# Things you finally noticed after the 100th time **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 5, 2007, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-noticed-after-the-100th-time/406771 "2007-06-05T01:23:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2007, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-noticed-after-the-100th-time/406771/81 "2007-06-08T01:42:12Z")
I like a couple of Boz Scaggs songs. One is “Jojo.” I’ve heard it lots of times. It gets stuck in my head a lot - but mainly the tune and the riffs and the drums. He isn’t the most intelligible singer, and I never really paid that much attention to the lyrics of this song. I got the parts about “Jojo digs those spinning lights, way out games and dizzy heights below him, Jojo digs those Broadway nights…” and “what do you think of gentlemen wearing mink…” I had a vague idea that it was about a gay person. I heard the unedited album version for the first time last week, and with the “new” words I’d never heard before, I was dumbstruck! So I looked up the lyrics. For going on thirty years, I’ve been thrilled by the writing, chord changes, playing, production and sheen of a song about a pimp. A pimp who is “Gentle and soft, but who’d just as soon off you for looking the wrong way as not…” :eek: :smack: ---
**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:** [June 9, 2007, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-noticed-after-the-100th-time/406771/82 "2007-06-09T13:54:48Z")
I just happened to flip channels into _WarGames_ at the point where David (Matthew Broderick) and Jennifer (the yummy Miss Ally Sheedy) have started playing Global Thermonuclear War on his PC. They’ve just launched subs, and about the first thing I heard him say is “blow 'em outta the water!” Later, as the final big “battle” is about to begin, General Barringer (Barry Corbin) says almost exactly the same words. I actually giggled, and thought of this thread, as I had never connected the two lines before. ---
**Author:** ![TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2007, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-noticed-after-the-100th-time/406771/83 "2007-06-09T15:03:25Z")
[QUOTE=Roadfood] How about the logo for Infinity cars? I’ve seen that thing thousands of times over many years, and only recently did I smack myself in the forehead when realizing that it’s a road, going off to infinity… [/QUOTE] I always thought it was a stylized I. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2007, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-noticed-after-the-100th-time/406771/84 "2007-06-09T21:15:18Z")
[QUOTE=VCO3] I always thought it was a stylized I. [/QUOTE] I always thought it was a dying Pac-Man. ---
**Author:** ![BunnyTVS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BunnyTVS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyTVS)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-noticed-after-the-100th-time/406771/85 "2007-06-10T12:49:15Z")
In Terry Pratchets’ **Pyramids** the dead kings favourite handmaided (and illegitamate daughter) is called **Ptraci**. When I fianlly realised you were supposed to pronounce it **Tracey** :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Rhosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-noticed-after-the-100th-time/406771/86 "2007-06-10T17:04:06Z")
Not 100 times, but it took me at least 100 minutes to realize that getting the joke behind the name of the vaguely Jewish sorceror named As A Color the Shade Of Purple (or however you write that name, no longer have the book) in “The Flying Sorceror” by David Gerrold and Larry Niven hinged on realizing that “Color the Shade of Purple” was “Mauve.” Or maybe they spelled it out for those as dense as me later in the book and I got it, can’t remember. Sir Rhosis ---
**Author:** ![percussion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/43a26b/32.png) [@percussion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/percussion)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2007, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-noticed-after-the-100th-time/406771/87 "2007-06-10T23:33:23Z")
what “behave or behaved out” really meant. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-noticed-after-the-100th-time/406771/88 "2007-06-11T02:28:47Z")
> [@](#): > > Not 100 times, but it took me at least 100 minutes to realize that getting the joke behind the name of the vaguely Jewish sorceror named As A Color the Shade Of Purple (or however you write that name, no longer have the book) in “The Flying Sorceror” by David Gerrold and Larry Niven hinged on realizing that “Color the Shade of Purple” was “Mauve.” > > Or maybe they spelled it out for those as dense as me later in the book and I got it, can’t remember. That book is a treasure trove of odd references. I got the “As-a-shade of purple Gray” thing pretty fast, especially because he laughs at his name being a bilingual pun (Asimov has at least one story hinging on a bilingual pun in “Asimov’s Mysteries”) I footnoted my edition, But I’m sure I missed lots of references. One I didn’t learn until years later was that the god “Mouse-kwitz” was really SF historian Sam Moscowitz. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-noticed-after-the-100th-time/406771/89 "2007-06-11T07:15:47Z")
In _Spaceballs_, Barf enters the Princess’s Mercedes and introduces himself saying “I’m a mog. Half-man, half-dog. I’m my own best friend”. John Candy’s delivery and facial expression made me think the last sentence was just a throwaway funny line. I didn’t get it until a couple of days ago, after probably fifty or sixty viewings of the damn movie. ---
**Author:** ![Aioua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@Aioua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aioua)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-noticed-after-the-100th-time/406771/90 "2007-06-11T07:24:22Z")
So I was watching some _Futurama_ last night, and it hit me: Dr. Zoidberg is a Jewish shellfish. How could I have been so blind? ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-noticed-after-the-100th-time/406771/91 "2007-06-11T14:28:17Z")
It’s only last week I found out that _Back in the USSR_ was an intentional parody of the Beach Boys. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-noticed-after-the-100th-time/406771/92 "2007-06-11T15:19:33Z")
[QUOTE=Malacandra] It’s only last week I found out that _Back in the USSR_ was an intentional parody of the Beach Boys. :smack: [/QUOTE] Well, it was only ten seconds ago that I found out. :smack: :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-noticed-after-the-100th-time/406771/93 "2007-06-11T15:21:23Z")
[QUOTE=commasense] Well, it was only ten seconds ago that I found out. :smack: :smack: [/QUOTE] Obvious, though, isn’t it? :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-noticed-after-the-100th-time/406771/94 "2007-06-11T16:52:59Z")
[QUOTE=Malacandra] It’s only last week I found out that _Back in the USSR_ was an intentional parody of the Beach Boys. :smack: [/QUOTE] When I first heard it I recognized the Beach Boys parody straight off, but I had not yet heard of Chuck Berry’s “Back in the USA.” ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-noticed-after-the-100th-time/406771/95 "2007-06-12T01:49:49Z")
I just realized a couple of minutes ago that the comic strip is called _Pibgorn_ and not _Pigborn_. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_C](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Captain\_C](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_C)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-noticed-after-the-100th-time/406771/96 "2007-06-12T09:37:59Z")
I just realized that “Back in the USSR” isn’t by the Beach Boys. Sounds like it… ---
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-noticed-after-the-100th-time/406771/97 "2007-06-12T13:46:05Z")
[QUOTE=Aioua] So I was watching some _Futurama_ last night, and it hit me: Dr. Zoidberg is a Jewish shellfish. How could I have been so blind? [/QUOTE] I still don’t get it - is it because shellfish aren’t kosher? Much as I love Futurama, I’ve never really ‘got’ Zoidberg… ---
**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:** [June 12, 2007, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-noticed-after-the-100th-time/406771/98 "2007-06-12T13:48:18Z")
[QUOTE=Staggerlee] I still don’t get it - is it because shellfish aren’t kosher? Much as I love Futurama, I’ve never really ‘got’ Zoidberg… [/QUOTE] I think it’s the -berg part. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-noticed-after-the-100th-time/406771/99 "2007-06-12T13:53:47Z")
“Stay close to the candles.” But … they’re not … lit … oh well. Great knockers! ---
**Author:** ![Staggerlee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/staggerlee/32/3134_2.png) [@Staggerlee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Staggerlee)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2007, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-noticed-after-the-100th-time/406771/100 "2007-06-12T14:09:07Z")
[QUOTE=KneadToKnow] I think it’s the -berg part. [/QUOTE] I understand that he’s Jewish - thank you. I just wondered if there’s something else to ‘get’. Just seems he’s like an old school Jewish entertainer, and to me, not a very entertaining one (I know this is mildly sacreligious here, and apologise…). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-noticed-after-the-100th-time/406771.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-noticed-after-the-100th-time/406771.md?page=6)