What did you learn late in life that made you feel like a fool?

[kelel01 1]

This topic was on the radio this morning, and I thought it was hysterical . . .

Examples:

One guy thought until he was 32 that the term in football was not "huddle", but rather "cuddle". He was corrected this past weekend (this is what started the whole topic) when he told all the guys in his group to "cuddle up".

My friend in high school looked at a carton of skim milk she was drinking and started busting out laughing. When we asked her why she was laughing, she said "This milk says SKIMMMMMM Milk. Everybody knows it's SKINNNNNNNNN Milk." That was met with a deafening silence.

I'll tell you one thing I would like everyone to know: there is no such thing as a "chester drawers". It is a "chest OF drawers."

My thing is, I still don't know if the saying goes "end all, be all", or "end all, beat all".

Song lyrics work for this topic as well. Keep that in mind. I have a million of those.

Kelly

[Yoshi 0]

my sister in law told me that when she was in high school she read a handfull of books that used the word rendezvous quite often. she always thought it was pronounced (ren-dez- vuhs) when people would talk about a rendezvous she didnt know what they were talking about. it wasnt until mid-late high school when she found out the words were the same thing...

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[happythoughts 0]

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I'll tell you one thing I would like everyone to know: there is no such thing as a "chester drawers". It is a "chest OF drawers."

With the growing popularity of thongs, drawers are smaller now. Will the chest of drawers be smaller too?

[turtlespeed 226]

So, ok - I still don't know this - or I keep forgetting -

When stacking wood or any other material - do you put it on "Gunnage" or "Dunnage"

When I went through the AGC's Carpentry school the instructor told us that it was gunnage because it is what the cannon balls were stacked upon.

other than that I have had other more experianced carpenters tell me it was dunnage.

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
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[EricaH 0]

Until I was in my 20's I thought they were saying "6 AND one or half a dozen of the other" rather than "6 OF one or...."

didn't really get it before, now I just hate the saying.

There is no can't. Only lack of knowledge or fear. Only you can fix your fear.

PMS #227 (just like the TV show)

[mfrese 0]

My favorite's always been hearing people say "for all intensive purposes" rather than "for all intents and purposes". I was confused on that one myself for a while, but got it straight by the time I turned eight years old.

Doctor I ain't gonna die,
Just write me an alibi! ---- Lemmy/Slash

[indyz 1]

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she read a handfull of books that used the word rendezvous quite often. she always thought it was pronounced (ren-dez- vuhs

When I was younger (middle school maybe) I thought that debris was pronounced de-bris ("bris" as in circumcision). Stupid silent letters.

[Yoshi 0]

when I was like 3 or 4 years old I always thought people had 2 stomachs... one for solids and one for liquids.. it made sense to me when people started choking saying "it went down the wrong pipe"

I thought that was pretty smart for a 3 year old..

as many I thought the degenerative disease was called "old-timers" until sometime in junior high

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[kelel01 1]

So, one time, when I was 24, this guy on this website that I go to told me that everytime I say "for all intensive purposes" that it should be . . .

[Remster 30]

I was told recently that size does matter... Is it true???... IS IT TRUE?????

Remster

[kelel01 1]

It shouldn't matter for you . . . you're married. Do married people even have sex more times than the number of children they have?

[Remster 30]

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than the number of children they have?

You want us to have kids???? ewwwwwwww gross.....

Remster

[airdweller 0]

when I was younger, and my father would say "no, its too crowded to eat in that restaurant." I could never figure out how the clouds got into the restaurant.

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[kelel01 1]

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With the growing popularity of thongs, drawers are smaller now. Will the chest of drawers be smaller too?

Nope. We'll just buy more thongs.

[weegegirl 2]

This is embarassing ...

In 8th grade... I was the only kid in history class that didn't know what the word "pornographic" meant. Yup. I actually raised my hand and asked the teacher. I still haven't lived that one down.

Pbbbbbbbbbbbt. I'm so sheltered!!!! And to think... now I hang out with SKYDIVERS!!!! I learn something new just about every day!!!

[cloudseeker2001 0]

Not to loose my temper with people-that took many years and lots and lots of confrontaions!

"Some call it heavenly in it's brilliance,
others mean and rueful of the western dream"

[mfrese 0]

Hey, you were probably talking about your good friend who was, I dunno, in intensive care, right? Then that would be perfectly appropriate...

That's OK, my wife, for reasons that totally escape me, always says "moral majority" when she really means "vast majority"...I can't seem to convince her that it's a group and not a phrase.

Doctor I ain't gonna die,
Just write me an alibi! ---- Lemmy/Slash

[rehmwa 2]

In wines,

I thought a gamay Beaujolais - (Ga May)
was pronounced (Gay - Mee)

not a big deal except around some of the more anal of the wierdo pretentious types

just pretend you're making a joke

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Driving is a one dimensional activity - a monkey can do it - being proud of your driving abilities is like being proud of being able to put on pants

[happythoughts 0]

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Do married people even have sex more times than the number of children they have?

Sometimes less. "No honey, red hair is a recessive gene in my family..."

[FIREFLYR 0]

This is meant to be a learning experience for many people (Including our president)...
....because it drives me crazy!
OK here goes...
IT'S NOT FRIGGING SEXUAL HARESS-MENT IT'S HARASSMENT! ahem...
IT'S NOT PRONOUNCED NUK-U-LER IT'S NUCLEAR!
Ok, I feel better...
By the way, It took me forever to get hors d' ours (and I'm still not sure how to spell it right)

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"One flew East,and one flew West..............one flew over the cuckoo's nest"
"There's absolutely no excuse for the way I'm about to act"

[Kramer 0]

In 3rd grade, a bunch of us were singing that song "Banana banana fo fanna, me my mo manna, banana" (know the one I mean? where you can interchange any word you want).

Well anyway, one of the little devilish bastards in the class goes, try it with the word "truck". So I'm like "truck truck bo buck, banana fanna fo fuck me my mo muck...truck".

And everyone started laughing/gasping, yet I had no idea what I did wrong until I asked some kid at recess why everyone laughed at me. That was the day I learned the "f-word" 3rd grade...apparantly most kids learn it earlier than that?!?

The FAKE KRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMER!!!!!!!!!

[sunshine 2]

When i was a sophomore in high school, our biology class had to split into groups of 4. We all needed a name. I was in a group with 3 other guys that were juniors so they picked the name. We were the bearded clams and i had no idea why it was so funny. I found out long after high school what that meant.

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[jtval 0]

to wear pants when meeting a G/f's parents!

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[kelel01 1]

Cory-- That's freakin' hysterical! I can picture it in my head . . . and I think I was in 3rd grade as well when I learned the dreaded "f-word".

Kelly

[storm1977 0]

I hear you .... Clinton used to say (Ka-sovo) Kosavo alll the time.... IT's (Kos-a-vo)

He put the wrong emphas-sis on the wrong sylab-le.

It kills me when high ranking or popular people mispronounce words....



Anyway I just found out the sharp difference between the words proscribed and prescribed.

Chris

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