# Stupid things things remind you of **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 21, 2013, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-things-things-remind-you-of/674439 "2013-11-21T16:40:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-things-things-remind-you-of/674439/1 "2013-11-21T16:40:58Z")
Every time I cross the Nooksack river, I think of _Love Shack_ (‘Nooksack, baby!’). Stillaguamish: ‘You were a guamish then, and you’re _still_ a guamish!’ Lake Sammamish: ‘Funny, you don’t _look_ Sammamish!’ Tustin: Can be rearranged to spell ‘It _nuts!_’ ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-things-things-remind-you-of/674439/2 "2013-11-21T16:49:48Z")
Near where I went to college was a little town called “Washington”. Somebody hit the sign with their car, and knocked off the “Was”. So, for a while, the town was called “hington”. They fixed the sign, so now it’s a reminder that the name of the town “WAS hington”. I can’t see the word “Washington” now without thinking of WAS-hington. ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-things-things-remind-you-of/674439/3 "2013-11-21T16:54:21Z")
Miso soup – oh, you are so soup, huh? Then why do you just taste like a bowl of salt water? ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-things-things-remind-you-of/674439/4 "2013-11-21T17:36:35Z")
Every time I cross the Sasquahana river, I’m reminded of a Husqvarna t-shirt an old friend of mine used to wear while riding his Ducati SuperSport bike. Which makes me want to go out and buy a Triumph SpeedTriple. Weird association stream but there you have it. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-things-things-remind-you-of/674439/5 "2013-11-21T17:47:30Z")
My daily commute used to involve a bus trip past Menomonee Ave. Every time the announcement would say Menomonee, I’d always go [“Do doo do doo doo”](http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Mahna_Mahna_(song)) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-things-things-remind-you-of/674439/6 "2013-11-21T17:59:22Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > Every time I cross the Sasquahana river [Susquehanna Hat Company](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THZV5g1CNZM)😃 > [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > My daily commute used to involve a bus trip past Menomonee Ave. Every time the announcement would say Menomonee, I’d always go [“Do doo do doo doo”](http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Mahna_Mahna_(song)) For me, it’s ‘cadaver dogs’. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-things-things-remind-you-of/674439/7 "2013-11-21T18:25:43Z")
> [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > My daily commute used to involve a bus trip past Menomonee Ave. Every time the announcement would say Menomonee, I’d always go [“Do doo do doo doo”](http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Mahna_Mahna_(song)) Sometimes, I have to place orders with a company called Phenomenex. It must be hell working there. ---
**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-things-things-remind-you-of/674439/8 "2013-11-21T18:25:46Z")
“Thich Nhat Hanh” --\> “Thich nhat dhoes nhot khnill hnus…” ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-things-things-remind-you-of/674439/9 "2013-11-21T18:52:37Z")
> [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > My daily commute used to involve a bus trip past Menomonee Ave. Every time the announcement would say Menomonee, I’d always go [“Do doo do doo doo”](http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Mahna_Mahna_(song)) You got it wrong. That’s what you say only after somebody mentions “Tilapia”. ---
**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 21, 2013, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-things-things-remind-you-of/674439/10 "2013-11-21T19:49:20Z")
Mention cherry tomatoes and I will sing the title (first line) of “Getting to Know You” from _The King and I_, to the words: “Cherry to-maaaa-tooooes, cherry to-maaa-toes…” and then sort of trail off because I don’t know what to sing next. ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-things-things-remind-you-of/674439/11 "2013-11-21T21:52:53Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > You got it wrong. That’s what you say only after somebody mentions “Tilapia”. And any mention of tilapia triggers a replay of Mike Rowe saying “poo-eating fish”. ---
**Author:** ![orderfire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/orderfire/32/10908_2.png) [@orderfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orderfire)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-things-things-remind-you-of/674439/12 "2013-11-21T22:07:09Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Sometimes, I have to place orders with a company called Phenomenex. It must be hell working there. I react the same way anytime I have to order from them…only I say “…ba teee ba tee pee!” This one is ridiculous. I have several of those inexpensive “crystal fleece” throws that I put on various pieces of furniture to collect all the cat hair and dirt wherever they sleep. Each laundry day, as I collect up all the fleece throws to wash, the chorus of the Bee Gee’s \*Night Fever \*pops into my head, but of course now they’re singing about _Cat Blankets, Cat Blankets…we know how to use 'em!_ 😕 ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2013, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-things-things-remind-you-of/674439/13 "2013-11-23T03:52:51Z")
On the Pennsylvania Turnpike there’s a large sign that says: “SCOTRUN.” I know I’m not the only person thinking “SCROTUM.” ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2013, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-things-things-remind-you-of/674439/14 "2013-11-23T13:11:49Z")
I once had a tee shirt that said “What’s it [Tahuya](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahuya,_Washington)?” ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2013, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-things-things-remind-you-of/674439/15 "2013-11-23T13:19:47Z")
My older sister was attending college and we had an apartment near the You Never City. ---
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2013, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-things-things-remind-you-of/674439/16 "2013-11-23T13:47:24Z")
On my morning commute, it was a ritual for me to yell “TOP OF THE WORLD, MA!” as I soared over the highest overpass in town. You can see everything from up there. If traffic was slow and backed up, I would just mutter it instead of yelling. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2013, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-things-things-remind-you-of/674439/17 "2013-11-23T15:49:08Z")
We have a Miller Street in the 'hood. Every time I turn down it, I start singing “'Cause this is Millerrrrr, Miller Street. . .” We also have Bybee Street, to which I must sing “Be my, be my Bybee. . .”, or when I turn off of it: “Bye-bye Bybee, Bybee bye-bye. . .” It’s a sickness, really. ---
**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2013, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-things-things-remind-you-of/674439/18 "2013-11-23T16:11:49Z")
> [@AlsoNamedBort](#): > > My daily commute used to involve a bus trip past Menomonee Ave. Every time the announcement would say Menomonee, I’d always go [“Do doo do doo doo”](http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Mahna_Mahna_(song)) When Menomonee is mentioned on the news, about half the time I respond as you do, and the other half I sing, “Menomonee! Menomenah-ah hah hah hah hah! My backpack on my back.”