# Therapist=The Rapist- Other words like this? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [July 25, 2011, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320 "2011-07-25T22:41:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![brocks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@brocks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brocks)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2011, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/61 "2011-07-27T00:32:30Z")
> [@Crazyhorse](#): > > [Robin Cheatham](http://www.adamsandreese.com/robin-b-cheatham/) - attorney at law. He’s a partner in the firm of Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2011, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/62 "2011-07-27T00:34:21Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > The late and greatly missed British weekly snark-fest called Need To Know ([ntk.net](http://ntk.net)) How _dare_ they! ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2011, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/63 "2011-07-27T00:53:38Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > 😕 I take it you’re unfamiliar with [Saturday Night Live’s “Celebrity Jeopardy”](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity_Jeopardy!_(Saturday_Night_Live)) sketches? > [@](#): > > Categories are often misunderstood by the celebrities and transformed by one of the contestants (almost always Connery) into sexually-suggestive phrases (e.g., misreading “Catch These Men” as “Catch The Semen”, “Japan US Relations” as “Jap anus relations”, “An Album Cover” as “Anal Bum Cover”, “A Petit Dejeuner” as “Ape Tit […]”, “The Pen Is Mightier” as “The Penis Mightier”, and “Therapists” as “The Rapists”). ([Here’s the transcript of the “penis mightier” episode.](http://snltranscripts.jt.org/98/98pjeopardy.phtml) The sketch itself may be available on hulu or [nbc.com](http://nbc.com).) ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2011, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/64 "2011-07-27T02:50:20Z")
> [@Leo\_Bloom](#): > > 😕 Not much of one for the ladies, are ye, Trebek? ---
**Author:** ![mr.jp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@mr.jp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr.jp)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2011, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/65 "2011-07-27T10:22:28Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > One of our own: > > Mangetout / Man get out That one made my pan ache. ---
**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:** [July 27, 2011, 10:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/66 "2011-07-27T10:37:23Z")
Will I Am. ---
**Author:** ![Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Springtime_for_Spacers)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2011, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/67 "2011-07-27T10:43:54Z")
> [@hibernicus](#): > > At the department store, men swear, women swear and children swear. Rats, got to the second page before someone posted this one. I discovered this at an age young enough to think it the funniest thing ever. ---
**Author:** ![kaltkalt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bb73d2/32.png) [@kaltkalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaltkalt)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2011, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/68 "2011-07-27T13:48:13Z")
Reminds me of an anecdote about how someone had a bumper sticker that said “GODISNOWHERE” and religious people whined and complained because they read it as “god is nowhere” (and because they’re whiny jackasses) rather than “god is now here”. The implication was that it was like a freudian slip of the mind, showing that religious people deep down inside don’t really believe there’s a god. No idea if this ever actually happened, could be as made up as religion is. But the “is now here” / “is nowhere” part is similar to what the OP is talking about. ---
**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:** [July 27, 2011, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/69 "2011-07-27T14:46:42Z")
> [@kaltkalt](#): > > Reminds me of an anecdote about how someone had a bumper sticker that said “GODISNOWHERE” and religious people whined and complained because they read it as “god is nowhere” (and because they’re whiny jackasses) rather than “god is now here”. The implication was that it was like a freudian slip of the mind, showing that religious people deep down inside don’t really believe there’s a god. No idea if this ever actually happened, could be as made up as religion is. But the “is now here” / “is nowhere” part is similar to what the OP is talking about. I see “God I snow here.” ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2011, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/70 "2011-07-27T18:20:41Z")
This also exists in other languages. Japanese uses three different types of writing all combined together: two syllabaries (kind of like alphabets) plus kanji, which are the characters borrowed from Chinese. One day, to make a point about how using kanji reduces ambiguity in written Japanese, my teacher gave the example of a sign with the following words, written entirely in hirigana (a syllabary): ここではきものをぬいで ください。 It can be parsed either as: _Koko de hakimono o nuide kudasai._ Please remove your shoes here. or _Koko de wa kimono o nuide kudasai._ Please remove your clothes **here**. > [@njtt](#): > > Similarly, www. penisland. com purported to be a website selling pens (although I believe in this case it was a deliberate joke rather than a mistake). See also: bullpen island. > [@Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](#): > > I’m not sure if this fits in in any way, but my dad had a saying: “There Snow Play Sly Comb” Similarly tangentially, I used to think the expression was “that says maybe” until I had a friend with a tendency to clearly enunciate it as “that’s as may be.” > [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > ([Here’s the transcript of the “penis mightier” episode.](http://snltranscripts.jt.org/98/98pjeopardy.phtml) The sketch itself may be available on hulu or [nbc.com](http://nbc.com).) [Here’s a collection](http://splitsider.com/2011/04/the-complete-history-of-snls-celebrity-jeopardy) of every single Celebrity Jeopardy! sketch, in chronological order by air date. ---
**Author:** ![brocks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@brocks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brocks)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2011, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/71 "2011-07-27T19:44:39Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > [Here’s a collection](http://splitsider.com/2011/04/the-complete-history-of-snls-celebrity-jeopardy) of every single Celebrity Jeopardy! sketch, in chronological order by air date. Many thanks for the link. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2011, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/72 "2011-07-27T22:42:55Z")
> [@constanze](#): > > Close, but still missed: the German word for slaughter is “Schlach **t** en” Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2011, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/73 "2011-07-28T00:52:26Z")
acetone ace tone action act ion ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2011, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/74 "2011-07-28T02:03:49Z")
This one’s not quite as interesting, but I’ve never quite noticed that “unionized” can be parsed in two ways until I read an article that mentioned “unionized ammonia,” and my brain was parsing it as “union-ized” instead of “un-ionized.” ---
**Author:** ![Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hypnagogic_jerk/32/4252_2.png) [@Hypnagogic\_Jerk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypnagogic_Jerk)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2011, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/75 "2011-07-28T04:21:35Z")
There’s also [periodic acid](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_acid). ---
**Author:** ![johnspartan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a183cd/32.png) [@johnspartan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnspartan)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2011, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/76 "2011-07-28T14:47:14Z")
The Marist Red Foxes website is [www.goredfoxes.com](http://www.goredfoxes.com). Presumably Go Red Foxes, and not Gored Foxes, which sounds pretty gross. ---
**Author:** ![brocks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7feea3/32.png) [@brocks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brocks)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2011, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/77 "2011-07-28T14:57:32Z")
Finished watching all the SNL celebrity Jeopardies. I’m not a big Will Ferrell fan, but he is PERFECT for that skit. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2011, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/78 "2011-07-28T15:34:09Z")
They were one thing that stayed consistently funny, even when the rest of SNL wasn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2011, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/79 "2011-07-28T16:11:44Z")
Carnation: car nation Fellatio: Fell at I, O! ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2011, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320/80 "2011-07-28T19:21:16Z")
We used to have another poster 'round here: **Nosmo King**. Presumably he didn’t like being told that smoking wasn’t allowed in a specific area. Every time I see a “No Smoking” sign, I think of him. Haven’t seen him in yonks. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/therapist-the-rapist-other-words-like-this/590320.md?page=5)