# That Five Note Riff ("Close Encounters of the Third Kind"") **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 27, 2010, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-five-note-riff-close-encounters-of-the-third-kind/544709 "2010-06-27T21:06:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**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:** [March 23, 2018, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-five-note-riff-close-encounters-of-the-third-kind/544709/61 "2018-03-23T01:15:30Z")
I have a feeling that’s not tobacco he’s smoking in those videos. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2018, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-five-note-riff-close-encounters-of-the-third-kind/544709/62 "2018-03-23T01:17:43Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > I have a feeling that’s not tobacco he’s smoking in those videos. Wait, you were brave enough to watch one? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2018, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-five-note-riff-close-encounters-of-the-third-kind/544709/63 "2018-03-23T01:19:40Z")
I was afraid to click on one, myself. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2018, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-five-note-riff-close-encounters-of-the-third-kind/544709/64 "2018-03-23T01:31:08Z")
What gets me is that it seemed like such a harmless thread, then BAM! We all get hit with Scary Spirtualist Numerology. Now I’m afraid to open any discussion here… where will the danger come from next? An innocent scone recipe? > [@](#): > > In a 12" bowl, combine 3 c. flour, .5 c sugar, 5 tsp. baking powder, and .5 tsp. salt. Cut in .75 c. butter. And since 12x3x.5 = 18, and 5 x .5 -.75 = 1.75, and 1.75 was the length in ciceros of the mystic vibrator of the People of The Bloody Head Wound of Pre-Colombian Meso-Venuzuela, therefore God is annoyed. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2018, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-five-note-riff-close-encounters-of-the-third-kind/544709/65 "2018-03-23T01:37:37Z")
^ Those sound sacri-licious. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2018, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-five-note-riff-close-encounters-of-the-third-kind/544709/66 "2018-03-23T01:49:30Z")
> [@Nobody38](#): > > Hi! So , I am going to be as clear as possible. You failed spectacularly. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2018, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-five-note-riff-close-encounters-of-the-third-kind/544709/67 "2018-03-23T02:20:44Z")
This thread is far more entertaining than the movie that inspired it. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2018, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-five-note-riff-close-encounters-of-the-third-kind/544709/68 "2018-03-23T02:27:10Z")
Yea, we’re all gonna be shocked with the apocalypse comes and Nobody’s god. Oh, wait… ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2018, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-five-note-riff-close-encounters-of-the-third-kind/544709/69 "2018-03-23T02:37:45Z")
[Moderating] I don’t approve of the form of humor consisting of pointing and laughing at a crazy person. And since that’s what this thread has turned into, I’m closing it. **Nobody38** , you need help, of a sort which we are not capable of giving you. Go find someone who can: A psychiatrist, the religious leader of your choice, a family member, but someone. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-five-note-riff-close-encounters-of-the-third-kind/544709.md?page=3)