# Things you finally noticed after the 100th time

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-noticed-after-the-100th-time/406771>\
**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:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-noticed-after-the-100th-time/406771/121 "2007-06-27T17:01:56Z")

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It took me several decades to realize that Dylan’s Motopsycho Nightmare was not just a travelling salesman joke, but a Psycho joke, despite the title, the reference to Tony Perkins, the shower, and the swamp. And it’s not like I haven’t seen Psycho a bunch of times.

But at least I did get Back in the USSR - one of the better Beach Boys songs, actually. 😛

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**Author:** ![LightWithoutHeattttttttttttttt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc8723/32.png) [@LightWithoutHeattttttttttttttt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LightWithoutHeattttttttttttttt)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-noticed-after-the-100th-time/406771/122 "2007-06-27T19:29:10Z")

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[QUOTE=woodstockbirdybird]  
I think the name was actually based on Huxley’s _The Doors of Perception_, but I like your take better.  
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Kind of like a band named “Free Beer”.

“Tonight: Free Beer”

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**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-noticed-after-the-100th-time/406771/123 "2007-06-27T21:42:12Z")

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[QUOTE=Haunted]  
Recently I realized that when people say, “It’s always in the last place you look,” they mean that it is the last place you look because once you find the thing you are looking for, you stop looking. Doy.

Maybe I shouldn’t post this… it doesn’t make me look particularly bright, does it? Oh, well.  
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Actually, I see people as saying it very seriously (myself included), ignoring the duhness of “of course it’s in the last place you look”. I mean it as “it’s always in the last place you’d expect”.

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**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2007, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-finally-noticed-after-the-100th-time/406771/124 "2007-06-27T22:06:52Z")

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Right! It’s in the last place where an educated guess indicated it might be. If it hadn’t been, then you would have started casting about randomly, but luckily, it was in the last **logical** place. Like looking through 40 boxes, and after the 39th, saying, “Well, it can’t be in the 40th, but I’ll look anyway,” and there it is, in the 40th.

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