Yes, that was something I only believed when I was young. 
You have to read that horn bit from the logic of a 4 or 5 year old kid from the city whose knowledge of animals comes from picture books. I eventually learned how to identify the animals correctly except for goats/sheep apparently.
There are still sites that won’t work *unless *you type the www in the front, and some that won’t work if you do. Snark thee on another subject, I say.
When I was seven or eight, a cousin got shipped down from Philadelphia to stay with us for a few weeks. She was older, maybe 12 or 13. Every damned time she saw a cow it was an earth-shattering event. I kept looking up from my book in the car because I figured it was a cow with two heads or something - no, just a regular moocow. Seriously, you don’t ever see cows?
I was almost in college before I found out Crucifixion was not invented specifically to torture/kill the Messiah. Most Easter sermons focus on the cross and Jesus’ suffering. I always assumed that form of execution was only used once.
Turns out that Crucifixion was the most common execution method for lower class people in the Roman Empire. Thousands were crucified and left to rot after one of the Jewish rebellions.
The crown of thorns, flogging, and beating were intended to exhaust the victim before being crucified. Someone going into shock would die much quicker on the cross.
Seriously, I don’t ever see cows. We occasionally drove by 5 or 6 in a field so I saw them at a 30-40 yard distance going 45 miles per hour but that is the closest I ever got. I never saw farm animals close up. I grew up in Texas but in a crowded urban area and it wasn’t something I was ever exposed to and that is why as a child I just kind of went with what seemed correct. Now I live in an even bigger city where the only animals I ever see are household pets and the occasional rat. Is it really so strange to think that there are people whose lives don’t bring them into direct contact with cows or sheep?
It is if you grew up seeing cows, horses, etc. everyday. Just like folks I know that grew up in cities have had trouble with the concept that I can’t just hop on the bus/subway/train and go shopping or to the movie, I need to drive a car. Our lives as a child and youth shape our expectations and they are reinforced because everyone around us during those times has been shaped by the dame things. Until something forces us to realize that not everyone shares our experiences, we expect that they did.
For the most part anyway. Some people can look outside their own experience and life to see other POV without having their noses rubbed in it. OTOH, some people never really get the idea that others have lived different lives and have perfectly valid worldviews that fit those lives, no matter how much they see about the world and other cultures.
Last night I was watching the episode of the Simpsons where Bart and his friends go to Shelbyville to get back their lemon tree. At the part where Bart has to figure out which roman numerals equal seven and goes “Rocky five plus Rocky two equals…Rocky seven, Adrian’s Revenge!”
Anyway, it finally dawned on me why that was funny.:smack:
But even children’s bibles mention the fact that Jesus wasn’t the only one being crucified that day, two thieves also were.
I recently figured out that I’d been mentally conflating Lauryn Hill with Faith Hill when I saw a photo of Faith and thought, “WTF, isn’t she Black?”
How about explaining it to me?
A closer definition of “condone” is “to permit to happen/exist, but grudgingly”. So there is an element of negativity after all.
This is understandable. “O” is usually diphthongized in English into “o”+“u”. This development hasn’t gone as far in AmE as in BrE, and before “l” and certain other consonants the vowel retains some of the character of a pure “o”. Think of the way most Americans say “told” or “old”; it’s understandable that when a Russian pronounces the word “soviet” you might think there’s an “l” there.
“Both” is another word like that; young children often think it’s “bolth”.
Well, besides the fact that there is no Rocky seven, Adrian was his wife.
Actually, it’s unintentionally funnier now, because I just read on Wikipedia that she died in Rocky Balboa (2006) which means that she would have to rise from the grave to get her revenge.
I think it’s just that the Rocky movies only went to 5 (V) (well, ok, now there’s 6 but back then there wasn’t.)
It’s still funny with 6 movies, of course. 
They DON’T?
It ISN’T?
Edit: Lol, apologies for double-posting. This thread is opening my eyes.
Wait…
Jerry Lewis and Jerry Lee Lewis…?
…
<hangs head in shame>
A thread here on the Dope taught me that one, too. And even though I’ve seen pictures of a pineapple growing on a bush, my mental picture of pineapples still has them growing on trees.
Would have been funnier if you would have continued a whole string of these incredulous posts.
Hahaha! I thought about it, but I’m not sure how angry people on these boards get about repeat posting, threadomancy, etc.