# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532/61 "2010-02-04T03:32:49Z")
There are certain songs for which the Weird Al version just sounds more right to me than the original version. :: wanders away singing “I Lost on Jeopardy”… :: ---
**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, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532/62 "2010-02-04T03:58:14Z")
“My, my, this here Anakin guy…” ---
**Author:** ![CutterJohn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/91b2a8/32.png) [@CutterJohn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CutterJohn)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532/63 "2010-02-04T09:32:49Z")
Due to the video game Crysis, I am constantly misspelling the word crisis. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![dragoncat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6a8cbe/32.png) [@dragoncat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dragoncat)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532/64 "2010-02-04T09:49:21Z")
When I was a teenager I thought Manhattan Island looked like a giant penis. Consequently, many years later, it still looks like … ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532/65 "2010-02-04T10:23:40Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > 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. So I guess I shouldn’t tell you about “Amazing Grace” then? or “House of the Rising Sun” or “Wild Colonial Boy” or “O Little Town Of Bethlehem” … and so on and so on … All FAR more interesting than the tune of the national anthem, which is no great loss anyway 🙂 and as for the WORDS… ---
**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, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532/66 "2010-02-04T10:45:58Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > 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. > [@Aspidistra](#): > > So I guess I shouldn’t tell you about “Amazing Grace” then? > or > “House of the Rising Sun” > or > “Wild Colonial Boy” > or > “O Little Town Of Bethlehem” > > … and so on and so on … > > All FAR more interesting than the tune of the national anthem, which is no great loss anyway 🙂 > > Or > > and as for the WORDS… ["The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.](http://www.online-literature.com/coleridge/646/) can also be sung to the tune of “Gilligan’s Isle.” Bob Rivers has done a recording of “O Little Town Of Bethlehem” set to the tune of “The House of the Rising Sun.” ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532/67 "2010-02-04T12:32:10Z")
> [@kapri](#): > > Yeah, “There’s a bad moon on the rise” will now and forever always be . . . well, you know. Too bad. > [@ThisSpaceForRent](#): > > There’s the bathroom on the right… I wanna know, have you ever seen Loraine? ---
**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, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532/68 "2010-02-04T17:01:10Z")
> [@Essured](#): > > 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. Count me in the :eek: group - the only question for me was what position they were in. ---
**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, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532/69 "2010-02-04T17:20:14Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > TV jingle for Kay Jewelers chain: _“Every kiss begins with Kay.”_ > **Doug** , to same tune right afterwards: “And every ass begins with A.” My contribution, based on the Family Guy segment where they show the silhouettes, ending with the woman sliding down to just below the guy’s belt, and the tagline, “She’ll pretty much have to.”: “And every blowjob begins with B!” ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532/70 "2010-02-04T18:48:39Z")
> [@otternell](#): > > 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. I can’t hear “O Holy Night” without wondering why For yonder breaks a new and glorious porn. ---
**Author:** ![FordTaurusSHO94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f07891/32.png) [@FordTaurusSHO94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordTaurusSHO94)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532/71 "2010-02-04T21:38:23Z")
My friend thought it was “Dirty Deeds with the Thunder Chief.” I got a kick out of that one. ---
**Author:** ![Tethered\_Kite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@Tethered\_Kite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tethered_Kite)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532/72 "2010-02-04T21:52:07Z")
I cannot sit down in my opthamologist’s chair and grab hold of the handles on either side of his eye machine without making revving noises. And then the dear man with protruding ears says, “Look toward my left ear. . .” Over the years it’s gotten so I am nearly in giggles before I even leave the waiting room. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532/73 "2010-02-04T22:20:09Z")
Ever since I was a kid and the song first came out, I can’t hear the correct line from “Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting.” No, I hear: “Don’t give us none of your aggravation…We’ve had it with your Death Star plans…” ---
**Author:** ![Maiira](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Maiira](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maiira)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532/74 "2010-02-04T22:22:56Z")
> [@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. Usually I’m not germaphobic or anything, but this made me want to go take a shower. As for me, my cat sometimes gets litter from the litter box stuck to his fur, and since he’s not as spry and flexible as he used to be, he doesn’t clean down there as often as he used to. I haven’t noticed it as much lately, but I’m still hesitant to pick him up and cuddle him. I don’t really want to get poo-encrusted cat litter on my clothes. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2010, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532/75 "2010-02-04T22:37:30Z")
> [@Maiira](#): > > Usually I’m not germaphobic or anything, but this made me want to go take a shower. > > As for me, my cat sometimes gets litter from the litter box stuck to his fur, and since he’s not as spry and flexible as he used to be, he doesn’t clean down there as often as he used to. I haven’t noticed it as much lately, but I’m still hesitant to pick him up and cuddle him. I don’t really want to get poo-encrusted cat litter on my clothes. my cat is really fat and has the same sort of cleaning problem … but she seems to have problems with cling-ons. One time I saw her with clingons dangling, so I grabbed a kleenex and removed them. Now when ever she has clingons, she comes over and waves her butt at me and meows … until I get a tissue and remove the klingons… :eek: Well at least it keeps her form doing the butt scootch boogie on the carpet :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2010, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532/76 "2010-02-05T00:04:53Z")
> [@Meyer6](#): > > A few months ago I was lying in bed in the morning, half asleep, when the dog came in for some morning snuggles. He snuggled up against me, so we were basically spooning, and I was sleepily rubbing his belly with my eyes still closed. > > I rubbed for a while, he made his happy noises. > > And then I accidentally rubbed _something else_. > > Yes, I accidentally rubbed my dogs willy. Just wait until the first time you’re washing a horse, and you reach underneath without looking first… > [@DiosaBellissima](#): > > …is boring as fuck? **Diosa** , if you find it boring, you’re doing it wrong. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![dragoncat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6a8cbe/32.png) [@dragoncat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dragoncat)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2010, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532/77 "2010-02-05T08:16:13Z")
My mom has a friend who pronounces the word “dawdle” as if it were written “dwadle” (or dwaddle). For at least the last 10 years, every single time my mom has used the word “dawdle” she has added, “or, as Mary would say, dwadle.” (Unfortunately, then she has to spend several minutes explaining that her friend Mary, although an intelligent woman, mispronounced the word dawdle …) If no one ever mentioned dawdling again my brain would have that much more energy to spend on other things. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2010, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532/78 "2010-02-05T09:57:09Z")
Many years ago, I was eating at a Kenny Rogers’ restaurant where they showed country music videos on TV screens all over the restaurant - don’t know if any other Kenny Rogers’ had this, since I’d only been to that one. Anyway, one of the videos shown was a parody of Brooks and Dunn’s “Boot Scootin’ Boogie,” with the lyrics changed to “butt-scootin’ doggie.” There was also a little cartoon dog dragging his butt across the bottom of the screen. Ever since then, I can’t hear the original song without mentally changing the lyrics. ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2010, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532/79 "2010-02-05T11:09:20Z")
It’s not a misheard lyric but an exceptionally heard addition that grabs me. In the song “Survivor” by Destiny’s Child, there’s this extraneous “what?” inserted into the chorus, jammed right into the ends of each line overlapping the last word, and once you hear it, it’s all you hear. > [@](#): > > I’m a surviWHAT? > I’m not gonna give uWHAT? > I’m not gonna stWHAT? > I’m gonna work hardWHAT? > I’m a survivWHAT? > I’m gonna make iWHAT? > I’mma survivWHAT? > Keep on surviviWHAT? I can’t sing along with the chorus anymore I just go WHAT? WHAT? over and over. You can join me in WHAT?ing [if you want to head to YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9fr5QkDWYs). ---
**Author:** ![echowit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/59ef9b/32.png) [@echowit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/echowit)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2010, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532/80 "2010-02-05T17:14:26Z")
[quote=“Essured, post:53, topic:527532”] The clothing company [A Style](http://www.astyle.it/)’s logo …QUOTE] Let’s see now, where is this guys cigarette? Couldn’t help myself. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532.md?page=5)