# 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:** 3
**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 14, 2005, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/41 "2005-11-14T07:18:04Z")
“But I’m a mother. Shouldn’t it be '\* Matron\* of Evil ’ ?” ---
**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 14, 2005, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/42 "2005-11-14T07:22:46Z")
> [@uglybeech](#): > > Nuts. You caught me. I didn’t see that episode, but when I brought up the Games several months ago you quoted that. Jeez, I didn’t think anyone around here even _read_ my posts. Half credit. I’l leave it open in case anyone can come up with the full explanation. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2005, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/43 "2005-11-14T11:22:02Z")
“Go out into your garden. There’s a great Darsh face hanging over the wall.” ---
**Author:** ![Carm6773](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/2bfe46/32.png) [@Carm6773](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carm6773)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2005, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/44 "2005-11-14T11:26:39Z")
“Absotively posilutely!” ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2005, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/45 "2005-11-14T11:40:51Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > Well I knew YOU’D get it; I almost added that caveat. But I THOUGHT you’d be CLEVER enough to let it lie, and see if ANYONE ELSE got it. You gave it away, Eq! That’s very silly. The only people who are going to get these things are people who have been in our living room watching them or hard hard HARD core fans who got the tapes in some other way. All those fans are in the Kate forums, having orgasms about **Aerial** , not here on the Straight Dope, where only a few people have even heard of her. What’s the point of posting something if someone who knows the answer isn’t supposed to give the answer? > [@lissener](#): > > OK, here’s another: > > “Lots of carbolic soap, and just leave it messy.” Ru-Paul, on the Sonny and Cher Happy Hour special. ---
**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 14, 2005, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/46 "2005-11-14T14:21:16Z")
> [@Carm6773](#): > > “Absotively posilutely!” Well, it’s usually credited to Gallagher and Shean (no, not that Gallagher; the original), and it was a common expression in the 1920s. > [@RJKUgly](#): > > Not sure, but I want to say Finding Forrester. Right with the others (I was only warming up), but this one was wrong. Some more: “I knew something was wrong when I woke up insde the coffin.” In this film about (among other things) religion and miracles, all the actors playing Catholic priests or nuns were Jewish. “He’d kill us if he got the chance.” Sitcom whose theme song was written and performed by John Prine. One of his archenemies was Bushwack’r (though he never knew it). Where was the pellet with the poison? (the reference is easy, the answer is not). ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2005, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/47 "2005-11-14T15:02:35Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Where was the pellet with the poison? (the reference is easy, the answer is not). In the flagon with the dragon. “The Court Jester” (Danny Kaye). ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2005, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/48 "2005-11-14T16:09:10Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > _contemptuously_ The mighty Hercules! Stop saying “The Mighty Hercules.” ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2005, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/49 "2005-11-14T16:18:26Z")
“You can’t expect me to choose a boyfriend right away-that’s like eating the first pancake off the stove. You have to give at least one to the dog.” ---
**Author:** ![Corii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Corii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corii)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2005, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/50 "2005-11-14T17:11:40Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Some more: > “I knew something was wrong when I woke up insde the coffin.” Oh man, I just heard this the other day, but the context won’t come to me. “This is ponderous, man. Really ponderous.” ---
**Author:** ![scotandrsn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a4c791/32.png) [@scotandrsn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scotandrsn)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2005, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/51 "2005-11-14T17:13:20Z")
> [@fishbicycle](#): > > Nevermind the furthermore, the plea is self-defense. This is one of the overlapping mantras chanted by the Monkees during their song, “Zilch”. It is also shouted by Mickey Dolenz during the song “No Time”, which follows it on the same album. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2005, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/52 "2005-11-14T17:15:35Z")
> [@fishbicycle](#): > > Nevermind the furthermore, the plea is self-defense. Mr Doublina, Mr. Bob Doublina Zilch! Right? ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2005, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/53 "2005-11-14T17:17:18Z")
A kiss is a terrible thing to waste. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2005, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/54 "2005-11-14T17:21:10Z")
**scotandrsn** and **Bricker** , you’re both right about it being repeated in “Zilch” and as a line in “No Time.” But where did Micky Dolenz hear it? ---
**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 14, 2005, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/55 "2005-11-14T17:29:48Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > “He’d kill us if he got the chance.” From “the Conversation.” It’s the disturbing bit of dialogue that Gene Hackman’s wiretapping character picks up between Cindy Williams (of “Laverne & Shirley” fame) and her paramour (NOT her husband.) I’ll toss out a couple… 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!” ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2005, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/56 "2005-11-14T17:30:41Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > “Anyone can call himself a writer. But when someone else calls you a writer, THEN you’re a writer.” (One of my favorite movie quotes)." _The World According to Garp?_ Try this: “Life’s just a game/you fly a paper plane/there is no end.” ---
**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 14, 2005, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/57 "2005-11-14T17:39:54Z")
No one’s got mine yet, here’s three more : “Kesho !!” “I am Dionisio Vega. Welcome…to my domain.” “I have seen just one of these weapons destroy a whole company of giant robot spiders” ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2005, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/58 "2005-11-14T17:40:58Z")
> [@Malodorous](#): > > Close Encounters maybe? > > Mine: “That’s the beauty of it…it doesn’t DO anything!” 😉 A description of VIP from “Lover Come Back,” a 1961 Doris Day movie. Mine: “And that would mean something if your hands were made of metal.” ---
**Author:** ![Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Man_With_a_Cat)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2005, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/59 "2005-11-14T17:50:26Z")
“I’ll kill the Captain if it’s his time my boy, I’ll take the Admiral too and if you’re not cool -\*\* I’ll take you!\*\*” ---
**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 14, 2005, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/60 "2005-11-14T17:53:05Z")
Just thought of another. From literature, but based on a popular song: “Woke up. Fell out of bed. Rolled on the floor. Tried to get up. Couldn’t. So I stayed on the floor all day long.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904.md?page=4)