I’m going to start doing this so I can combine it with my protests for Harambe.
Guy: Marco!
Me: Dicks out for Harambe. Polo!
Here’s one: Advent calendars. Never heard of them until middle age. I think I had just become barely aware of them before Bad Santa came out so I was intrigued by the bits in that regarding them.
I never heard of “Marco” “Polo” as a thing until a current TV ad which is very confusing and concerns a product I’m not interested in. Never knew it was based on game until this thread. Now I’ve heard something that may explain why a llama is watching from the sidelines.
I can’t remember not knowing of the game Marco Polo. I was pretty impressed to find out they were playing that game so long ago that some guy was named after it.
I never knew what this gizmowas until recently. I thought it was some fancy kind of paper binder, but it’s actually an eyelash curler.
It’s also used by gynecologists in Lilliput.
Marco Polo was one of those childhood games that no one remembers learning, we all just knew how to play, like freeze tag, Mother may I? and red rover.
I didn’t know instant mashed potatoes were a thing until I saw them at a friend’s house when I was an early teen.
I knew of Rock, Paper, Scissors, but not how to play until a few years ago. I had to play to break a tie in a bar trivia game. I lost since I knew zero about strategy. I haven’t played since, so I doubt I have improved.
I didn’t know that it was common in the south for women to change their middle name to their maiden name after they got married.
Jane Alison McKinney would get married and change her name to Jane McKinney Roberts.
It apparently happens all the damn time and I was made to look like an idiot when I had no idea it was a thing.
I had the opposite experience.
Not just in the South. My mother, from Maine, did the same thing in 1954.
Are you talking about legal name changes? I thought it used to be common practice for every married woman in the US to be referred to as Mary MaidenName MarriedName before married women began retaining their maiden names.
changing your name when you get married (or divorced) is a legal name change.
And this wasn’t common practice everywhere?
Definitely not!
Says the Spaniard who still doesn’t know what the heck half the games named in this thread are (I’ll google them later).
I knew they would legally change their name and adopt their husband’s surname as their own.
What I didn’t know was that part of that process also involved them changing their MIDDLE name as well to their (now) maiden name.
I didn’t know how to scream until I was 6. I could yell of course, but I couldn’t make that from-the-throat scream noise. Until Grade 1 when we had small hill outside our class that the kids would all toboggan down and I heard the other kids screaming down the hill. I actually had to teach myself how to scream. (I also thought that boys couldn’t scream, only girls could.)
I meant everywhere in the US. Clearly Spanish naming is more complex.
It wasn’t always that way.
I couldn’t whistle or snap my fingers until middle school.