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Things you really should have known sooner...

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TheDodgyEnd · 10/10/2017 12:50

I’ve just learned that Casablanca is not in South America at all and is, in fact in Morocco! Who knew 🙄🤦🏼‍♀️
Anyone else got any tidbits they learned far too late in life?

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SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 12/10/2017 19:03

"...on the lam, 1897, from a U.S. slang verb meaning "to run off" (1886), of uncertain origin, perhaps somehow from the first element of lambaste, which was used in British student slang for "beat" since 1590s; if so, it would give the word the same etymological sense as the slang expression beat it."

From Dictionary.com.

doodlejump1980 · 12/10/2017 19:01

@TheDodgyEnd I'm actually quite clever despite my caper comments! Really! Ha ha!

HidingBehindTheWallpaper · 12/10/2017 18:54

I’ve never heard of being on the run referred to as LAM or lamb.

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TheDodgyEnd · 12/10/2017 18:53

@Ladyvird135 erm I actually did not know this Hmm what does LAM stand for?

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TheDodgyEnd · 12/10/2017 18:52

@doodlejump1980 the little net comment just me do an involuntary snorty noise Grin brilliant

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cozietoesie · 12/10/2017 18:42

Out of interest, how did you think ‘on the lamb’ arose? Smile

Ladyvird135 · 12/10/2017 18:24

If you are on the run, you are on the LAM. Not on the lamb.

Found that out yesterday.

doodlejump1980 · 12/10/2017 18:06

Glad I'm not the only caper - fish person! I've met my people!
(I only found out when I asked my husband how they caught them and did they need to use a really small net...!)

cozietoesie · 12/10/2017 14:17

Oops - wrong thread.

steppemum · 12/10/2017 13:46

Dad - you've been around too long!

(you forgot to mention Russian being very close to America too!)

These threads do normally tend to the same things, but the terracotta tortoises have been a freshling new depths of ridiculousness.

cozietoesie · 12/10/2017 13:45

Fingers crossed for you, Across.

LA Times - fires in California

Lweji · 12/10/2017 11:11

Ups, cross post. I think I forgot to refresh the page.

Lweji · 12/10/2017 11:11

Has anyone mentioned yet that...

pineapples grow on trees

You mean they don't grow on trees?

DadDadDad · 12/10/2017 11:05

Whoops! Blush Yes, I meant to say that they DON'T grow on trees, as has been repeatedly clarified (with pictures) on previous threads of this type.

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TheDodgyEnd · 12/10/2017 11:03

@DadDadDad pineapples grow on the ground...

And although there are similar threads, there are none involving the mass murder of tortoises to make terracotta pots Grin

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DadDadDad · 12/10/2017 10:59

@LuckyLuckyMe - you could nominate this for Classics - I notice there's already this there:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/a2072808-Things-you-used-to-think-and-now-cant-quite-believe-you-did

and this:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/2513449-Ridiculous-things-youve-only-recently-realised-youve-been-wrong-about-your-entire-life

or this:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/a1288326-What-stupid-things-have-you-believed-said-assumed-before-finding-out-to-your-embarrassment-you-were-wrong

The same things keep coming up. Has anyone mentioned yet that...

pineapples grow on trees,

Gibraltar is NOT an island,

the little arrow on your dashboard next to the petrol symbol tells you which side the tank is (only for others to point out, not true for all cars).

Do I sound jaded? Grin

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TheDodgyEnd · 12/10/2017 10:58

@LuckyLuckyMe Can this thread be moved to somewhere permanent? Terracotta made from tortoises and ballache need to be preserved

I have no idea but I don’t want to lose #terracottatoise either!!!

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TheFaerieQueene · 12/10/2017 10:27

Look at his worried little face.

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Caken · 12/10/2017 10:13

That cows don’t eat grass to make milk - they, like us, only produce milk once they’ve given birth. I believed the grass thing until this year (I’m 31).

SnugglySnerd · 12/10/2017 10:05

Is anybody else imagining the terracotta army as rows and rows of fierce looking tortoises??

To add my own I thought that the whole of Centerparcs including the forest was under a massive dome. I was disappointed when I went there in my mid twenties!

steppemum · 12/10/2017 09:50

Bella - but that is assuming you know how big a mermaid is....

BellaHadidHere · 12/10/2017 09:17

I was 28 when I found out that sea horses are real creatures not make-believe like mermaids. Moreover, they aren't actually the size of horses so mermaids can't ride around on them.

MomToWedThorFriday · 12/10/2017 09:17

So had you never heard the phrase "is the Pope Catholic?" used to emphasise a definite yes?

DH had never heard this phrase so when I used it he responded with “I don’t know, is he?” Grin

diddl · 12/10/2017 09:14

"I didn’t know the pope was actually a catholic"

Oh I love that one!

So had you never heard the phrase "is the Pope Catholic?" used to emphasise a definite yes?

sashh · 12/10/2017 09:14

But apparently you can eat fish with a lemon and caper sauce

You do know tartar sauce is made with capers don't you?