And at the same time as this, he was hooked up with Michelle Pfeiffer. It defied all sense.
Me too. And I loved Alien Nation. :smack:
Naw. Not only did I not know he played Benjamin Jabituya, I also don’t remember the movie well enough to remember Benjamin Jabituya was in the film, nor do I know who Fisher Stevens is…
It finally occurred to me that the region known as Kazakhstan might have something to do with “Cossack”.
See this thread on the timing of Groundhog’s Day:
I always thought she was named after the teacher from the Lil’ Rascles.
I used to think this as well, but something I read once made me not so sure.
I can’t find what I read before, but [url=http://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/sympo/97summer/galiev.html]here, for example, “Kazakhs” and “Cossacks” are used to refer to distinct groups. That doesn’t eliminate the possibility that the two words are etymologically related though.
-FrL-
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Okay, [url=Kazakhs - Wikipedia]here](Traditional Institutions in Modern Kazakhstan) it says the “Cosscacks ~ Kazakhs” theory is one of a few different theories as to the origin of the two terms.
-FrL-
Heh. When that episode was on I said “Oh cool! It’s that guy from Short Circuit and Key West and stuff!” and my boyfriend had no idea what I was talking about 
I just got the reference of the principal’s name (Victoria) on South Park.
:smack:
I recently finished a Pratchett Discworld book where the wizards’ home was something like “Dunromin”. It didn’t occur to me until earlier this evening that it was “Done Roaming”…is this something like the Dew Drop Inn?
To be fair, he is a bit of a Drama Queen.
Don’t know about that, but the Discworld gods hang around atop the mountain at the world’s hub, Cori Celesti, in a really tacky house called “Dunmanifestin”.
I didn’t JUSt get it, but I was very much an adult before it dawned on me that the Scarecrow was actually the smartest of the group…the Tin Man was the most loving and the Cowardly Lion actually the bravest.
Duh.
That’s similar to J.K. Rowling’s Diagon Alley and Knock Turn Alley. I totally whiffed on those until Ron’s dad said in one of the movies, “Did he say diagonally?”
(Apologies if I missed those somewhere else in the thread. Probably it was somewhere obvious too.)
If you watch this Youtube clip, it is the band performing.
I couldn’t work out why so many umbrellas were being waved around on a fine day.
It hit me how obvious it was.
Two more I have thought of:
Sports Related I never knew the Washington Redskins were based out of DC. I always thought they were out of Washington State. My logic was that DC was too small too hold a stadium.
Religion I went to Catholic School for 12 years. I am a daughter of a former nun. You could have pushed me over with a feather the moment it dawned on me that Jesus was jewish. I was in my late twenties when that hit me. Until then, I guess I had thought he was Catholic, or something.
For years I used the expressions “eye candy” (something nice to look at) and “nose candy” (cocaine) without realizing the connection to the two.
I never got it in the movie, but my daughters are reading the book right now, and it’s quite clear there. The scarecrow is always the one who comes up with plans to get around obstacles.
In the book version of The Wizard of Oz, I have a hunch that the Emerald City isn’t really green. All visitors and residents have green-glass goggles locked around their heads “to protect their eyes” from the dazzling greenitude. It’s possible that this is revealed in a part of the book that they haven’t read yet or I wasn’t listening to.
(We also had quite a discussion about whether the premeditated murder of the wicked witch was justified, to get Oz’s help.)