No no, Life is a Carnivore** is a song by the Band.
When slicing through an avocado, don’t hold it in your left hand, use a very sharp kitchen knife, with a rapid and forceful motion, directly in the direction of your left palm. Because sometimes the knife will slice right through the pit and keep going.
You’d think that after 33 years on the planet, I would have picked that up. Apparently not, though, until yesterday, when I learned it the hard way.
You left out that hands are palms out. I knew someone who used that rule and had their hands palms in.
D’oh! It’s been 20 years since I spoke Latin, and it shows. Longer for the Romans, of course. 
And, it’s actually tabasco! 
When you want to mail something certified return-receipt requested at the (U.S.) post office, you don’t have to write the article number onto the return card by hand; you can just peel it off the top of the certified mailing label and stick it on to the return card. Yes, that actually put it on the certified form for just that purpose.
I had been writing in the umpteen zillion item number by hand.
The German word for “fall” or “autumn”, Herbst, is a cognate of “harvest”. I learned this a week or two ago when reading a Grimm’s tale that was in a Plattdeutsch dialect; here the word was Hervest so I finally got it.
I’ve had my iPhone for over 2 years and I just realized that it has an edit feature in the photos. I accidentally touched part of the screen while looking at a picture and suddenly the image was in edit mode - I never noticed the “EDIT” button up in the corner before.
tobasco sauce is made with vine-ripened tomaccos.
Never being around guns, I had no idea until into my 30s that a shotgun and a rifle were different weapons. I was always amazed at the accuracy of clay pigeon shooters; one single shot to hit that moving target? Wow!
I knew a rifle and a shotgun were different, but it wasn’t until I was 30 or so that I discovered clay pigeons were destroyed with shotguns.
Well, my eyes rolled. What’s so damned difficult about hitting a hunk of pottery with a wide-spray hose?
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That had me confused, as I’ve always seen this action performed with the hands parallel to the ground, but I get it. I had the same problem; palms up or down? Also, which way does an L go again?:smack:
Misunderstood line of dialog:
In the 1984 classic “Red Dawn,” there’s a line where Ben Johnson is telling the Wolverines that it’s not safe to go into town. He mentions that some people have been found with their throats cut, “and word has it, it’s you.”
Until this weekend, I had misunderstood that line. When I first heard it, and ever since, I thought the line was “Word has it, it’s Jews,” which made no sense to me.
Anyway, lesson learned.
Spring onions (scallions) are a different plant from onions?