# Things you will never see **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 11, 2005, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-will-never-see/335171 "2005-12-11T21:24:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2005, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-will-never-see/335171/1 "2005-12-11T21:24:21Z")
A runway too long in Chicago. A miniskirt too short. A poem as beautiful as a tree. ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-will-never-see/335171/2 "2005-12-12T00:00:55Z")
too many books too few children too little football ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-will-never-see/335171/3 "2005-12-12T01:38:42Z")
A beer too dark. “And the award for Best Actor goes to…Joey Lawrence!” CLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAP Whoa! CLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAPCLAP My abs. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-will-never-see/335171/4 "2005-12-12T02:09:38Z")
I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree Indeed, unles the bilboards fall I’ll never see a tree at all. _Ogden Nash_ ---
**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:** [December 12, 2005, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-will-never-see/335171/5 "2005-12-12T02:56:19Z")
> [@ccwaterback](#): > > A miniskirt too short. I disagree. If the hemline is above her head, it’s too short. 🙂 > [@](#): > > A poem as beautiful as a tree. Doesn’t that depend on the tree? ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-will-never-see/335171/6 "2005-12-12T04:06:57Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Doesn’t that depend on the tree? I don’t know if I agree with the dude that wrote that line, or not. But it is a good point to ponder. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-will-never-see/335171/7 "2005-12-12T04:07:46Z")
Flying cars. But dammit, when I was kid, everyone was going to have a flying car. They promised! ---
**Author:** ![MacSpon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/34f0e0/32.png) [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-will-never-see/335171/8 "2005-12-12T04:40:19Z")
> [@ccwaterback](#): > > A poem as beautiful as a tree. I think that I shall never glance At poems lovelier than plants. I think that I shall never read A poem pretty as a weed. I think that I shall never meet A poem tender as a beet. I think I’ll never come across A poem rich and moist as moss. I think I’d need a lot of practise To write a poem like a cactus. I’d need the skills of H. Houdini To conjure poems like zucchini … _(Plus lots more stanzas. 🙂 From **The Book of Sequels** by Henry Beard et al.)_ ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-will-never-see/335171/9 "2005-12-12T05:19:53Z")
Things you will never see: -Microwave radiation -A single electron -A quantum mechanical wavefunction (they’re complex) -A black hole -Your own brain Things you will never hear: -A dog whistle -[The inverse Doppler effect](http://www.physorg.com/news4224.html) -The sound of two stars colliding -The sound of two molecules colliding -Cecil Adams saying, “I don’t know.” Things you will never smell: -Europa -The inside of your own nose -Anything odorless I could go on, but I won’t. ---
**Author:** ![soulmurk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@soulmurk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulmurk)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-will-never-see/335171/10 "2005-12-12T05:27:28Z")
Jimi Hendrix live at the Gorge Ampitheater. The end to my cynicism. The inside of the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport in person. The Redskins win another Superbowl. My ex-wife. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2005, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-will-never-see/335171/11 "2005-12-12T05:39:32Z")
George W Bush recieving a Nobel Prize for physics.