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What really obvious thing have you only just realised?

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  • #3872
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    You know when you're a little kid and you hear pop songs and don't really think about the lyrics at all?

    I was seven when Madonna's "Like a Prayer" came out.

    I'm now 33 and it's only after hearing it playing in a shopping centre that the double-meaning occurred to me;
    When you call my name it's like a little prayer
    I'm down on my knees, I wanna take you there
    In the midnight hour I can feel your power
    Just like a prayer you know I'll take you there

    /facepalm


  • #3873
    MillField
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 647 ✭✭✭MillField


    That the world is flat.


  • #3874
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,063 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    franer1970 wrote: »
    If I'm travelling in, say, a northerly direction then obviously I'm going towards the north.
    So why then does a "northerly" wind travel in a southerly direction??
    It's called a northerly wind, ie. coming from the north, to indicate that it'll probably be cold, coming from the fairly nippy Arctic region.

    In other usages, the destination is more important.


  • #3875
    franer1970
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 335 ✭✭franer1970


    Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »
    It's called a northerly wind, ie. coming from the north, to indicate that it'll probably be cold, coming from the fairly nippy Arctic region.

    In other usages, the destination is more important.

    I think it should just be a "north wind" in that case and leave the ...erly bit for directions of travel.

    Who can I complain to about this - anyone got Evelyn Cusack's email?


  • #3876
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Winty wrote: »
    The letter W is double U, both saying it and writing it.

    More of a double v, no?

    Also by that same logic shouldn't B be called double D. I much prefer double D's to B's:D


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  • #3877
    maudgonner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    franer1970 wrote: »
    I think it should just be a "north wind" in that case and leave the ...erly bit for directions of travel.

    Who can I complain to about this - anyone got Evelyn Cusack's email?

    Evelyn's email address? No. But there seem to be a good few Jean Byrne stalkers on here who could get a message to her for you :)


  • #3878
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,030 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    seamus wrote: »
    You know when you're a little kid and you hear pop songs and don't really think about the lyrics at all?

    I was seven when Madonna's "Like a Prayer" came out.

    I'm now 33 and it's only after hearing it playing in a shopping centre that the double-meaning occurred to me;



    /facepalm

    well now that you put it like that i can see what she is on about as well. the dirty hussy.


  • #3879
    maudgonner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭maudgonner


    That the hole in Crayola boxes is shaped like a smile.


  • #3880
    Username exists
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 566 ✭✭✭Username exists


    That there's a bear on the logo for Toblerone, never knew that at all or ever noticed it but I heard about it after watching Room 101. :eek:


  • #3881
    Etc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 592 ✭✭✭Etc


    Ronseal's slogan "it does what it says on the tin" is disingenuous, it's not a tin can, it's mild steel plated with a lacquer coating on the inside.

    when will the lies end.........


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  • #3882
    IvyTheTerrible
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,949 ✭✭✭✭IvyTheTerrible


    franer1970 wrote: »
    I think it should just be a "north wind" in that case and leave the ...erly bit for directions of travel.

    Who can I complain to about this - anyone got Evelyn Cusack's email?
    You can say north wind as well.


  • #3883
    This Fat Girl Runs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,776 ✭✭✭This Fat Girl Runs


    That I'm late for a meeting!


  • #3884
    Shannon757
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭Shannon757


    O'Donnell's Crisps are Irish. O'Donnell's of Tipperary.:o:o:o


  • #3885
    Ciderswigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 941 ✭✭✭Ciderswigger


    Shannon757 wrote: »
    O'Donnell's Crisps are Irish. O'Donnell's of Tipperary.:o:o:o

    It literally says Tipperary on the bag! :D


  • #3886
    Shannon757
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭Shannon757


    Ciderswigger wrote: »
    It literally says Tipperary on the bag! :D

    I'm really slow to cop some things on.:D


  • #3887
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,063 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    This Fat Girl Runs wrote: »
    That I'm late for a meeting!

    Run, Fat Girl, Run! :pac:


  • #3888
    Shannon757
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,847 ✭✭✭✭Shannon757


    Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »
    Run, Fat Girl, Run! :pac:

    I think she'd be well late now.;)


  • #3889
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    That the HP on HP sauce stands of Houses of Parliament.

    I managed to never notice the Houses of Parliament on the bottle.


  • #3890
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,030 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Candie wrote: »
    That the HP on HP sauce stands of Houses of Parliament.

    I managed to never notice the Houses of Parliament on the bottle.

    wait, what??


  • #3891
    StupidLikeAFox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,825 ✭✭✭StupidLikeAFox


    The YR in "YR Sauce" stands for Yorkshire Relish


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  • #3892
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 29,869 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    Candie wrote: »
    That the HP on HP sauce stands of Houses of Parliament.

    I managed to never notice the Houses of Parliament on the bottle.

    It used to be called handkerchief because the maker was Garton so it was called Garton's sauce. Gartons backwards is snotrag, which is where handkerchief came out of. :D


  • #3893
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,219 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    wait, what??

    I know!

    And there's a picture on the label and everything :)


  • #3894
    everlast75
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,511 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    That the Uni Bomber stood for university bomber.

    I haven't a clue what I thought it meant - maybe that he had a uni brow.. I don't know :-/

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • #3895
    McChubbin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,080 ✭✭✭McChubbin


    Recently discovered that gherkins/pickles are in fact pickled cucumbers! I never knew!


  • #3896
    CrookedJack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 595 ✭✭✭CrookedJack


    everlast75 wrote: »
    That the Uni Bomber stood for university bomber.

    I haven't a clue what I thought it meant - maybe that he had a uni brow.. I don't know :-/

    You're close. He was actually called the Unabomber, not Uni Bomber. It comes from the FBI who used the title "UNABOM" (UNiversity & Airline BOMber) to refer to his case.


  • #3897
    Pawwed Rig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,461 ✭✭✭✭Pawwed Rig


    Hoola hoop is called that because the action you do is the Hawaiin hoola dance.


  • #3898
    Timistry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 788 ✭✭✭Timistry


    Its a leap year!


  • #3899
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,197 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    Pawwed Rig wrote: »
    Hoola hoop is called that because the action you do is the Hawaiin hoola dance.

    And you shake your hoop.


  • #3900
    Etc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 592 ✭✭✭Etc


    David Davin Power's curls have a life of their own.....!


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  • #3901
    Stigura
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,659 ✭✭✭Stigura


    Han Solo :o

    Seriously. I've never seen a star wars in my life. I always thought he was the blonde lad.

    Then, sat here at this very desk, one day last year; The penny dropped and I nearly cried!


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