# Whenever I see/hear \_\_\_\_\_\_ I can't help but think \_\_\_\_\_ **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 20, 2006, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whenever-i-see-hear-______-i-cant-help-but-think-_____/365372 "2006-07-20T17:51:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whenever-i-see-hear-______-i-cant-help-but-think-_____/365372/1 "2006-07-20T17:51:10Z")
James Gandolfini – Henry Gondorff (Newman’s character in _The Sting_) or else Gandalf in LotR Patrick Swayze – John Cameron Swayze (the Timex dude) Barry Bonds – James Bond Hedy Lamarr – Harvey Korman Jerry Lewis – Jerry Lee Lewis Monica Lewinsky – Corbett Monica (comedian who opened for Sinatra) Yogi Berra – Fred Flintstone Aretha Franklin – urethra ---
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whenever-i-see-hear-______-i-cant-help-but-think-_____/365372/2 "2006-07-20T20:36:12Z")
> [@](#): > > Yogi Berra – Fred Flintstone So, fred flintstone instead of yogi bear? Hmmm… My only celebrity example would have to be Phillip Michael Thomas – Phillip Seymour Hoffman (I apologize to Mr Hoffman if he is reading this thread). Also, any time I taste coconut it makes me think of the dentist. I don’t think that is what you were looking for though. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whenever-i-see-hear-______-i-cant-help-but-think-_____/365372/3 "2006-07-20T20:57:46Z")
[QUOTE=pbbth] So, fred flintstone instead of yogi bear? [/QUOTE] Yeah. This is one of those that skips a step. Maybe it’s because Yog looks more like Fred than the bear or maybe it’s just that Yogi Bear never appealed to me all that much. Not that Flintstone did either. Speaking of actors with three names. There’s a football player in Alabama named John Parker Wilson and folks at the rival school are busy coming up with all sorts of replacement names for him. My favorite is Sarah Jessica Parker Wilson. That can’t be flattering. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whenever-i-see-hear-______-i-cant-help-but-think-_____/365372/4 "2006-07-20T22:01:50Z")
Then there’s that Spiderman guy, Peter Jessica Parker. When I hear Karl Rove’s name, I think of “slithy tove.” ---
**Author:** ![Faruiza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@Faruiza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Faruiza)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whenever-i-see-hear-______-i-cant-help-but-think-_____/365372/5 "2006-07-20T22:43:46Z")
[QUOTE=AskNott] When I hear Karl Rove’s name, I think of “slithy tove.” [/QUOTE] OMG!! :eek: Me too!! ---
**Author:** ![SurrenderDorothy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/surrenderdorothy/32/1221_2.png) [@SurrenderDorothy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SurrenderDorothy)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2006, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whenever-i-see-hear-______-i-cant-help-but-think-_____/365372/6 "2006-07-21T00:04:43Z")
Any time I meet someone named Peter (not “pete”) especially when people pronounce it a certain way (it’s hard to explain just what way… sort of like a small child with no speech impediments. Every sound extremely clear, rather than “peeder” or “peetah” and sort of slowly.) I think of Shirley Temple in Heidi saying, “goat-peter!”