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to have only just realised that the logo...

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postmanpatscat · 30/06/2013 11:40

for BlackBerry is actually two overlapping Bs and not the cluster of dots I've assumed it to be for the past five years of BlackBerry ownership?!

What blindingly obvious things have you failed to notice?

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daisychain01 · 30/06/2013 12:47

Oooerr that's clever! The blackberry Logo is 2 x B's!! Its a Capital B and a small b. plus its a blackberry fruit

Whoever designed that is awesome.

Best sketch ever is The one Ronnie With Corbett and Harry Enfield as the shopkeeper - wont spoli it incase you want to youtube it but his blackberry was frozen Smile ..... memories of the 2 Ronnies sketch all about O's (hoes) 4 candles (fork 'andles) and bull' ooks (I'll leave that to your imagination)

daisychain01 · 30/06/2013 12:48

Just looked it up on my DHs Blackberry Playbook cover!

mrsjay · 30/06/2013 12:48

Does nobody watch QI?!

that is where i got my NIle Knowledge in fact most of my general knowlege comes from QI Grin

ShellyBoobs · 30/06/2013 12:54

Is it not 4 B's?

DowntonTrout · 30/06/2013 12:58

I luffs QI!

nitrox · 30/06/2013 12:59

I found this picture that explains the Blackberry logo.

www.willw.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/20110204-0329021.jpg

Meglet · 30/06/2013 13:04

They have pineapples growing on bushes at the Eden Project. When I walked past I was 'WTAF'?

cocolepew · 30/06/2013 13:12

I never realised that about a fortnight either Hmm
Proper loling at a kiwi birds being the same size as the fruit

Awizardsstaffhasaknobontheend · 30/06/2013 13:23

Baked beans are cooked in the can.... Not a huge vat stirred by chefs!

jellybrain · 30/06/2013 13:27

Downton did you attend a speed awareness course this week? Just I learnt exactly the same thing about dual carriage ways at one on Tuesday Grin

HopeForTheBest · 30/06/2013 13:35

Why are there 4 Bs in the BlackBerry logo? That doesn't make sense.

squoosh · 30/06/2013 13:36

God I would never have noticed that about the Blackberry logo. It's like one of those pictures of dots you're supposed to stare at until you see Jesus standing on a dolphin or something. Never worked for me.

And as for pineapples - MIND BLOWN!

lachrymavitis · 30/06/2013 13:38

After having three children, all of whom are now out of babygrows, I have finally discovered that the envelope neckline means you can remove them by pulling them down rather than over their heads.

My babies all had very pooey heads...

terrible mother.

Thanks to another MN thread

furbaby · 30/06/2013 13:42

Did, nt realize blackberry logo either .
Until I was about 20 I thought that moles were the same size as badgers :)
I blame wind in the willows !
Lucky they are a lot smaller as we have a mole living in the garden and he makes enough mess even though he, s small .

furbaby · 30/06/2013 13:43

:) at pooey head ....

motherofsnortpigs · 30/06/2013 13:45

Ha ha. I too have subjected my children to a good smearing when removing their soiled vests.

'p's and q's' is short for pleases and thank yous. I never knew, although it was blindingly obvious to my 5yo.

Elderflowergranita · 30/06/2013 13:46

Mrsjay, you are thinking of cape gooseberries or physallis.

mrsjay · 30/06/2013 13:47

Mrsjay, you are thinking of cape gooseberries or physallis.

ah ok am I Blush

PoppyAmex · 30/06/2013 13:53

DH also thought pineapples and... watermelons grew on trees.

I'm from a country that's a big producer of both and it always amused me to imagine being hit by a pineapple or a watermelon dropped from a tree. It would kill you! Grin

mrsjay · 30/06/2013 13:55

OH i knew water melons grew in the ground

elQuintoConyo · 30/06/2013 13:55

I knew about pineapples - shocked at how something so simple is so unknown, are the government hiding things?
DH only realised recently that ironing boards are so-shaped as to ease the ironing of shirts! Doh!

squoosh · 30/06/2013 14:08

furbaby me too!

I always thought moles were huge big chaps, saw a picture of one recently and they are teeny! I blame Wind in the Willows, Moley was quite big in that.

SilverOldie · 30/06/2013 14:35

I still call chinese gooseberries (kiwi fruits) chinese gooseberries. That's what they were called when I first tried one.

Re pineapples, as long as the middle leaves haven't been removed (which some shops do to make them last longer), you cut the leaves off with about an inch of the fruit. Then dry it for a few days. You can then plant it and it will grow new leaves; not sure how long you would have to wait for a fruit to appear. Check this link out if you want to try it www.rickswoodshopcreations.com/pineapple/pineapple.htm

furbaby · 30/06/2013 14:36

Glad its not just me squoosh :)

Mind you I did tell my daughter that I had thought moles were badger sized when she was about 20 and she said she always thought the same as me that they were badger sized ........ bloody wind in the willows has a lot to answer to Lol :)