Obvious things that suddenly registered to you.

[Soubriquet]

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!

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I’m going to keep believing that too 😁!

Watch your six - six pack - back, rhyming slang

Factory is short for 'manifactory' - IE a place where things are made

GAH - manufactory!

Regarding pets going to farms - we had one of Dd (12)'a friends in the car the other week telling us about her fish who is the same age as her but sometimes it gets tired and then it changes colour or sometimes looks a bit different and gets better.

Dh and I were in the front of the car desperately not looking at each other and I was willing Dd (who is not the most tactful) not to say anything.

Americans don't really "do" rhyming slang. I think the clock theory is more likely (as far as USA is concerned).

It's the phonetic sound - so in France he's called Colin. I don't know how many other names he's known by around the world.

Not sure if this got answered.

T' means Time. It's used in a countdown where 'Time' means launch/fire/run/whatever.

So 'T minus 10' would mean that it's 10 minutes/seconds/hours until the 'event' happens.

"Launch in T minus 10...9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2...1...0 and we have liftoff!".

^^ Oops. Didn't notice how many pages there were on the thread!

In the words of Emily Litella "Never mind".

Apologies if this has already been answered, too late to read all sixteen pages but isn’t ‘heads up’ to do with rabbits? Like when they hear something or sense a threat they all go up like - ping! So a heads up is a sort of warning? Or is that pish 😂

Donkeys in France say Colin instead of Eeyore?

I’m scratching my head at how the french hear the word Colin when donkeys eeyore 🤔

This is so lovely, like her death was unexpectedly the catalyst for something good too 🥲.

There's actually quite a few things in animal agriculture that would fit this thread- eg cows only produce milk because they're mums.....

Some of these are amazing! My moments of doh are:

Epitome to me was always “eppy” and “tome” to rhyme with comb. It meant the same but different spellings.

Miniseries is a mini series. I thought it was minIZeries, someone related to anything about the church, and story of misery / penance.

In Silent Night, round yon virgin was not, as I heard and sang, “Round John Virgin”.

I also thought it was knights in white satin, but I swear it was because Yardley, or someone, made a perfume called White Satin and they had an advert with horse riders in billowing shirts. Could be a false memory?

@Soubriquet When my rabbit went to live on the farm, my mother made us “chicken” stew as a special treat. She hated chicken. Psycho.

I’m getting flashbacks to an ex from another country who argued that sneezes are not “a-choo” but are, in fact, “hap-chi”. I was having none of it and I’m having none of this donkeys saying Colin malarkey either.

I believed for an unreasonably long time that 'Geoff' is pronounced G-hoff. Geoffrey was similarly, G-hoffrey.

😂😂😂

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@MustBeThursday and @00100001, you can both claim to be kind of correct in thinking that "Disney" had some weird French spelling or a lower case 'd' 🙂

We once holidayed in the Normandy town of Isigny-sur-mer, which has two main claims to fame:

Their amazing beurre d'Isigny (butter from Isigny), sold in many UK supermarkets.

The fact that the Norman invasion of England included nobles from Isigny (= d'Isigny) who gradually anglicized their name and founded Norton Disney in Lincolnshire, from where some emigrated again centuries later to the US, eventually giving birth to a certain boy named Walt...

@TwoMonthsOff

The T stands for Time.

Time minus five means there are five minutes left before the deadline.

I’m very close to Norton Disney, as a child, when driving past the signs on days out I was utterly pissed off that my parents never took me for a day out there. It wasn’t until I got a driving license and investigated myself that I learned the truth 😂

I always thought Disney was Gisnep and it was French way of spelling it. I still can’t not see Gisnep.

I’m baffled by square numbers. Why are they square? I failed maths though so maybe I’m being dense

@Mannymoomin 😄 so you spent your childhood thinking you were living right next to a top-secret Disney theme park that your parents for some reason wouldn't take you to?! Can imagine that would cause a level of resentment 😁.

Hope you finally made it to one of the actual ones to make up for those years of disappointment?

I went to university in Lincoln and when we were driving up to move in I saw a sign for Norton Disney and thought it was a UK version of Disney land. I even said to my parents that it was great I’d chosen Lincoln for uni as I’d be able to visit Disney land. They thought I was mad.