# Untold Stories from fiction. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 11, 2004, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/untold-stories-from-fiction/268689 "2004-10-11T19:11:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Shalmanese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shalmanese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shalmanese)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/untold-stories-from-fiction/268689/41 "2004-10-17T04:48:44Z")
In the movie “the wog boy”, the main charecter had a pickup line that was guarenteed never to fail. Unfortunately, they ruined the effect by revealing the line at the end of the movie. ---
**Author:** ![chorpler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chorpler/32/2888_2.png) [@chorpler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chorpler)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/untold-stories-from-fiction/268689/42 "2004-10-17T08:12:38Z")
> [@Number Six](#): > > Example 3: On _LA Law_, a little nebbishy guy is found to be married to some four or five gorgeous women at once. It is discovered that his secret is a sexual technique called, “The Venus Butterfly”. He shares the technique with Arnie, and it then spreads throughout the men at the firm. We see the setup in the bedroom, and the afterglow of some very satisfied women, but the only hint as to the technique itself is that it requires room service. Classic, and perfectly done. And then that new FX firefighter show _Rescue Me_ had the gall to “reveal” the Venus Butterfly to the world. Heresy! [spoiler]It involves inserting the index and middle fingers vaginally, folding back the ring finger, and inserting the little finger anally, while performing oral sex on the woman. And, as I recall, somebody got in biiiiiiiiiiig trouble by accidentally reversing the number of fingers in each orifice.[/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/untold-stories-from-fiction/268689/43 "2004-10-17T10:58:51Z")
In ‘The Hobbit’, Bilbo has just rescued the dwarves from the dungeons of King Thranduil in Mirkwood when he nips (wet + invisible) into a riverside village to get supplies. Tolkien says there is a story to be told about his adventures that night… ---
**Author:** ![Waccoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Waccoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waccoe)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/untold-stories-from-fiction/268689/44 "2004-10-17T11:06:28Z")
There is a newspaper cartoon called Bristow, about life in a London office, that makes frequent references to The Great Tea Trolley Disaster of '67. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/untold-stories-from-fiction/268689/45 "2004-10-17T15:59:12Z")
_the Devil Has Built A Robot!_ ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/untold-stories-from-fiction/268689/46 "2004-10-17T16:06:36Z")
Ok, I’m pretty sure I wrote that in caps. Is there some coding here I’m not familiar with? ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2004, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/untold-stories-from-fiction/268689/47 "2004-10-17T22:31:36Z")
Three on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine are Morn being an incessant gossip; the constant mentioning of Captain Boday by a number of character, usually Jadzia, his ex; and Waste extraction which turned into a running joke for about two seasons. None are ever actually shown on-screen. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/untold-stories-from-fiction/268689/48 "2004-10-18T00:47:26Z")
> [@Waccoe](#): > > There is a newspaper cartoon called Bristow, about life in a London office, that makes frequent references to The Great Tea Trolley Disaster of '67. Ask the pigeon! (in joke) ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/untold-stories-from-fiction/268689/49 "2004-10-18T01:58:46Z")
**Aesiron** : …and the Lissepian Mother’s Day Heist. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/untold-stories-from-fiction/268689/50 "2004-10-18T02:21:41Z")
What is a Hrung, and why did it choose to collapse on Betelgeuse Seven? ---
**Author:** ![manx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@manx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manx)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/untold-stories-from-fiction/268689/51 "2004-10-18T12:14:39Z")
> [@cher3](#): > > …we still don’t exactly know what is in scumble, besides apples. Well, _mostly_ apples… ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/untold-stories-from-fiction/268689/52 "2004-10-18T16:27:51Z")
from [this site](http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/shbest/ref/untold.htm) Untold Tales of Sherlock Holmes 1. "The Politician, the Lighthouse, and the Trained Cormorant " 2. "The Giant Rat of Sumatra " 3. “The Disappearance of Mr. James Phillimore” 4. “The Case of Isadora Persano and the Remarkable Worm” 5. “The Dreadful Business of the Abernetty Family” 6. “The Amateur Mendicant Society” 7. “The Singular Affair of the Aluminum Crutch” 8. “The Arrest of Wilson, the Notorious Canary-Trainer” 9. “Ricoletti of the Club Foot and His Abominable Wife” 10. “Colonel Warburton’s Madness” 11. “The Repulsive Story of the Red Leech” ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2004, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/untold-stories-from-fiction/268689/53 "2004-10-18T20:38:20Z")
Douglas Adams wrote of the suddenly (and improbably) created bowl of petunias. > [@](#): > > The only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was ‘Oh no, not again.’ Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now. Then he totally blew it by explaining the whole thing in a later book. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2004, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/untold-stories-from-fiction/268689/54 "2004-10-19T13:42:31Z")
Heh. He doesn’t know how to use the three seashells. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/untold-stories-from-fiction/268689.md?page=2)