Ridiculously obvious stuff you just got

[Yorikke]

@OtakuLoki

How did you miss that, with all the emphasis on The Last Supper being a Passover celebration?

Well, it’s a fact that was never explicitly stated to me through 12 years of Catholic school. I only figured it out later.

Joe

[phil417]

Here’s one for sports fans: I came home from work one night to hear that “The Wizard of Oz took the Red Wings to the Semi-finals”. This, I found out, translates into Chris Osgood, goalie for the Detroit Red Wings, helped them win enough games to go forward to the next round in the eastern finals.

Silly me, imaging flying monkeys on ice skates.

Love, Phil

[OtakuLoki]

@wheresgeorge04

Well, it’s a fact that was never explicitly stated to me through 12 years of Catholic school. I only figured it out later.

Joe

But it’s mentioned, in all the Gospels*, as being a Passover celebration. And how does one explain the Pharisees, or why the Romans choose that local holiday to release a condemned prisoner to the people, or why the inscription on the cross was INRI - IESVS·NAZARENVS·REX·IVDÆORVM? None of those things make sense until you accept that Jesus was Jewish, was preaching to, and affecting, Jewish society.

I’m just boggled because most Holy Week services I remember from growing up, and afterwards, made much of the social background for the Last Supper, why the Romans were there, and such. Heck, one year our priest celebrated an ersatz Passover Seder with several interested families. I always knew our parish was somewhat unusual, but hadn’t realized just how unusual, it seems.

*Matthew 26:17-19, Mark 14:12-16, Luke 22:7-13, John 13:1 (though it’s the Gospel with the least attention to the Last Supper as a meal, or as the Passover celebration.)

[BlankSlate]

@thirdwarning

I caught Diagon Alley, but I’m not sure if I got Knock Turn Alley until just now. I don’t remember catching that one. Which makes me feel pretty dumb, after I was so tickled with the other one. Why the heck didn’t I notice?

Did you catch “grim old” for Grimmauld Place? I didn’t. I wonder what else I’ve missed.

[Bill_Door]

@thirdwarning

Okay, at the risk of looking really stupid, I’m finally going to ask. What the heck is this, and where is it from? I’ve never seen it anywhere but here.

Here’s an excerpt of a Lewis Black routine:

@Lewis Black

My favorite health club is the International House of Pancakes… Recently, I was there, when from behind me, a woman of 25 uttered the dumbest thing I’d ever heard in my life … She said, ‘If it weren’t for my horse, I wouldn’t have spent that year in college.’ I’ll repeat that. I’ll repeat that because that’s the kind of sentence that when you hear it, your brain comes to a screeching hault. And the left hand side of the brain looks at the right hand side and goes, ‘It’s dark in here, and we may die.’ She said, ‘If it weren’t for my horse…’ as in, giddyup, giddyup, let’s go - ‘I wouldn’t have spent that year in college,’ a degree-granting institution. Don’t! Don’t think about that sentence for more than three minutes, or blood’ll shoot out your nose.

[Indistinguishable]

@Peter Morris

Actually, you missed an important word, the phrase is “Can’t make BOTH ends meet” Although the spelling has changed, it comes from traditional Cornish Pastys. The wealthier people could afford to make pasties with meat at both ends, while poorer families had to fill theirs with vegetables on one side. Really.

You may be joking, but your explanation is quite unlikely. The cites in the OED give no reason to believe that the phrase originally referred to meat rather than meeting. Some discussion of more likely origins of the phrase is found here.

[OpalCat]

Um, I’m pretty sure that whole discussion about ends meeting was meant as a joke.

[Zeldar]

@OpalCat

Um, I’m pretty sure that whole discussion about ends meeting was meant as a joke.

I tend to regard the thread that way. But it has been fun for those of us who keyed on “ridiculously” in the title and tried not to be swayed too much by the OP itself.

[Caprese]

@ShermanAter

I have always been a huge fan of Jackson Browne. I played that album Runnin’ on Empty till it was worn out.

I got a chance to see him and his band, 15 years or so after that album was released and they were absolutely great. I mean they hit every note of every song. I couldn’t have been more pleased.

Then they played Rosie

And I finally got it.

I laughed so hard I damn near pee’d myself.

Here is a link to the song. I hope you like it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCDIrrKKUTs

heh
“I got to hand it to me.”
Ever heard Jackson’s “Red Neck Friend”? It has the added treat of David Lindley.
I never would have guessed that one, let alone Rosie, if I hadn’t been told.

[Indistinguishable]

@OpalCat

Um, I’m pretty sure that whole discussion about ends meeting was meant as a joke.

Damn. Well, I did explicitly note that possibility, if that’s worth anything.

[Fiver]

@OpalCat

Yeah, that’s me. Thank you

You should wear foil in your hair more often.

It brings out the color in your eyes.

[OpalCat]

Well I did try to find the most flattering photo I could… bats eyelashes

[FriarTed]

@OpalCat

Well I did try to find the most flattering photo I could… bats eyelashes

OK, here’s a ridiculous thing I don’t know-

is “Hi, Opal!” a greeting to you

OR

did you take your name from “Hi, Opal!”?

[OpalCat]

Hi, Opal came about like this:

Way back when on the AOL boards I would sometimes start to make a post with a list, and then realize after making

1. something relevant
2. some other relevant thing
   that I didn’t actually have a 3) relevant thing.
   I was always taught that it was bad form to have lists with fewer than 3 items–if you only have two, you’re supposed to just use “and” instead of making a list. So I would tack on something like:
3. well ok, I don’t have anything else but you can’t have a list with only two things

After a while other people started to put something like “3) there is no third thing, but Opal doesn’t like lists with less than 3 things” when they realized their list only had 2 items. Eventually it devolved to the point where people would just acknowledge me in some way as the third item, as it was already known to the group what that meant. It sort of stabilized out as “Hi, Opal” at some point.

From there it sort of became a weird tradition, and people with lists that were longer would still insert it in as item #3.

It’s kind of strange.

[CanvasShoes]

@Valgard

Victoria Principal.

Kind of like the collegiate head named “Martin”.

I don’t watch southpark, but I did watch Dallas in its day, so I got the first one.

As to the Martin one. HUH? (mentally preparing myself for a huge duh!)

[CanvasShoes]

@Hostile Dialect

I get Dean Martin, but not Victoria Principal.

Oh.

Damnit! Nevermind.

[Peter_Morris]

As to the Martin one. HUH? (mentally preparing myself for a huge duh!)

If he’s a collegiate head, that would make him DEAN Martin.
Edit - oh, I see you’ve already twigged.

[JR_Brown]

@OpalCat

Hi, Opal came about like this:

Way back when on the AOL boards I would sometimes start to make a post with a list, and then realize after making

1. something relevant
2. some other relevant thing
   that I didn’t actually have a 3) relevant thing.
   I was always taught that it was bad form to have lists with fewer than 3 items–if you only have two, you’re supposed to just use “and” instead of making a list. So I would tack on something like:
3. well ok, I don’t have anything else but you can’t have a list with only two things

After a while other people started to put something like “3) there is no third thing, but Opal doesn’t like lists with less than 3 things” when they realized their list only had 2 items. Eventually it devolved to the point where people would just acknowledge me in some way as the third item, as it was already known to the group what that meant. It sort of stabilized out as “Hi, Opal” at some point.

From there it sort of became a weird tradition, and people with lists that were longer would still insert it in as item #3.

It’s kind of strange.

Wait - you are THE famous Opal? Wow. Um…

Hi?

JRB

[Raguleader]

Lately I’ve been studying Chinese (and by lately, I mean the last six months), and I just today realized that Mandarin and Shanghainese are in fact different dialects, and not different accents like when you have a Beijingren and a Taiwanren in the room together (in case you’re curious, Taiwanese people tend to buzz through their teeth, for lack of a better word, and Beijingers talk like they have an orange in their mouth )

What makes this sad, is that it’s been mentioned, many many times in class, that certain things we’ve encountered have been in Shanghainese. I just assumed it was a joke because “Shanghainese” sounds like a joke more than something you’d actually call someone’s dialect by. :smack:

[OpalCat]

@JR Brown

Wait - you are THE famous Opal? Wow. Um…

Hi?

JRB

If you mean am I the Opal of “Hi, Opal” then yes.

Hi!