... that Michael Jackson wrote "Do the Bartman" for the Simpsons.
― Mark G, Friday, 17 June 2011 16:23 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― thirdalternative, Friday, 17 June 2011 17:16 (thirteen years ago) link
That's amazing!!!
― free inappropriate education (Abbbottt), Saturday, 18 June 2011 01:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Michael Jackson wrote "Do the Bartman" for the Simpsons.
Well shit, I never knew that.
― Bloompsday (Trayce), Saturday, 18 June 2011 01:46 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 18 August 2015 10:03 (nine years ago) link
snot is not in fact dead brain cells. i think i was about 24?
― 9 days from now a.k.a next weekend. (dog latin), Tuesday, 18 August 2015 10:08 (nine years ago) link
!
Guess it actually is
― It empowers them, he jokes (albvivertine), Tuesday, 18 August 2015 10:55 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 18 August 2015 14:28 (nine years ago) link
Madagascarborough
― 9 days from now a.k.a next weekend. (dog latin), Tuesday, 18 August 2015 14:51 (nine years ago) link
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...
― 9 days from now a.k.a next weekend. (dog latin), Tuesday, 18 August 2015 14:55 (nine years ago) link
Madaga's Car
― Mark G, Tuesday, 18 August 2015 15:10 (nine years ago) link
Just learned that Talulah Gosh is not a massive pop star of the moment, but actually an old indie band.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 9 November 2015 16:09 (eight years ago) link
Similarly, it took me until a good six months after their rise to fame to realise that Alt-J is not a rapper.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Monday, 9 November 2015 16:22 (eight years ago) link
That international harvester was a brand of refrigerator and not just the name of a swedish prog band:
― nelson algreen (get bent), Wednesday, November 12, 2008 6:18 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I thought it was more significantly the name of the type of school bus hippies were turning into mobile homes in the late 60s and probably even more significantly the type of bus that Ken Kesey and the Pranksters' Furthur was a model of
― Stevolende, Monday, 9 November 2015 16:36 (eight years ago) link
i had no idea that "brown sugar" was about slavery until like a year or two ago. i just never knew the lyrics. i knew the chorus.
― scott seward, Monday, 9 November 2015 16:45 (eight years ago) link
The rolling stones song? I thought it was abt sex..
― niels, Monday, 9 November 2015 18:37 (eight years ago) link
i know, right? it's a good time party anthem.
― scott seward, Monday, 9 November 2015 18:46 (eight years ago) link
Gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fieldsSold in a market down in New OrleansScarred old slaver knows he's doing alrightHear him whip the women just around midnight
Brown sugar how come you taste so good?Brown sugar just like a young girl should
Drums beating, cold English blood runs hotLady of the house wonderin' where it's gonna stopHouse boy knows that he's doing alrightYou shoulda heard him just around midnight
Brown sugar how come you taste so good, now?Brown sugar just like a young girl should, now
Ah, get along, brown sugar how come you taste so good, baby?Ah, got me feelin' now, brown sugar just like a black girl should
I bet your mama was a tent show queenAnd all her boyfriends were sweet sixteenI'm no schoolboy but I know what I likeYou shoulda heard me just around midnight
Brown sugar how come you taste so good, baby?Ah, brown sugar just like a young girl should, yeah
I said yeah, yeah, yeah, wooHow come you... how come you taste so good?Yeah, yeah, yeah, wooJust like a... just like a black girl shouldYeah, yeah, yeah, woo
― scott seward, Monday, 9 November 2015 18:49 (eight years ago) link
turns out its a feel good party anthem about raping underage slaves. who knew?
― scott seward, Monday, 9 November 2015 18:50 (eight years ago) link
the rolling stones may have forgotten themselves by now
― μpright mammal (mh), Monday, 9 November 2015 18:57 (eight years ago) link
I certainly learned something today... I guess you can't really party to it then?
― niels, Monday, 9 November 2015 19:17 (eight years ago) link
Yeesh, it disturbs me that I've heard that song a million times but never understood wtf mick was babbling about there, like I was pretty sure he was using actual English words but I sure couldn't tell.
― brimstead, Monday, 9 November 2015 21:01 (eight years ago) link
Isn't is also about heroin?
― Does anyone know the Klingon for T'ai Chi? (snoball), Monday, 9 November 2015 21:07 (eight years ago) link
(the 'brown sugar' being the heroin cooked up in a spoon)
― Does anyone know the Klingon for T'ai Chi? (snoball), Monday, 9 November 2015 21:08 (eight years ago) link
I thought it was about former Prime Minister Gordon Brown
― kinder, Monday, 9 November 2015 21:33 (eight years ago) link
No, that was The Stranglers' 'Golden Brown'.
― Does anyone know the Klingon for T'ai Chi? (snoball), Monday, 9 November 2015 21:34 (eight years ago) link
I had never heard of the Ten Commandments until 6th grade.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 9 November 2015 21:41 (eight years ago) link
I've never heard that Rolling Stones song, but I'm sure they came up with a garbage melody and garbage performance to complement their garbage lyrics. they haven't disappointed me yet.
― scarlett bohansson (unregistered), Monday, 9 November 2015 21:46 (eight years ago) link
Uncle Acid is a play on antacid. lol
― kurt schwitterz, Monday, 9 November 2015 22:11 (eight years ago) link
No, that was The Stranglers' 'Golden Brown'.― Does anyone know the Klingon for T'ai Chi? (snoball), Monday, November 9, 2015 9:34 PM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Does anyone know the Klingon for T'ai Chi? (snoball), Monday, November 9, 2015 9:34 PM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yes that was the joek
― kinder, Monday, 9 November 2015 22:15 (eight years ago) link
How to properly pronounce at least a third of the English language, apparently (ongoing)
― El Tomboto, Monday, 9 November 2015 22:22 (eight years ago) link
I'm not sure it counts if nobody ever hears the words idk
― MONKEY had been BUMMED by the GHOST of the late prancing paedophile (darraghmac), Monday, 9 November 2015 23:11 (eight years ago) link
I ony learned about a month ago that Alt+D puts the cursor into the address bar. This is awesome because now I don't need to get my hands off the keyboard and grab my mouse every time I want to go to a different site.
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 9 November 2015 23:49 (eight years ago) link
i love the rolling stones, but they were disgusting and indefensible in many ways
― Treeship, Tuesday, 10 November 2015 00:50 (eight years ago) link
i love the rolling stones art, but they were it is disgusting and indefensible in many ways
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 01:53 (eight years ago) link
i only learned that "cruise control" was a thing you could do with your car a few years ago
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 01:56 (eight years ago) link
http://www.vulture.com/2015/04/brown-sugar-still-tastes-good.html
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 10 November 2015 02:19 (eight years ago) link
I was about 23 when I learned that ponies aren't kid horses.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 10 November 2015 10:14 (eight years ago) link
ponies aren't kid horses???
― niels, Tuesday, 10 November 2015 12:10 (eight years ago) link
No, turns out they're just a smaller breed. Like horse chihuahuas or something.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 10 November 2015 12:12 (eight years ago) link
wow... I was 27 when I realized this
― niels, Tuesday, 10 November 2015 12:23 (eight years ago) link
wonder which shocking fact will get relearned the most times in this thread. the pony one is pretty good.
― μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 15:02 (eight years ago) link
I ony learned about a month ago that Alt+D puts the cursor into the address bar.
whoa! thank you that is super useful!
― new noise, Tuesday, 10 November 2015 15:13 (eight years ago) link
i had a similar revelation when someone told me that clicking the mouse wheel opens links in a new tab.
― new noise, Tuesday, 10 November 2015 15:15 (eight years ago) link
As Laurel can probably attest to, I was well into my 30s before I found out that pickles were once cucumbers.
― UYD: Oxys, Percs, Vics, Addys, Rit-Dogs and Xannys (sunny successor), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 15:21 (eight years ago) link
huh, I didn't know about Alt+D but then I use F6 for that
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 15:21 (eight years ago) link
I'm a keyboard shortcut dummy so most things in that arena are revelations to me.
― Trimming The Hegyes: The Life & Times Of A Sweathog's Barber (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 15:40 (eight years ago) link
there is some family moment where ppl where shaking their heads when my cousins learned that coleslaw is made from cabbage
― μpright mammal (mh), Tuesday, 10 November 2015 16:00 (eight years ago) link