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My wife just found out that the song "I Can't Feel My Face" is not, as I jokingly told her, about a guy with a crappy dentist he keeps going to because she's cute. Apparently she told her coworkers that's what it was about, they believed her and told their friends and got to the point of getting into heated arguments defending my interpretation. This has been going on for over a month without my knowledge.
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I just today put together that "static electricity" probably has something to do with its movement as opposed to an electric current. I'm sure the full explanation is more in depth than that but I somehow never put together in my head that it had anything to do with static=unmoving.
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Jan 22, 2016 05:36
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SLOSifl posted:To this day I cannot hear "just like the one winged dove" in that Stevie nicks song. You know, the one about a dove that is still singing despite of a life changing wing accident.  28 years. I never even questioned why the dove had one wing, I just accepted it.
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Mar 11, 2016 01:36
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Metrofreak posted:.mm progn KM osis hh r a rmoo uhh nn umbrella rk law I'm It's amazing. Every time I read it I find a new word I missed. Content: The U in Chuze Fitness has a line over it to make it a long U sound, but the dot isn't a part of the pronunciation. It's there to make it look like it's a person lifting a weight above their head.
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Mar 31, 2016 21:12
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Everdraed is name you want to see pop up in a mediocre photoshop thread.
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Apr 29, 2016 02:37
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I listened to Weird Al a lot as a kid. His song "Fat" is basically just a bunch of fat jokes, most of which I understood. Then this line rolls around: When I go to get my shoe shine, I've got to take their word For whatever reason my brain assumed it was some stereotype of shoe shiners I had never heard before. Like, people who shined shoes were notoriously blunt about criticizing people's looks or weight. It took me many, many years before I realized he meant he was so fat he couldn't see his shoes. I'm not even sure how I missed that.
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May 24, 2016 15:57
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It took me many years to finally realize Led Zeppelin's "Ramble On" has Tolkien references and Yes' "Your Move" uses chess metaphors throughout, leading me to the conclusion that despite thinking of these bands as cool, rock and roll legends they were massive nerds in their youth.
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Nov 1, 2016 20:33
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Henchman of Santa posted:I'm not sure Yes were ever considered "cool" by anyone. Young me did. I had low standards I guess. "Plays music, that's cool, sure."
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Nov 1, 2016 20:43
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I just realized it's called the Silver Screen because the term was coined during or regarding the age of black and white movies.
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Dec 19, 2016 19:25
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Jerry Cotton posted:Meanwhile, in the real world, it's called the silver screen because of the reflective metal in the actual screen. Hooray, I get to keep contributing to this thread's title by not bothering to actually look stuff up. My bad for failing to do so (though I guess I figured something out still).
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Dec 19, 2016 20:04
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I just recently learned that the Maxence Cyrin piano cover of "Where Is My Mind?" is a cover of "Where Is My Mind?" I've been thinking it was a cover of Coldplay's "Fix You" for years and never realized.
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Jun 5, 2017 21:25
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In correct etymology realization news, I just realized "quesadilla" is ultimately derived from "queso"...because it contains cheese you see. Not sure how it took me thirty years to land that nugget but here we are.
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Sep 6, 2017 09:04
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"Conga" and "Rhythm is Gonna Get You" are, in fact, two separate songs by Gloria Estefan and The Miami Sound Machine, and not the same song as I previously thought.
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Sep 17, 2017 02:50
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I had an interesting morning. I suddenly realized that Bernadette Peters was a singing cat on Animaniacs as a subtle nod to her being a singing cat on Broadway. And then after a quick check online to see if that was the intention, I just found out that she was never Grizabella in CATS...which I have believed her to have been for many, many years.
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Nov 7, 2017 19:54
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It’s spelled “bury the lede”, not “bury the lead”.
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May 11, 2018 07:31
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Baronjutter posted:"Chai Tea" drives me nuts. Tea tea?? I laugh every time someone on food network says “banh mi sandwiches”.
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Jun 7, 2018 18:50
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Holding down the refresh button by the url on an iPhone allows you to request the desktop version of any site.
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Jun 19, 2018 19:02
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I had this great epiphany that the Payday candy bar is named after the old phrase “working for peanuts”. Then I looked it up, and they just didn’t have a name by Friday, so some guy just said “It’s payday. Let’s call it Payday” and everyone said sure.
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Jul 29, 2018 23:55
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:Just spotted this on FB and thought of you guys I guess Lorraine’s down in Africa
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Sep 11, 2018 23:38
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Today I actually broke down “no holds barred” in my head and realized what the phrase is in reference to. I knew what it meant in general use, but my mind always just treated it as essentially one word and not a phrase that just got adopted for colloquial use. Similar to how I grew up hearing “brought to you by” and mentally just reading it as “bratuedby”.
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Sep 27, 2018 19:37
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Leavemywife posted:There's no tax on food in my state (Michigan), so it blew my mind when I found out there are states that do tax food purchases. In California there is a sales tax levied on food prepared hot or cold food prepared and eaten on the premises, but not on cold food when taken to go. This means that at Subway you do technically pay extra if you want your sandwich toasted. Edit: In case anyone was curious, it’s because sales tax is applied to finished product, and cold food taken to go was meant to encompass food that required extra steps (such as cooking) to be consumable. They didn’t make additional caveats such as ready-to-eat food that happens to be cold to keep categorization simple. dirksteadfast has a new favorite as of 03:30 on Sep 13, 2019 |
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Sep 13, 2019 03:19
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Thread needs to get back on track. I just realized that Ariana Grande’s rich girl anthem “7 Rings” is a reference to her being one of the dwarves who received a ring of power from Sauron.
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Dec 2, 2019 09:34
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DrBouvenstein posted:See also: I spent years thinking Darius Rucker would openly weep every time he went to Sea World. Dude loving loves dolphins so much, so beautiful and majestic.
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Mar 11, 2020 08:39
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Sweevo posted:Labelled Y#1, Y#2, and Y#4 Y #3 is what you yell out whenever someone demands Freebird.
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Apr 11, 2020 18:31
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beanieson posted:Someone explain how xoxoxo is supposed to be hugs and kisses The X vaguely resembles two sets of puckered lips coming together. So obviously the O is supposed to resemble your widening rear end in a top hat as you lean forward for a hug (the original, proper way to hug, of course).
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May 16, 2020 05:15
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On the flip side, the song “Knocks You Down” has a radio edit that censors “I used to be commander in chief of my pimp ____ flying high” I guess because ship might sound like poo poo but in context that doesn’t make any sense. Also some Nicki Minaj song I can’t remember when she uses her real first name Onika...maybe it sounded like the n-word? Radio censorship feels really inconsistent sometimes.
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