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A couple months ago I laughed myself silly at a friend who hadn’t realised until that moment that cobwebs are the same as spider webs.
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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!
[QUOTE=kaylasdad99]
Plus, perhaps, Embraceable Ewe.
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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.
[QUOTE=Sigmagirl]
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.
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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.
[QUOTE=kaylasdad99]
Plus, perhaps, Embraceable Ewe.
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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.
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest]
I only figured out in the last 5 years that Y.M.C.A was a gay oriented song. I never paid attention to the lyrics when I was a lass. It was all about the cowboy. That tall hot looking gay cowboy.
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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.
[QUOTE=Bibby]
This is local but still funny. We have a strip club here that’s called “TD’s”. As in Touch Down’s, right? Well guess what I just figured out … when you say “TD’s” fast? Yep, that’s what they’re advertising: Titties!! Bet everyone else in town knew about that but me. :smack:
Bibby
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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!”
[QUOTE=DudleyGarrett]
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!”
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I can’t help but be reminded of the racehorse named Hoof Hearted…
Well, I feel vindicated.
[QUOTE=The Controvert]
“Summer of '69” works just as well without the apostrophe.
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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.
[QUOTE=InvisibleWombat]
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!
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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.
[QUOTE=C K Dexter Haven]
On cobwebs and spider webs, it’s not all that obvious: Staff Report: Are cobwebs made by spiders?
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Fixed that for you.
[QUOTE=MrSquishy]
I don’t get it.
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Are you familiar with the sexual position called 69?
[QUOTE=The Controvert]
“Summer of '69” works just as well without the apostrophe.
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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.
[QUOTE=Tristan]
My wife thinks this. I have tried to convince her of the truth, but she doesn’t want to hear that at all.
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Ask her to describe a “cob” and explain how they spin those spiderweb-like webs. 