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

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thewomanwhothoughtshewasahat · 25/07/2006 22:03

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?

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edam · 25/07/2006 23:21

Will investigate further tomorrow, in daylight (woopee, an official 'getting to know your central heating session').

Suspect black tin = ancient central heating system that could probably do with someone in. But how do I explain that some stranger on an internet site told me to look for the tuna?

harpsichordcarrier · 25/07/2006 23:22

I pronounced Arkansas to rhyme with Kansas for ages.
which is sensible, actually.

serenity · 25/07/2006 23:24

well until that post I thought Arkansas and Arkansaw were two different places

festiveface · 25/07/2006 23:42

it never clicked that when the adverts say 'only smarties have the answer'it meant that clever/smart peopek have the answer.

thechildsslave · 25/07/2006 23:47

I didnt know catholics were christians .I thought it was totally different because they have mass .

SaintGeorge · 25/07/2006 23:49

The Beatles thing is wrong.

John Lennon gave the explanation years after that it was a pun on Beatless but he originally said that he was told 'by a man in the sky with a pie that they should be beetles with an a'. He gave various reasons over the years, most fuelled by LSD but the original story is the one that the rest of the group give as the real one.

And I got that from a friend of his in 60's Liverpool.

sunchowder · 26/07/2006 00:25

I luurrve this thread, but its no fun with no one to play with.....

Charlene1 · 26/07/2006 01:12

I had a vegetarian phase whilst younger - and refused a mince pie as I couldn't eat meat...
Then I asked dp in asda once if we should get a jar of mincemeat so we could make spag bol, as it would last longer than fresh mince...
Thinking satellite dishes were made "from the same mesh they made tights with".
Whilst sat in the concourse bar at Chester station, near to concourse/outside doors, there were lots of people coming and going in and out of the station. I kept getting a cold draught. I whined to dp "it's freezing, why don't they shut the doors to keep the warm in?" He just looked at me in horror as if to say "did you really just say that?" Of course, the draught was because the trains were whizzing past the very open ended platform which was behind us... That was after 1/2 a pint of beer.

MrsApron · 26/07/2006 01:15

That Palladin's voice was by Glen Michael. 70's saturday morning cartoon programme on STV.

Spagblog · 26/07/2006 07:19

Arkansas = Arkansaw

I always put the hot water on to heat before I do a wash load. DH pointed out that the washing machine heats the cold water to the right temp.
Still not convinced over this one!

katierocket · 26/07/2006 07:24

cod - why does your dsses school have no school bell?

ks - are you sure that's right about railway stations always being down a hill or in a cutting?

dressedupnowheretogo · 26/07/2006 07:27

my friend recently asked me why stevie wonder always wore dark glasses

i rolled on the floor laughing for ten minutes and wemyself

she was being serious !!!!!!!!!! was mortified when i told her she is 31

Tutter · 26/07/2006 07:45

lol edam.

sorry to abandon you mid-thread to your immersion heater musings

not sure about in other houses, but ours is a sort of back up (to another, timed system) whereby you can have more or less instant hot water. in addition to running our regular system we had the immersion switched on .

ours is boxed in so i can't tell you if it has tuna on top . good luck with your MN-inspired heating teach-in...

Tutter · 26/07/2006 07:49

MarsLady - that is similar to what must be at least half the population that think it is "i should of" instead of "should have". or should this belong on the language pedants' thread..?

And melpomene - what is it an anagram of???

geekgrrl · 26/07/2006 08:00

I was stunned and amazed when I found out about 3 months ago that Will Young is gay.

kittywits · 26/07/2006 08:13

"more haste less speed " took me years to work that one out. It just didn't make sense! Does now!

Hallgerda · 26/07/2006 08:23

It took me a while to work out that PITA wasn't Greek pocket-bread. And that didn't half confuse me!

saadia · 26/07/2006 08:26

I didn't know that Nicole Richie was Lionel Richie's daughter, although I did wonder why she was "famous".

throckenholt · 26/07/2006 08:27

I once told DH that I'd been talking to someone's Dad....he told me it was the same person, but with a pair of glasses on

PMSL

And railway stations will be at whatever level means the trains don't have to go up or down hill - hence embankments and cuttings to keep the track as level as possible. Canals go round the slope rather than up and down it for roughly the same reason.

What is Axl Rose an anagram of ?

parasol - para - against sol - sun - Spanish (at least that is what I assume).

Katymac · 26/07/2006 08:29

I thought para was on top of (like parapit?)

Hallgerda · 26/07/2006 08:29

throckenholt, you don't want to know! Think of a naughty word with x at the end and work from there.

Tutter · 26/07/2006 08:32

para means 'for' in spanish

i.e. for the sun

Tutter · 26/07/2006 08:33

Hallgerda - i'd got that far but am still stuck

QueenEagle · 26/07/2006 08:34

Axl Rose is an anagram of oral sex although it is not known whether or not this was intentional, according to wikipaedia.

Tutter · 26/07/2006 08:34

oh not going to win countdown am i?

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