I thought penguins were as tall as humans until that march of the penguins movieone of my friends thought this and it was since passed into running joke territory
one of my friends thought this and it was since passed into running joke territory
no but seriously, what is this about?
― negotiable, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 13:01 (fifteen years ago) link
i mean i can see that there's rarely anything to size them against in the big white antarctic, but why would anyone then automatically think okay here's a bird i could play tag with
― negotiable, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 13:03 (fifteen years ago) link
u could still play tag w/it tho
― SNAKES! (ice crӕm), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 13:04 (fifteen years ago) link
But you could make the same assumption with ostriches in the big yellow desert (or wherever they live), and in that case you'd be right!
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 13:07 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm still in touch with several grown adults who genuinely believe there's 'something' to supernatural claims about ouija boards, despite its fairly obvious origins in parlour games / illusions which utilised the (admittedly fucking spooky) ideomotor effect.
― Huey in Bristol (Huey in Melbourne), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 13:08 (fifteen years ago) link
aw no-one said 'where babies come from'
― Cittaslow Mazza (blueski), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 13:14 (fifteen years ago) link
I've had a lot of experiences in my adult life with mispronouncing words I understood as part of written text, but hadn't heard aurally in the context of conversation etc. For example, I was well into my twenties before I knew the word "vehement" wasn't pronounced veh-hee-ment. I wish others would politely correct you when you do that instead of letting you blindly sound like an idiot.
― Sugar hiccup, Makes a pig soar and swoon (Pillbox), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 13:16 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm a bit like that, but now I'm in the habit of saying works incorrectly, I can't get out of it. Canal is not pronounced can-el, but there's fuck all I can do about it now.
― NotEnough, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 13:39 (fifteen years ago) link
^ This happens to me all the time too - so much so that I actually now find it quite amusing when I realise, midway through a sentence, that a word I've never heard before is looming at the end. I suppose that people who talk a lot, rather than reading, must find the same with spelling. It only annoys me when some moron uses it as an opportunity to score cheap points (sadly fairly often)
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 13:40 (fifteen years ago) link
I was going to start a thread like this, but it was going to be more about 'life lessons' that took you forever to learn, rather than trivia.
Anyway it's taken me this long to fully realize how unreliable first impressions can be when it comes to people.
― invisible jet (wanko ergo sum), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 13:42 (fifteen years ago) link
but why would anyone then automatically think okay here's a bird i could play tag with
haha
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 13:57 (fifteen years ago) link
TAL have an episode on this in the "best of" section on their wesite. people who thought unicorns were real, etc., lots of awkward silences at cocktail parties: good stuff.
― rent, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 14:00 (fifteen years ago) link
i like to tag birds. (runs)
― Sugar hiccup, Makes a pig soar and swoon (Pillbox), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 14:01 (fifteen years ago) link
There's a penguin here and he wants to say "you didn't touch me ner ner ner"
― Mark G, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 14:12 (fifteen years ago) link
I thought penguins went "weh weh weh"
― ╓abies, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 14:14 (fifteen years ago) link
― Huey in Bristol (Huey in Melbourne), Wednesday, November 12, 2008 7:08 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
you couldnt get me in the same room as a ouija board
― a country packed with ponies (sunny successor), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 14:42 (fifteen years ago) link
I was about 35 when I figured out Open Sesame = Open Says Me.
― Rotgutt, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 14:44 (fifteen years ago) link
i used to think HAZCHEM was a foreign word for danger like Achtung
― Cittaslow Mazza (blueski), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 14:45 (fifteen years ago) link
I just figured out, like 2 days ago, that the lyrics are "highway to the danger zone"
(until then, thought they were "I went to to the danger zone")
― homosexual II, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 15:03 (fifteen years ago) link
ooh i like that
― Ant Attack.. (Ste), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 15:07 (fifteen years ago) link
lol mandee those are even better
― Uncle Shavedlongcock (max), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 15:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Nothing, as I'm not shockingly old.
― Eric H., Wednesday, 12 November 2008 15:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Misheard lyrics are always better. The singer of my old band had this (intentionally) corny line that went "sleep all day til the telephone ring / head to the bar and shake that thing", the latter half of which I always thought was "head to the barber and shave that thing".
― monkey bonkers (╓abies), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 15:28 (fifteen years ago) link
My friend always thought that Op Ivy song Take Warning went "skate boarding", which is way better.
― monkey bonkers (╓abies), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 15:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Same with Sandy Shaw.
Ok I sounded this out several times in several different ways and I still don't get how this is a pun. Help?
― Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 15:40 (fifteen years ago) link
I think that 'Shaw' is meant to sound like 'shore' - I don't hear it either
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 15:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Sandy Shore.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 15:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Shaw is pronounced exactly the same as Shore, in England.
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 15:45 (fifteen years ago) link
hows it pron in USA?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 15:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Well I guess it must be different, if people are having problems hearing it? Dunno.
I didn't even know it was her real name, tho.
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 15:48 (fifteen years ago) link
wasn't, rather
I knew someone who, if my friend is to believed, is said to have uttered at age 18 "wait, you can't get pregnant if your clothes are on, right" while making out.
― Their time's limited, hard rocks, too (mehlt), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 15:51 (fifteen years ago) link
'Shore' rhymes with 'oar'. 'Shaw' is the same as the first three letters in 'shopping' xp
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 15:53 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm loving this thread. so many discoveries!
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 15:53 (fifteen years ago) link
WAT! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flea_circus
― Øystein, Wednesday, November 12, 2008 1:59 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
http://www.noonco.com/flea/movie.htm
My flabber hasn't been gasted quite like this in a long time :-/
― StanM, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 15:57 (fifteen years ago) link
xp I only got that Sandie Shaw pun because I once attended a seminar about legal practice given by an English professor who made a big thing out of the difference between 'law' and 'lore'. I didn't have a clue what he was talking about
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 15:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Wait - how the hell DOES a candle work?!
I know, right?!!??!
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 16:00 (fifteen years ago) link
i too only figured out lipps, inc. lately. also, fear's lee ving. it never occurred to me until i was driving in the car one day and bam.
― andrew m., Wednesday, 12 November 2008 16:07 (fifteen years ago) link
I just now got Lipps, Inc. I say in my head "Lipps Incorporated" whenever I read that.
I was pretty close to thirty when I was told that "prevalent" is not pronounced pree-VAY-lent. I liked my version better. "The PREE-VAY-LENT opinion in this country is that Barack Obama will be a force of change."
― ⊂⊃ ⊂⊃ ⊂⊃ ⊂⊃ ⊂⊃ ⊂⊃ (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 16:18 (fifteen years ago) link
I didn't realize until sometime in my sophomore year of high school that being forced to listen to Rush Limbaugh and James Dobson (Focus on the Family) every morning on the way to school was completely fucked up. My dad used to drive me to school everyday for years, and that shit was always on the radio.
― z "R" s (Z S), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 16:25 (fifteen years ago) link
"i used to think HAZCHEM was a foreign word for danger like Achtung
― Cittaslow Mazza (blueski), Wednesday, 12 November 2008"
haha yes, i thought it must be turkish
― Shacknasty (Frogman Henry), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 16:30 (fifteen years ago) link
I was pretty close to thirty when I was told that "prevalent" is not pronounced pree-VAY-lent.
probably some slippage with "prevailing" no?
― rent, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 16:37 (fifteen years ago) link
I hadn't thought of that, but yeah, probably.
― ⊂⊃ ⊂⊃ ⊂⊃ ⊂⊃ ⊂⊃ ⊂⊃ (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 16:38 (fifteen years ago) link
re HAZCHEM, we have HAZMAT around here, and i only figured it out in recent times
― andrew m., Wednesday, 12 November 2008 16:39 (fifteen years ago) link
pleasant plains, ai lien has a coworker who is black and who claims that the black community calls it lipps incorporated. he was unmoved when she told him about the pun.
― andrew m., Wednesday, 12 November 2008 16:41 (fifteen years ago) link
I probably would have "gotten" Lipps Inc sooner had I actually heard someone utter their name out loud. They tend not to be talked about a lot, shockingly.
― ILX MOD (musically), Wednesday, 12 November 2008 16:46 (fifteen years ago) link
(i never got it until right now)
― rent, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 16:48 (fifteen years ago) link
that 'broadway' was shorthand for a bunch of separately owned theaters rather than a single entity like disneyland or something
that causal ≠ casual
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 16:49 (fifteen years ago) link
I DID NOT KNOW THAT ABOUT OLIVES
― goole, Wednesday, 12 November 2008 16:51 (fifteen years ago) link
omg
John Larroquette is the opening voice of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGMSTzXOSNU
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 2 October 2024 00:34 (three days ago) link
Yep! Sets the tone well
― if this site were a food it would have NO nutritional value!!!!!!! (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 2 October 2024 00:52 (three days ago) link
Was he like 22
― i dunno, you can just read them (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 2 October 2024 01:45 (three days ago) link
John Larroquette performed the narration in the opening credits,[28] for which he was paid in marijuana.[29]
I think I remember JL saying he was at rock bottom during this time, maybe living in his car?
― WmC, Wednesday, 2 October 2024 01:51 (three days ago) link
That is some grammer dark things shit right there lol. But weed positive.
― i dunno, you can just read them (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 2 October 2024 02:03 (three days ago) link
always disliked that dude
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 2 October 2024 03:04 (three days ago) link
Asbestos kills about twice as many people in UK each year than in road traffic accidents.
Yes, I’ve done an asbestos awareness course.
― Dan Worsley, Wednesday, 2 October 2024 09:01 (three days ago) link
well thats an estimate
asbestos we can tell
― tuah dé danann (darraghmac), Wednesday, 2 October 2024 09:43 (three days ago) link
That is surprising but hopefully most of the asbestos deaths are from exposure long ago and the numbers are going to end up well below road deaths. Not that I want people to die in road accidents
― Alba, Wednesday, 2 October 2024 12:04 (three days ago) link
xp groannnnnnnnnnn
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 2 October 2024 12:07 (three days ago) link
xxp that's a new low/high
― kinder, Wednesday, 2 October 2024 12:13 (three days ago) link
when I got exposed to asbestos working on a school, the company I worked for sued the council, then the council sued the private contractor that did the bullshit asbestos report. The workers who get exposed to it aren't part of the compensation chain, it just becomes a story you can tell your grandkids ... or maybe not, lol
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Wednesday, 2 October 2024 12:43 (three days ago) link
Alice Coltrane's sister wrote "Love Hangover".
― pisspoor bung probe prog (Tom D.), Wednesday, 2 October 2024 19:45 (three days ago) link
Nolan Ryan faced Roger Maris, Mark McGwire, and Barry Bonds--zero home runs, 5-28. (Not checking.) I was older when I learned this (today) than Nolan Ryan was when he did it.
― clemenza, Thursday, 3 October 2024 00:35 (two days ago) link
Nolan Ryan's stats are insane. He was my favorite player when I was a kid, never cared about any of the teams he was on but how could you not love him. I know, his politics, etc. But what a career.
― Blitz Primary (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 3 October 2024 00:49 (two days ago) link
The Netflix documentary isn't nearly as good as it could have been, but still interesting by default. Highlight: "Robin Ventura declined to be interviewed for this film."
― clemenza, Thursday, 3 October 2024 01:01 (two days ago) link
dude never won a cy young!! There was a good SB nation video on why, though.
― brimstead, Thursday, 3 October 2024 17:01 (two days ago) link
He used to be discounted because of his W-L record and all the walks. He does better under modern-day analytics--his FIP, for instance, is 0.20 lower than his actual ERA.
― clemenza, Thursday, 3 October 2024 17:42 (two days ago) link
Dave Stewart and Annie Lennox appeared uncredited on a Chris & Cosey 12".
― bored by endless ecstasy (anagram), Friday, 4 October 2024 12:00 (yesterday) link