# "Surprised", Eddie?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprised-eddie/563595>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 9, 2010, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprised-eddie/563595 "2010-12-09T23:21:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2010, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprised-eddie/563595/21 "2010-12-10T19:57:07Z")

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Clark, slow down! I don’t want to spend the holidays _dead_!

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**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2010, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprised-eddie/563595/22 "2010-12-10T20:21:39Z")

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Shouldn’t this be:

[Remember me, Eddie?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADrojCw6amM)

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**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:** [December 10, 2010, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprised-eddie/563595/23 "2010-12-10T20:42:05Z")

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Can I refill your eggnog for you? Get you something to eat? Drive you out to the middle of nowhere and leave you for dead?

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**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:** [December 10, 2010, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprised-eddie/563595/24 "2010-12-10T22:50:06Z")

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He’s cute, ain’t he? Only problem is, he’s got a little bit of Mississippi leg hound in him. If the mood catches him right, he’ll grab your leg, and just go to town.

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**Author:** ![FrigidLizard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3bc359/32.png) [@FrigidLizard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrigidLizard)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2010, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprised-eddie/563595/25 "2010-12-11T00:36:27Z")

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> [@Lute Skywatcher](#):
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> That lame-brain freeway idea could only be cooked up by a toon.
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> d&r

🙂 I’m glad I’m not the only one who heard the OP quote that way.

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**Author:** ![Shadez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Shadez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadez)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2010, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprised-eddie/563595/26 "2010-12-11T02:18:43Z")

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Burn some dust here. Eat my rubber.

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**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:** [December 11, 2010, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprised-eddie/563595/27 "2010-12-11T05:54:50Z")

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They had to replace my metal plate with a plastic one. Every time Catherine would rev up the microwave, I’d piss my pants and forget who I was for about half an hour.

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**Author:** ![Quercus\_alba](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quercus_alba/32/4061_2.png) [@Quercus\_alba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus_alba)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2010, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprised-eddie/563595/28 "2010-12-11T06:38:48Z")

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Squirrel!

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**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:** [December 11, 2010, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprised-eddie/563595/29 "2010-12-11T16:50:11Z")

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You deserve a home like this at Christmas.

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**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:** [December 11, 2010, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprised-eddie/563595/30 "2010-12-11T18:46:20Z")

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I had a lot of help from Jack Daniels.

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**Author:** ![rolandgunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@rolandgunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rolandgunslinger)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2010, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprised-eddie/563595/31 "2010-12-11T18:55:02Z")

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“That there is an RV! Don’t go getting used to it cause were taking it with us when we leave here next month.”

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**Author:** ![rolandgunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/cdc98d/32.png) [@rolandgunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rolandgunslinger)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2010, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprised-eddie/563595/32 "2010-12-11T19:04:21Z")

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“Right now he’s the pixie dust spreader on the tilt a whirl. Next year he hopes to be guessing peoples weight or barking for the yak lady. You ever seen her Clark? Got these big horns coming outta her head. Ugly as sin. But a sweet gal. And a hell of a cook.”

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**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2010, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprised-eddie/563595/33 "2010-12-11T19:08:54Z")

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Oh, I was just smelling - smiling. I was just blouse - browsing. I, uh, heh heh. Well, I guess it just wouldn’t… Oh hee hee, it wouldn’t be the Christmas shopping season if the stores were any less hooter than they - HOTTER than they are. Whew. It is warm in here, isn’t it?

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**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:** [December 11, 2010, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprised-eddie/563595/34 "2010-12-11T19:47:20Z")

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> [@DCnDC](#):
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> Oh, I was just smelling - smiling. I was just blouse - browsing. I, uh, heh heh. Well, I guess it just wouldn’t… Oh hee hee, it wouldn’t be the Christmas shopping season if the stores were any less hooter than they - HOTTER than they are. Whew. It is warm in here, isn’t it?

Well, 'tis the season to be merry.

Oh, that’s my name!

No shit?

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**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprised-eddie/563595/35 "2010-12-12T00:14:55Z")

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> [@Chefguy](#):
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> I couldn’t be more surprised if I woke up in the morning with my hair sewn to the carpet.

Thanks **Chefguy** , great thread!

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**Author:** ![FalconFinder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@FalconFinder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FalconFinder)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprised-eddie/563595/36 "2010-12-12T03:08:08Z")

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The little lights… they aren’t twinkling.  
I know, Art. Thanks for noticing.

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**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:** [December 12, 2010, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprised-eddie/563595/37 "2010-12-12T04:08:41Z")

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You couldn’t hear a dump truck driving through a nitroglycerin plant.

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**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:** [December 12, 2010, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprised-eddie/563595/38 "2010-12-12T16:40:38Z")

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You taught me everything I know about exterior illumination, Dad.

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**Author:** ![Shark\_Sandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Shark\_Sandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shark_Sandwich)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2010, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprised-eddie/563595/39 "2010-12-12T17:01:29Z")

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Uh, Eddie? What’s wrong with the dog?

Oh, he’s just yakin’ on a bone.  
He got it up.

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**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:** [December 12, 2010, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprised-eddie/563595/40 "2010-12-12T19:17:43Z")

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Save the neck for me, Clark.

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