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03.05.19, 20:04 PM General Topics
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What's the dumbest thing you've ever thought/believed? I thought dark chocolate didn't have any sugar in it. [ Reply | Watch | Flag ]
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I thought it was 'all intensive purposes' till my mid-twenties at least. Eesh. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 08:09 PM Flag
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I hear people say this now and cringe! [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 08:13 PM Flag
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Df thought the expression was "slow Pole" as in a Polish person [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 08:13 PM Flag
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lol, my 5YO thought it was "slow coke" as in ??? [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 08:38 PM Flag
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ha me too [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 08:15 PM Flag
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"For all intents and purposes." [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 08:24 PM Flag
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we know, that's the point [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 08:25 PM Flag
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yes but as can be seen below- a few UBers didnt know that. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 09:12 PM Flag
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omg I didn't know that!! So embarrassing [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 08:29 PM Flag
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+1 me too! [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 08:48 PM Flag
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My mother told me that capers were fish eggs. Took that info right into adulthood. When I told her it was wrong and asked her where she got that info from she laughed and said her mother! [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 08:09 PM Flag
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caviar is fish eggs, what are capers? [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 08:25 PM Flag
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Fruit (or buds) of the caper bush. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 08:28 PM Flag
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LOL, my grandma told me that "beef tongue" was just a kind of meat with a strange shape! [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 08:56 PM Flag
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That garlic was manufactured as a powder. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 08:10 PM Flag
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I thought Mahatma Gandhi was Mohandas Gandhi's daughter [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 08:14 PM Flag
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lolol these are a riot [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 09:08 PM Flag
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Many people think Indira Gandhi was related to Mahatma Gandhi. She was the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru and no relation to Mohandas Gandhi. Mahatma is an honorific, by the way. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 09:08 PM Flag
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yes I know that *now* lol [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 09:58 PM Flag
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I believed ex when he said he wasn’t cheating :( [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 08:15 PM Flag
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been there [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 08:17 PM Flag
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+2 [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 08:18 PM Flag
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+3 [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 08:17 PM Flag
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I believed my ex when he pawned a bunch of my stuff and said someone broke into our apartment. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 08:26 PM Flag
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a-hole! did he have a substance abuse prob? [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 08:27 PM Flag
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No, just wanted extra money and didn't want to work for it. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 08:37 PM Flag
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jerk. that's terrible;e, I'm sorry [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 08:41 PM Flag
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Wow :-( Sorry you had this happen, what a POS. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 09:08 PM Flag
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He sounds "creative." [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 09:29 PM Flag
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Omg [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 08:30 PM Flag
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a friend once told me that when she was a teenager she thought Rhode Island was an island, and therefore tropical [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 08:26 PM Flag
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I was at a gas station with a friend while she was filling up. She glanced at a 'no topping off' sign and said with disgust 'why do people top off?!'...while she was topping off. She had no idea what it was. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 08:27 PM Flag
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what IS "topping off" anyway? [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 08:29 PM Flag
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Usually the pump stops prior to the tank being completely full. "Topping off" simply means to manually pump a little more to completely fill the tank. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 08:30 PM Flag
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It means manually pumping until the charges reach an even number. If pump stops at $39.27 you manually pump until it reaches $40.00. Did you friend think topping off meant jerking off?? [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 08:37 PM Flag
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dont we all do that? why do gas stations tell people not to do that? the only harm in doing that is that it leaves less air in the gas tank for fumes to rise. (harmful to the car). [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 08:58 PM Flag
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overflow. which spills an is a fire hazard. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 09:03 PM Flag
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Ahhh...good to know!! [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 09:12 PM Flag
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Not supposed to do it. Could drip on the ground. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 12:48 AM Flag
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Who does that anymore? Most people use cards now. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 09:12 PM Flag
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when the gas pump shuts off automatically, filling it up just a LITTLE bit more. The top off. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 08:33 PM Flag
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OCD [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 09:27 PM Flag
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lolol [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 09:09 PM Flag
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Until I reached almost early teenage years, I literally thought thunderstorms were caused by God bowling in the sky. When I was a child, I was scared of thunderstorms so my mom told me it was just God bowling and he had scored a strike, lol. I held that belief until probably Earth Science class in 7th or 8th grade when we covered weather. Sad sad, I know! [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 08:31 PM Flag
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Did they tell you the one about angels having a pillow fight too? [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 08:37 PM Flag
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pp: probably.. I also heard my aunt tell my cousins that God was angry and the storms were because he was throwing bowling balls at people, lol. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 09:04 PM Flag
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I had a nephew who was terrified of thunder. Turned out my son (8 years older) had told him thunder means "God's really mad at you." [ Reply | More
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I was in grad school (!!!) and a class mate was talking about why couldn't you just drive to Hawaii, on the bridge that goes there. They were not kidding. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 08:40 PM Flag
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grew 9 inches in an 18 month period when I was 9-10 year old. when I first noticed the stretch marks on my hips, i thought maybe I had been mauled by a tiger when I was little and my parents hadn't told me. setting everything else aside, I had never been outside of the mid-Atlantic states at that point. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 08:40 PM Flag
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that's hilarious! [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 08:42 PM Flag
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it still makes me laugh at myself. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 08:58 PM Flag
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np - lol. i can still remember see my red stretch marks across my hips and also having no idea what they were! [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 10:17 PM Flag
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My friend didn't know until college that you could buy toilet paper in the grocery store. She thought it was only sold in the pharmacy. [ Reply | More
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I thought pickles were there own kind of vegetable squash thingie. I had no idea it was was a cucumber [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 08:42 PM Flag
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same [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 03:40 AM Flag
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I read a lot as a tween, and there were many words I sounded out in my head, and never had much occasion to use. "Ceramics" was one, and I thought it was pronounced "creamics", and said it this way in conversation in HS. DF thought I was crazy. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 08:43 PM Flag
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i pronounced Phoebe from Catcher in the Rye something like "Fob" in 9th grade english class -- did not know how to pronounce it. class thought it was hysterical. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 08:46 PM Flag
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i thought penelope was pronounced peen-lope. I wondered why anyone would name their kid that. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 08:54 PM Flag
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lololol [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 09:11 PM Flag
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crying!! [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 07:20 PM Flag
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Haha same, I thought it was Foe-heeb. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 10:03 PM Flag
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I still can't pronounce Siobhan properly. When people said shivaun, I just never made the connection and thought they were talking about someone else. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 10:45 PM Flag
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i thought "segue" was pronounced "segoo". I had heard people say "segway" -- I thought that was an entirely different word. Fortunately I never said this word aloud in a professional setting. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 08:47 PM Flag
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lolol OMG I am crying, you women are too funny [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 09:11 PM Flag
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until college I used to pronounce the word "Inventory" as "inVENT-oh-ree". One of my adjunct professors actually stopped halfway through our conversation and said "what did you say? huh?"..I never realized I was saying it wrong..lol [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 09:01 PM Flag
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LOL. I'm American, but grew up in Venezuela. This used to happen to me all the time because I read words in English that I never heard pronounce. One I remember is leopard, which I prounounced once in my 20s, back in the U.S., as leo-pard (like leotard). [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 10:45 PM Flag
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I knew someone in college who pronounced "choas" like CHA-ose [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 05:48 PM Flag
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*chaos [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 05:48 PM Flag
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I saw the changing of the guard in Ottawa and thought I'd been to London. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 08:45 PM Flag
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My little sister was too young for expensive jewelry, but she had a ring with a blue stone and my parents told her it was a sapphire! When she found out the truth it wasn't pretty. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 08:48 PM Flag
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Did you know that sapphire is aluminum? [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 11:55 AM Flag
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Not exactly - it's a crystal form of aluminum oxide, with a titanium or chromium imperfection. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 01:32 PM Flag
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Diamonds are just coal or graphite, right? [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 08:41 PM Flag
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My grandpa called me Ziese Miese Lisa until I was in college, then he said "I'll just call you Ziese Lisa now, you're not Miese anymore". Ziese means sweet. Miese means ugly. I though he was using a term of endearment all those years. Only half. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 08:52 PM Flag
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yikes! [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 09:01 PM Flag
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OMG in what language??? [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 09:12 PM Flag
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NP I think it's Yiddish. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 09:18 PM Flag
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Like meeskeit I guess? [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 02:52 AM Flag
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I grew up in the Bronx and until I was 12, didn't think there was such a thing as white Protestants. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 08:54 PM Flag
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That's OK, given where I grew up on Long Island, I'm pretty sure I didn't meet any protestants until college. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 09:00 PM Flag
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np I'm a protestant who met my first Jewish person in college. (She lived on my hall and was from LI!) [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 05:56 PM Flag
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I grew up in small town, upper midwest. Until ??? (maybe 8th grade) I thought there were 2 religions, Catholic and Lutheran. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 09:07 PM Flag
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After college, an acquaintance asked what the difference was between Asia and Malaysia. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 08:55 PM Flag
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I worked with a doctor who didn't know Ghana from Guyana. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 08:56 PM Flag
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np: I can't say I know where either is now... [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 08:57 PM Flag
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NNP: I learned early to distinguish the two: the "guy" named Jim Jones did the mass suicide thing in Guyana. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 09:00 PM Flag
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But you probably know they are different countries. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 09:00 PM Flag
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^not realizing one was a continent, and the other was a country in that continent. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 08:56 PM Flag
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Actually, Guyana is a country in South America NOT Africa where Ghana is a country. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 09:43 PM Flag
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smh [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 10:12 PM Flag
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sorry, this post was a follow-up to asia/malaysia [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 11:07 PM Flag
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I was at a party in college, and said to a guy that I just got back from a study abroad in Austria, he said "Oh! G'day Mate!", I said "no, that's Australia.", he said: "yep, everyone says it differently with the accent!". [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 09:09 PM Flag
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Haha. I'm Australian, and you'd be amazed how many adults here in the US have this confusion. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 09:27 PM Flag
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French guinea and French Guiana...which is part of Guyana, right? I don’t even know wtf I am talking about. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 04:02 AM Flag
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I didn't correctly pronounce "awry" until I was 30, I used it in a conference call and my boss corrected me later. *shudder* [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 09:00 PM Flag
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Reminds me of this weekend when my daughter's friend (8 yo) said she was going to yoze-mite this summer (aka Yosemite). [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 09:04 PM Flag
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lol I am the posted above with the "inventory" misprounounciation and could see myself making that mistake too. I was embarrassed when my prof corrected me, but hey...some of these words dont necessarily pop up in every day conversation so less opportunities to say them out loud. I think awry is a terrible spelling, I wish they would just spell it "ahwray" instead. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 09:07 PM Flag
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How did you pronounce it?? [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 09:13 PM Flag
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"Ah rye" (sandwich) [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 09:15 PM Flag
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Np: I'm the poster below who never heard of Filmore or fenimore. Are you saying it's not pronounced uh-RYE???? I'm having a real reckoning here with this post. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 09:33 PM Flag
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yes. when thinks go out of sorts, they go awry, or Uh-rye [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 09:57 PM Flag
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That is correct. It is pronounced like the bread. A--like in above-and -rye [ Reply | More
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Array is a different word. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 09:55 PM Flag
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I think we're saying the same thing here. Rye can be pronounced the same in rye and RYE. No one suggested ray. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 11:10 PM Flag
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or. I pronounced Awry like "AW-ree" ... kind of rhymes with Lori or Tori. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 12:33 AM Flag
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I once said to my older boyfriend, his brother and brother's wife "Did James Fenimore Cooper write The . Last of the Mohicans before or after he became president of the United States?" They all looked at me with mouths agape and I was like "What?" lol I always thought Millard Filmore and James Fenimore Cooper were the same person. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 09:16 PM Flag
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Np: I have actually never heard of either of those people so maybe that's my dumb thing. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 09:24 PM Flag
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+1 [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 04:04 PM Flag
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We were seeing the play "Tru" about Truman Capote some years ago. One of my friends said "now, when was he President?" She didn't know Truman Capote and Harry Truman were different people. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 08:16 PM Flag
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lolol [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 10:59 PM Flag
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Millard Fillmore is a president I have honestly never heard mentioned in my life. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.07.19, 04:35 AM Flag
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Same... [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.09.19, 03:44 PM Flag
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Early in my career thought it was Earnest & Young and pronounced it that way to a senior colleague. Doh! [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 09:23 PM Flag
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I did that with a big law firm. I'm trying to remember which one it was. OK it's coming back. So I thought Weil Gotshal & Manges was WG & "Mangies" like a cross between a dog with mange (rhymes with range) and the munchies. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 12:39 AM Flag
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It’s not mangies? I thought so too [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 04:05 PM Flag
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Lol... you have to just go with “Weil” [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 06:00 PM Flag
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I grew up in a very homogeneous, predominately Catholic town. My family wasn't Catholic, but literally everyone else I knew from my town was. I assumed this is how it was all across the country, if not the globe. I was shocked when I learned in jr high social studies that JFK was the first Catholic president. I remember thinking, "what was everyone else???" [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 09:36 PM Flag
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Ha. I grew up Protestant in a mostly Catholic area, with a few token Jewish people too. One classmate in 4th grade kept asking me whether I was Catholic or Jewish and when I said "neither" she got SO angry. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 12:50 AM Flag
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I also grew up Protestant in a largely Catholic area. I remember a Catholic friend inviting me over for Easter dinner and asking me "Do Presbyterians have Easter?" haha. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 05:58 PM Flag
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+ [ Reply | More
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I thought it was "The Almond Brothers" until about.. uh, last year. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 09:40 PM Flag
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LOL! i love this. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 09:46 PM Flag
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who are the almond brothers? I don't get it [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 09:55 PM Flag
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lol the band is called "Allman Brothers". She says she thought they were called Almond Brothers. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 09:58 PM Flag
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The Allman Brothers Band [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 09:59 PM Flag
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ILY Literal Mom [ Reply | More
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Omg, I thought for the longest time that the "Playtex 18 hour bra" was disposable and only lasted 18 hours. When I finally realized what it was I couldn't believe I had thought that for so long. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 09:51 PM Flag
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LMAO! [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 09:59 PM Flag
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That is hilarious--I remember ads for it in the late 60s when I was in Kindergarten. [ Reply | More
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OMG ME TOO! [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 06:27 PM Flag
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That a guy you date for 6 years in an exclusive relationship while both being madly in love with one another would of course lead to marriage even though he never talked about marriage. Turns out he wanted to date around and not marry his first girlfriend. I was dumbfounded. UB showed me the light. Luckily I was 19-25 rather than being in my thirties which would have been way worse. Met DH at 26 and engaged 8 months later. When you know you know. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 09:52 PM Flag
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Good job! [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 10:02 PM Flag
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I was an older kid until I found out "postpone" wasn't pronounced "post-phoned". Also reimburse is not "reimburst". I think we all might have a word or two we misheard and later think is real. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 10:13 PM Flag
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When I was about 10, I was ice skating at a rink on a really bright day, and when I went into the dark ladies room and looked in the mirror, I freaked out because my pupils were so dialated. I was sure I had some fatal eye disease. I didn’t know your pupils expand and contract depending on the amount of light. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 10:28 PM Flag
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If I ate watermelon seeds a watermelon would grow in my stomach. Age 6. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 10:42 PM Flag
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My grandmother told me that, but it was apple seeds. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 10:55 PM Flag
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"You just have to have a dream". Well then there is life. And shit. And more shit. Dream and hope doesn't work for people like me. It's OK. I work hard, do everything I'm supposed to do. But that whole "YOU can do it too" chant by Oprah didn't work for me in real life. Life is still mediocre. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 11:01 PM Flag
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this thread is funny, stop being a downer. maybe you don't get what you want out of life bc you have a terrible attitude! [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 11:08 PM Flag
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True. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 01:47 PM Flag
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what? she answered the post. and I liked it, because I feel the same way. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.07.19, 04:37 AM Flag
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I know someone who grew up in a very small town who didn't know you could tell [well, gain insight... sometimes] someone's ethnic background from their last name [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 11:07 PM Flag
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Can I use this opportunity to call out people who think fazed is spelled “phased?” [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 11:22 PM Flag
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haha I thought it was "phased" until just now when you told me! [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 11:58 PM Flag
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Ditto [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 12:58 AM Flag
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My mom told me a year or two ago that she recently realized that her vagina and urethra were two different “holes.” And she sincerely asked me if I knew? I’m like yeah, mom I knew. [ Reply | More
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I teach sex ed and one of my male students “I did not know there were three holes. How do I know which one to put it in” when I showed a diagram with the Urethra, vagina and anus. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 11:34 PM Flag
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"Honey, if it fits in all 3, you've got bigger problems." [ Reply | More
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I should have said that! He said Ms X, are you going to show us which hole to put it in" and I said "no, this is not a how to class." The other kids were all laughing. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 02:18 PM Flag
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DH told me that when he first learned about sex that he was worried as to how you put the correct fluid inside a vagina. [ Reply | More
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I thought the lyrics “you can’t hide your lying eyes” was “you can’t hide your Italian Ice.” [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 11:31 PM Flag
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haaaa! [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 11:38 PM Flag
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lol! [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 11:45 PM Flag
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My boyfriend used to think Eminence Funk was "M&Ms are Fun" [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 12:44 AM Flag
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The first line of the Australian national anthem is "Australians all let us rejoice", I had a good friend who thought it was "Australians all are ostriches" until she was about 18. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 11:43 PM Flag
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I remember musing out loud during AP US History, “Didn’t I hear that Boston Harbor is still murky and stained from all the tea dumped there, even after all these years?” [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.05.19, 11:58 PM Flag
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I learned English the sink or swim method. Went to Catholic school. Didn’t quite get phrases like “do you mind”- I though to answer yes was you can use it. The parish priest came to talk to our class. In the middle of his talk he asked if I minded if he used my pencil. I said yes. So he dropped it and turned to the next student. I was horrified and figured it out I had it backwards. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 12:11 AM Flag
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No idea what the United Nations did until my 30s [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 12:43 AM Flag
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Oh boy where do I even start with Geography...I thought Spain was in South America, Alaska well below Canada, and that Europe, Africa, and Scandinavia were countries. Damn those public schools in South Carolina! [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 12:50 AM Flag
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Catholicism [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 01:15 AM Flag
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When I was in grade school, if you swallowed gum, it would stick to your ribs for 10 years. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 01:28 AM Flag
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I heard it would take seven years to digest. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 04:04 AM Flag
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Actually, be careful with sandwiches containing a toothpick: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/30/health/toothpick-injury.html [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 02:47 PM Flag
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I didn't know Dr. was short for doctor. I would say Der Pepper and thought it sounded weird. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 01:32 AM Flag
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My GPS thinks I live on Maple Doctor East. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 02:46 PM Flag
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That's hilarious! [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 04:29 PM Flag
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When people would say Jesus was born in Bethlehem, I thought it was Bethlehem Pennsylvania [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 02:11 AM Flag
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I'm from Bethlehem PA and didn't realize it was BethleHEM. I thought it was BethleHUM until age 20. Apparently there's such a thing as a PA accent... [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 06:32 PM Flag
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In college, I thought you peed out all of the calories from beer [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 02:17 AM Flag
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If only [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 04:29 AM Flag
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I thought Shapiro was a Japanese name for the longest time. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 03:56 AM Flag
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Chaya can be Hebrew or Indian. Chen as a last name can be Hebrew. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 02:44 PM Flag
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That if you just try hard enough and care enough you can change someone [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 02:12 PM Flag
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General Topics 03.06.19, 08:19 PM Flag
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I thought when I got my period, I would just pee blood and that would be it. I had extensive conversations with my dd before her period and she still thought the same thing. I guess it is genetic! [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 02:26 PM Flag
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I was going to be a brain surgeon with lasers and no blood. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 02:45 PM Flag
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I’d always say “ to tie me over” like, I’ll have some yogurt to tie me over until dinner. Friend recently told me it was “tide me over”. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 03:41 PM Flag
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Wait what? I thought the saying was also “tie me over”,,what does Tide have to do w it? [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 04:06 PM Flag
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I was in shock too - and quickly googled! It really is “tide” but I always imagine the laundry detergent and still blurb “tie” from habit. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 04:11 PM Flag
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I thought it was "tied" me over. Can't say you never learned anything from UB. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 04:23 PM Flag
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Sailor phrase meaning drifting with the tide before dropping anchor. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 04:34 PM Flag
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That more gun control correlates with a lower murder rate. Turns out they're not correlated (accidental death and suicide rates are correlated however). [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 04:33 PM Flag
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What about Australia [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 05:54 PM Flag
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I knew that people spoke different languages but of course everyone THINKS in English. (I was probably like 9 when I figured out why that was dumb?) [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 06:00 PM Flag
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In college, I didn't realize people lived in Manhattan. I thought they only worked there... [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 06:24 PM Flag
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General Topics 03.06.19, 08:42 PM Flag
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Christianity. All of it. [ Reply | More
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General Topics 03.06.19, 09:26 PM Flag
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