Are you a treacle-brain?

[Lobsang]

Most of the time my brain works quite fast and efficiently, but sometimes a simple obvious fact can take weeks to switch on the litghtbulb of realization. Let's call this the treacle-brain effect. If there was ever a competition for treacle-brainness I'd be a contender for sure...

I saw Red Matrix's post in I know: Let's flatter each other shamelessly for sig lines (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=211419&perpage=50&highlight=lobsang&pagenumber=9) lobsang No one comes to the resque faster than you.

I puzzled over this for a few moments and then came to the conclusion that "resque" was some clever hip word that few knew, so I went off to find out what it means. Honest! I used www.dictionary.com which found nothing, so I just assumed it was a made-up word.

About 20 minutes later I re-opened the page (I had left it on the task bar)This is when it dawned on me - "Rescue" :smack:


Another example - 'Little Britain' a new UK comedy show (old on the radio). I've known about it for weeks, but only 2 days ago I realized the name was a piss-take of the term "Great Britain"


What really really obvious things have you taken weeks to realize?

[Sunspace]

What the heck's "treacle"? Sounds pretty gluey, just from the name... :)

[Jaade]

Harry Potter books mention a pastry called a treacle tart. :)

[LifeOnWry]

Originally posted by Sunspace
What the heck's "treacle"? Sounds pretty gluey, just from the name... :)

I think it's the same thing we in the States call "molasses". I'm completely lost on "piss-take", though.

My biggest treacle brain moment, I think, was the time I read the phrase "add dry red wine to mix for a richer flavor." Since I didn't care about richer flavor, I didn't give it much thought, but about two days later, I smacked myself in the forehead and said (out loud, no less), "OH! Dry as in not sweet, not dry as in powdered!" I didn't realize until that second that I had "dry red wine" filed in my brain under "powdered substances I never knew existed."

[Lobsang]

"piss-take" = "mickey-take", "to take the mickey", or a parody.

[wendyrules]

Once, when only a novice at baking cakes, upon reading the recipe which said ".. cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy" - I interpreted that as meaning to keep adding fresh cream to the butter/sugar combination.... Suffice to say, the cake was a TOTAL disaster! :o

[Horseflesh]

Are you sure that wasn't supposed to be risque?

Read with that word and it sounds like you're the first one at a party to get naughty. ;)

[Jennyrosity]

On Saturday I'm stood outside waiting for some mates to come and pick me up and take me to a party. A ambulance trollies past and, as one of afore-mentioned mates is a paramedic, for a few seconds I thought: "oh this'll be them then", before realising that, actually, the NHS probably doesn't allow it's staff to use their ambulances for social purposes!