# "What a drag!" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 4, 2002, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-drag/107190 "2002-05-04T01:15:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2002, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-drag/107190/1 "2002-05-04T01:15:41Z")
I have been annoying my son with this joke for years. Every time I see the cliche, where the guy falls from the horse and is scraped along the ground for about a half a mile… I cannot help but say “What a drag!” Tonight I see that joke relflected in an ad for a Disney: Snow Dogs 2? A guy is being pulled through the snow and the _dog_ says: “What a drag” How common is this? There have been a number of jokes that flash through the culture. Do they originate from any number of locations ( the mathematical random monkey Shakespeare theorem) OR From one location and quickly spread by the media… ---
**Author:** ![MyFootsZZZ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/myfootszzz/32/12580_2.png) [@MyFootsZZZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MyFootsZZZ)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2002, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-drag/107190/2 "2002-05-04T06:59:35Z")
I used to be called a nerd. I would say “I’m not a nerd, nerds are smart, I’m more of a dork!” I was watching Simpsons the other day and Bart called Milhouse a Nerd, to which he replies; “I’m not a nerd, nerds are smart.” This makes me sad… ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2002, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-a-drag/107190/3 "2002-05-04T07:07:13Z")
When I was in grade 7 me & my mates used to record silly little parodies of pop songs. For some reason most of them involved Hare Krishnas. One of them was “Talkin’ 'bout my Ken-L-Ration” About a year later, Saturday Night Live used the same title (with a hundred others) in a fake ad.