Anybody else remember Hans Moleman’s orange-eating class from The Simpsons?
Don’t you owe Robert Schimmel a royalty check for that? 
When I was in college, my roommate asked me to help her bake a cake for her boyfriend’s birthday. As I was cracking the eggs into the batter, she said “Oh, is that how you get eggs open! I never knew that!” Apparently their family had a cook, and in 18 years this girl had never seen anyone make eggs. I thought for sure she would have seen it on TV at some point, but she said no.
Wasn’t it Homer Simpson? He was teaching a marriage class, and he said something like, “A woman is a lot like this orange. First you have to peel the layers…”. He loses his train of thought and just eats the orange.
It took me a second there to realize he wasn’t talking about William Penn and Sean Penn.
The telethon guy? What about him? I’m not much of a fan since he split with Don Martin. And hey, who’d’ve thought Martin would end up doing cartoons for Mad Magazine? That old crooner was a talented dude.
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You’re right.
“To those with an untrained eye, this is just an orange. But if you look closer…” Or something like that.
Okay, here’s what Google came up with:
Apparently, some of this was cut in syndication.
I’m sure if you do a search on “Goodness gracious great balls of HEY LADY” you’ll find my most embarrassing admission of ignorance, posted here on the boards for all to see.
I didn’t realize until the “how to tell them apart thread” meaning THIS WEEK that the Invisible Man book everybody talks about isn’t the one with the, er, actually invisible man. And that the Ellison who wrote it wasn’t Harlan but another one. And that it’s about race and things.
I don’tthink its come up in conversation, but maybe it has and people have just been really polite and not laughed at me. To my face.
Oddly enough, I was just reading it earlier this week. Someone linked to it recently. And may I just say, <pointing> HAW-ha!
Years ago, a bunch of Scouts on a campout were sharing stupid names we’d run across. One person said that he went to school with “I shit you not, Rosie C-I-E-M-E-N.” A brief pause, then laughter from all around. One voice pipes up: “I don’t get it. What’s semen?”
Oh, how I wished I could take those two seconds back.
Another for me
We had been out on a sailboat all day and got way too much sun. When we started back thru the pass from the ocean to our hotel we (and about a dozen other sailboats) got stuck for about an hour in the pass because the wind had died and the current was still heading out. When the sun set I got cold and developed a really bad case of the teeth-chattering chills. I felt fine but literally had to hold my chin and the top of my head to keep my teeth from chattering. Finally my husband deflated a raft and wrapped me up in it and my teeth chattering calmed down.
When we got the boat to shore we were taking down the sails and getting ready to step the mast. I asked my husband “How tall is this mast?” He said “24 feet” to which I replied, “No way. I’m 8 feet tall and it has gotta be taller than just three of me.”
He just stopped what he was doing and came over and took a good look at me. He said later he thought the teeth chattering incident had maybe really done something bad to me. Really I am 5’8" and had just left the 5 part off…didn’t really realize what I had said until he told me.
Maybe it was the hypothermia, who knows? Now when I say something stupid, I just say “Don’t mind me…I’m 8 feet tall.”
or…
“I brought the watermelon.”
anyone remember that?
I’m reminded of one that I barely avoided.
Community college English class of all places. IIRC, the video we were watching was about a writer who was also a doctor as his day job before he got famous.
So anyway, in those pre-internet days, coming from a very sheltered background, sitting in English class, I was momentarily dumbfounded by the ovoid shape filling the screen. I guess I was concentrating on figuring it out too much to comment, plus I didn’t have any friends in that class.
I really didn’t get it.
Then a baby’s head came out.
Dirty Dancing, right? Right? 
Man, I have watched that movie Way too times…
“I don’t read the papers; it might cloud my clear outlook”
Oh wait… that wasn’t me! :wally
25 years ago, I was playing an old Genesis CD (Gabriel era - Foxtrot) for a friend of mine - one he hadn’t heard before. It gets to the really cool (IMHO), angular keyboard solo near the end, and I tell him, “This is ah-poh-kah-LIPS in 9/8!”
In other words, at the end of a relatively expensive education, I couldn’t pronounce the word Apocalypse. :smack:
Yeah, Cleiko , that’s it. I’ve always figured if Baby could say things like that and still get Johnny Castle…I should be just fine.
Sometimes if I am a little nervous about what to say I just think of saying that line and it cracks me up all over again. Makes me relax
I’m not getting this…
About three years ago, I was living with a roommate who’d just moved in.
I remember coming downstairs on the first day to find him placing a pot full of water on a hot iron (he held the iron and pot in place so it wouldn’t fall off).
When I asked him what he was doing, he simply said, “boiling water”. We had to teach him how to use the cooker, and even now, years on I’m still not convinced of his ignorance, but there you go.
In that I accented the wrong syllable when saying it. As much as I had encountered the word in writing, I’d never heard it spoken.