I learned recently how to pronounce “ennui”. I thought it was Latin. It’s actually French.
So what’s rude about
Read
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If you don’t have the manual, it is easy to look at the oven and figure it out. If there is a broiler element at the top of the oven, and no broiler element above the drawer, it is a storage drawer.
If there is no broiler element above the main oven, and an element above the drawer it is a broiler.
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It wasn’t 'til the last such thread that I realized that the Washington Redskins don’t play for Washington state. My husband finds this quite funny…
The Cougars play for Washington State.
This is perhaps the funniest thing I’ve ever seen in my entire life.
The John/Jack thing is weird for me, because I don’t know anyone IRL who uses it. I know about Kennedy and I was always perplexed. “So John F Kennedy is also called Jack? Bwuh?”
No, they had a big church wedding.
True, although it does seem to be a “warm” storage drawer in that my cast iron frying pans stay in lovely condition now that I store them there.
I didn’t know that either, until this year.
Well there isn’t a ton of insulation between the oven and the drawer, so yeah, I would expect warm.
I lived for over 40 years without knowing there was such a thing as a carpenter bee. I was building a garage and noticed perfectly bored holes in the bottom of the fascia boards. WTH??? who goes around drilling holes in garages? Then a bumblebee comes flying out.
Same time frame for hummingbird moths. The name is obvious to the insect when you see it.
Ponies. I thought they were just young horses. Probably got the idea from the movies where someone would say they were going to “bet on the ponies”.
This is actually a good thread because there is always something that crops up in life that makes me wonder how I lived so long and wasn’t aware of it.
The moon appears upside down in Australia compared to North America/Europe.
Most stomach ulcers are caused by bacteria, not stress.
Peanuts grow underground and are not a nut.
That’s all I got.
I’ve said it before in a topic like this and I’ll say it again…As recently as a year ago, I learned that electrocuted means “death by electrocution”. It means the person died from electrocution. Therefore it’s entirely wrong for someone to say “I was electrocuted” or “I just got electrocuted” or “It electrocuted me for a few seconds” or asking someone who was just shocked “Did you get electrocuted?” because “electrocuted” only means you died from it and if you’re using that word to refer to yourself, you’re obviously still alive so it wouldn’t apply.
I did not know this until I learned it in a topic in here about a year back. I’m 28.
Up until then I was just one of the “Ouch, I just got electrocuted!” bunch. :o
Grapes are poisonous to dogs.
I believe I learned this from the Dope.
Only in the last few minutes did I learn that a gummy bear will explode in a test tube of molten potassium chlorate. Once. For three minutes.
Two years ago I found out that for the first few days following the winter solstice though the overall hours of day light grow it is due sunset occuring later in the evening, and that in fact dawn continues to occur later. You’d think I might have noticed, but no.
The same is true for the term ‘drown’. To drown means to die from asphixiation while in water. If you survive, the correct term is ‘near-drowning’.
See this thread for discussion of the COD and DOC mnemonics.
Not always. My father’s legal first name was Jack, and so was one of his cousins.