# Why does Nedry say "no menthol" when Dodgson shows him the shaving cream can (Jurassic Park) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 22, 2013, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-nedry-say-no-menthol-when-dodgson-shows-him-the-shaving-cream-can-jurassic-park/666906 "2013-08-22T20:17:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-nedry-say-no-menthol-when-dodgson-shows-him-the-shaving-cream-can-jurassic-park/666906/21 "2013-08-22T23:25:36Z")
> [@PSXer](#): > > yeah I too know the pain of Jurassic Park reference gone unnoticed. How can people be so ignorant of pop culture? Not all of us have been blessed with an extensive laser disc collection. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-nedry-say-no-menthol-when-dodgson-shows-him-the-shaving-cream-can-jurassic-park/666906/22 "2013-08-22T23:29:40Z")
> [@digs](#): > > I’m sure you’re not being a prick. I’m quite deliberately being a prick. > [@](#): > > I’m sure what you mean is that you prefer to focus on _GalaxyQuest_ and _Goonies_ references. No, what I mean is “I have a bunch of shit to worry about, and getting your stupid pet pop culture reference is pretty low on the list.” If you throw one at me and I get it, then so be it. But acting like everyone is supposed to be a vapid drooling moron who cares more about what justin bieber dumped in the toilet bowl than what is actually going on in this world is not something to aspire to. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2013, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-nedry-say-no-menthol-when-dodgson-shows-him-the-shaving-cream-can-jurassic-park/666906/23 "2013-08-22T23:44:27Z")
**jz78817** , you’re threadshitting. Stop it. If you don’t think this is important enough to discuss, you don’t have to read or post in the thread. ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-nedry-say-no-menthol-when-dodgson-shows-him-the-shaving-cream-can-jurassic-park/666906/24 "2013-08-23T00:10:20Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > No, what I mean is “I have a bunch of shit to worry about, and getting your stupid pet pop culture reference is pretty low on the list.” I love when I see this on a message board, because it shows an hilarious lack of self awareness. Every single one of us on the SDMB has better things to worry about than whatever is said on a message board. It’s like they’re mad that someone is wasting their time-wasting time. “Mr Monkey, sir, the Russian President is on line one” “Tell Vlad he can wait! **tokindude420** just posted that _Attack of the Clones_ is a better movie than _Wrath of Kahn_. The American people will not stand for such blatant lies!” ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-nedry-say-no-menthol-when-dodgson-shows-him-the-shaving-cream-can-jurassic-park/666906/25 "2013-08-23T00:14:35Z")
> [@armedmonkey](#): > > I love when I see this on a message board, because it shows an hilarious lack of self awareness. Every single one of us on the SDMB has better things to worry about than whatever is said on a message board. It’s like they’re mad that someone is wasting their time-wasting time. > > “Mr Monkey, sir, the Russian President is on line one” > “Tell Vlad he can wait! **tokindude420** just posted that _Attack of the Clones_ is a better movie than _Wrath of Kahn_. The American people will not stand for such blatant lies!” Oh, okay, I’m sorry I don’t worry about the same irrelevant shit as the rest of you on the Smartest Message Board on the Internet. I won’t darken your doorsteps with my presence ever again. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-nedry-say-no-menthol-when-dodgson-shows-him-the-shaving-cream-can-jurassic-park/666906/26 "2013-08-23T03:21:35Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > Oh, okay, I’m sorry I don’t worry about the same irrelevant shit as the rest of you on the Smartest Message Board on the Internet. I won’t darken your doorsteps with my presence ever again. oooo RAGE QUIT!!!11!!eleventy! 😃 but it still isn’t as entertaining as the guy who got ganked with [$1000 in PLEX cards](http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/10/22/eve-online-player-loses-tiny-ship-worth-over-6-000/)in Eve Online ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-nedry-say-no-menthol-when-dodgson-shows-him-the-shaving-cream-can-jurassic-park/666906/27 "2013-08-23T04:38:17Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > I won’t darken your doorsteps with my presence ever again. Promise? ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-nedry-say-no-menthol-when-dodgson-shows-him-the-shaving-cream-can-jurassic-park/666906/28 "2013-08-23T09:23:11Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > Oh, okay, I’m sorry I don’t worry about the same irrelevant shit as the rest of you on the Smartest Message Board on the Internet. I won’t darken your doorsteps with my presence ever again. Gosh we’ll miss your… (Wait, what is it we’re going to miss about **jz78817**?) (Oh yeah…) We’ll miss your clever username. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-nedry-say-no-menthol-when-dodgson-shows-him-the-shaving-cream-can-jurassic-park/666906/29 "2013-08-23T09:31:58Z")
…and I get Jurassic Park references. I also watched the first episode of ‘The Man from Uncle’, and can tell you (without using the World Wide Web) not only what U.N.C.L.E. stands for - but also T.H.R.U.S.H. :eek: United Network Command for Law Enforcement and Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables and Subjugation of Humanity. ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-nedry-say-no-menthol-when-dodgson-shows-him-the-shaving-cream-can-jurassic-park/666906/30 "2013-08-23T10:46:34Z")
Well, he’s gone now, so hey, that jz78817, what a tool, heh? Of course it’s not really his fault that he wandered into our dweebish thread. Chaos theory makes it inevitable. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-nedry-say-no-menthol-when-dodgson-shows-him-the-shaving-cream-can-jurassic-park/666906/31 "2013-08-23T11:37:36Z")
I, as is my right, often wander into discussions I am uninterested in simply to show my superiority to you simpletons. Which is why I always contribute to My Little Pony or boy band threads. ---
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-nedry-say-no-menthol-when-dodgson-shows-him-the-shaving-cream-can-jurassic-park/666906/32 "2013-08-23T12:10:37Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Hey, college freshmen are nothing. A few weeks ago, I had a fifth grader who kept on catching 30- and 40-year-old references. Whenever we’d ask him “How do you know about that?”, he’d just shrug and say “Doesn’t everyone?”, or something similar. [The current college freshman mindset list.](http://themindsetlist.com/lists/2016-list/) ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-nedry-say-no-menthol-when-dodgson-shows-him-the-shaving-cream-can-jurassic-park/666906/33 "2013-08-23T13:13:58Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > Oh, okay, I’m sorry I don’t worry about the same irrelevant shit as the rest of you on the Smartest Message Board on the Internet. I won’t darken your doorsteps with my presence ever again. Something something pun on “extinction.” > [@Spoke](#): > > Gosh we’ll miss your… > > (Wait, what is it we’re going to miss about **jz78817**?) > > (Oh yeah…) > > We’ll miss your clever username. > [@leftfield6](#): > > Well, he’s gone now, so hey, that jz78817, what a tool, heh? Of course it’s not really his fault that he wandered into our dweebish thread. Chaos theory makes it inevitable. Enough. **jz78817** is an active user as far as we’re concerned (you don’t know if he’s going anywhere), so insults aren’t allowed. Even if he’s leaving the board this isn’t called for. ---
**Author:** ![FlyingDragonFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c89c15/32.png) [@FlyingDragonFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingDragonFan)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-nedry-say-no-menthol-when-dodgson-shows-him-the-shaving-cream-can-jurassic-park/666906/34 "2013-08-23T14:07:18Z")
> [@Frazzled](#): > > I have a 23 year old coworker. The other day several of us were talking about this movie and she said “I’ve seen it, but the effects are pretty bad”. She was serious too and fully knows that that’s what the movie is known for. Since she never lived through movies from the 80’s she didn’t grasp just how big of a leap in effects JP was, nor was she aware of how it changed effects to this day. To her, it’s substandard. Kids… See, to me, the effects in _Jurassic Park_ actually do still hold up. Sure, they’re not flashy like current movies, but as far as being a completely fabricated animal stuck in live action scenes, they look pretty damn good. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-nedry-say-no-menthol-when-dodgson-shows-him-the-shaving-cream-can-jurassic-park/666906/35 "2013-08-23T14:11:34Z")
> [@FlyingDragonFan](#): > > See, to me, the effects in _Jurassic Park_ actually do still hold up. Sure, they’re not flashy like current movies, but as far as being a completely fabricated animal stuck in live action scenes, they look pretty damn good. All I know is that when I sat down in the theater to see JP in 1993, I felt like I was seeing real-ass dinosaurs. Also, the theater was near some train tracks and a big train passed by right during a T-Rex scene and shook the entire building. It was quite the Sensurround experience. ---
**Author:** ![tullsterx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tullsterx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tullsterx)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-nedry-say-no-menthol-when-dodgson-shows-him-the-shaving-cream-can-jurassic-park/666906/36 "2013-08-23T14:52:45Z")
> [@Frazzled](#): > > I have a 23 year old coworker. The other day several of us were talking about this movie and she said “I’ve seen it, but the effects are pretty bad”. She was serious too and fully knows that that’s what the movie is known for. Since she never lived through movies from the 80’s she didn’t grasp just how big of a leap in effects JP was, nor was she aware of how it changed effects to this day. To her, it’s substandard. Kids… I don’t know. Some people are just idiots. I think the effects in JP still trump a majority of what’s produced today. But, it can be all about just what you’re used to seeing. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-nedry-say-no-menthol-when-dodgson-shows-him-the-shaving-cream-can-jurassic-park/666906/37 "2013-08-23T15:36:44Z")
> [@PSXer](#): > > yeah I too know the pain of Jurassic Park reference gone unnoticed. How can people be so ignorant of pop culture? Since everyone’s getting so het up about dickery in this thread, I wanted to point out that you could have phrased this better. ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-nedry-say-no-menthol-when-dodgson-shows-him-the-shaving-cream-can-jurassic-park/666906/38 "2013-08-23T15:44:26Z")
AmI the only one who thought post #5 was sarcasm? ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-nedry-say-no-menthol-when-dodgson-shows-him-the-shaving-cream-can-jurassic-park/666906/39 "2013-08-23T15:48:20Z")
**Why does Nedry say “no menthol” when Dodgson shows him the shaving cream can (Jurassic Park)?** I always thought was because that “spy toy” can seemed, to Nedry, to have everything else (“all the bells and whistles”). ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2013, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-nedry-say-no-menthol-when-dodgson-shows-him-the-shaving-cream-can-jurassic-park/666906/40 "2013-08-23T16:03:22Z")
> [@Labrador\_Deceiver](#): > > AmI the only one who thought post #5 was sarcasm? That uncertainty is a common side effect of reading PSXer’s posts. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-nedry-say-no-menthol-when-dodgson-shows-him-the-shaving-cream-can-jurassic-park/666906.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-nedry-say-no-menthol-when-dodgson-shows-him-the-shaving-cream-can-jurassic-park/666906.md?page=3)