# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/161 "2005-11-15T17:27:13Z")
> [@blondebear](#): > > Any takers? Wd9598? Coral Key Park, Florida. Faster than lightning! Admittedly, I didn’t actually know that one, but I did recognize it as a call sign. Now… find Herman Munster’s. ---
**Author:** ![Engywook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bc8723/32.png) [@Engywook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Engywook)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/162 "2005-11-15T17:40:46Z")
The only one I’ve known so far is the Blue Velvet one… 1. \> EAT RAOUL WHAT A CONCEPT! 2. “It’s all right, Cissy… I sterilized the scissors.” …and incredibly, nobody outside the doper community knows where my username comes from. ---
**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 15, 2005, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/163 "2005-11-15T17:46:22Z")
> [@Labdad](#): > > The snippets are all from “Citizen Kane” - the first is Mr. Bernstein to the freight hauler, the second is Jed Leyland trying to get some cigars smuggled into the rest home, the last is Susan Alexander to Kane, inviting him up to her apartment. > > Millette and Raquello were the orchestra leaders in Welles “War of the Worlds.” The radio announcer kept cutting back to hotel ballrooms for musical interludes awaiting further bulletins about the “invasion.” Bless you, **Labdad.** The Martians will eat you last. But I’ll bet you can’t tell me the name of the tune Bobby Millette barely plays 8 bars of before he is cut off the air. ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/164 "2005-11-15T17:51:01Z")
> [@Vagus](#): > > “My body is a roadmap of pain.” _The Frighteners_. When someone offers us something, my husband and I will often respond: “Yes, have some.” ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/165 "2005-11-15T18:17:00Z")
> [@Beware of Doug](#): > > But I’ll bet you can’t tell me the name of the tune Bobby Millette barely plays 8 bars of before he is cut off the air. You’d win that bet - I have no idea! 😕 ---
**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 15, 2005, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/166 "2005-11-15T18:26:24Z")
> [@Robot Arm](#): > > “Velveeta, it’s like cheese with the perfect disguise.” Haven’t read the whole thread yet, but I’m going to go out on a limb and assume no one else has gotten it. This is of course from **Family Restaurant** by _Uncle Bonsai_. ---
**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 15, 2005, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/167 "2005-11-15T18:35:24Z")
> [@E-Sabbath](#): > > Shoot, someone else saw Screen Door Jesus? My reaction to your answer was the same. 🙂 Great movie, but I didn’t think it was seen by more than a few hundred people worldwide. > [@](#): > > Willy’s from Lafferty, isn’t he? Reoccuring character. I do like his work. Yup. > [@](#): > > As far as the Brads, the only thing that I can see is Superman. No, though the “Kent” was a reference to Superman. > [@Der Trihs](#): > > “We want you to become a wasp” Is that from Eric Frank Russell’s **Wasp**? > [@](#): > > “That is not a word I like. I prefer to regard myself as an adventureous businessman, a dealer in the transfer of expensive commodities.” He smiled broadly and snapped his fingers. “Now these are pirates.” Pirates of the Caribbean, I believe. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/168 "2005-11-15T18:35:33Z")
“Want to hear my Goethe impression? ‘Take my Soul, please’” ---
**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, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/169 "2005-11-15T18:40:16Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Is that from Eric Frank Russell’s **Wasp**? Yep ! Great book. > [@RealityChuck](#): > > Pirates of the Caribbean, I believe. No. However, I never saw it, so they might have said it too. ---
**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 15, 2005, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/170 "2005-11-15T18:42:45Z")
> [@Moe](#): > > “I can crawl again” > > Hint: there was a doper a few years ago who had an extended quote from this movie as his/her sig. Well, now that I have read the whole thread I’ll just give mine a bump since nobody has gotten it. another hint: bizarre 70s movie. The lead was played by an actor who also played a recurring role on M.A.S.H. ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/171 "2005-11-15T18:47:25Z")
I hardly know any of these. Sometimes I don’t even get the answers. **RealityChuck** , I think Go-captain Alvarez is a Cordwainer Smith character, maybe from _The Game of Rat and Dragon_, but I’m not at all sure. Another character: Mistress Christia, the Everlasting Concubine. Since we’re approaching the season, one from TV: “Ho, ho, li’l elf! Want a li’l piece of candy?” ---
**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 15, 2005, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/172 "2005-11-15T18:50:15Z")
> [@Labdad](#): > > You’d win that bet - I have no idea! 😕 HA! I pwn j00. 😉 No, that’s a tuffy, because the 8 bars are in the _middle_ of the song. It took me 10 years to recognize it as a minor 1934 hit called _Love Locked Out._ ---
**Author:** ![Rodd\_Hill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3ab097/32.png) [@Rodd\_Hill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodd_Hill)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/173 "2005-11-15T18:54:39Z")
“Yes, have some.” Louis Tully, in the guise of the Keymaster of Gozer, I believe. To reiterate my refs that haven’t been ID’ed yet: “It’s Peter Pan we should be calling you. Away home, and watch your television. 'Muffin the Mule’s on.” “Ha-ha-ha-ha! Wonderful woman. Very free-spirited. We’re all very fond of her.” “My London house is shut up for the winter, and my aunt has gone to Sing Sing…to study the electric chair.” “I am very willing to shelter your wee girlhood under my roof, but I fear you would find it dull, with no company save my poor chairbound self, my man, Hoots, and my housekeeper, now totally deaf.” “Who’s gonna be staying there? Amphibians?” ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/174 "2005-11-15T18:59:30Z")
> [@Carm6773](#): > > Actually, I was thinking of something a little more recent than that. Dirty Duck comics, from National Lampoon circa 1973…? Absotively, Weevil? Posolutely, Mr. Duck! ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/175 "2005-11-15T19:01:30Z")
> [@Amazon Floozy Goddess](#): > > “They’re chewing the hair, chewing it…” > > “What?” > > “You know, the hair, they’re chewing it…” > > “They what?” > > “The hair. They chew it…chew it…chew it…” Did I manage to stump everyone? ---
**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, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/176 "2005-11-15T19:05:34Z")
> [@Der Trihs](#): > > This close enough ? Yes, I butchered the quote. I’m re-reading _Gravity’s Rainbow_ and I just read that page a couple of days ago. It stuck, but apparently not hard enough! Brilliant book, by the way. I think it’s my favorite novel of all times. Well, my favorite novel I’m reading right now, anyway. I first read it about twelve years ago, and I’m getting so much more out of it this time. The last time I was in a really great poetry class while I was reading it and I tended to concentrate on the beauty of the language. This time, I feel like I’m getting a bigger picture of what’s going on. Events may look random and silly, but it is actually intricately structured. Now, anyone get my username? ---
**Author:** ![ddgryphon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@ddgryphon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ddgryphon)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/177 "2005-11-15T19:49:16Z")
> [@well he's back](#): > > ddgryphon: since everyone got your “Bored of the Rings quote”, isn’t your “You done shot my Pa and drove my sister crazy. Fill yer hand you son of a bitch!” from True Grit, the movie, spoken by John Wayne? > > Mine: “Peanuts are good drivers” No, but it is in part derived from that and from Shakespere and from the National Lampoon. ---
**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 15, 2005, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/178 "2005-11-15T19:51:40Z")
_Oh Jesus, you bring me peace When you keeping away them po-lice._ ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/179 "2005-11-15T20:01:04Z")
> [@RobuSensei](#): > > Wasn’t that a graffito on the wall of the dungeon in the first Wizardry game? Put there by his arch enemy Werdna? Correct ---
**Author:** ![Feydeau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@Feydeau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feydeau)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2005, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904/180 "2005-11-15T20:21:42Z")
> [@Roadfood](#): > > Man, I got a bunch of favorite quotes that it’s unlikely anyone will get: > Movies: > “I mean, what’s the point in owning a mace if you don’t use it?” Deathtrap. Spoken in the movie by Michael Caine. I haven’t yet read the play, so I can’t say whether the line is in the play or not. Now for one of mine (I tend to say this when trying to describe why something odd happened, usually pointing at two different things): There’s that… and there’s _that._ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stump-the-dope-with-your-most-obscure-reference/330904.md?page=10)