Things you were shockingly old when you learned

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Clair de Lune isn't about a woman called Clair.

I remember as a child with no french hearing it as a moving piece of music about mental illness

The only reason I'm not a clueless old man about fidget spinners and the resurgence of slime is that I tutor a ten-year-old.

What abo0ut the nazi history?

& what about the story that no self respecting nazi would call himself one since it was a derogatory nickname. Have wondered if teh Trump pronunciation wasn't closer to the original derivation than the more commonly heard one.

xxp

That was a very sad post until I realized it didn't say "a child with no friends"

XP sorry that was about Volkswagen not spinners.

Fanta also has history with the Nazi regime. Coca cola not wanting to sell a product so closely identified with themselves in the regime.

no, they couldn't get the materials to make coca-cola due to trade embargo so they came up with fanta

I still feel like LED colored lights should cost, like, $20 a piece of something - THEY'RE JUST THAT SHINY AND FASCINATING TO ME.

At the Scout Fair last fall, this lady cut open a cardboard box that was just stuffed those LED foam sticks and started handing them out to the kids, sometimes two at a time. I thought, Good Lord, what kind of budget does this place have? But then I got home and saw that you can <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Promotional-Party-Sticks-Stick-Baton/dp/B01G6RSCJ6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1495632790&sr=8-1-spons&keywords=led%2Bfoam%2Bstick&th=1";>buy 'em for 79¢ a piece</a>. The actual manufacturing cost is probably something like 14¢.

The boy got mad the other night and ripped the light out of his foam stick (which was still working six months later). He threw it in the yard while I was getting in the car. When we got home, the light show was still in full effect, like a rave for ants in the rock garden. I stood there in the night, thinking about how my grandmother used to think a GameBoy cost close to $400.

that last paragraph is raymondcarveresque

The moisture on my glass of gin was warm. I crouched down in the driveway for a few minutes and closed my eyes. When I opened them, my son was standing behind the porch railing in the electric light, looking at me and wondering what it was he had done.

this kid is a monster: https://mic.com/articles/177801/how-two-teens-3-d-printed-a-fidget-spinner-empire-out-of-their-own-high-school#

A 'shibboleth' is not a Lovecraftian elder god

Rock Me Amadeus is not part of the soundtrack to Amadeus.

But it would have been awesome if it had been. Like Marie Antoinette avant la lettre.

the existence of Solitary Bees, of which most forsake honey production and colony life to go it alone with the bairns or something.

Rock Me Amadeus is not part of the soundtrack to Amadeus.

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I think this is understandable. It's weird that they'd omit one of his most famous compositions from a movie about his life.

Er war Superstar.

times square was named after the new york times

I just learned that now

That Chubby Checker is a play on Fats Domino, despite how obvious it is. Not that I often find myself thinking of Chubby Checker...

that right-clicking will automatically clear all clearable cards in microsoft solitaire

xpost I always wondered if anyone got the joke when I briefly changed my dn to Portly Backgammon.

That Chubby Checker is a play on Fats Domino, despite how obvious it is. Not that I often find myself thinking of Chubby Checker...

Wow. As in, I didn't realise that either.

Yeah that's a good one!

damn

Grew up with my Mum's Fats Domino album so when Chubby Checker and the Fat Boys hit the charts I immediately thought "who's this imposter?" My pun radar was strong as a kid.

the more i think about the more it kinda makes me mad

Let me add some fuel to that fire with a selective list of Chubby Checker's singles:

The Twist
Let's Twist Again
Twistin' U.S.A.
Slow Twistin'
La Paloma Twist
Teach Me to Twist
Limbo Rock
Let's Limbo Some More
Twist it Up
The Twist (Yo, Twist!)

Hey, don't forget The Twist!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcqdHKqqc3M

That there were hazelnuts in Ferrero Rocher.

The proper pronunciation of "parameters."

Rafa Nadal has ocd.

http://www.preguntasfrecuentes.net/wp-files/2013/ticks-nadal.jpg

the chubby checker thing is "oval literally means egglike" stunning

How has Christopher Nolan not optioned the biopic

"the chubby checker thing is "oval literally means egglike" stunning"

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Iwsx_nD9YOc/VAWSVZabXqI/AAAAAAAAC2k/pnbbE0zjZDs/s1600/shat.png

omfg oval literally means egglike

ovum Latin for egg.
Hence oeuf in French

I think it was only a few weeks ago I consciously realised for definite that Jason Sudeikis and John Krasinski are different people

I think I knew but would forget each time I saw one of them.

I've never owned a car, but I do hire them a lot and amazingly I've never known until today that there is often a little arrow on the fuel gauge on the dashboard indicating which side the petrol cap is on! This would have saved me loads of messing about at petrol stations over the years.

wait waht

Yeah, I only just learned that recently myself (but then I only just started driving again recently for the first time in 20 years so I figure I'm off the hook).

https://blog.allstate.com/is-your-gas-cap-on-the-left-or-the-right/

here is the secret

read that secret a while ago but i don't own a car. hired one last week, it had a full lcd dashboard and much to my disappointment no little arrow.

wow rude

I'm going to feel robbed if the next few cars I hire don't have this feature now.

That human beings were around when the UK was still part of the landmass of Europe.

That you don't actually have to slide the little slide bar to turn things on/off on iPhone--a simple tap switches the selection. Duh.

awww

Until now, I seriously thought Bob Dole was involved in the founding of the Dole Food company.