[Closed] Things that didn't dawn on you...

For a long time this thought went through my mind every New Year's Eve:

Why are singing about some old man and his eye?

Greybeard - Member

In the Scottish borders, Hawick and 'Hoik' are the same town

Milngavie is going to blow your mind.

I was alway astounded how many vehicles carrying stationery were crashed into.
Eg,

[i]a car hit a stationery van[/i]

one of the jobs I didn't want to do as a kid was delivering stationery.

Milngavie is going to blow your mind.

Its all terrorists these days but for longer than I should I believed there were literally gorillas battling government forces around the world.

I grew up in a small town in Holland, the son of our GP was in my class. A few years ago my mum was talking about him and mentioned the fact he was adopted. I never realised! The GP was white Dutch, and the son adopted from South America!

I had been around his house and everything..... I suppose I am truly colourblind.

Simone

The fact that the Five Ten logo is a 5 or a 10 depending on how you look at it Always seen it as a stylised 5, then one day glanced down and went "oh, wow, it's also a 10".

And in the interests of full disclosure, I bought my first 5.10 climbing shoes in 1997, and noticed this on my Basics, oooh, last year....

Just nearly strained my neck looking at my 5-10's to get what you mean, I'm never going to look at them the same again.....

As a kid my mum always said " I'm struggling to make ends meet " mean money was tight. For years I thought she was saying " I'm struggling to make hens meat " 😳 wondered why it didn't make sense.

Rachael
Emma
Claire
Karen
Louise
Fiona

I remember thinking there were a lot of signs on the German Autobahns for "Ausfahrt".

I've never been to Toutes Direction, but it must be huge, the number of signs in France for it

On a motorbike tour, slightly lost, three of us spent a long time trying to figure out where we were by trying to find the clearly signposted town of 'Lavado Automatico'[1] on a map of northern Spain 😳

[1] Lavado automatico = 'car wash'

anything a girl/woman said to me between 1996 and 2003, had a brief few years of clarity then married in 2006 and not had a clue what was going on since

How many stupid people there are on here....

Tried to get accommodation at L'Hotel de Ville

As a kid i remembered the Transformer Advert by Hasbro, the theme went " Transformers- Robots in Disguise".....for years my wife thought it was Transformers- Robots in the skys...."

Guilty as charged with the Transformers one when I was a kid also.

Just looked at 5.10 logo. Ah. Right.

Not sure I'm spotting what's in the Accolade Wines logo- is it that the A is surrounded by Ws?
Also, 'Jonelle' right at the start of the thread- what's so special about it?!? 🙂

Not sure I'm spotting what's in the Accolade Wines logo- is it that the A is surrounded by Ws?

The negative space in the 'A' is a large drop falling into a wine glass.

There's a wine glass with a drop above it shermer.

Wow that's clever!! 🙂

EXXON is called that because it can't call itself Standard Oil for trademark reasons (google/wikki its actually quite an interesting history). Which is why it's ESSO (Pronounced S.O.) outside of the USA but not in its home market.

Saul Goodman = It's all good mannnnn........

@greybeard

Is this 'mulguy' you speak of South of 'dry men'? 😕

Not so much dawned on but can't believe that they didn't plan this
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http://theweek.com/articles/486776/zion-lisa-simpson-3-other-things-london-olympics-logo-resembles

Also, 'Jonelle' right at the start of the thread- what's so special about it?!?

And if that's still not clear enough, try reading it as Jon-L

When I was a kid I used to think bin men had the best job in the world because they only had to work one day a week

Jonelle is the name of John Lewis own brand stuff.

Yeah, sorry, that was me...it's John L.

EDIT: Whoops, quick on the uptake as ever...already been explained. 😳

Emmelle bikes are made by Moore Large.

Took me ages to figure out why I was called "braffer" on the building site.

Braffer. Bra for. Bra for man boobs.

****s

oooh, burn

It's ok. They all put top quality Welsh amphetamines in their morning Capri Sun.

It was all in jest as they'll be dead at 45.

3M = Minnesota mining and manufacturing.