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What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 936 ✭✭✭JaseBelleVie


    Was that really obvious?

    For someone who is a pretty big fan of The Beatles, it should have been!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,200 ✭✭✭superfurry1


    That Steve Winwood was lead singer with the Spencer Davis Group> Gimme Some Lovin and keep on running. And he had a brother called Muff :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,328 ✭✭✭Magico Gonzalez


    That Steve Winwood was lead singer with the Spencer Davis Group> Gimme Some Lovin and keep on running. And he had a brother called Muff :D

    Obviously not obvious.

    Nice trivia though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,381 ✭✭✭Nerdlingr


    JaseHeath wrote: »
    I never knew that Brian Epstein (the Beatles' manager) was gay. Only found out by reading about it there now.

    John wrote "You've got to hide your love away" about/for him apparently.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    Pighead doesn't post in After Hours anymore. :(


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,200 ✭✭✭superfurry1


    Obviously not obvious.

    Nice trivia though.

    True was gonna post somewhere else but got lazy which i have always known was the case. The word Therapist also spells The Rapist :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 29,869 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    True was gonna post somewhere else but got lazy which i have always known was the case. The word Therapist also spells The Rapist :(
    And Psychotherapist also spells "Psycho the Rapist"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,200 ✭✭✭superfurry1


    Quazzie wrote: »
    And Psychotherapist also spells "Psycho the Rapist"

    Or Physio the rapist ............... I knew it:pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 424 ✭✭LoganRice


    That I have not liked January for the past 3 years


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,883 ✭✭✭Tzardine


    Or Physio the rapist ............... I knew it:pac:

    Or what about Tobias Funke in Arrested Development. He was an Analyst / Therapist or Analrapist :) I loved that show.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,559 ✭✭✭refusetolose


    just found out in the last hour that raisins and sultanas are dried grapes


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,306 ✭✭✭BobbyPropane


    His nickname is Eminem because his first and second name both start with M, Marshall Mathers.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,150 ✭✭✭kumate_champ07


    just found out in the last hour that raisins and sultanas are dried grapes

    sultanas are a type of grape
    a dried sultana is a raisin
    most raisins use sultanas


  • Posts: 10,091 ✭✭✭✭ Veda Tender Gynecologist


    That 'different strokes for different folks' is handjob related rather than golfing or horses or whatever the fcuk I thought it was.

    i call shenanigans no way thats hand job related originally at least


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 251 ✭✭Your Superior


    i call shenanigans no way thats hand job related originally at least

    Exactly. It refers to comforting gestures of approval.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11 rachiedee4298


    I only found out recently that the "NEWS" stands for North, East, West and South!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,223 ✭✭✭Michael D Not Higgins


    I only found out recently that the "NEWS" stands for North, East, West and South!

    It's plural of new


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 22,496 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    I only found out recently that the "NEWS" stands for North, East, West and South!
    isn't is a version of NOVA meaning new things?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11 rachiedee4298


    Ah yes, you are right! My source was wrong..I should of googled it first


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    Ah yes, you are right! My source was wrong..I should of googled it first


    Something I learned in this thread. Always Google before posting.


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,204 ✭✭✭fiachr_a


    The Frankenstein monster walks with his arms stuck out because he got blinded in one movie.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,793 ✭✭✭FunLover18


    I've only just realised that Sky Sports reporters Johnny Phillips and John Fendley are not the same person!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,073 ✭✭✭Rubberlegs


    All of my life, up until today , I thought the cartoon character Yosemite Sam was called Sammedy Sam. WTF :) ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,915 ✭✭✭✭Eeden


    ^^^ :D:D sorry, I'm not laughing AT you, I'm laughing NEAR you! :D That's wonderful!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,147 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    Blinking is over rated.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 512 ✭✭✭Asarlai


    That Times Square in New York because it was the square where the New York Times building is.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 512 ✭✭✭Asarlai


    I remember the day when I was 32 years old and I first realized why teenagers were called teenagers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,080 ✭✭✭ireland.man


    They're called Movies because the images move!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,356 ✭✭✭Into The Blue


    then they were called talkies, but movies stuck for some reason.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,461 ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    Jenny in Forrest Gump is Frank's wife in House of Cards :eek:


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