famous things that everyone knows but you never heard of!

MarkHitide · 02-08-2012 03:08PM

Gaddafi's regime, Gaddafi's regime, Gaddafi's regime.......
I can see where the misunderstanding comes from.

upforthescoilt · 02-08-2012 03:25PM

Swear to god, it was like that episode in friends when the bloke thought gunpoint was an actual place... I was thinkin to myself "why are people staying in this Gadaffi place" :rolleyes:

Kolido · 02-08-2012 03:38PM

I learned recently that scorpions are not spiders.

some random drunk · 02-08-2012 03:42PM

Sea Filly wrote: »

That Bill O'Herlihy is 73! :eek:

That Samuel L Jackson is 63! :eek:

A few other things that I only found out recently:

That BBC's Live and Kicking presenter Andi Peters is gay. I guess I never picked up on his campness when I was a kid.
I never heard of Swedish House Mafia until their recent concert.
That tinfoil boxes have little tabs on the end that you can push in, which prevent the roll from falling out when you pull some off. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6ib77iSBduY/SpLBKv24fOI/AAAAAAAACsM/I3oFR48yA9E/s400/tin+foil+.jpg

Sea Filly · 02-08-2012 04:36PM

some random drunk wrote: »

That BBC's Live and Kicking presenter Andi Peters is gay. I guess I never picked up on his campness when I was a kid.

Really? He has never come out officially AFAIK. I just always thought he had a geeky vibe to him.

Cienciano · 02-08-2012 04:42PM

some random drunk wrote: »

That Samuel L Jackson is 63! :eek:

That tinfoil boxes have little tabs on the end that you can push in, which prevent the roll from falling out when you pull some off. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6ib77iSBduY/SpLBKv24fOI/AAAAAAAACsM/I3oFR48yA9E/s400/tin+foil+.jpg

I can't believe Samuel L Jackson is that age even after googling it. The same age as my dad!

And that tin foil thing, genius!

im invisible · 02-08-2012 08:14PM

upforthescoilt wrote: »

I thought Gadaffi was a country...

I thought Assad was like Mossad

The King of Moo · 02-08-2012 08:23PM

I only realised a few years ago that t-shirts are so called because they're shaped like the letter "t."

token101 wrote: »

That Ken Barlow is 80 :eek:

It's not exactly common knowledge, but I should also point out that he's Batman's grandfather.

Annasopra · 03-08-2012 02:10PM

The King of Moo wrote: »

I only realised a few years ago that t-shirts are so called because they're shaped like the letter "t."

It's not exactly common knowledge, but I should also point out that he's Batman's grandfather.

Father?

The King of Moo · 03-08-2012 03:18PM

mango salsa wrote: »

Father?

Nope, grandfather. Ken Barlow's son is Batman's father (well, the actor Bill Roche's son Linus plays Thomas Wayne in Batman Begins, but let's not split hairs, or, indeed, heirs), so therefore, Ken is Batman's grandfather

.

It'd be better known if Batman had been in Coronation Street for a while, culminating in a tearful scene as he left Weatherfield for Gotham in the back of a taxi, crying and waving out the back window.

JohnMarston · 03-08-2012 03:57PM

The King of Moo wrote: »

Nope, grandfather. Ken Barlow's son is Batman's father (well, the actor Bill Roche's son Linus plays Thomas Wayne in Batman Begins, but let's not split hairs, or, indeed, heirs), so therefore, Ken is Batman's grandfather .

Because he's the grandfather Coronation Street deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hunt him. Because he can take it.

Grayson · 03-08-2012 04:03PM

some random drunk wrote: »

[*]I never heard of Swedish House Mafia until their recent concert.

Ditto.

For years I didn't realise the Gazza and Paul Gascoigne were the same person. I thought for was a foreign footballer.

Grayson · 03-08-2012 04:05PM

And years after doing French in school I realised that the french for help me was M'Aide. Which then made the phrase Mayday as a distress call make sense.

Knex* · 03-08-2012 04:59PM

That James Lipton is in fact 85 and not in his 60s. Shocked me big time.

Zab · 03-08-2012 06:03PM

That James Lipton is in fact 85 and not in his 60s. Shocked me big time.

antodeco · 03-08-2012 06:10PM

Apparently James Lipton is 85, and not in his 60s. I found that shocking

Where To · 03-08-2012 06:16PM

I had no idea who James Lipton was until now, but I'm shocked to learn that he is 85 and not his early 60s

CastorTroy · 03-08-2012 06:25PM

Wonder what age James Lipton is.

Grayson wrote: »

And years after doing French in school I realised that the french for help me was M'Aide. Which then made the phrase Mayday as a distress call make sense.

I didn't know that. kind of ruins all those jokes in movies about why not use some other holiday.
Of course those jokes were ruined the moment they say them.

some random drunk · 03-08-2012 06:53PM

Sea Filly wrote: »

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Really? He has never come out officially AFAIK. I just always thought he had a geeky vibe to him.

You're right, I don't think he's ever commented on it publicly, it's just something that's widely "known". Johnathan Ross was accused of outing him a few years ago.

Grayson wrote: »

Ditto.

For years I didn't realise the Gazza and Paul Gascoigne were the same person. I thought for was a foreign footballer.

When I was a kid I used to confuse Gazza with Gaza. I found news reports about "The Gaza Strip" utterly baffling.

Grayson wrote: »

And years after doing French in school I realised that the french for help me was M'Aide. Which then made the phrase Mayday as a distress call make sense.

I only learnt this after watching an episode of Red Dwarf.

Knex. wrote: »

That James Lipton is in fact 85 and not in his 60s. Shocked me big time.

Did anyone else google James Lipton in the expectation that he might be the founder of Lipton Ice?

Pottler · 03-08-2012 06:54PM

I have no idea who or what any of ye are on about.

don ramo · 03-08-2012 07:02PM

I woke up yesterday

I was awesome all day

Then i went to bed

True Story:)

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