I’m Upper-Management Stupid.
I didn’t have a problem with his name, assuming Throne is pronounced like the object, because there is an artifact in the D+D Greyhawk setting called the Malachite Throne. I thought the two were related for awhile.
**How stupid are you? **
Well, I *have *been married three times.
Nope. I have a 2016 Chevy Spark that does not have this feature. It has the gas cap on the same side as my previous car, though.
I’ll give you a stupider one. The car I learned to drive on was my uncle’s 1972 Chevelle. The gas cap in under the license plate, as in, you fold the plate forward, and there’s the cap. It also locked with a key. I’d never seen anything else, and didn’t know those were anti-theft features from the very first gas crisis in the US. So the first time I drove another car, the first place I went to look for the gas cap was under the license plate. The plate didn’t move. I had the damned time finding the stupid thing, and then figuring out how to get it opened. I had to consult the owner’s manual.
I have a cousin named Malachi. His parents pronounced his name the Hebrew way when he was little, until we finally settled on “Malky” as a nickname for him. But at the beginning of every school year, he’d get MAL-uh-key, and hated it. He ended up living in Israel for many years; I’ve no idea what he went by there.
All I know is I’m so smart, my brain hurts.
and there’s something else I did not know. The only Malachy (I think it was with a “y” not an “i”) I’d ever met was Irish. Just looking it up, I see it was from hebrew before irish… I thought it was an irish name.
Are you sure?
This page has a picture of the instruments on a 2013 Spark, and there’s a right-pointing arrow (triangle next to the uppermost pump icon). This page also shows a right-pointing arrow (triangle) on the 2016 Spark’s redesigned instrument panel.
That’s where I went wrong. It’s not a blatant arrow, just a small a triangle. Its on every car I’ve checked since I read that here. I have not checked 100s of cars, just a few, but still.
Yeah. That triangle next to the pump icon really doesn’t tell you much. When I bought the car, I noted when I was looking at it that the gas cap was on the right, and I never looked at the instrument panel. Then, yesterday, I checked specifically for an arrow because of this thread, and didn’t see one.
Nope. There’s a whole Book of Malachi in the bible.
The title of Michael Jackson’s 1987 album is Bad.
The title of Weird Al’s 1988 album, whose cover is a direct parody of Jackson’s album, is Even Worse.
I just got it, like, last month.
Never knew that, never noticed. Always wondered what the hell that thing was doing there.
I also never noticed the arrow in the FedEx logo until I read about how the designer thought he was very clever for including it. I still insist that the designer didn’t do it on purpose but claimed credit for it after someone noticed.
I learned this from the Dope as well. Though all our cars now have gas on the same side, I still sneak a peek at the little arrow.
Apparently I’ve been pronouncing “cocytus” wrong all these years.
Ko-Ky-Tus
An Italian ex of mine thought Banoffee pie was an Italian invention named after a certain Signore Banoffi. Will never forget the look on his face when we explained about the bananas and the toffees.
I was stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas, and lived off-base in Manhattan, Kansas. It was a good 6 months before I figured out why a lot of places were “Little Apple Automotive” or “Little Apple Car Sales”
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OK. Care to share?
Manhattan. Same as the island in New York - the Big Apple.
If we’re talking about hidden features in logos, there’s also the 31 in the middle of Baskin Robbins’ “BR”.
My 2003 Grand Prix does not follow the gas tank icon format. The hose is on the passenger side of the icon, and I fill it up on the driver’s side.