# 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:** 16
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2005, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/301 "2005-11-18T20:06:08Z")
I still have one out there: “Some guys think crackpipe burns are sexy on women!” Also: “Nobody’s perfect!” “I was born lucky! Born with a veil, and that’s sho’nuff lucky!” ---
**Author:** ![Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myron_Van_Horowitzski)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2005, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/302 "2005-11-18T20:21:26Z")
> [@Art Vandelay](#): > > 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.” The guy at the gas pump, he’s got a lot of soul He sings “Merry Christmas” to ya just like Nat King Cole. And he makes up his own tunes right on the spot About whitewalls and windshields and this job he’s got. …show me the wayyyyyyyy to Barangrill > [@](#): > > =[Ethilrist] Since people are recapping their obscurity: > > I didn’t mean to kill the cat. That’s from a Spider Robinson story “By Any Other Name” that he expanded to a novel of which I forgot the name. But I think its: “I hadn’t meant to shoot the cat.” Here’s some: “WET SLAPPITY OF DOOM!” “They went to bed quite early and slept soundly until daylight, when they were awakened by the crowing of a green cock that lived in the back yard of the Palace, and the cackling of a hen that had laid a green egg.” ---
**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 18, 2005, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/303 "2005-11-18T20:23:38Z")
> [@photopat](#): > > Those all sound like Marx Brothers lines." Nope. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2005, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/304 "2005-11-18T22:55:14Z")
> [@GargoyleWB](#): > > This is Bugs Bunny I believe, interacting with a native islander spearman and doing a one-upmanship of complex native babble. Bravo. After Bugs says it the native goes wild at which point Bugs says to the audience “Wha’d I say? Wha’d I say?” ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2005, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/305 "2005-11-19T03:50:15Z")
> [@simster](#): > > The flagon with the dragon has the brew that is true… > > Get it? Danny Kaye in The Court Jester: > **[Quotes from "The Court Jester"](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049096/quotes)** > > 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? ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2005, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/306 "2005-11-19T03:53:09Z")
Made it, Ma! Top of the world! ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2005, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/307 "2005-11-19T04:31:18Z")
> [@ccwaterback](#): > > Made it, Ma! Top of the world! James Cagney’s last line, _White Heat_ ---
**Author:** ![Ragiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6de8d8/32.png) [@Ragiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ragiel)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2005, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/308 "2005-11-19T08:53:30Z")
I am a mere member of the generation. ---
**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 19, 2005, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/309 "2005-11-19T15:22:36Z")
> [@Boulter's Canary](#): > > Good Ghu - Somebody else has read **‘Paperback Writer’** 😃 I just learned in another forum that [Ipana toothpaste](http://www.vermontcountrystore.com/shopping/product/detailmain.jsp?itemID=31408&itemType=PRODUCT&RS=1&keyword=ipana) is available again. Alas, John and Sonny are no longer around to enjoy it. ---
**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 19, 2005, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/310 "2005-11-19T17:18:42Z")
Someone had the quote “nobody’s perfect” as a stumper; I believe that’s the last line of the movie “Some Like it hot” ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2005, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/311 "2005-11-19T17:24:23Z")
> [@well he's back](#): > > Someone had the quote “nobody’s perfect” as a stumper; I believe that’s the last line of the movie “Some Like it hot” You are correct! Oswald (Joe E. Brown) says it to Jack Lemmon after Lemmon tells him that he (Lemmon) is a man rather than the woman he’s dressed as. ---
**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 19, 2005, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/312 "2005-11-19T17:30:07Z")
The quote: “Nice shoes. You make those in prison?” is _not_ (as I misremembered) from the movie _Fletch._ It is, in fact, said by Bill Murray in a biographical sketch about him in Roy Blount Jr.'s book _Now Where Were We?_ Shit. And that was _such_ a Fletch kind of thing to say, too. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2005, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/313 "2005-11-19T19:08:42Z")
> [@Flipstrip](#): > > “We can name him Bob, or we can name him Beowulf!” Shut the fuck up, Swan. SWAN! SHUT - THE FUCK - UP!! > [@Moe](#): > > 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. The poster was **Johnny LA**. ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2005, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/314 "2005-11-19T19:17:46Z")
Nobody tried to guess mine from page 3. If it’s too difficult I could give a hint… “Leaning over your fortieth masterpiece… You must have loved the color of these violins” ---
**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 20, 2005, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/315 "2005-11-20T02:53:00Z")
“My dear Norman, why is it that so many suppose that souls are of less interest to us than to our adversaries ? Why should not one side strive for a worthy one as well as the other ? I am not a demon, nor is this hell” “They believe I am a witch. They’re wrong…I think.” “There were one hundred planets forming a wheel, nearly touching one another on two sides, with Earth sixteen globes past the smelly one in one direction and eighty three past it in the opposite direction.” ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2005, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/316 "2005-11-20T08:03:56Z")
> [@Der Trihs](#): > > “My dear Norman, why is it that so many suppose that souls are of less interest to us than to our adversaries ? Why should not one side strive for a worthy one as well as the other ? I am not a demon, nor is this hell” > > “They believe I am a witch. They’re wrong…I think.” > > “There were one hundred planets forming a wheel, nearly touching one another on two sides, with Earth sixteen globes past the smelly one in one direction and eighty three past it in the opposite direction.” Those look like Terry Pratchett quotes. Especially the second one. The only shred of doubt I have is that his quotes wouldn’t be considered “obscure” on this board :). ---
**Author:** ![Pixiesnix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/898d66/32.png) [@Pixiesnix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixiesnix)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2005, 8:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/317 "2005-11-20T08:43:35Z")
From TV: “They’re all the rage in Trenton, New Jersey.” From Film: “Have you checked the children?” From Music: “Why, even Dracula will be there!” ---
**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 20, 2005, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/318 "2005-11-20T15:18:58Z")
> [@KCSuze](#): > > “Why, even Dracula will be there!” The Shaggs! ---
**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 20, 2005, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/319 "2005-11-20T17:31:53Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > Those look like Terry Pratchett quotes. Especially the second one. The only shred of doubt I have is that his quotes wouldn’t be considered “obscure” on this board :). Not even close. 🙂 The author involved is more obscure, for one. Good, I think but obscure. ---
**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 20, 2005, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/320 "2005-11-20T17:37:34Z")
> [@Der Trihs](#): > > Not even close. 🙂 The author involved is more obscure, for one. Good, I think but obscure. Oops. Make that “authors involved are more obscure”; each quote is from a different one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904.md?page=15) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904.md?page=17)