TechRep From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Posted (10 years 11 months 2 weeks 5 days 3 hours ago) and read 2364 times:
Ok, I was probably 27 years old before I knew that pickles were cuckumbers. My wife still makes fun of me for it. What did you get laughed at for not knowing and should have?
Flight Level From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 1, posted (10 years 11 months 2 weeks 5 days 3 hours ago) and read 2339 times:
TechRep, I am 45 years old and I just now, about 15 seconds ago learned that pickels were cucumbers.
I was 23 when I was laughed at for not knowing about alcohol. I was at a bar and the bartender asked if I wanted my margarita on the rocks, and I said, "No, in a glass will be fine."
Heavymetal From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 2, posted (10 years 11 months 2 weeks 5 days 3 hours ago) and read 2320 times:
I was once giving a presentation in high school and called them the "anals of history", not the correct ann-uls. One smart ass kid said it must be a Fruedian slip. I wanted him dead.
JetService From United States of America, joined Feb 2000, 4798 posts, RR: 13 Reply 3, posted (10 years 11 months 2 weeks 5 days 1 hour ago) and read 2292 times:
The song, "Let Me Love Open the Door" I always thought was "Let Milo Open the Door". Also, for the longest time I thought "Dream Weaver" was "Jane Weaver". My wife was pissed after I told her this, because now she only hears "Jane Weaver".
PROSA From United States of America, joined Oct 2001, 5439 posts, RR: 5 Reply 4, posted (10 years 11 months 2 weeks 5 days ago) and read 2259 times:
When I was a college freshman, I heard a couple of other students talking about "sloppy seconds" and asked them what that meant. Boy, did I regret that question!
"Let me think about it" = the coward's way of saying "no"
Bernard Shakey From United States of America, joined Oct 2001, 559 posts, RR: 10 Reply 5, posted (10 years 11 months 2 weeks 4 days 23 hours ago) and read 2259 times:
I can't roll garden hose. If you want to know where I live, just check all the hoses in the neighborhood. When you get to a mangled mess, half on the ground, you'll be at my house.
Mindless drifter on the road, Carries such an easy load
Pilothica737 From United States of America, joined May 2001, 297 posts, RR: 4 Reply 7, posted (10 years 11 months 2 weeks 4 days 20 hours ago) and read 2221 times:
you mean they really aren't baby carrots? Wow, guess the jokes on me!
Paulc From United Kingdom, joined Mar 2001, 1490 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (10 years 11 months 2 weeks 4 days 5 hours ago) and read 2181 times:
friend of mine works for am american company but is based in the uk.
he phoned the usa to book a video conference and the lady on the other end asked his location which he gave. "is that near paris" said the lady "yes" said my mate "about 250 miles away" "ok - which part of Texas are you from then" - opps
Vickybiccy From United Kingdom, joined Apr 2002, 212 posts, RR: 2 Reply 9, posted (10 years 11 months 2 weeks 4 days 4 hours ago) and read 2177 times:
There is a phrase in the UK "I'm going to box your ears" as a threat of punishment. I believe its quite an old fashioned way of saying, "you're gonna get told off"
Well I actually had an image of someone getting small boxes placed on their ears...I only realised the truth, that it was box "A la Tyson :-P" about a year ago!!
TNboy From Australia, joined Mar 2002, 1131 posts, RR: 21 Reply 10, posted (10 years 11 months 2 weeks 4 days 2 hours ago) and read 2133 times:
Of course there are mini carrots! I grow them. You just buy regular carrot seeds, nurture and feed and water them for about a year till they get really big healthy green leaves, then pull them up, and presto - beautiful carrots about 1 inch long! Never fails!
Bill
JetService From United States of America, joined Feb 2000, 4798 posts, RR: 13 Reply 11, posted (10 years 11 months 2 weeks 4 days 2 hours ago) and read 2138 times:
I just found the origin of the f-word. I read that in England, centuries ago, people couldn't have sex unless they were granted approval by the king. When they got approval and were having their fun, they'd hang a sign on their door that read "F.U.C.K" which meant "Fornicating Under Consent of King"
I read that on an email of 'strange facts' so not sure if BS or not.
Pendrilsaint From United States of America, joined Feb 2001, 685 posts, RR: 0 Reply 12, posted (10 years 11 months 2 weeks 4 days ago) and read 2121 times:
Yeah...actually that is BS lol... go to http://www.snopes2.com , it dispells quite a few myths and rumors...apparently the F word comes from a Danish words meaning "to copulate" lol
OzarkD9S From United States of America, joined Oct 2001, 4682 posts, RR: 23 Reply 13, posted (10 years 11 months 2 weeks 3 days 23 hours ago) and read 2096 times:
I mispronounced the word "segue" (seg-way) as (seg-you) at a party once. Thought I was being intellectual and felt like an illiterate.
JetService From United States of America, joined Feb 2000, 4798 posts, RR: 13 Reply 14, posted (10 years 11 months 2 weeks 3 days 22 hours ago) and read 2089 times:
Pend, thanks for clarifying. I'm a little disappointed because I thought that was rather amusing.
Trickijedi From United States of America, joined May 2001, 3266 posts, RR: 5 Reply 16, posted (10 years 11 months 2 weeks 3 days 11 hours ago) and read 2045 times:
One time when my aunt took me out to a corner diner when I was a kid, I ordered a dinner special that came with either a cup of soup or a small serving of salad. But the waitress mumbled out my choices. So when she asked me "Would you like soup or salad?" I said, "Sure, I'll have a super salad!" Took us a couple of minutes to straighten out the fact that they were indeed two seperate items.
Also, I thought the song "Alive and Kicking" by Simple Minds was "I Love Fried Chicken."
Its better to be on the ground wishing you were in the air than be in the air wishing you were on the ground. Fly safe!
Portcolumbus From United States of America, joined Nov 2000, 1612 posts, RR: 4 Reply 17, posted (10 years 11 months 2 weeks 3 days 10 hours ago) and read 2020 times:
KROC From United States of America, joined May 2000, 19737 posts, RR: 76 Reply 18, posted (10 years 11 months 2 weeks 3 days 10 hours ago) and read 2025 times:
We didn't know what the Super Bowl was.
Signed, European Soccer Fan.
"Never tell anybody outside the family what you're thinking again"
Redngold From United States of America, joined Mar 2000, 6907 posts, RR: 51 Reply 20, posted (10 years 11 months 2 weeks 3 days 8 hours ago) and read 1987 times:
I wasn't laughed at, but got a scolding one time for this...
I didn't know the other meaning of "penetrate" when I was a kid -- just knew it as like, penetrate your defences; so one day my sister and I raced to the back door of our house, and she got their first, but I managed to wrestle her away. I shouted with glee "AHA, I penetrated you!" and my mom came out and scolded me.
But she wouldn't tell me why she scolded me, so I didn't use the word again for years until I finally found out it had a (violent) sexual connotation.
Nonrevman From United States of America, joined Nov 2001, 1289 posts, RR: 1 Reply 21, posted (10 years 11 months 2 weeks 3 days 4 hours ago) and read 1979 times:
I was once in a bowling alley near Tampa bowling with my brother. We hardly ever went to a bowling alley. Anyway, I just finished a frame and all of a sudden this old guy comes at us screaming and yelling. I am trying to ask him what is wrong and he just goes ape-sh-t! finally his wife explains to us that you have to wait for the person on the right to go before you can. We had never ever heard of that until that minute. I guess up to that point, my brother and I were the only ones in the world capable of concentrating on the pins regardless of what everyone else was doing.
EIPremier From United States of America, joined Sep 2000, 1533 posts, RR: 2 Reply 22, posted (10 years 11 months 2 weeks 3 days 3 hours ago) and read 1972 times:
At my elementary school, there was a creek that ran right behind the school, and we often took mini-field trips to observe the assorted insects, ducks and other organisms that lived there. While doing an in-class presentation on the creek habitat, I talked in great detail about "all the different orgasms I had seen." I can still remember the mix of shock and horror that spread across my teacher's face during that presentation. Needless to say, I never confused those two words again!
737doctor From United States of America, joined Mar 2001, 1332 posts, RR: 48 Reply 23, posted (10 years 11 months 2 weeks 3 days 2 hours ago) and read 1952 times:
As a child, I thought that that "guerilla warfare" was carried out by actual gorillas. I always envisioned big gorillas with machine guns attacking people. Hey don't laugh, "Planet of the Apes" was big around that time.
Pacificjourney From New Zealand, joined Jul 2001, 2698 posts, RR: 9 Reply 24, posted (10 years 11 months 2 weeks 3 days ago) and read 1938 times:
When I first came to Japan I didn't know the language well but was full of confidence anyway.
To sign your name to anything here you need a small personal stamp called a 'hanko'. One day I left mine at home but suddenly needed it for some work documents. I loudly proclaimed to my boss that I would just pop home for 10 minutes and grab my 'manko'.
Manko is an incredibly crude reference to female genitalia, known I believe as The C word ....
KROC, we know about the Superbowl, we just don't care !
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