Things you really should have known sooner...

[TheDodgyEnd]

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?

*Gammeldragz

For years I thought it was Gilbert AND Sullivan. Apparently they are one person called Gilbert O'Sullivan!*
These are two separate things! Gilbert and Sullivan wrote light operas. Gilbert O'Sullivan is a 1970s singer! Not alive at the same time!

Spangles 😂

One person:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_O'Sullivan
Two people:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_and_Sullivan

ahem. well. For far too long I thought snakes borthed their eggs through their mouths. I blame too many natural history documentaries. These often showed snakes eating eggs. I knew snakes laid eggs. Managed to confuse the two for far too many years.

And the latest one? Which is actually bloody awful. Knew Theriesenstadt was a concentration camp in the 2nd world war. Didn't realise until THIS WEEK, after being a history geek of that period for 37 years, that it was actually a town that the Germans emptied and then turned into a camp.

But the terracotta terrapins has made me laugh out loud ......

ffs. BIRTHED their eggs ....

GILBERT AND SULLIVAN ARE NOT TWO SEPARATE PEOPLE??? What?!?!

@Spangles1963 do tell, pretty please?

Gilbert and Sullivan are two people - the librettist W S Gilbert and the composer Arthur Sullivan, from th Victorian era.

Gilbert O'Sullivan is an Irish singer-songwriter.

@Cozietoesie I was about 12/13 I think when that one cropped up on conversation. Again I can pinpoint my misconception to childhood, but you think I'd have twigged sooner. I'd like to defend myself, and say I'm not stupid, but I can't. Mistakes of epic proportion are commonplace in the world of Peapod

I think I love you @PeapodBurgundy
I can’t talk at all #ballache

TheDodgyEnd - it was do with Portsmouth being a naval town,and when the sailors went on long voyages,they would use a fish with a big mouth,like a skate,to erm,relieve themselves. .

If pontetrct was in wales in would be pontyfract hehe

Pontypandy is an actual place in wales too, not just made up for fireman sam lol

I didn't realise Portsmouth was an island until I read this thread (I was born there).

I thought Random was a place until I was about 21.

I thought Andover was by the sea. Found out it wasn't when a bf invited me to his parents' home there. He was a bit when I said I'd bring my swimming costume as presumably we'd go to the beach. I was 19.

I just spent a good few minutes on the chicken crossing the road joke and the penny finally dropped. Finally I get it! I thought it was a retorical question that people came up with silly answers to, the most common of which was 'to get to the other side'. I'm 49 and finally I'm in on the joke .

@Spangles1963 yes I had heard that actually !!! I also know that even in this day and age, certain fish have to be checked VERY carefully for, ahem, damage to certain areas as it’s very common for them to be ‘abused’ - this comes from a very reliable source within the industry! Boak

TheDodgyEnd Not envy!

That Christianity is all made up and there's reason to believe there's any powerful being who cares about humans.

@Gammeldragz - Gilbert and Sullivan were a celebrated light opera writing partnership in the 19th century; Gilbert O'Sullivan was a pop singer in the late 20th century.

allegretto oh...

l thought Lancashire was as up north as you could get before Scotland. Until at 13 we drove from Lancashire to Scotland!

Were you thinking of Lanarkshire?

There was one on another thread about a poster who lived in Cumbria as a child and thought that the song "kum bah yah" was a local song:

"Cumbria, my Lord, Cumbria"!!

In fact, it seems many of you know this. See, I thought it had something to do with musicals as I remember 'Gibert and Sullivan' being used in a phrase to describe wanky music, when I was a kid. As I'd only ever heard it said quickly, when I finally (a few years ago) heard Gilbert O'Sullivan enunciated in BBC English, I assumed I'd misheard.

I also thought Sinn Fein was a person until last year, but saw that on another of these threads so I'm not alone.

I nearly spilled my beverage when I read that Gilbert and Sullivan were one person.

"l thought Lancashire was as up north as you could get before Scotland. Until at 13 we drove from Lancashire to Scotland!"

Were you thinking of Lanarkshire

No... (Where is that?)
I lived in (and grew up in) wales. My dad lived in Lancashire. All I knew was that was "up north" and yorkshire was next to it.

Not me, but someone I work with was convinced cats laid eggs. He is very bright - law degree, seems with it in every other way but was convinced that kittens hatched from eggs.