# 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:** 8\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![SleepyDuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@SleepyDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SleepyDuck)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532/141 "2010-02-12T05:38:57Z")
> [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](#): > > A bunch of years back, I saw some movie with Wilfred Brimley in it. You could see the movie studio lights reflected in his eyeglasses really noticeably. Now whenever a character is wearing eyeglasses, I look for the camera lights. Heh. Years ago I was watching the Seattle Seahawks play in the Kingdome, and apropos of nothing I noticed the ring of stadium lights reflected on one of the player’s silver helmet. For a long time after that I was obsessed with stadium lights reflecting on players’ helmets. Different stadii, different colored helmets; I couldn’t UNnotice it. Of course I had managed to forget about this until now, so, uh, thanks, I guess… ---
**Author:** ![dragoncat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6a8cbe/32.png) [@dragoncat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dragoncat)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532/142 "2010-02-12T06:41:05Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > My favorite example of things that can never be unnoticed is - [kerning](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerning). Oh – at first I thought you were talking about gurning – also something you will see everywhere once you know about it. It’s too bad you can’t compliment a stranger on their gurning. [http://www.squidoo.com/girning](http://www.squidoo.com/girning) ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532/143 "2010-02-12T08:16:50Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > On Star Trek,The Next Generation, [the sound that the doorbell to each room makes](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVEYhmjo3vA) is the first two notes of the Flintstones theme song. > [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Does it make me a huge nerd that I can immediately play that sound in my mind? Yes. But forevermore you will hear it as “Flint-stones.” ---
**Author:** ![Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bites_when_provoked/32/18073_2.png) [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bites_When_Provoked)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532/144 "2010-02-13T08:54:46Z")
> [@tumbleddown](#): > > 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 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). Aaargh! You’re right! You’re right! I’d never noticed it before. ---
**Author:** ![Plaisham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f14d63/32.png) [@Plaisham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plaisham)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532/145 "2010-02-13T22:57:15Z")
> [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](#): > > Gaaaaaah! > > Okay, so you know how when dogs wag their tails vigorously, their butts sometimes go side to side a little too? Okay, fine. So anyway, I was standing at the bottom of the stairs and I looked up, and our dog was at the top smiling down with his dumb doggy happy face. He’s part wolfhound, but smaller, so he’s like a shaggy greyhound. > > With those long legs, from the bottom of the stairs I got a good view of his under-carriage. So I couldn’t help but notice… > > When his tail wags, his junk swings in opposition. Tail goes left, dog wang swings right. Tail wags vigorously, dog wang does same. > > What the hell? I can’t stop noticing this now! I keep seeing waggy wang! Waggy wang, waggy wang - all the time! I don’t need to see that. 😃 my first laugh out loud today Thanks ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532/146 "2010-02-13T23:56:06Z")
In the mid-90s, when I was exposed to digital versions of 70s pop songs (either thru downloading or from listening to digital radio,) I noticed that they were slightly slower than they were in the 70s. Because the DJs then sped things up to make them sound “peppier.” So to retaliate music producers made songs a bit slow so they would sound normal on the radio. Now, it was vaguely annoying to listen to Afternoon Delight and feel like they’re trodding thru sludge and/or depressed and/or trudging through depressed sludge, but today I noticed the same effect on _Come Together_ by the Beatles. I’m not sure that the digital version is slower than the radio version, but now that I _think_ I’ve heard it I will never be able to unhear it. ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532/147 "2010-02-14T00:16:32Z")
Re: Wake of the Flood, it’s an anamorphic skull, to be precise. See also:[Holbein’s Ambassadors](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Holbein-ambassadors.jpg) Kerning amuses me. I ran into the word ‘keming,’ meaning when kerning goes bad. Which cracks me up. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532/148 "2010-02-14T00:49:49Z")
I’ve been looking at the Wake of the Flood cover for a minute or so and I can’t see the skull. It looks more like a yonic symbol. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-are-noticed-cannot-be-unnoticed/527532.md?page=7)