Common Misconceptions

DEFTLEFTHAND

"Being born in a stable does not make one a horse" was said by Daniel O'Connell not the 1st Duke Of Wellington. He was referring to being born in Ireland. He made this comment as a jibe to the Duke.

Jamaican band Inner Circle wrote and recorded "Bad Boy's" (used as the theme for tv show Cops) in 1987, the song is often credited to Bob Marley for some reason who died in 81.

jamesbondings

If your missus sneezes when you pleasure her your fingers don't actually break!

DEFTLEFTHAND

Bogart never said 'play it again Sam' in Casablanca.

Bogart's character says to Sam "You played it for her you can play it for me"

ardle1

If a lorry runs over your finger you wont die! unless your picking your nose at the time!!

The Dom

We only use 10% of our brain.

Men think about sex every seven seconds.

Drop a penny from the Empire State would kill someone.

We evolved from monkeys.

Rare steak is bloody.

SV

The Dom wrote: »

Rare steak is bloody.

Rare steak is bloody, bloody delicious!

Annnd now I'm hungry for steak.. at 0424 in the morning, great.

Cycling Dumbasses

I thought i knew a father clint power.

Killer Wench

My sister learned in a physics class that a penny could derail a train. I told a friend this.

She comes back two days later and hands me a smooshed penny. She said, "It doesn't derail trains!"

Who in their sick minds would want to experiment with something like that?!

Billy86

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Bogart never said 'play it again Sam' in Casablanca.

Bogart's character says to Sam "You played it for her you can play it for me"

Other lines that people get wrong:

"Beam me up, Scotty" is apparently never once said by William Shatner.
... and holy crap look what happens when you search it on Youtube!! :eek:

“I'm out of order? You're out of order! This whole court is out of order!” ...is... "You're out of order! You're out of order! The whole trial is out of order! They're out of order!"

"Luke, I am your father" is "No, I am your father."

"Hello Clarice" is "Good evening, Clarice."

Billy86

Killer Wench wrote: »

My sister learned in a physics class that a penny could derail a train. I told a friend this.

She comes back two days later and hands me a smooshed penny. She said, "It doesn't derail trains!"

Who in their sick minds would want to experiment with something like that?!

...or crazier again:

Killer Wench

See, I would be afraid that the force of the train would cause the penny to shoot out and be a deadly projectile.

stefan idiot jones

If you swallow gum, it will stick to your heart.

Billy86

stefan idiot jones wrote: »

If you swallow gum, it will stick to your heart.

Never heard that one. I remember the "takes nine years to digest" bit.

Another is if you have a nose bleed, tilt you head back. Don't do that. Tilt forward and let the blood flow out, it's not that bad for you to tilt back but can give headaches and nausea. And people don't die from nosebleeds. :pac:

Witcher

Just pinch the fleshy part of your nose to stop a nosebleed...does the job in about 10 seconds usually for me.

NIMAN

Politicians care.

stefan idiot jones

Vinegar will burn a hole through your shoe, sock, skin, bone, skin, sock, sole then the floor but apparently not newspaper.

Billy86

stefan idiot jones wrote: »

Vinegar will burn a hole through your shoe, sock, skin, bone, skin, sock, sole then the floor but apparently not newspaper.

Ah, but you see that is only because newspaper is made out of a completely inflammable material.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Some more here, you can see the great wall of china from space. Not True.

Marie Antoinette of France never said "Let Them Eat Cake". She was an eleven year old girl in 1766.

The Salem 'Witches' weren't burnt at the stake they were hung.

Nero didn't play the fiddle when Rome burned, he was 30 miles away in his villa at the time. Most Historians do concur however that 666 in the Bible is a coded version of his name and not Satan, considering how brutal he was to early Christians in Rome this isn't hard to believe.

stefan idiot jones

Chinese ladies privates are not 'horizontal' or 'cross threaded'.

SV

stefan idiot jones wrote: »

Chinese ladies privates are not 'horizontal' or 'cross threaded'.

They are, however, blurred

Billy86

The USA has 50 states - technically Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Massachusetts are 'commonwealths' rather than states. Doesn't really make any difference though, hence why it kind of got forgotten over time I guess.

Cracking knuckles does not cause arthritis. A 'scientist' - which is to say mad man - actually experimented with this for over 50 years, daily cracking the knuckles on one hand but never the other. He did not experience any differences later in life.

Vikings did not wear horned helmets and especially not in battle, though there is some belief that religious figures may have done so at ceremonies. None wore 'winged' helmets at all.

Newton never mentioned anything about an apple hitting him - it was first mentioned 60 years afterwards by John Conduitt and even then he never said it hit Newton on the head, or anywhere for that matter: "Whilst he was musing in a garden it came into his thought that the power of gravity (which brought an apple from the tree to the ground) was not limited to a certain distance from the earth but that this power must extend much further."

Many argue that humans have far more than just 5 senses.

Columbus lived in a time when the Earth was 'flat' (his plan depended on it being spherical) and was the first European to discover America (Leif Ericson beat him by around half a millenium!)

That anyone not named Nikola "greatestest genius ever" Tesla invented anything, ever (including the light bulb, radar, radio, hydro-electricity, neon lighting, the electric motor, wireless communications, and like I said, anything, ever): http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla

DEFTLEFTHAND

Joseph Ignace Guillotin was a noted opponent of Capital Punishment. He was in a managerial role in the French prison system at the time the contraption which bore his name was perfected. Antoine Louis and Tobius Schimdt developed the device. It was designed to make death swift as the previous axe method was proving rather messy. :pac:

It became known as the Guillotin as that was who they were hired to and assigned to work under.

AtomicHorror

NIMAN wrote: »

Politicians care.

Not sure anyone has any misconceptions about that...

Owryan

RTE rejected "father ted" first and it was then pitched to ch4.

Cee-Jay-Cee

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Joseph Ignace Guillotin was a noted opponent of Capital Punishment. He was in a managerial role in the French prison system at the time the contraption which bore his name was perfected. Antoine Louis and Tobius Schimdt developed the device. It was designed to make death swift as the previous axe method was proving rather messy. :pac:

It became known as the Guillotin as that was who they were hired to and assigned to work under.

Yeah because that is a common misconception. Thanks for clearing that up.I actually fell asleep reading it.

AtomicHorror

CJC999 wrote: »

Yeah because that is a common misconception. Thanks for clearing that up.I actually fell asleep reading it.

You forgot the roll eyes emote there you dry wit.

Morph the Cat

1. Marilyn Manson is the guy from the wonder years
2. If you put call-cards in the freezer, they re-generate
3. Cow Tipping
4. Slim Fast is maggot eggs
5. Everyone eats an average of 3 spiders every year in their sleep
6. Your hair washes itself
7. Your hair and nails continue to grow after you die. Nope—but the fleshy parts of your body recede from your hair and nails, making them appear longer.
8. We use only ten percent of our brains.
9. Cramps from Swimming after eating
10. Hair grows back thicker
11. Coca Cola invented the modern image of Santa Claus
12. Thanks to the Coriolis Effect, toilets flush clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the southern.
13. Sneezing is 1/10th of an orgasm
14. The Great Wall of China is the only man-made object visible from space.

Skerries

Billy86 wrote: »

And people don't die from nosebleeds. :pac:

tell that to Attila the Hun

Skerries

Morph the Cat wrote: »

7. Your hair and nails continue to grow after you die. Nope—but the fleshy parts of your body recede from your hair and nails, making them appear longer.

and that's part of why people believed in vampires back in the day as they thought that the hair and nails were still growing so they were still partly alive or 'undead'

quickbeam

Sorry to ruin the thread ....

DEFTLEFTHAND

CJC999 wrote: »

Yeah because that is a common misconception. Thanks for clearing that up.I actually fell asleep reading it.

You must have woke up at some stage to edit your post.

Muise...

The Eskimos have 100 words for snow.

WoollyRedHat

If you eat an apple whole, pips an all, contrary to popular belief, an apple tree will not grow in your stomach.

Wattle

If you're pulling a funny face and somebody gives you a shock you stay that way for life.

corkgsxr

Billy86 wrote: »

...or crazier again:

What a clown. He's seeing the imprint of copper not the coin.

Its like if you threw a orange against the wall it would leave a imprint but it doesn't become part of the wall.


We used to sellotape a fortune of stuff to tracks.

Muise...

corkgsxr wrote: »

What a clown. He's seeing the imprint of copper not the coin.

Its like if you threw a orange against the wall it would leave a imprint but it doesn't become part of the wall.


We used to sellotape a fortune of stuff to tracks.

In the USSR they used to leave kopecks on tramlines so passing trams would flatten them to the size of roubles for coin machines.

super_furry

"Up the bum, no harm done."

mikom

Catholics labour under the misconception that a child is born a sinner.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Sorry I might drag this thread up again.

I was out last night talking to supposed movie buffs who proudly proclaimed that the MGM Lion that you see at the start of their movies was born in Dublin.

It's something you here all the time. The fact is that Calabria 'Slats' was used as the original Lion model in the 1920s. This lion was born in Dublin. MGM used 4 other models in the 30s and 40s before settling on the final model in 1957.

The iconic Lion we see on our screens today was called Leo and he was born in captivity in the USA.

Gannicus

People commonly mis-quote 'The Snapper', saying:
"A-1 Sharon".

Georgie Burgess never actually says that line, he actually says
"That was A-1.... (picks up her nickers).... good girl" and walks off

McDermotX

The Snapper, or rather the film we know called it, is actually really about the story of a Dublin skanger called Sharon

aka

The Slapper.

Gannicus

McDermotX wrote: »

The Snapper, or rather the film we know called it, is actually really about the story of a Dublin skanger called Sharon

aka

The Slapper.

Booooo

Montgolfier

Mary had baby Jesus but it was a misconception

Arthur Beesley

Gannicus wrote: »

People commonly mis-quote 'The Snapper', saying:
"A-1 Sharon".

Georgie Burgess never actually says that line, he actually says
"That was A-1.... (picks up her nickers).... good girl" and walks off

Does he sniff them or just stick them in his pocket?

Gannicus

Arthur Beesley wrote: »

Does he sniff them or just stick them in his pocket?

He just walks away with them in his hand.

Arthur Beesley

Gannicus wrote: »

He just walks away with them in his hand.

Nice.

SuperGrover

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Jamaican band Inner Circle wrote and recorded "Bad Boy's" (used as the theme for tv show Cops) in 1987, the song is often credited to Bob Marley for some reason who died in 81.

Often or just in your head?

Rothko

Water isn't completely colourless, it's actually slightly blue (insert Father Ted reference here).

Sherlock Holmes never says, "Elementary, my dear Watson".

suicide_circus

They put the figs in the fig rolls via straight forward industrial baking methods involving pumps and moulds on a conveyor belt.

GaelMise

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Bogart never said 'play it again Sam' in Casablanca.

Bogart's character says to Sam "You played it for her you can play it for me"

I think he also says 'Play it one more time' (without the 'Sam' at the end).

DEFTLEFTHAND

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Sorry I might drag this thread up again.

I was out last night talking to supposed movie buffs who proudly proclaimed that the MGM Lion that you see at the start of their movies was born in Dublin.

It's something you here all the time. The fact is that Calabria 'Slats' was used as the original Lion model in the 1920s. This lion was born in Dublin. MGM used 4 other models in the 30s and 40s before settling on the final model in 1957.

The iconic Lion we see on our screens today was called Leo and he was born in captivity in the USA.

I did one of those dublin bus your thingies a few years back, on stopping in the Phoenix park, the guide told us the same thing - that the MGM lion was born in Dublin Zoo.