I came to that realization when I was reading The Hobbit back in high school, and Bilbo was singing to the spider, calling it “lazy cob.” Hmm. Cob = spider? COBWEB = SPIDER WEB!
That and Prince’s classics “I Would Die 4 Ewe” and “Nothing Compares 2 Ewe.”
Well, I kept hoping that I would see an “ah-ha” moment like mine, but it seems that I am going to have to go out on a stupid limb all by my lonesome.
The single biggest :smack: moment I had was when it finally came to me that “auce” shrimp and “auce” catfish were not delicacies from “Auceland”… but instead it was “All U Can Eat.” This realization is even more :dubious: because I had also seen signs that advertised AYCE whatever, and I wondered if it was the same as AUCE, just with a British spelling. That moment of realization was definitely a lightbulb moment, but also the biggest “You are not as smart as you think you are” moment.
When I was maybe 8 years old, Ray Charles’ version of “Georgia on My Mind” was very popular, and I remember being on a family trip and it was playing on the radio. I asked if he was singing about the state of Georgia or a woman named Georgia, and everybody laughed at me and said that of course it was the state. I still don’t think it was a stupid question.
Not stupid at all, according to this wiki article, which says that it was actually written about a woman, but kept deliberately ambiguous.
I forgot to mention something I learned somewhere that further illuminates the spiderweb/cobweb issue. Apparently most of the cobwebs you see are spider web “tendrils,” now coated in dust, that traveling spiders leave behind. Of course dust-covered actual webs would qualify as cobwebs as well … but to realize that the reason they’re all over the frickin’ place in basements is because of traveling spiders was sort of an ah-ha moment for me.
Isn’t ‘The Embraceable Ewes’ the name of the cheerleader squad for the Rams? Or maybe I should say ‘wasn’t’. I don’t keep up with football (American or otherwise) and couldn’t even tell you what city the Rams are in, now, let alone whether they still have cheerleaders.
Me too. It wasn’t until I was with my husband that I found out the Village People were gay.
And I just realized a couple months ago that Keifer Sutherland and Donald Sutherland are related.
Another one of the same vein… pretty funny, too.
There is a furniture store in Providence, RI called Sofa King. They had a radio spot where they advertised their couches:
“These couches are Sofa King Comfortable. They’re Sofa King Beautiful!”
I can’t help but be reminded of the racehorse named Hoof Hearted…
Well, I feel vindicated.
I don’t get it.
My :smack: moments:
It was only a few years ago I realized the word I heard as “segway” is the same word as the one I read as “segue”.
Also, I thought “esoteric” meant the exact opposite of what it really means. I thought it was similar to “generic” or “common”.
One more: I also used to think “sublime” was similar in meaning to “subtle”. I don’t know why. Because they both start with “sub-”? But I was never confused about “submarine” or “substantial”. Must have been the context in which I first heard it, I guess.
Lightbulb!!
On cobwebs and spider webs, it’s not all that obvious: Staff Report: Are cobwebs made by spiders?
And, it wasn’t until this thread that I realized that Owl and Rabbit are real, not stuffed… or that Eeyore is hee-haw. Sigh.
Are you familiar with the sexual position called 69?
Better, when you consider that Bryan Adams was born in November of '59.
On the sliding glass door to the copy room there’s a sticker of a rainbow. I always wondered why that was there.
Until the morning that the light was off inside and I didn’t notice the sticker, and walked facefirst into the glass door. Hard.
Ask her to describe a “cob” and explain how they spin those spiderweb-like webs. 