This is incorrect too: England is a subdivision of the island of Great Britain, which is shared with Scotland and Wales - not the other way round. Here’s a diagram to help furriners understand our geography. (And yes, as mentioned there was a bit of France known as Brittania Minor.)
I was probably legally grown before I knew that “cock” meant a male sex organ and not a female one. It finally became clear what a cocksucker was and why that was significant. All that time I had been visualizing a chicken lollipop!
I’m a fountain of useless information, important and un-, after a long lifetime of obsessive reading, and being an unpopular recluse. My problem is somewhat esoteric, but…I’ll read a book, watch a movie, and completely miss the ‘subtext’ until I read a deep, learned review pointing out what obviously flew over my head! Colors. Names. The mythical underpinnings, ‘the hero’s journey’. All mean something under the surface! Why don’t I know that?? … And it wasn’t that long ago that I found out the word ‘learned’, referring to being educated, was pronounced ‘ler-ned’. Not ‘learned’ as I ‘learned’ my lesson.
And here’s a Venn diagram!
That’s actually quite useful. Thanks!
Something I just learned last week, which still kind of blows me away, is that Caddyshack is the ONLY movie that Bill Murray and Chevy Chase have ever appeared in together.
I know that during Bill Murray’s early days at Saturday Night Live that he was allegedly goaded into hitting Cheve Chase by John Belushi, (who was jealous of Chase) but for some reason I was sure that after the success of Caddyshack that any old bad feelings had been worked thru. I could have sworn that there were other movies with both Murray and Chase, but apparently I was mistaken…
Kind of. Actually a pineapple is the only edible bromeliad
I’d never heard og “ragout” until right now.
And you don’t want to. 'Cause when Og rag out, Og smash!
Brilliant! Wish I’d thought of that.
At the end of the page:
I just had a moment: someone was writing about how excited they were that Daniel Day Lewis was going to be in an upcoming Spielberg film.
My reaction: “Daniel Day Lewis? I thought he was dead. Didn’t he write The Last of the Mohicans?”
Um, yeah. So far off, I think I’m losing my mind.
I just read this week that GPS technology was kept exclusively by the military, until Ronald Reagan released it for civilian use in the aftermath of that Korean airliner the Soviets shot down. Did you know that? I didn’t know that.
That is AWESOME!!! Sorry, but I LOLed!
Nah, you’re not losing your mind. You just got confuddled because he stared in the '92 movie version of The Last of the Mohicans.
Did he stare at og?
Nice! When I had some kids last year researching England, I had a helluva time explaining this to them, since I barely understood it myself. Mostly I just had them draw pictures of Guy Fawkes Day.
It’s worth noting as in that linked diagram
It’s not that big a deal but I usually use “Britain and Ireland” or “Ireland and Britain” instead of the term The British Isles, even though I understand it is merely a geographic not political designation.
ceramic defecatorium*
*coined by a guy who wrote for the Westwood High School newpaper back when I was in seventh grade.
My grade and high schools all used “lavatory” instead of bathroom or restroom or something. Usually just “lav”. “Ms. Jones, may I please go to the lav?”