The Morton’s Salt motto: When it rains it pours!
I see this when I’m driving on 90/94 in Chicago. It took me an embarrassingly long time to get it, and even now, if I haven’t seen it in a while, it still hits me again - ‘hey, that’s a pun!’
I don’t get it.
Salt pours when it rains?
It is iodized so it doesn’t clump from humidity, like other salt did (at the time when they came out with that slogan). So when it rains (becomes humid) your salt still pours (doesn’t clump up). Iodized salt is the norm now, so it doesn’t stand out and the slogan loses a lot of its meaning.
This line confused me at first- I now realize it means that there’s an Eric Foreman on both House and That '70s Show. At first, I thought it meant that the actor who played Eric Foreman on That '70s Show was named Eric in real life. I thought to myself, “Isn’t his real name Topher?”…then while thinking about the name Topher, I realized that Topher is short for Christopher.
Well, I can see why he changed his name to Walt…
Oh my goodness, that’s a fox?! I guess I only ever saw it really tiny and just thought it was a flame or something.
My recent epiphany was Silk = Soy Milk . I had thought they were just emphasizing how easy and smooth it goes down. :smack:
Well, it is a flame. It’s a fox on fire. Hence “Firefox”.
I thought salt as iodized to prevent goiters, and the “yellow prussiate of soda” was the anti-clumper. (I got “yellow prussiate of soda” off the side of my Morton Sea Salt Course Salt- yes, it’s that redundant.)
Well crap, I always thought it was a planet earth covered in flames. I figured that “fire” was in the name, so it must be right, and this “fox” character was just a cool name, meant to invoke feelings of awesomeness.
Well, it’s really small in the dock!
That Saturn’s logo was a stilysh version of Saturn the planet.
I didn’t ever do the math on that either. I just always assumed it was kind of a crappy depressing slogan.
In the Matchbox 20 song “Push,” I had to hear it like fifty times before I realized it wasn’t the anthem of some jackass guy pushing a girl around. The whole song is a quote from HER, which is clear at the beginning when he says (albeit quickly) “She said…”
I’m just dense.
Quite right. The iodine is not the anti-caking agent. The usual anti-caking agent in salt is what Leiko said, also known as sodium hexacyanoferrate (II). I remember reading that off a salt packet when I was a kid and thinking it was the longest word in the world. 
Re Firefox logo - apparently it’s actually a red panda (fire fox in Chinese).
I always knew that about Hee-Haw. That’s the sound a donkey makes, after all.
However, I did not make the connection with Pooh’s buddy’s name, and the donkey sound. Not until just now. :smack:
Gisnep, man! Gisnep!
I’m usually pretty good when it comes to figuring things out on my own, but sometimes I get real epiphanies years later after spotting a reference in a completely unrelated context. Usually these “great discoveries” of mine are ridiculously obvious to the people who have the right cultural background in the first place.
Reading Pratchett does this a lot: for example, in The Fifth Elephant, I skimmed past the “Scone of Stone” as just another humorous reference to dwarf bread, until I found out about the Stone of Scone a few years later.
At nearly every party store ( convenience store to those outside of Michigan) there is a sign saying, Walt’s Crawlers. Selling worms for fishermen.
For my entire life, I am 41, I never connected that Walt’s Crawlers was an actual BUSINESS that supplied worms to fisherman. I just thought it was a guy named Walt.
Even though all the signs everywhere are the same, it dawned on me about two years ago with a, " Ohhhhhhh, Walt’s is EVERYWHERE like a business of worm selling."
Oddly enough, I’ve lived on the east coast of America all my life and a couple years ago realized that Eeyore was onomatopoeic, but just recently, maybe even on the board here in the last thread that mentioned it, realized that Hee Haw also was onomatopoeic of a donkey.
There’s a (D-Grade, maybe even worse) celebrity drag queen in Australia called Courtney Act, I only realised it was a play on words after a few years. Even though I already knew that drag queens’ names tend to be plays on words.
My last residence had a woodstove, as does our current house. Cleaning the glass in the door, so we can enjoy looking at the fire, has been an ongoing chore in our lives for probably 10 yrs or so.
We used, in the past, oven cleaner (toxic, must wear gloves, glass must be completely cold and not terribly effective for all the work and product involved!), and then, when we came across it, a cleaner specifically designed for this purpose. But it was also toxic, more effective than oven cleaner, but also very expensive and the glass must be completely cold, as well.
I spent a lot of years, letting the fire go out so the glass would cool and I could clean the window, inhaling horrid fumes, scrubbing and scouring and spending lots of money. But, what are you going to do? It’s no fun having a wood stove if you can’t see the fire, dammit.
Then, this very year, I discovered a solution that was staring me right in the face for all those years and I just couldn’t see it. The store was out of the expensive but more effective product and the stove glass was completely black. Thinking there had to be a better way, I spent an entire day surfing the internet and searching for something, anything that would work.
Turns out, the easiest and cheapest and most effective cleaner for the glass door is ashes!
D’oh!
Truly, I read it, didn’t believe it, but tried it anyway. On a glass that was almost black. A damp paper towel, dipped in the cooled ashes (of which there is always a metal bucket outside the side door) and, voila, clear glass. No chemicals, no retched smell and it worked like a charm. Went right through that thick soot, like it was nothing. I was stunned, when my husband came home he couldn’t believe it. Best of all,you can do this when the glass is still a little warm, so you don’t have to let the fire go completely out to clean the glass.
I look back now at all the money spent, chemicals inhaled, and unnecessary toil and am amazed that the solution was right in front of me the whole time and I couldn’t see it.
I just had a :smack: moment after reading the other thread.
On another forum I go to occasionally, someone’s sig includes the line “Ice melted? Hoof hearted!”
I never got it until someone mentioned the race horse named “Hoof Hearted” in the other thread – and then the light came on, which illuminated the first half of that sig.
:smack:
I wonder if that would work as a cleaner for a regular electric oven…
It’s iodized to help prevent iodine deficiency, yes. I was using “so” in the “and so” not the “so that” sense. I had been told by my grandfather that the anti-clumping was a side benefit of this process and I never questioned it, but reading this thread apparently it’s an additional thing that Morton did.