# Admit It! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 12, 2003, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it/181398 "2003-06-12T18:08:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Jervoise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d2c977/32.png) [@Jervoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jervoise)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it/181398/181 "2003-06-16T06:27:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AHunter3 \* > \*\ ***Narrad** :Many (possibly most?) of us do! What do you do, pull it through the silly opening in the undies and then out between the zipper teeth? > > I guess I don’t spend much time watching how other guys prepare to piss, but I don’t think I’ve ever actually seen a guy use those undie-flaps. \*\* Hmm, interesting. 🙂 I’ve _never_ seen another bloke at a urinal unbuckling his belt to urinate. None of my underwear have “undie-flaps” either; you just unzip, push them down a little and extract your penis. Reverse the procedure when you’re done. **johncole** : I’m a little perplexed by the guys saying they wipe after urinating. I guess they would always be obliged to use the stall in public toilets. How could **Priceguy** get the impression only pick-up-driving-Confederate-flag-waving men don’t wipe their penises when there’s _never_ any toilet paper by urinals. Surely that gives the impression that most men simply shake and zip up. We need a specific thread on men’s urinal habits. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it/181398/182 "2003-06-16T07:09:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Narrad \* > **I’m a little perplexed by the guys saying they wipe after urinating. I guess they would always be obliged to use the stall in public toilets. How could Priceguy get the impression only pick-up-driving-Confederate-flag-waving men don’t wipe their penises when there’s _never_ any toilet paper by urinals. Surely that gives the impression that most men simply shake and zip up.** Well, I should have added “when the possibility exists” but that would have made the post less zingy, thus decreasing the average zingyness of the universe, which would have been a Bad Thing. But yes, I do use a stall whenever I possibly can, for precisely this reason. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it/181398/183 "2003-06-16T08:02:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by blanx \* > \*\*No, no, I sincerely thought they were going to drive trains, and moreover, I thought it was pretty cool! I was a little confused as to why there needed to be so many people driving trains, but hey, what do I know about the railroad? > \*\* I thought this too. My father was an engineer. I wondered when we got to go for a ride on his train. I guess I was about five when I learned that was NOT the kind of engineer he was. So after that I had no idea what he did. As long as I’m confessing, I’m an exceptionally good speller but my pronunciation leaves a lot to be desired. I can, and have, blown it on a three-letter word, that word being spa. Even though I know better, it just doesn’t look like “spah” to me, it looks like “spay.” ---
**Author:** ![blinx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a5b964/32.png) [@blinx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blinx)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it/181398/184 "2003-06-16T10:06:18Z")
I have never seen a circumcised penis except on pictures and it wasn’t untill after joining the SDMB that I realised it wasn’t only Jewish people who had them. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it/181398/185 "2003-06-16T13:31:21Z")
My little sis is adopted. We told her this at a very early age. Until she was about seven, she thought we’d told her she was “a doctor” and was upset that she didn’t have a stethoscope. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it/181398/186 "2003-06-16T15:43:32Z")
I had to go to college to learn what a bagel was. I was in line for breakfast at the dorm cafeteria my freshman year when the server asked the guy in front of me if he wanted toast, english muffin or bagel with his breakfast plate … bagel? WTF is a bagel? I watched the line until someone got one so I could see what it was. Actually these days I wish I still didn’t know. I’ve become addicted to them. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it/181398/187 "2003-06-16T17:12:25Z")
I still don’t know the difference between an A-bomb, an H-bomb, and a nuclear bomb. ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it/181398/188 "2003-06-16T19:29:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MixieArmadillo \* > \*\*To all those girl-dopers who didn’t know you had a urethra… > > _Jeebus_ you people, didn’t you ever get curious enough as a kid to take a peek in an anatomy book? Never get **the talk**? Miss that day in sex ed? I just can’t fathom being so completely ignorant about ones own bits and pieces. > \*\* Well, this may not have helped me if I had had this misunderstanding. When I was a kid, I didn’t understand the concept of cutaway views and cross-sections. I found the insert from my mom’s tampon box, the one with a diagram on how to insert it. It showed the view as if the woman didn’t have the second leg that was closest to the artist. I didn’t get this, so I just assumed that grown-up women had some sort of hole or slot in their outside upper thigh, and that’s where the tampon went. I didn’t get why I had never see the hole on my mom, or when it was I supposed to get one, but it was the only explanation I could come up with. ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it/181398/189 "2003-06-16T19:32:07Z")
I was 22 before I realised that an air guitar wasn’t a real instrument. Before that I’d thought it was one of those metal-plated acoustic guitars on my dad’s Steeleye Span album covers. ---
**Author:** ![DavisMcDavis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dfb087/32.png) [@DavisMcDavis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavisMcDavis)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it/181398/190 "2003-06-16T20:06:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by astro \* > \*\*The lightbulb for the punning name below didn’t turn on until I was 40 years old. I always thought the name “Dew Drop Inn” used by numerous honkeytonks and county dive bars was just a quaint little name. > > “Dew Drop Inn” = “Do drop in” \*\* Well, you learn something every day - I never noticed that pun, either. There’s a bunch that have passed me by for many years a time, like the **Beat** les, for example. My father always liked to wake me up as a kid by saying “Up and at 'em!” (i.e., “Up and at them!”) except I always heard “Up and Adam!” and assumed it was some odd saying that perhaps had a biblical context, but I never questioned it. Until I was about twelve I (completely without reason) had decided that the word “abruptly” had a silent “b”. Since I never had the opportunity to say or hear it out loud, I never realized it for quite a while. I also believed for many years that since animals were sent to the vet to be “put to sleep,” there were (obviously) shelves and shelves of sleeping puppies and cats somewhere at the vetrinarians’s office. ---
**Author:** ![LolaCocaCola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7cd45c/32.png) [@LolaCocaCola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LolaCocaCola)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it/181398/191 "2003-06-16T20:14:19Z")
Oh, alright…I’ll admit it. Up until this past weekend, the only time I’d ever seen the name **“Yojimbo”** was on this message board, and I just assumed it was actually that poster’s name, which I figured was “Jim” except he was saying it all cool-like: eg: Yo, Jim-bo! \<—Y’know, like a Brooklyn thing. Well, my friend brought over some DVDs this weekend, and one of them was, you guessed it, Akira Kurosawa’s “Yojimbo” which means The Bodyguard in Japanese. Heh hehe heh heh. ---
**Author:** ![johncole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5f9b8f/32.png) [@johncole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johncole)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it/181398/192 "2003-06-16T20:17:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Narrad \* > We need a specific thread on men’s urinal habits. 🙂 \*\* Hey, try the [link](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=161318) in my post. I feel the point is that different people have different habits and personal preferences - and that there is no justification for disparaging one choice just because it is different from your own (this observation is not directed at you, just at people in general - including me). ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it/181398/193 "2003-06-16T20:28:10Z")
I confuse “former” and “latter” whenever they are used together in a sentence. For example, if someone says, “We could either go to the circus or to Disneyworld, but I’d prefer the latter,” I pretty much have to have them tell me which one they want. I think this comes because both “former” and “latter” make me think of things that involve “post” events. Former-major leaguer is a guy AFTER he is a baseball player. Latter also means after to me, taking place “later”. I get it now, but I always have to think it through. By the way, women wipe after peeing? Why? Does it get on you or something? ---
**Author:** ![Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it/181398/194 "2003-06-16T21:42:08Z")
Well, unlike you guys, we can’t exactly shake away the drips. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it/181398/195 "2003-06-16T22:49:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mirror Image egamI rorriM \* > \*\*Well, unlike you guys, we can’t exactly shake away the drips. \*\* I never thought of that until reading this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it/181398/196 "2003-06-16T22:50:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by a35362 \* > \*\*I still don’t know the difference between an A-bomb, an H-bomb, and a nuclear bomb. \*\* A-bombs (atomic) and H-bombs (hydrogen) are both types of nuclear bombs. H bombs are much more powerful than A bombs. In fact, they use an A bomb-type reaction as a primer to get the real H bomb reaction to start. Technically speaking, an A bomb uses fission, while an H bomb uses fusion. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it/181398/197 "2003-06-16T22:54:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ace22 \* > \*\*Starboard is right, port is left. “Port” has the same number of letters as “Left”. That’s how I remember it. \*\* [True Story] My mom explained it differently to me once. I was in the seventh grade, and me and my folks went down to DisneyWorld. We took the ferry over the lake, and I recall seeing a big yellow “P” sign on the left of the dock, and a “S” on the right. My mom leaned over and whispered to me, " **Trip** , you know what those signs are for? If the ferry driver misses the slip and hits the left side, he yells ‘Aw PISS!’. If he misses and hits the right, he yells ‘Aw SHIT!’. I still remember it that way to this day. Port and Starboard are piss and shit. [/True Story] For the first 19 years of my life, I had no idea what a delicatessen was for, nor that one could order a decent sandwich in them. But my world was completely shaken at the age of 20 when I found out that Dire Straits wasn’t from America. ☹ Tripler But they sang about ‘Allegheny is a mean old town’!! ---
**Author:** ![Bibliovore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Bibliovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bibliovore)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it/181398/198 "2003-06-16T22:55:59Z")
Of course you can, just jump up and down a bit, then do the twist… ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2003, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it/181398/199 "2003-06-16T23:05:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by romansperson \* > \*\*I had to go to college to learn what a bagel was. \*\* In some parts of the country, I believe this qualifies as child abuse. ---
**Author:** ![ace22](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f05b48/32.png) [@ace22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ace22)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2003, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it/181398/200 "2003-06-17T00:19:23Z")
Hm. Another: It took me until this weekend to realize that **Satisfying Andy Licious** was the same as **Satisfying and Delicious**. Stupid me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it/181398.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/admit-it/181398.md?page=11)