Things you were shockingly old when you learned

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_irregularities_of_the_United_States#Separated_by_the_Mississippi_River

Norwegian Wood ends in arson.

That ain't the only thing that ends with arson!

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Italy is smaller than Arizona.

― i am not throwing away my snot (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, June 7, 2020 2:56 PM

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Well, you'd still have to ball it up first.

(Fun little map.)

according to some quick searching, arizona is 3k square miles smaller than italy

Italy does look bigger.

Maybe not common knowledge, but I was surprised to learn recently that Charles Rolls, co-founder of Rolls-Royce, in 1910 bought an airplane designed by the Wright brothers. And that he crashed in it and died. And that he was the first Briton ever to die in a plane crash.

I think I just learned that Holly Golightly was a hooker?

... are you confusing the book character with the singer?

I've got something to tell you about Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman

she was really Bruce Willis the whole time?

According to Wikipedia, Capote said Holly Golightly was "not a prostitute but an American geisha".

Die Hard with a Shopping Montage

the guy who created minecraft turned out to be a massive fuckhead

More like escort? At least, in the movie she accepts money for her company but finds a way to escape (e.g., through a window) before things get physical - I probably read the book 30 years ago and have quite forgotten it.

The remake with Bruce Willis changes the main character to a guy named Hoopy Goloopy.

I've never seen the movie, actually. I just assumed she was some rich single young woman navigating love and dating in the crazy big city!

Yeah, I basically just know the character name and the fact that it features a very nuanced and timeless performance by Mickey Rooney.

And she mollifies his character by suggesting that she might - might - consider posing for him... But never quite does.

The narrator role in the novel is either Truman Capote himself or a close substitute so there's no love interest between him and the Holly character. He doesn't swing that way.
From what I remember he's describing people he got involved with because he was rooming in the same house as tehm during teh war or something to that effect,.
Has been a very long time since i read the novel, it was pretty good though. But not quite cute enough to show well on a filmscreen at the time.
Do enjoy both though but they are pretty different.

The existence of Juneteenth.

it's a terrible cutesy name for what it is.

lol people who've never read "Breakfast at Tiffany's" have never enjoyed Holly dropping the f-bomb

I am 41 years old and I only just discovered that 'segue' is pronounced 'segway'.

In the Capote story, Holly also drops the n-bomb in a way that would make the Major in Fawlty Towers proud.

I am 41 years old and I only just discovered that 'segue' is pronounced 'segway'.

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what did you think it was? "suh-goo"?

when i was younger and only read it in the music press i used to think it was "seeg"

when I was younger at 14:21 today I thought the same tbh!

I've heard Oxford professors pronounce it 'seeg' so your younger selves were obviously, prestigiously correct.

Same! xp

I was at school when I figured it out so not shockingly old but it def took me a while to make the connection that the word I’d head people use and the word I’d read in books were in fact the same word

I used to enjoy the music of Pete Segwayer

then again I was shockingly old when I found out I'd been saying "lingerie" wrong for years

Sayg for me

i knew a 25 year old working in a steakhouse that asked customers if they wanted a "lib" of steak

she coulda also been very racist and asking the customer if they wanted a barbecued democrat

Seg-ew

When, in 1970, palaeontologist Lambert Beverley Halstead pointed out that "Scrotum" is a scientifically valid name and the first ever proposed for a dinosaur, a shudder went through the normally stolid taxonomic community.

I read this in a very entertaining chapter in a book about the geological history of Europe last night. Parties of giggling schoolchildren going to see the magnificent Scrotums at the natural history museum could have been a thing.

Scrotusaurus Nutz

It’s one of those great “English is fucked up” things, segue and ague are both 2 syllables but the second syllable is pronounced completely differently in each case, and words like plague and league are only 1 syllable

English being fucked up is the only reason spelling bees are a thing. it's an event to spell words with no apparent rules

Speaking of English irregularities, I had always thought the band Ghoti Hook was pronounced like John Gotti.
Later I remembered that saying (see below) and thought duh, the next work is "hook."

The word "ghoti" is a phonetic spelling of "fish”, invented in the 19th century as an example of the irregularities of English spelling. Pronunciation: the "GH" as in the word "rouGH", "O" as in "wOmen" and "TI" as in naTIon. However, the band pronounces its name more intuitively, as a homophone for "goatee".

And today I learned via Wiki that the band pronounces it "goatee" and that they were a Christian rock band.

lol I remember them from my Xtian days

when you're on a church retreat and only Christian music is allowed...

you just let your ears build up with wax until you cain't hear no more

I'm not seeing the point of naming yourself after a pronunciation joke and then not pronouncing it like that. Maybe the joke's on me, though, in the end.

They maybe they have fake beards that they put on a coathook when workday is done

When you spell out "ghoti" in Greek doesn't it spell Jesus?

that's the ending to Indy and the Last Crusade iirc

Yeah I'd always just assumed 'seeg'.

As in 'segue heil'?

Yeah, was what I was thinking. Not sure what it was corrected the previous thought. Otherwise rhymes with league or something. So wonder if that's why it would be read that way.
I always mentally voiced as I read it like seigs into something rather than segways.

& now a segway is a 2 wheel electric scooter with the wheels lateral instead of in sequence