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 DrP
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So, the guy referring to a hearse as a "hurst" can post here....
But, I'll admit it was only yesterday that I 'learnt' that smog means/is made up of "smoke and fog"!

Go on then - what daft things have you only recently 'learnt', that seem obvious once you're in the know...

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Posted : 06/12/2012 9:04 pm
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Edam cheese is made backwards.


 
Posted : 06/12/2012 9:09 pm
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That WH Smith, sell a magazine full of pictures of people riding bikes called after this web forum.

Singletrack,

Obviously a copy.


 
Posted : 06/12/2012 9:11 pm
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The in-laws were staggered to learn that banoffee pie was made of banana and toffee the other day... Quite a revelation...


 
Posted : 06/12/2012 9:11 pm
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My grandmother was amazed when I told her Amy Winehouse's name was not in fact Army Warehouse.


 
Posted : 06/12/2012 9:17 pm
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That Hora has a secret room in his house


 
Posted : 06/12/2012 9:18 pm
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9 yr old son " whats this in the boot dad in this compartment" "Why its a 10 stack cd system" only had the car 4 years and always wanted one of them !!!!


 
Posted : 06/12/2012 9:23 pm
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I found out today that the Tacoma Narrows bridge collapsed because of Aeroelastic Flutter, not Forced Resonance.

At the weekend my wife found out that not all the carriages on First Scotrail trains are First Class. I couldn't understand why she wouldn't let us get onto the carriage - "Not that one, it's First Class, Oh! They all are". On the Fife Circle FFS...


 
Posted : 06/12/2012 9:35 pm
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a courgette is a baby marrow.

mind boggling


 
Posted : 06/12/2012 9:41 pm
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shaving a testicle is harder than you would imagine


 
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shaving a testicle is harder than you would imagine

Take it out of the bag first, much easier.


 
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That Hora has a secret room in his house

Did he recently have a plumber around?


 
Posted : 06/12/2012 9:46 pm
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only had the car 4 years and always wanted one of them !!!!

I moved into a new cottage once. On the wall in the kitchen was a switch - flicked the switch and a red light came on but nothing really happened so I flicked it off and ignored it for a couple of years.

The two years on it caught my eye again - flicked it on and off a few times, nothing happened but I left it on and went to work.

Got home and there was a curious gurgling bubbling noise coming for from the attic - turned the tap - hot water - well I'll be damned! Up til then I'd been running the woodburning stove winter and summer (for bloody hours) just to get a bath or hot water for the washing up.

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More recently - I figured out why you have to put £1 in a shopping trolley


 
Posted : 06/12/2012 9:47 pm
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That if you are going to paint the bathroom ceiling with red paint, to remove said tin from the top step of the ladder before moving it.

The shower scene in Psycho doesn't come close.

Top tip for those pondering cutting up a corpse in the bath, don't even think about it.


 
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in order for me to become a black hole, i'd have to have a density in the order of 10^80kg/m^3


 
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Top tip for those pondering cutting up a corpse in the bath, don't even think about it

Freeze the corpse first. Use a circular saw. Use a handheld vac to get rid of frozen chips etc.


 
Posted : 06/12/2012 9:52 pm
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But, I'll admit it was only yesterday that I 'learnt' that smog means/is made up of "smoke and fog"!

Radio 2 perchance?


 
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That Hora and Binners are married. Civil ceremony apparently. Very sweet; they're planning on adopting a thai lady boy. Bless.


 
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mini cheddars are small cheddar biscuits

quarantine comes from being locked in for 40 days
rather than triantine for 30 days

it gets dark earlier than you'd think at cwn carn today


 
Posted : 06/12/2012 9:58 pm
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That Santa doesn't exist 🙁


 
Posted : 06/12/2012 10:00 pm
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DadFlu is a virulent sub-strain of ManFlu, incubated in toddlers.


 
Posted : 06/12/2012 10:04 pm
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I was about 30 when I realised that the pronunciation of "W" was cunningly a description of a double "U".

Knocked me back for days.


 
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Remember being surprised in my teens that it's Cornwall, not Cormall.


 
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We're getting an xmas bonus at work - BACK OF THE NET


 
Posted : 06/12/2012 10:08 pm
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I was about 25 when it dawned on me what the bog brush was for (trying to piss a skid mark off the bowl at the time).


 
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Top tip for those pondering cutting up a corpse in the bath, don't even think about it

Freeze the corpse first. Use a circular saw. Use a handheld vac to get rid of frozen chips etc.

We have roasties with ours.


 
Posted : 06/12/2012 10:09 pm
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that smorg is a mix of the words smoke and morgue..

hence smorgasbord - where we can find a selection of smoked meats (and cheeses amongst other things)


 
Posted : 06/12/2012 10:10 pm
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That the principal ingredient in Branston Pickle, rutabaga, is just another name for the humble swede. Found that one out by phoning the helpline number on the side of the jar... it was a slow day.


 
Posted : 06/12/2012 10:12 pm
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Thats a good un yunkie!

😀


 
Posted : 06/12/2012 10:16 pm
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I love visiting this forum! (I haven't just found that out - just telling you!)


 
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There are days when I'm really concerned about muddydwarf......


 
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that the word smegma is a mixture of the words smoke, egg and ma..

make of that what you will..


 
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That Chris Packham has nerves in his hair, which means it is excruciatingly painful for him to get his hair cut... 😉


 
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Morrisons Dandelion & Burdock is flavoured with beetroot.


 
Posted : 06/12/2012 10:27 pm
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650b is the new 29


 
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That there is an "i" in team.


 
Posted : 06/12/2012 10:29 pm
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Thanks to this forum I realise there's an arrow in the FedEx logo


 
Posted : 06/12/2012 10:32 pm
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There are actually some good ones in there! Points for quarantine and Branston pickle.


 
Posted : 06/12/2012 10:32 pm
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those dreams you have, where you find out that you're in front of a load of people with only your pants on, are often actually real events that you've [i]almost [/i]blanked out


 
Posted : 06/12/2012 10:32 pm
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hence your user name eh, Scaredy..


 
Posted : 06/12/2012 10:33 pm
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My 6 year nephew thinks that my mrs' high heeled boots are comfortable. He is also easy to convince about done things like a camp hand at his Dad when he walks in through the front door


 
Posted : 06/12/2012 10:35 pm
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Lots of towns & villages in wiltshire have a "slab lane" - apparently it's where the mass graves were located during the great plague

('else I'm very gullible)


 
Posted : 06/12/2012 10:42 pm
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one of the main ingredients of Worcestershire sauce it anchovies. Really wasn't expecting that and had to quickly remove it from our veggie menu


 
Posted : 06/12/2012 11:07 pm
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That DrP doesn't appear to be aware that "learnt" is a variant of "learned".

Oh, and that my colleague who's a bit status conscious has just been demoted...


 
Posted : 06/12/2012 11:21 pm
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Silent Running made in 1972 is one of the best sci fi films ever. And one of my favorite things in my childhood was all a lie.

First time watching it, and realising most of the best parts of star wars were stolen from it.


 
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