# Stuff that took you too long to realize
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-took-you-too-long-to-realize/630506
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [August 5, 2012, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-took-you-too-long-to-realize/630506 "2012-08-05T09:37:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2012, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-took-you-too-long-to-realize/630506/21 "2012-08-07T15:41:08Z")
Chick-Fil-A doesn’t rhyme with Godzilla.
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### Author:  [@Why\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_Child)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2012, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-took-you-too-long-to-realize/630506/22 "2012-08-07T15:45:12Z")
Batteries (small appliances, not vehicular) - The flat end goes on the spring.
“+ side,” “- side,” who cares?! The flat end goes on the spring. Always.
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### Author:  [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2012, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-took-you-too-long-to-realize/630506/23 "2012-08-07T15:49:07Z")
> [@divemaster](#):
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> My head-smacking moment was not all that long ago when I figured out that signs saying “no standing” referred to cars. I had always assumed they were telling people they could not stand there. Like loitering on a street-corner. It never occurred to me that a car could “stand.”
If so, what is the difference between parking and standing?
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### Author:  [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2012, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-took-you-too-long-to-realize/630506/24 "2012-08-07T15:59:30Z")
> [@control-z](#):
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> If so, what is the difference between parking and standing?
Depends upon the municipality.
Some places define ‘standing’ as idling your car while occupied.
This may be useful:
[http://forums.officer.com/t117480/](http://forums.officer.com/t117480/)
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### Author:  [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2012, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-took-you-too-long-to-realize/630506/25 "2012-08-07T16:02:36Z")
> [@divemaster](#):
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> My head-smacking moment was not all that long ago when I figured out that signs saying “no standing” referred to cars. I had always assumed they were telling people they could not stand there. Like loitering on a street-corner. It never occurred to me that a car could “stand.”
I didn’t know until recently that you can’t parallel park against the flow of traffic.
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### Author:  [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2012, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-took-you-too-long-to-realize/630506/26 "2012-08-07T16:07:05Z")
> [@hogarth](#):
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> Chick-Fil-A doesn’t rhyme with Godzilla.
How do you pronounce it?
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### Author:  [@Kevbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kevbo)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2012, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-took-you-too-long-to-realize/630506/27 "2012-08-07T16:19:52Z")
> [@Leaffan](#):
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> How do you pronounce it?
Think “chicken filet”.
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### Author:  [@Haunted\_Pasta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Haunted_Pasta)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2012, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-took-you-too-long-to-realize/630506/28 "2012-08-07T16:32:43Z")
On a lot of cars, including mine, there’s a U-shaped thing fastened to the inside of the little door that covers the fuel intake. It’s there to hold the gas cap while you’re fillling up. One does not, in fact, have to place the gas cap on the roof of the car.
I figured this out last year, and I hadn’t even been driving for 30 years yet. Another victory for my keen powers of observation. I’m pretty much like Sherlock Holmes, really.
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### Author:  [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2012, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-took-you-too-long-to-realize/630506/29 "2012-08-07T17:04:54Z")
> [@Kevbo](#):
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> Think “chicken filet”.
Ah. I’ve read about it here, and in the news, but was doing the Godzilla thing myself.
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@SirRay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SirRay)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2012, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-took-you-too-long-to-realize/630506/30 "2012-08-07T17:53:56Z")
> [@hogarth](#):
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> Chick-Fil-A doesn’t rhyme with Godzilla.
_Oh No, there goes Chicago!
Go Go Chick-Fil-A!_
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### Author:  [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2012, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-took-you-too-long-to-realize/630506/31 "2012-08-07T18:11:58Z")
Chick Fill Ah. That never occurred to me. That would be a weird name, not that Chick-Fil-A isn’t.
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### Author:  [@Sigene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigene)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2012, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-took-you-too-long-to-realize/630506/32 "2012-08-07T18:15:38Z")
The meaning of Faith when it comes to people’s feelings of religion.
also the true concept of the ‘holy ghost’
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### Author:  [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2012, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-took-you-too-long-to-realize/630506/33 "2012-08-07T18:25:23Z")
I also thought it was Chick- Fill-Uh, for years.
I thought the name was stupid when it was really me that was stupid.
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2012, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-took-you-too-long-to-realize/630506/34 "2012-08-07T18:34:56Z")
Not that I had ever given it any thought, but one day I, not even thinking about it, I realized that submarine=underwater (sub/under marine/water). I think I might have been at a Quiznos or Cousins.
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### Author:  [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2012, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-took-you-too-long-to-realize/630506/35 "2012-08-07T18:35:17Z")
> [@campp](#):
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> I also thought it was Chick- Fill-Uh, for years.
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> I thought the name was stupid when it was really me that was stupid.
No, I still think the name is stupid.
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### Author:  [@Bass\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bass_Chick)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2012, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-took-you-too-long-to-realize/630506/36 "2012-08-07T18:40:50Z")
It’s better to be lonely than to be with the wrong person.
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### Author:  [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2012, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-took-you-too-long-to-realize/630506/37 "2012-08-07T18:47:00Z")
> [@Sister\_Vigilante](#):
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> I didn’t know until recently that you can’t parallel park against the flow of traffic.
Could you elaborate on this? I’m not getting it.
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### Author:  [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2012, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-took-you-too-long-to-realize/630506/38 "2012-08-07T18:52:14Z")
Obligatory “pineapples do not grow on trees, they grow [on the ground in fields](https://www.google.com/search?q=pineapples+growing+in+fields&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=UDV&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=QGAhUOiyBa346QGf1YHgBg&ved=0CFQQsAQ&biw=1527&bih=850).”
(Which I knew since studying Hawaii in the fourth grade.) 🙂
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### Author:  [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2012, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-took-you-too-long-to-realize/630506/39 "2012-08-07T18:57:00Z")
The _yeller_ in Old Yeller is a pronunciation of yellow, as in yellow lab. About a month ago I got that.
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### Author:  [@Bass\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bass_Chick)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2012, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-took-you-too-long-to-realize/630506/40 "2012-08-07T19:21:16Z")
> [@lost4life](#):
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> Could you elaborate on this? I’m not getting it.
You don’t parallel park in a lane facing oncoming traffic. You should be pointed in the direction that you’ll be driving when you pull out of your parking space.
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