# 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:** 6
**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, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/101 "2005-11-14T21:54:03Z")
“When I’m by myself or with someone…uh, Burt.” ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2005, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/102 "2005-11-14T22:03:15Z")
> [@MaxTheVool](#): > > Here’s my question: > What is the only known work of (fictitious) noted contemporary composer Nathan Blumgarden? Tee hee, no one has gotten mine. I win! (Of course, I haven’t recognized a single one of anyone else’s…) Anyhow, as this thread appears to have taken off, here are a few more: Super-obscure: "…and ‘mattress’ rhymes with ‘Israel’ " Very obscure: “Ahoy there matey, Kelly Robin Wilcoxin” Quite obscure: “Stop bendin’ da shafts!” Slightly obscure: “Trebor Sux” ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2005, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/103 "2005-11-14T22:06:57Z")
> [@ArchitectChore](#): > > pancakes in the Age of Enlightenment That’s from Swingers, Voltaire. ---
**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, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/104 "2005-11-14T22:08:06Z")
> [@MaxTheVool](#): > > Quite obscure: > “Stop bendin’ da shafts!” Tom Hanks on Letterman talking about when he was a bellboy packing Slappy White’s golf clubs in the trunk of a taxi. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2005, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/105 "2005-11-14T23:10:56Z")
> [@MaxTheVool](#): > > Tee hee, no one has gotten mine. I win! (Of course, I haven’t recognized a single one of anyone else’s…) Well, I was post #2, and no one’s even attempted mine, so do I get silver? ---
**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 14, 2005, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/106 "2005-11-14T23:15:59Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > Well, I was post #2, and no one’s even attempted mine, so do I get silver? Hmm. Is it related to your user name? ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/107 "2005-11-15T00:07:16Z")
Wd9598 ---
**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 15, 2005, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/108 "2005-11-15T00:23:50Z")
“Woo Woo ! Mass destruction !” “…for some more martial molars” “We want you to become a wasp” ---
**Author:** ![Scruloose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@Scruloose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scruloose)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/109 "2005-11-15T00:36:35Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > “What the hell do you know, you’re an albino.” We now return to our feature movie, the 1956 classic _“Amazon Women on the Moon”_ [sub]I actually own that movie[/sub] ---
**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 15, 2005, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/110 "2005-11-15T01:16:40Z")
> [@](#): > > **How did you know the road here?** > I followed the vultures; they always lead me to my goal. > **They should; you have fed them full often enough. What of the guard who watched the cleft?** > \ Dead, he wouldn’t listen to reason. > **The vultures follow you, not you the vultures!** Hint–Author’s from Texas. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/111 "2005-11-15T01:27:39Z")
“Fuck that shit. Pabst Blue Ribbon!” ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/112 "2005-11-15T01:28:46Z")
> [@Der Trihs](#): > > “I have seen just one of these weapons destroy a whole company of giant robot spiders” Is this one of Hagbard Celine’s lines in the _Illuminatus!_ trilogy? > [@Rodd Hill](#): > > “I’ll have a croque monsieur, the paella, two mutton pills and a stein of mead!” _Futurama_, Professor Farnsworth’s lunch order at the Los Alamos Diner, c. 1944. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/113 "2005-11-15T01:30:28Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > “Fuck that shit. Pabst Blue Ribbon!” **Blue Velvet** Mommy…mommy! ---
**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 15, 2005, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/114 "2005-11-15T01:51:01Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > Is this one of Hagbard Celine’s lines in the _Illuminatus!_ trilogy? Bzzzz ! Wrong answer ! It’s much more recent - it is from a book, however. ---
**Author:** ![Carm6773](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/2bfe46/32.png) [@Carm6773](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carm6773)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/115 "2005-11-15T02:34:33Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Well, it’s usually credited to Gallagher and Shean (no, not that Gallagher; the original), and it was a common expression in the 1920s. Actually, I was thinking of something a little more recent than that. ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/116 "2005-11-15T02:53:12Z")
> [@ddgryphon](#): > > Bakshi’s Wizards – one of the great funny moments on film. Correct and well done. Sorry for the delay. I’ve been offline a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Ins\_Outs\_What-have-yous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8797f3/32.png) [@Ins\_Outs\_What-have-yous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ins_Outs_What-have-yous)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/117 "2005-11-15T03:25:30Z")
> [@](#): > > posted by **spoke-** > _That’s from Swingers, Voltaire._ Finally, someone noticed my obscure reference to an obscure French philosophical reference. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/118 "2005-11-15T03:54:33Z")
> [@Scruloose](#): > > We now return to our feature movie, the 1956 classic _“Amazon Women on the Moon”_ > > [sub]I actually own that movie[/sub] Ding! Ding! Ding! I’ve got a copy myself. ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/119 "2005-11-15T04:01:35Z")
I have two. The first, from television: What is the origin of my username? The second, from literature: “Proverbs for paranoids 3: They hide, you seek.” ---
**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 15, 2005, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/120 "2005-11-15T04:25:51Z")
> [@vibrotronica](#): > > The second, from literature: > > “Proverbs for paranoids 3: They hide, you seek.” > [@](#): > > Proverbs for Paranoids: > > 1. You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures. > 2. The innocence of the creatures is in inverse proportion to the immorality of the Master. > 3. If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers. > **4. You hide, they seek.** > 4. Paranoids are not paranoid because they’re paranoid, but because they keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations. > – Collected from Gravity’s Rainbow, V237, 241, 251, 262, & 292 This close enough ? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904.md?page=7)