Smack Your Forehead

gumby · Post by **gumby** » Fri Mar 20, 2015 1:06 pm

This was a thread on TOS. For the uninitiated, these are things you just discovered but figure everyone else has known about for a long time.

For instance, it occurred to me late in life that the golden arches formed the letter "M."

Another. The space between the E and the X forms an arrow. Kids noticed this. I smacked by forehead (then returned my hand to the steering wheel).

So without further adieu ... Reddit ... Read it.

azgreg · Post by **azgreg** » Fri Mar 20, 2015 1:15 pm

I remember your notice (I believe it was you) of the smile on the Amazon boxes which is when I noticed them as well.

gumby · Post by **gumby** » Fri Mar 20, 2015 1:22 pm

Another one where the kids enlightened me. But they didn't know ....

A merica's
R oast
B eef
Y es
S ir

Or that that's how you say "RB." To this day, it's my daughter's fave fast food (suck it, Jon Stewart!). So the tradition is:

Dad: "America's roast beef?
Daughter: "Yes, sir."

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Fri Mar 20, 2015 2:05 pm

gumby wrote:Another one where the kids enlightened me. But they didn't know ....

A merica's
R oast
B eef
Y es
S ir

Or that that's how you say "RB." To this day, it's my daughter's fave fast food (suck it, Jon Stewart!). So the tradition is:

Dad: "America's roast beef?
Daughter: "Yes, sir."

Again? You already smacked your forehead over this one. Like three years ago. You don't get to smack your forehead twice about Arby's until you're driving a Winnebago around to national monuments while wearing this hat:

gumby · Post by **gumby** » Fri Mar 20, 2015 2:27 pm

Longhorned wrote:
gumby wrote:Another one where the kids enlightened me. But they didn't know ....

A merica's
R oast
B eef
Y es
S ir

Or that that's how you say "RB." To this day, it's my daughter's fave fast food (suck it, Jon Stewart!). So the tradition is:

Dad: "America's roast beef?
Daughter: "Yes, sir."
Again? You already smacked your forehead over this one. Like three years ago. You don't get to smack your forehead twice about Arby's until you're driving a Winnebago around to national monuments while wearing this hat:

I was merely reprising the ... say, nice hat. I gotta get one of those.

gumby · Post by **gumby** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 11:53 am

TOS calls the Football Forum: The Rich Tradition.

I just got it. Then again, I just saw it.

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 1:13 pm

That's rich.

gumby · Post by **gumby** » Mon Apr 13, 2015 2:48 pm

Isn't it? Don't you agree?

gumby · Post by **gumby** » Mon Jun 01, 2015 5:26 pm

Marshall Mathers ... M&M ... Eminem.

JMarkJohns · Post by **JMarkJohns** » Mon Jun 01, 2015 8:40 pm

Saw this... Probably where Wazzu got the idea.

Milwaukee Brewers

The glove holding the baseball is an M and B.

gumby · Post by **gumby** » Tue Jun 02, 2015 10:47 am

Thought it was just for the M. Didn't see the B. I do think the Cougs have one of the best logos. Three letters!

Better execution than the original Diamondback. Oh, a tongue, if you flip it on its side.

Original D-Back colors were a fail, too.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Tue Jun 02, 2015 10:55 am

Always thought Wazzu had the coolest logo ever.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Wed Aug 19, 2015 1:13 pm

Wasn't sure where to put this (dinner thread?)...

What Americans call endive, the British call chicory, and what the Americans call chicory, the British call endive.

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Wed Aug 19, 2015 3:14 pm

Chicat wrote:Wasn't sure where to put this (dinner thread?)...

What Americans call endive, the British call chicory, and what the Americans call chicory, the British call endive.

What Americans call American Cheese, Canadians call Canadian Cheese.

Now you tell me why anybody wants to take credit for that one.

CatsbyAZ · Post by **CatsbyAZ** » Wed Aug 19, 2015 3:15 pm

As a kid in the early/mid 90's watching Saturday morning cartoons, seeing the many Eggo Waffle commercials, it wasn't until years later that the wordplay was getting at Let Go of my Eggo. Duh!

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Wed Aug 19, 2015 3:20 pm

Longhorned wrote:
Chicat wrote:Wasn't sure where to put this (dinner thread?)...

What Americans call endive, the British call chicory, and what the Americans call chicory, the British call endive.
What Americans call American Cheese, Canadians call Canadian Cheese.

And what Americans call Canadian Bacon, Canadians call ham. Which is what it actually is.

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Wed Aug 19, 2015 3:49 pm

CatsbyAZ wrote:As a kid in the early/mid 90's watching Saturday morning cartoons, seeing the many Eggo Waffle commercials, it wasn't until years later that the wordplay was getting at Let Go of my Eggo. Duh!

I was stunned when a teacher corrected my spelling of "Sandy Eggo" to "San Diego".

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Wed Aug 19, 2015 3:49 pm

Chicat wrote:
Longhorned wrote:
Chicat wrote:Wasn't sure where to put this (dinner thread?)...

What Americans call endive, the British call chicory, and what the Americans call chicory, the British call endive.
What Americans call American Cheese, Canadians call Canadian Cheese.
And what Americans call Canadian Bacon, Canadians call ham. Which is what it actually is.

There's only one bacon.

Puerco · Post by **Puerco** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 6:38 am

Chicat wrote:
Longhorned wrote:
Chicat wrote:Wasn't sure where to put this (dinner thread?)...

What Americans call endive, the British call chicory, and what the Americans call chicory, the British call endive.
What Americans call American Cheese, Canadians call Canadian Cheese.
And what Americans call Canadian Bacon, Canadians call ham. Which is what it actually is.

What Americans call rubber, the British call condom.
What the British call rubber, Americans call eraser.

What Americans call fanny, the British call bum.
What the British call fanny, Americans call vagina.

What Americans call pants, the British call trousers.
What the British call pants, Americans call panties.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 6:46 am

Imagine trying to get into some girl's pants AND trousers??

Thank God for George Washington.

catgrad97 · Post by **catgrad97** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 11:08 am

Puerco wrote:What Americans call pants, the British call trousers.
What the British call pants, Americans call panties.

I thought the Brits called them all knickers.

I actually wanted to be creative when tired once and said, to a pretty smart person I knew at U of A, that I was "pretty fagged."

I got the weird look. Does nobody know that, in American parlance, "fagged" has meant worn out going back to at least the mid-1800s?

Stephen King even used it in a secondary character's dialogue in The Stand. Yet that word and "gay" uniformly draw the juvenile giggles and looks. I don't get it.

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 1:50 pm

"Trousers" is a go-to funny word. Some sentences are funny just because you use it.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Thu Aug 20, 2015 1:57 pm

known as "ranch" in the US:

Puerco · Post by **Puerco** » Fri Aug 21, 2015 4:49 am

catgrad97 wrote:
Puerco wrote:What Americans call pants, the British call trousers.
What the British call pants, Americans call panties.
I thought the Brits called them all knickers.

I actually wanted to be creative when tired once and said, to a pretty smart person I knew at U of A, that I was "pretty fagged."

I got the weird look. Does nobody know that, in American parlance, "fagged" has meant worn out going back to at least the mid-1800s?

Stephen King even used it in a secondary character's dialogue in The Stand. Yet that word and "gay" uniformly draw the juvenile giggles and looks. I don't get it.

I keep telling all my British friends and colleagues to never ask, 'Fancy a fag, mate?' when they're visiting our site in Louisiana.

Yeah, I think knickers is the most common. But the Brits look funny at you if you talk about buying a new pair of pants over the weekend.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Sun Aug 30, 2015 9:21 am

11. When Sweden is playing Denmark, it is SWE-DEN. The remaining letters, not used, is DEN-MARK.

Daryl Zero · Post by **Daryl Zero** » Sun Aug 30, 2015 10:42 am

Puerco wrote:
catgrad97 wrote:
Puerco wrote:What Americans call pants, the British call trousers.
What the British call pants, Americans call panties.
I thought the Brits called them all knickers.

I actually wanted to be creative when tired once and said, to a pretty smart person I knew at U of A, that I was "pretty fagged."

I got the weird look. Does nobody know that, in American parlance, "fagged" has meant worn out going back to at least the mid-1800s?

Stephen King even used it in a secondary character's dialogue in The Stand. Yet that word and "gay" uniformly draw the juvenile giggles and looks. I don't get it.
I keep telling all my British friends and colleagues to never ask, 'Fancy a fag, mate?' when they're visiting our site in Louisiana.

Yeah, I think knickers is the most common. But the Brits look funny at you if you talk about buying a new pair of pants over the weekend.

I know those usages (fag and fagged) mainly from listening to English music (The Kinks' "Yes Sir, No Sir" So you think that you got ambition, stop your dreaming and your idle wishing, you're outside and there's no admission to our play, wrap your ambition in your old kit bag, soon you'll be happy with a packet of fags . . .) and then looking it up. I sometimes use the word "fagged" when I am in fact, worn out. Faggot actually meant a "bundle of sticks".

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Sun Aug 30, 2015 12:16 pm

I just realized the other day that the word "alphabet" comes from "alpha" and "beta". And I took Latin for three years. Definitely smacked my forehead.

gumby · Post by **gumby** » Mon Aug 31, 2015 8:34 am

I did not know that. Smack!

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Mon Aug 31, 2015 8:55 am

Chicat's avatar is quite fitting.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Mon Aug 31, 2015 9:14 am

gumby wrote:I did not know that. Smack!

At least I'm in good company.

NERDS!!!

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Mon Aug 31, 2015 11:10 am

It was long after learning Latin that I started to make obvious connections, like the meaning of "contradict," for example.

gumby · Post by **gumby** » Tue Sep 01, 2015 9:43 am

Wait! Denali wasn't a president?

catgrad97 · Post by **catgrad97** » Tue Sep 01, 2015 9:35 pm

Well it sure ain't no river in Egypt.

gumby · Post by **gumby** » Wed Sep 02, 2015 10:00 am

Egypted me!

gumby · Post by **gumby** » Wed Feb 01, 2017 12:21 pm

B asic
I nstructions
B efore
L eaving
E arth

And other variations, like Living Eternally.

New to me.

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Wed Feb 01, 2017 8:43 pm

gumby wrote:B asic
I nstructions
B efore
L eaving
E arth

And other variations, like Living Eternally.

New to me.

I'd tell them to stick with the etymology. Be intuitive but lick everything.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Tue Aug 21, 2018 7:35 am

Don't drink Gatorade, but next time I see one in the store...

RichardCranium · Post by **RichardCranium** » Tue Aug 21, 2018 4:08 pm

Chicat wrote:I just realized the other day that the word "alphabet" comes from "alpha" and "beta". And I took Latin for three years. Definitely smacked my forehead.

"Alphabet" is derived from Greek, actually.

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Sun Apr 19, 2020 8:47 am

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Thu Nov 18, 2021 3:59 pm

Am I the last person here to learn that Simon and Garfunkle didn't write Scarborough Fair, and that there are countless recordings of it going back decades before them, and that it's traceable in various forms to the Middle Ages?

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Thu Nov 18, 2021 4:55 pm

I didn't know that.

Harry Nilsson also didn't write "Everybody’s Talkin’" which was his biggest hit song, although he was a great songwriter in his own rite.

Longhorned · Post by **Longhorned** » Thu Nov 18, 2021 7:11 pm

I learned that today when I googled, "What the fuck is a Cambridge shirt?" And google said it was a "cambric shirt" and brought up the song and its history and never even mentioned Simon and Garfunkel. It was originally a song sung from the perspective of an elf dicking around his ex.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Wed Nov 24, 2021 7:37 pm

I just found out that Justin Guarini (who came in second to Kelly Clarkson in Season 1 of American Idol) is “Lil Sweet” from the Diet Dr. Pepper commercials.

Not sure why that was so shocking to me, but here we are…

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Mon Oct 23, 2023 3:42 pm

wyo-cat · Post by **wyo-cat** » Mon Oct 23, 2023 4:02 pm

They’d lock US up in the looney bin if we rambled like that.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Mon Oct 23, 2023 4:40 pm

He’s up to reading two-letter words?

Miracles never cease…

Merkin · Post by **Merkin** » Mon Aug 19, 2024 3:28 pm

dovecanyoncat · Post by **dovecanyoncat** » Mon Aug 19, 2024 5:04 pm

wyo-cat · Post by **wyo-cat** » Mon Aug 19, 2024 5:21 pm

Route from Mempho TN to T-Town.

Interstate 40 to 30 to 20 to 10. Easy to remember.

Chicat · Post by **Chicat** » Mon Aug 19, 2024 5:33 pm

Yes, just you buddy.

Odds go north/south, evens go east/west (generally) and if it’s three digits it’s a route that takes you in the same direction as the one or two digit highway but will take you around city centers to avoid traffic (like 95 vs 295 in Philly, 94 vs 294 in Chicago, or the 5 vs 405 in LA). Numbers are lowest in the South/West and highest in the North/East.

Our highway system is the best in the world. Too bad for the environment it’s not a high speed train system.

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