# Things that are noticed... cannot be UNnoticed **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 3, 2010, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532 "2010-02-03T16:11:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532/41 "2010-02-03T23:53:27Z")
> [@Enuma\_Elish](#): > > "Are you aware that every Emily Dickinson poem… …is boring as fuck? No? ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532/42 "2010-02-03T23:55:14Z")
I have a female dog, so I don’t get to see the red rocket, the lipstick, or the swinging genitals, but one time I was in just the right position to see her bunghole open up and it looked some kind of flower blooming. The image may be with me forever. ---
**Author:** ![Enuma\_Elish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5e9695/32.png) [@Enuma\_Elish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enuma_Elish)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532/43 "2010-02-03T23:55:17Z")
besides that! ---
**Author:** ![Enuma\_Elish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5e9695/32.png) [@Enuma\_Elish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enuma_Elish)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2010, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532/44 "2010-02-03T23:56:39Z")
> [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > …is boring as fuck? > > No? Besides that! ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532/45 "2010-02-04T00:01:00Z")
> [@Enuma\_Elish](#): > > Besides that! You type [spoiler] Spoiley stuff here. [/ spoiler] without the extra spaces inside the brackets. My version of that particular Dickenson spoiler is: … can be sung to the tune of “Oh Suzannah.” I’ve also heard that “Yellow Rose of Texas” works, but I haven’t knowingly heard the song so I don’t know if it’s the same tune. ---
**Author:** ![Enuma\_Elish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5e9695/32.png) [@Enuma\_Elish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enuma_Elish)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532/46 "2010-02-04T00:14:52Z")
Thank you Ferret Herder. can be sung to “The Yellow Rose of Texas”. They are different tunes. I never heard of Oh Susannah working too. ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532/47 "2010-02-04T00:27:39Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Many years ago, I noticed a lost glove, then another, then another, by the side of the road where I was driving. From that moment on, I noticed that they are _everywhere_. Eventually, I started taking photos of them - I have over 400 pictures of different lost gloves - and I can’t stop finding them. I have remembered this about you, and now every time _I_ see a lost glove I think of _you_. This has been going on for several years! ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532/48 "2010-02-04T00:55:13Z")
Years ago my co-worker told me that the Australian national anthem can be sung the the tune of the Gilligan’s Island theme song. This has erased the original tune from my mind, if it was ever there at all. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532/49 "2010-02-04T01:14:54Z")
I’ve often thought I should collect all the lost gloves I see, match them up, and donate them to charity or something. ---
**Author:** ![Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8edcca/32.png) [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superfluous_Parentheses)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532/50 "2010-02-04T01:29:29Z")
It’s been pointed out to me today that [Twiki](http://www.am.ub.es/~carrasco/bichos/twiki2.jpg) (or however you spell it) has a “penis glans for hair”. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532/51 "2010-02-04T02:01:09Z")
The [Wilhelm Scream](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_scream) takes me out of a movie every single time I hear it. I think it may even have been on _Lost_ last night. Or some other show, I can’t remember. I just remember my partner said: “Hey, its that scream.” I wish I never ever noticed it or found out more about it. Edit: “Waggy Wang”… band name! ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Mondegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/91b2a8/32.png) [@Lord\_Mondegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Mondegreen)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532/52 "2010-02-04T02:05:36Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Has he ruined “Dirty Deeds… Done With Sheep” yet? 😃 > > (That started out as AC/DC’s “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap” if anyone’s wondering.) I suppose it’s appropriate for me to add to this, considering my username. Round these parts a common AC/DC substitution is (or at least was), “It’s a long way to the shop if you want a sausage roll” (“It’s a long way to the top if you want to rock and roll”). ---
**Author:** ![Essured](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Essured](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Essured)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532/53 "2010-02-04T02:15:13Z")
The clothing company [A Style](http://www.astyle.it/)’s logo They started sponsoring some motoGP races a couple of years ago, and as the camera panned around a turn - there were _thousands_ of these logos in the background. We had about 8 people visiting us to watch the race, and there was a sharp division between those who didn’t notice anything and those who had their jaws hanging open and were looking around to see who else saw it. Once we clued in the un-seers, the too, could not un-see it 🙂 Some of it now even refer to that position as “A Style” 😃 I’m assuming their logo ambiguity is intentional, unlike some of the others that have been posted, from they way they market and their target audience. ---
**Author:** ![kapri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4491bb/32.png) [@kapri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kapri)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532/54 "2010-02-04T02:33:48Z")
> [@pbbth](#): > > I had never noticed what people do with their metro cards when they aren’t using them (metro cards are our transit cards that grant us access to the subway in NYC) until one day on the train when I saw the worst thing a person can see ever. There was an older woman sitting with a man I assume to be her husband. He had a huge open wound up and down the entire lower half of his leg that obviously needed treatment but hadn’t been looked at by a doctor. She was using her metro card to\* dig decaying material out of the wound on his leg and fling it around the subway car\*. :eek::eek::eek::eek: The whole time I saw this happening I was holding my breath and thinking, “and next time they get on the train they are going to swipe that card through the same card reader that I do and I am going to have that man’s decaying wound germs on my card!” > > Now when I see people using their metro card as a bookmark, toothpick, or other non-standard use of the card I notice immediately. Then I purell my hands just remembering that horrible scene. Ughghghghghughg… Reminds me of this one time years ago at work when I went into a colleague’s office and found him scraping away his eczema–he had a real eczema problem–with a credit card. Flakes of diseased skin were flying all over his office; there was a pile of skin flakes on his desk. But your story is worse. ---
**Author:** ![kapri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4491bb/32.png) [@kapri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kapri)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532/55 "2010-02-04T02:36:08Z")
> [@otternell](#): > > My husband loves to “ruin” songs like that for me. > > Gordon Lightfoot’s “Ghost of Cape Horn” becomes “Ghosts of Gay Porn” and though I love that song, I always giggle my way through it now. > > He’s done that on several songs, but that’s the only one the sticks with me. Yeah, “There’s a bad moon on the rise” will now and forever always be . . . well, you know. Too bad. ---
**Author:** ![kapri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4491bb/32.png) [@kapri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kapri)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532/56 "2010-02-04T02:42:31Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Many years ago, I noticed a lost glove, then another, then another, by the side of the road where I was driving. From that moment on, I noticed that they are _everywhere_. Eventually, I started taking photos of them - I have over 400 pictures of different lost gloves - and I can’t stop finding them. Do you have a blog? I remember seeing a blog someone started about this . . . was that you? ---
**Author:** ![ThisSpaceForRent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thisspaceforrent/32/345_2.png) [@ThisSpaceForRent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisSpaceForRent)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532/57 "2010-02-04T02:56:07Z")
> [@kapri](#): > > Yeah, “There’s a bad moon on the rise” will now and forever always be . . . well, you know. Too bad. There’s the bathroom on the right… ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532/58 "2010-02-04T03:06:38Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Many years ago, I noticed a lost glove, then another, then another, by the side of the road where I was driving. From that moment on, I noticed that they are _everywhere_. Eventually, I started taking photos of them - I have over 400 pictures of different lost gloves - and I can’t stop finding them. I remember someone writing into Cecil saying more or less this, after the column on single shoes at the side of the road. Was that you? ---
**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:** [February 4, 2010, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532/59 "2010-02-04T03:16:45Z")
> [@Algher](#): > > Our Minister begins the Benediction with > > “In all that you do…in word and in deed” > > One day, I whispered to my wife the appropriate bit for the ellipses there: > > “In all that you do” > whisper: “This Bud’s For You!” TV jingle for Kay Jewelers chain: _“Every kiss begins with Kay.”_ **Doug** , to same tune right afterwards: “And every ass begins with A.” ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532/60 "2010-02-04T03:21:14Z")
> [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](#): > > It’s been pointed out to me today that [Twiki](http://www.am.ub.es/~carrasco/bichos/twiki2.jpg) (or however you spell it) has a “penis glans for hair”. “Beedeebeedeebeedee…what does ‘Dick-Head’ mean, Buck?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532.md?page=4)