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!

This reminds me of a post I saw on FB, where this guys Mum thought Mangetout is pronounced Man Get Out.

So brilliant!

Places being north of other places - I got most cross with the usually excellent Elly Griffiths when in a recent book Ruth refers to her brother never having been north of Birmingham when she has spent the previous week showing him round north Norfolk.

Just learned more in reading that one page than I feel like I did in the whole of my school education.

Yes. As someone who is in Norfolk people always think we’re far further south than the midlands.

One thing which has never registered with me is why planes stay up in the air.
I will never understand.
DH (and many others) have explained countless times but it just doesn't sink in.

Hilarious 😂😂😂

But it has to be! Otherwise the rude version won't work ...

But on the point of the thread: it's a one trek pony. Ponies don't perform tricks!

I love her books

Sepereate to that I do find some odd references to London

Made up example but talking about Brighton and London, someone in books lives in Brighton and goes down to London,

Many years ago, we were getting work done in our house by a father and son team. The father (about the same age as my dad at the time, probably mid-late 50s) was looking at our chickens and said "So, have you ever cracked open an egg and found a chicklet?" (Chicklet? What the hell?! 🤣)

I said no, we don't have a cockerel. He looked really puzzled and said "what's that got to do with it?" while his son fell about laughing.
🐔🐓🐣

People really should mind their own business about other people's names, particularly when they're WRONG.

Oh behave. What a ridiculous post.

Oh, I forgot to say, on the subject of clay pigeon shooting, I was surprised that it wasn't pigeon shaped 😞

I'm another one who was gobsmacked to find the Elgin marbles weren't round. Husband nearly wet himself laughing. Also thought Penelope was pronounced pen-elope and Persephone was percy-phone ...

It is correct to say "Up to London", even if London is south of wherever you start from. This is to do with British Rail.

When I was a child I thought it was Manga-toot

No, it is 'one-trick pony'. It's some sort of a reference to circus ponies.

But on the point of the thread: it's a one trek pony. Ponies don't perform tricks!

It's definitely trick. From circus ponies, a pony who can only do one trick makes sense with the analogy of someone who only has one skill. One trek pony doesn't make sense.

Still on the This little piggy went to market....
The one who went "wee wee wee all the way home" is making baby pig noises (skwee) rather than wetting themselves.

Square number - I've given one explanation but another is that square numbers have a square root that is an integer ie a whole number.

So 4 is a square number because it has the square root 2.
9 is a square number because it has the square root 3.

If you get some oxo cubes out then you can make squares with them, put 4 together in a square.

Then if you put another 4 on top you have a cube made with 8 cubes so the cube has cube root of 2.

If you look on a calculator the square root symbol has a 2 on it.

Or put it another way if you multiply a whole number by itself you are 'squaring' that number and creating a squared number.

i knew about king wenceslas as i went to a C of E school and did nativities and had to sing from a hymn book
did no one else ever sing from a hymn book?

I dated a guy called Ross very briefly when I was 17 and he told me it was short for Rosstopher.

Definitely One Trick Pony.

I always read it as shit the bed ex husband

I'm wrong!

Always open to a learning curve 😀

Same here,I didn't realise they were actually sculptures!

With clay pigeon shooting, I used to think a clay pigeon was a type of pigeon and people were shooting actual birds. I was really angry at my school for offering it as an option on a residential trip somewhere as I didn’t want to kill anything.