Obvious things that suddenly registered to you.

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I like watching things like NCIS.

Over the years, I’ve heard the phrase watch your six and just let it fly over my head expecting not to understand it.

Literally the other day, it suddenly occurred to me…it means watch your back!!

Of course it does!

Jules Hollands hootenanny is not live or filmed on nee years eve

You’re going to love cubed numbers 😉

Nights in White satin = Thrashing about in white satin bed sheets.
Never reaching the end. Hmmmm.

The song goes "nights in white satin, etc" which I now think must be about sexy nights in bed with silky/ satin sheets?? Many of us heard it as "knights in white satin" instead and imagined it all King Arthur like.

My friend used to sing it as "tights that I've shat in" but that was a joke.

My DH favourite one is that the letter W is pronounced double you because it is two U's stuck together. He realised when learning the alphabet in Spanish where it is pronounced ouble double

When I was a kid, I imagined knights wearing white satin. As in men in visors, riding horses into battle but wearing white satin.
As an adult I finally realised that it is nights. As in nocturnal activities in white satin sheets.

Very different to my innocent imaginings.

You’re going to love cubed numbers!

Gustopher 😆

Totally going to buy some gerbils and call them Nedmund and Barold.

I was in my late teens / early 20s before I realised Frank Sinatra was actually flying to the moon, and not Dunoon.

Even as a child born and raised in the west coast of Scotland, I thought it was unlikely that a major Hollywood star would be singing about a minor Scottish seaside resort, but my parents were insistent (they thought it was funny) and I believed them.

My pet mouse also went to a farm and the true story was revealed to me age about 35 with my mother at the hairdressers. We were hysterical with laughter

Ah. Why didn't they reach the end?

I am actually crying with laughter at Gustopher, Barold and Nedmund 🤣🤣🤣

No way 😯

No, I got the info from Instagram. I like the sound of a what’s app group where you can learn random facts though.

Brilliant! Knights in white satin! 😂😂😂

passport - can’t believe I never realised!

To be fair we often refer to our son as Nedward or Tedward.

Probably because he came first and stopped putting in the effort. 😂🙈

No, I assume that it meant that they nights seemed endless.

I know it’s been mentioned in previous threads like this one, but I’m mentioning it again in case it helps anyone else!
I only recently found out that the little piggy in the nursery rhyme didn’t go on a lovely stroll to a nice market, basket in hand, filling it with lots of tasty delights 😋. Oh no, he went off the the abattoir 😳! I’m so naive sometimes all the time.

I only found our about sprouts a few weeks ago.
And I'm 66.

What a shame about the nights. He couldn't have been much good at it if they seemed endless.

Wtaf I actually feel cheated

Did you stay with the team? Can' t compute math I get, denying birds😱...

When I was about 6 or 7, I got a book on sports as a Christmas present. In the section on cricket there was a head and shoulders picture of legendary cricketer Jack Hobbs wearing his England cap. The caption underneath read "Jack Hobbs in his heyday". For the next 20 years or so I thought that England cricket caps were called "heydays". 😀

Snap!

i only just learned that jim is the shortened version of James
And Jimmy, Jamie, Jaz
Here in Scotland we can shorten/NN anything 🤣