# "Where's Thing 1?" **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 20, 2009, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-thing-1/514451 "2009-10-20T06:00:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-thing-1/514451/1 "2009-10-20T06:00:21Z")
I have a pretty cool “Thing 2” (Cat in the Hatshirt that I got at Islands of Adventure a while ago. Every time I wear it, i get the question: “Where’s Thing 1?” Problem is, I don’t have much in the way of a witty answer. I figure Dopers would have some good suggestions. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-thing-1/514451/2 "2009-10-20T06:43:04Z")
‘In my pants’? ---
**Author:** ![statsman1982](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@statsman1982](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/statsman1982)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-thing-1/514451/3 "2009-10-20T07:27:03Z")
“Where all the other wild things are”? ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-thing-1/514451/4 "2009-10-20T09:24:33Z")
“Rehab” ---
**Author:** ![tumbleddown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tumbleddown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tumbleddown)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-thing-1/514451/5 "2009-10-20T09:31:42Z")
“Dead, it was horrible, don’t make me talk about it…” _mock weeping_ ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-thing-1/514451/6 "2009-10-20T11:04:04Z")
“He’s over at your house.” ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-thing-1/514451/7 "2009-10-20T11:14:29Z")
With yo mamma ---
**Author:** ![NicePete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee7513/32.png) [@NicePete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NicePete)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-thing-1/514451/8 "2009-10-20T13:51:01Z")
Still in the box. ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-thing-1/514451/9 "2009-10-20T14:52:40Z")
He left me for the Cat in the Hat, thank you so much for rubbing salt in the wound. I had to kill him because he kept asking me where stuff was. He’s at a work retreat with the Red Fish and the Blue Fish. I’m going next week with the Sneetches. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-thing-1/514451/10 "2009-10-20T15:47:57Z")
option 1: Grab yer crotch and say “I got your Thing 1 right here” option 2: Flip them the bird. ---
**Author:** ![Mooch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mooch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mooch)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-thing-1/514451/11 "2009-10-20T15:49:11Z")
If he was up your ass you’d know. ---
**Author:** ![Lurking\_Quahog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lurking_quahog/32/21274_2.png) [@Lurking\_Quahog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lurking_Quahog)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-thing-1/514451/12 "2009-10-20T17:01:08Z")
In my trunk. With the dead hookers. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-thing-1/514451/13 "2009-10-20T19:34:44Z")
– In the Baxter Building, with the rest of the Fantastic Four – In the Antarctic, where MacReady torched it – In the Arctic, where Kenneth Tobey zapped it – Swam back to her island after coccooning Godzilla – It’s on Interstate 10 in Dragoon, Arizona > **[The Thing (roadside attraction)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing%3F)** > > The Thing (aka The Thing Museum) is a Arizona roadside attraction extensively advertised by signs along Interstate 10 between El Paso, Texas, and Tucson, Arizona. The object, supposedly a mummified mother and child, is believed to have been made by exhibit creator Homer Tate for sideshows. > The Thing was purchased by former lawyer Thomas Binkley Prince in the mid-twentieth century, who quickly based a tourist attraction around the strange object. Although Prince died in 1969, the attraction was r... > **[The Thing, Dragoon, Arizona](https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2023)** > > America's most purposefully mysterious tourist attraction beckons the freeway-fatigued in empty southeastern Arizona. What is it? We won't tell. – He’s in his box on Morticia Addams’ table ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-thing-1/514451/14 "2009-10-20T19:54:23Z")
Just get a worried look on your face. Look around for a few seconds, then say “Oh shit! Not again!” Then run off. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-thing-1/514451/15 "2009-10-20T20:22:00Z")
Look over their shoulder. Tip your chin up just a bit as if to indicate they should look there. If they do, when they look back at you, point your finger at them and do your best Jack Nicholson “Gotcha” grin. Nod wisely and say “That’s the question, isn’t it?” “An undisclosed location” “Alice’s Restaurant” Tap the side of your nose and nod knowingly. “Angelina Jolie adopted him.” ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-thing-1/514451/16 "2009-10-20T20:27:51Z")
“Flying kites in the hall! Bump-thump, thump-bump down the wall in the hall!”"" ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-thing-1/514451/17 "2009-10-20T20:53:31Z")
Say “You don’t know Thing One about Thing One!” ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-thing-1/514451/18 "2009-10-20T21:03:56Z")
I don’t understand the OP. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2009, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-thing-1/514451/19 "2009-10-20T23:07:32Z")
thing one and thing two are famous trouble makers from “the cat in the hat” book. very dangerous twins. ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2009, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-thing-1/514451/20 "2009-10-21T00:16:53Z")
> [@An\_Gadai](#): > > I don’t understand the OP. ☹ Here’s the wikipedia page on [The Cat in the Hat](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cat_in_the_Hat). Here’s the best [picture of them](http://jollypeople.com/blog/2008/02/10/dr-seuess-polar-plunge/) I could find. [Here’s Thing 1!](http://teenormous.com/t-shirts/80stees-Thing-1-Dr-Seuss-t-shirt-48333) Problem solved! 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wheres-thing-1/514451.md?page=2)