# How stupid are you? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 4, 2018, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stupid-are-you/819082 "2018-08-04T05:10:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stupid-are-you/819082/61 "2018-08-07T00:21:55Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > OK. Care to share? > [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > Manhattan. Same as the island in New York - the Big Apple. Yes, this. “Little Apple” as opposed to “Big Apple” from the real Manhattan. ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stupid-are-you/819082/62 "2018-08-07T00:25:54Z")
The [Milwaukee Brewers](https://goo.gl/images/TjyB4U) logo is an M and a B. > [@Mr\_Shine](#): > > Watching Alan Sugar’s car (AMS1, his intitials) in the opening to _The Apprentice UK_ for years, it still never occured to me for years why his company was called Amstrad :smack: AMS, fine, but what’s the “trad”? > [@Velocity](#): > > When I bought a blood-sugar test monitor device, I thought you are supposed to stick the bloodied end of the test strip into the machine. What are you supposed to do? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stupid-are-you/819082/63 "2018-08-07T00:45:07Z")
> [@Chessic\_Sense](#): > > The [Milwaukee Brewers](https://goo.gl/images/TjyB4U) logo is an M and a B. > > AMS, fine, but what’s the “trad”? > > What are you supposed to do? You put the test trip in the meter(contact end in) and then pick up the blood drop with the other end. [Test strip](https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/diabetes-glucose-test-strip-11402397.jpg) The square patch goes in the meter. Others may look coppery or a different color. [In use.](https://us-east-1.tchyn.io/snopes-production/uploads/2017/02/diabetes-test_strip_fb.jpg?resize=865%2C452) ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stupid-are-you/819082/64 "2018-08-07T06:24:44Z")
I’ve always known what a “rap sheet” is, but up until last month when I read a book about the NYC Police Dept. I didn’t know that RAP stands for **R** ecord of **A** rrests and **P** rosecution. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stupid-are-you/819082/65 "2018-08-07T08:09:51Z")
> [@Nayna](#): > > Just last year my daughter pointed out to me that in the middle of the Tostitos logo/name there are two people dipping a chip into a bowl of salsa. I’ve eaten Tostitos for decades and never saw any people in the logo. I was aware the i is dotted using a chip. You’re right, there are two stick figure people in that logo. I learn something new every day. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stupid-are-you/819082/66 "2018-08-07T09:50:24Z")
We are at the point of the thread where someone needs to link to the ancient conversation where a Doper was astonished to learn that Jerry Lewis and Jerry Lee Lewis are two different people. One of the funniest things I’ve read here. Unfortunately I am unable to find the thread. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stupid-are-you/819082/67 "2018-08-07T12:23:37Z")
> [@Chessic\_Sense](#): > > What are you supposed to do? Put the non-blood end in. The machine reads the strip digitally. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stupid-are-you/819082/68 "2018-08-07T14:31:07Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > We are at the point of the thread where someone needs to link to the ancient conversation where a Doper was astonished to learn that Jerry Lewis and Jerry Lee Lewis are two different people. > > One of the funniest things I’ve read here. Unfortunately I am unable to find the thread. [Here ya go.](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=1170534&postcount=15) (The funniest thing about it, though, isn’t actually in lno’s post…‘Goodness gracious, great balls of HEY LADY!!’ was used to refer to it at least twice, and that…that is the funniest thing. And also how I was able to find it.) ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stupid-are-you/819082/69 "2018-08-07T15:36:23Z")
I took the mower blade off and sharpened it … put it back on … couple years later I decided it was time to sharpen it again but it was still perfectly sharp … it was the _other_ side that was beat up … Loading trusses on a building from the wrong direction … Sneaking up on a horse from behind at night … Arrow on the gas gauge … _Cowboy BeBop_ … [sigh] … the list goes on and on and on and on … ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stupid-are-you/819082/70 "2018-08-07T17:19:20Z")
> [@Chessic\_Sense](#): > > AMS, fine, but what’s the “trad”? I see this hasn’t been answered yet. Mine is a WAG but I’m going to guess it stands for “trading.” ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stupid-are-you/819082/71 "2018-08-07T18:04:06Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#): > > I see this hasn’t been answered yet. Mine is a WAG but I’m going to guess it stands for “trading.” [WAG no more](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad). ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stupid-are-you/819082/72 "2018-08-07T18:37:05Z")
With the recent Roseanne Barr kerfuffle, Mr.Wrekker mused aloud he thought Trump and Rosie had a long-standing feud. I had to explain that Rosie O’Donnell and Barr were two different people. I don’t think he really bought it. In his defense he rarely watches anything but the weather and a odd sports event on TV. He’s out of the loop. ---
**Author:** ![Hi\_Neighbor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hi_neighbor/32/494_2.png) [@Hi\_Neighbor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hi_Neighbor)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stupid-are-you/819082/73 "2018-08-07T18:50:49Z")
Probably until my mid-20s I pronounced Marine Corps and Peace Corps with a hard “P” in “Corps”. I had no idea it was “kôr”. ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stupid-are-you/819082/74 "2018-08-07T18:51:36Z")
I had lived in the Pacific Northwest for almost 30 years before I realized that the Cougar in the Wasington State Logo was a stylized ‘WSU’… [https://brand.wsu.edu/visual/logos/](https://brand.wsu.edu/visual/logos/) ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stupid-are-you/819082/75 "2018-08-07T19:06:09Z")
I went for nigh on 60 years before I realized that the word surly comes from sir, ie acting in the manner of a sir, haughty, imperious, churlish, bad-tempered. (The original spelling was sirly.) ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stupid-are-you/819082/76 "2018-08-07T19:36:49Z")
I know I have many examples, but I can’t think of even one. I suppose that, in itself, is pretty stupid. ---
**Author:** ![blob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blob/32/489_2.png) [@blob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blob)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stupid-are-you/819082/77 "2018-08-07T23:19:47Z")
> [@Hi\_Neighbor](#): > > Probably until my mid-20s I pronounced Marine Corps and Peace Corps with a hard “P” in “Corps”. I had no idea it was “kôr”. There are a lot of words I “know” from reading books but don’t really know how they are pronounced because they aren’t the sorts of thing that would ever come up in conversation. I still recall the office junior pronouncing facsimile faxy-mile. She was only 16 and it was her first job, how was she supposed to know? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stupid-are-you/819082/78 "2018-08-07T23:40:03Z")
A couple of days ago I mentioned the movie\* Clash of the Titans\* to someone and noticed that I said “Titans” somewhat clumsily. I then realized that was probably the first time in my life that I’ve said that word out loud. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stupid-are-you/819082/79 "2018-08-07T23:43:58Z")
> [@Hi\_Neighbor](#): > > Probably until my mid-20s I pronounced Marine Corps and Peace Corps with a hard “P” in “Corps”. I had no idea it was “kôr”. That was punishable by death in the house I grew up in. ---
**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2018, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stupid-are-you/819082/80 "2018-08-07T23:52:55Z")
Until very recently I thought “viscount” was pronounced as spelled. I watched an Irish sitcom in which a character was laughed at and corrected on her pronunciation (it’s “vie-count”). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stupid-are-you/819082.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-stupid-are-you/819082.md?page=5)