Sorry to bring you down, but you still don’t get it. They aren’t saying Holmes, they are saying Homes, as in short for Homie or Home Boy, a term for friend.
You didn’t bring me down. I know what homie and home boy mean. I think I spelled it holmes because that’s kind of what it sounded like they were saying, but yeah, it obviously was homes.
At any rate it happened a long time ago back when I was very un-cool. Not that I consider myself that cool now, but at least I’m hip to the lingo. 
Pssst. It’s “hep.”
And I used to think that when a person got thrown out at first base, he had to quit the team and never play baseball again. After all, the announcer kept saying the runner was retired!
Re: Homie/Homeboy. It’s a derivative of the Spanish “hombre”, litterally meaning friend. Wiki says otherwise, but that whole article seems made up and/or graffitied. I mean, it says it originated with Mexican/Hispanic immigrants in the 40s but then it digresses to something about white power.
Carly Simon is multiracial. She has black ancestry.
It was Mexicans who were throwing the word around when I first heard it.
Anywhere along the route. They just kinda flag it down. And yes, it made no sense to see folks hanging out on the road. I thought they were all waiting for a friend!
Reminds me. In my late twenties I found out that it is “remuneration” and not “renumeration”. I thought it was like “re-distribution of numbers”. :o
Whatever you say grandpa. 
It was only this year that, courtesy of The Dope, I discovered that nachos is the plural of nacho and so is pronounced “natch-oze” not “na-choss”. So much for my years of ‘correcting’ people on this matter …
This might be an interesting topic for somebody to start a thread about. Things that you corrected people on, but it turns out that you were the one that was wrong all along.
Speaking of white/black surprises with singers, I was probably in my mid-30’s (I’m 43 now) before I realized that all that awesome singing in Pink Floyd’s ‘The Great Gig in the Sky’ is by a white woman named Clare Torry. Totally surprised me. She’s got soul. This is the song I’m talking about…
You’ll see a couple pictures of her in that video.
Years ago I was watching a football game and a player was described as a former pro bowler. How nice, I thought. In addition to being a professional football player he also bowls competitively. I wonder how much money a professional bowler makes…
For the non-football fans here, the Pro Bowl is a sort of all-star game played after the end of the season, and the players in it appear by invitation only. So it’s an holnor. Has nothing to do with bowling.
As if that wasn’t bad enough, when I was a kid there was an annual charity event held at the LA coliseum. As I recall, eight local high school teams played each other for one quarter each. The event was called The Milk Bowl, with the money raised going to buy milk for needy school kids.
My next-door neighbor, Johnny, who was a year older than I was and Knew Everything managed to keep a straight face when I asked him if a real bowl of milk was used in the game. He assured me it was used until all the milk was spilled out of it, and then a regular football was substituted. Well, this sounded doubtful, but I was not about to challenge a guy who Knew Everything.
Johnny, if you are out there and reading this…you never fooled me for a second! A bowl of milk indeed!
… I would pronounce it na-chos, and in the singular na-cho… you guys don’t pronounce the o in the singular? Or would you separate the syllables in the singular as nach-o, much like these two gay coworkers of mine would call each other macho pronouncing it much-oh instead of mah-cho? I’m confused 
I would say naw-cho and naw-chos. Like you’re disagreeing with margeret cho and her clones.
Yeah, it wasn’t until my late 30s that I found out that chick is white…
…about five seconds ago.
I think I must have been about 25 when I learned that black, white and green pepper are all the same fruit, which is actually red. Botany just doesn’t make any damn sense.
This isn’t quite right. In the UK at least, ‘toilet’ can refer to the room (‘she’s in the toilet’) but it can also refer to the fixture: ‘he’s on the toilet’, ‘I dropped something down the toilet’, ‘I’m just fixing the toilet’ all make perfect sense, and all clearly mean the fixture.
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Wait—“natch” to rhyme with “catch” or “snatch”??
Do you really pronounce the w? Like to rhyme with “saw” or “thaw”?
So would I. The way Beavis and Butt-head pronounce it (see, for example, here, about 55 seconds in).