what stunningly obvious pieces of knowledge escaped you for years and years?

[thewomanwhothoughtshewasahat]

I managed 25 years of life without knowing who Pele was. I managed 36 years without knowing a dodge was a kind of american car. dh managed 25 years without realising that the name The Beatles was a play on the word beat. how do educated well-read people manage stuff like this? and don't you love it when you learn something like that?

and the Vauxhall Nova was called the Rabbit in Spain, cos no Va in Spanish means 'Doesn't Go'

that my car has a 6th gear - dh drove it and was appalled to see on the computer that i was getting 20-23mpg. I have had it for 2 years.

I dare not show him your dishwasher filter one.
He would get a haemotoma.

lol milge

Gingerbear - did you see top gear too

hold on cod - did you think that after putting they started on the next hole from the green? that's pretty freaky

i think a lot of catholics thisn the rest of us arent christians

i didn htink really ata ll
ithoguth i twa s like crazy golf you juts put put putted a long fro miles

They do have organs at ice-hockey matches, btw, is true (at least, they do in Canada).

I knows its Yank Cos but it is true
But if its an mn quorum against de try tus then sod em, lets have a grammatical revolution

oh do they?
aha i was never sure if it was ana elabortae wind up

Well tell me then,do you riffle or rifle through papers????

hmm depended if iw aaaas REALY nosey

why don't they just have a tape?

isn't it always just the same du-du-du-dur, du-du-du-dur?

..or a handbag,because I always think of it ar rifling (to rhyme with pie)

rifle. definitely

rifle...

yep.

yes and they wave towels apprently!

isn't Steve Coogan an arse?

you definitely rifle

as in trifle

Good
Have opinion of People I Trust.

But I'm sure some go on about riffling (to rhyme with nipple)

IS piffle pronounced like rifle then? {evil cackle]

Yup, and big perspex screens around the pitch to protect the audience from flying pucks... and stupid people who try and catch the pucks when they fly over the screens. That's got to hurt!