \> There are still several others of mine no one has gotten (or even guessed at). > \> Time for a recap: > \> > \> [snip] > \> > \> What did Katherine Mortenhoe do to make her a (fictional) celebrity? > \> > \> [snip] > > I answered that clear back in post #28. So you did. BLAST! :smack: (That’ll teach me not to be a smug :wally). Anybody else get ‘Paperback Writer’? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/269 "2005-11-17T16:57:16Z")
Nobody’s guessed mine yet. 😛 ---
**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, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/270 "2005-11-17T17:24:44Z")
**bizzwire** : Yep. **Feydeau** : Yep. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/271 "2005-11-17T19:39:56Z")
The flagon with the dragon has the brew that is true… Get it? ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/272 "2005-11-17T19:52:24Z")
Since mine was answered 🙂 , here’s another…a bit of a lyrical snippet from my youth…no fair googling! “The never stop to think a mouse The always on the brink a mouse” ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/273 "2005-11-17T20:05:56Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > **bizzwire** : Yep. > **Feydeau** : Yep. Care for another Alamo, Hank? ---
**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 17, 2005, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/274 "2005-11-17T20:06:00Z")
> [@simster](#): > > The flagon with the dragon has the brew that is true… > > Get it? If you’re posting this as an obscure reference, one assumes you haven’t actually read this thread, which renders it obscure (to you, anyway). Bravo! [golf clap] ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/275 "2005-11-17T20:07:44Z")
I honestly hadnt gone thru all 6 pages… mea culpa… ---
**Author:** ![Roadfood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc348/32.png) [@Roadfood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadfood)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/276 "2005-11-17T20:50:15Z")
> [@fishbicycle](#): > > 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.” I haven’t checked this thread for a few days, otherwise I’d’ve answered this one right away. Of course I’d know it, given my user name. This is from the lead-in on the medley “Hi Rockers” on the Guess Who album “Rockin’”. You got the quote slightly wrong, though, it’s Burt doing the talking and the quote ends “… uh, Bri”. Burton Cummings is talking with Brian Christian, the recording engineer. “Have you ever seen a madras monkey?” ---
**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 17, 2005, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/277 "2005-11-17T20:54:14Z")
Since people are recapping their obscurity: I didn’t mean to kill the cat. “Don’t touch my eyes!” “And that is why this is a skillet.” “Don’t let them see you, stay out of the sun, and be yourselves.” I’d like to thank Remy Martin cognac for saving my life by being so bloody expensive. ---
**Author:** ![Roadfood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc348/32.png) [@Roadfood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadfood)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/278 "2005-11-17T20:57:53Z")
> [@August West](#): > > > [@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 Nope, not even close. It’s from a short-lived John Ritter TV series in 1987 called “Hooperman”. ---
**Author:** ![Roadfood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc348/32.png) [@Roadfood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadfood)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2005, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/279 "2005-11-17T21:12:20Z")
Ok, I’m going to break with tradition and rather than reposting my unsolveds, I’m going to provide the answers; after this time, I don’t think anyone will get them, and just in case anyone is curious: “Never keep a dog and bark for yourself.” This was said by Slippery Jim di Griz, known better as the Stainless Steel Rat, star of a series of books by Harry Harrison. “Trouble rides a fast horse.” Spoken by the sherriff in the movie “The Cheyenne Social Club” starring Jimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda. “There is little advantage to winning if one wins too easily.” Spoken by The Great Leslie (played by Tony Curtis) in the movie “The Great Race.” “You’re as far from a dirtbag as they come.” Said by Belker to Joyce Davenport in the TV series “Hill Street Blues”. “Marriage is like a horse with a broken leg; you can shoot it, but that don’t fix the leg.” Yamana (quoting his grandmother) on the TV show “Barney Miller”. “If I can’t drive around in a convertible with the wind blowing in my hair, what’s the point of having a head?” Stephanie on “Newhart”. “Excellence in wall climbing does not itself mean that you’re climbing the right wall.” Words to live by from Dr. Edward deBono on some PBS series in the '80s. ---
**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 17, 2005, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/280 "2005-11-17T21:15:01Z")
> [@Wendell Wagner](#): > > RealityChuck writes: > > I answered that clear back in post #28. Sorry. Missed it. How about: “Cushlamochree!” “Money is the eat of all Roovels.” “Imagine renting a Roovel suit to make that stupid joke.” “If I could only write, I’d send a nasty letter to the mayor, if he could only read.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904.md?page=15)