Things you were shockingly old when you learned

--I used to think death metal vocals could only be achieved using studio manipulation
--when I was like 10 years old I used to think those raspy high pitched hard rock singers a la Brian Johnson, the dude from Cinderella, Rob halford, et al, were demonic or were achieving those sounds due to some pact with the devil, so when I got the Wayne's World soundtrack Cinderella's "Hot and Bothered" scared me so I always skipped it.

I was also like 20 when I realized many live albums were overdubbed and it didn't provet hey really could pull it off live

Realized I was going around pronouncing "wolf" like "woof" when I was about 30 years old.

larry the cable guy is a racist turd

that alt-print screen allows screen capture of only the active window

Whaaaaaaat?!

36 years old; just learned that.

haha I had to send a bunch of screen prints of stuff at work recently, and the receivers would a) complain that they were too big (I have 2 monitors) and b) supervisors commented on how many IM windows I had open...then a friend who was on email group I was sending them to finally told me the alt-print secret

I learned Alt+Print at work too, but we use SnagIt so for the most part I don't need it...

Still can't tie my shoelaces properly. I mean I can tie them and everything but they come undone about 10/15 times per day. Found out a couple of my friends call it 'doing a Dan' when someone's shoelace comes undone.

http://www.ted.com/talks/terry_moore_how_to_tie_your_shoes.html

^ He has a trick to fix your problem.

I learned stupidly late that the Nazis were the first to send a rocket to space & that Sputnik was really just the first orbiting satellite. they didn't teach me about V-2's in grade school, although there was plenty of talk about local (central Massachusetts) rocketeer Robert Goddard, who never made it to space and wasn't a Nazi.

I just showed my 44 year old wife CTRL Z. But she doesn't post here so I'm having to tell you.

I only learned that FDR sent Japanese-Americans to concentration camps about five years ago; never heard this in high school.

Now apparently it's ALL high schoolers know about WWII.

Gah, I hate it when that happens.

Wait though, what other kinds of satellites are there?

Well, there's the moon...

pretty much everything after wwii i had to learn on my own. i don't remember a single history class that actually made it past that point. way to schedule, school district.

that's true for me, too. odd, huh?

lol OTM

basically, everything I know about the Korean War I learned from "M*A*S*H"

Haha xps, no-one's convincing me that Sputnik's place in history is as the second satellite.

(yes I know there might be a couple of others, and anyway for that matter isn't the moon an orbiting satellite too?!)

hello?

the best was that in 11th or 12th grade we took a "current events" course (called something else) (this would have been around 1994-1996) and it was like WHAT ABOUT THE 50 YEARS IN BETWEEN.

basically, everything I know about the Korean War I learned from "M*A*S*H"

^rejected Odgen Nash manuscript

I took a class my senior year in HS -- this would have been 1986-87 -- called "20th Century America," which basically covered the Depression up to about Watergate.

That's not including most of the last verse of Billy Joel's "We didn't start the fire" then.

I think if I were teaching US history I would start with a 1- or 2-day "state of the union" address and close it with "how did we get here? starting tomorrow we'll back up 300 years and work it all out."

^^^ That's how I've always thought US history should be taught!

i would love to sit in on a history class now, actually

I think I would have been a good teacher.

I for one demand the teachings of the rock and roller cola wars.

if i was a teacher i'm pretty sure i'd be saying "i can't take it anymore" on a daily basis

Ha!

/Mrs Crabapple

people have told me i'd be a good teacher too but i'd be afraid i'd turn into either r. lee ermey in full metal jacket or the guy from beavis and butthead who just wants to sit down and rap with y'all a while

bah, I worded (or really just italicized) the Sputnik thing badly. Sputnik was the first man-made satellite to orbit the earth. some German V-2 rocket was the first man-made object to reach space, but it wasn't a satellite because it didn't go into orbit. point is, for a long time I thought Sputnik was the first man-made object to reach space when it was preceded by various German and American lower-altitude rockets.

that alt-print screen allows screen capture of only the active window

my years of loafing on ILX have suddenly paid for themselves.

... that Michael Jackson wrote "Do the Bartman" for the Simpsons.

The neckbone of a turkey isn't a penis bone. Yes, my own father told me that the neckbone was the turkey's cock when I was 5 or 6 just to fuck with me, and I believed it until my early '20s when i was corrected on this matter, which was kind of embarrasing.

That's amazing!!!

Michael Jackson wrote "Do the Bartman" for the Simpsons.

Well shit, I never knew that.

That "Just a Gigolo" and "I Ain't Got Nobody" are completely separate songs that were just glued together by Louis Prima several decades after they were written.

snot is not in fact dead brain cells. i think i was about 24?

snot is not in fact dead brain cells. i think i was about 24?

!

Guess it actually is

Love this thread.

Just learned from this thread that a rosary isn't a rose garden (I'm 29).

Loads of punning names I didn't get, even some porn names.

Until my late teens I couldn't make sense of the sayings "old habits die hard" and "what goes around comes around".

Also in my late teens I learned that when people were playing soccer and shouted "Aussie rules" that they weren't saying "Ozzy rules!"

In my early 20s I learned that Madagascar is not a place in England. I didn't think there was a place in England like Madagascar, I just somehow thought it sounded like the name of an English town or city. I could have swore I've heard the name said in a cockney accent lots of times.

When I was very young and saw John Major talking on the tv news, I assumed newsreading was his second job.

Madagascarborough

When I was very young and saw John Major talking on the tv news, I assumed newsreading was his second job.

This is brilliant.

I recently had a flashback to watching the news as an eight year old, and believing that Gorbachev and Bush Sr were extremely good, benign people; like the best and most intelligent people in charge of the Earth or something...

Madaga's Car

Just learned that Talulah Gosh is not a massive pop star of the moment, but actually an old indie band.