EGGPLANTS ARE FUCKING BERRIES

I THOUGHT THEY WERE GOURDS

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6/1/2011 2:42:09 PM

FACT: Bears eat beets.... Bears, Beets, Battlestar Galactica

6/1/2011 2:44:08 PM

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"COP - Constable on Patrol"

nope
http://www.snopes.com/language/acronyms/cop.asp

6/1/2011 2:47:35 PM

Two small transparent glass screens in front of the President are teleprompters
When cats look like they are choking they got a hairball stuck in their throat
Washington DC is below the Mason-Dixon line
What tl;dr stands for (and i've been on TWW for a while now.. )

Also I found out gnarls barkley wasn't a dude ITT

6/1/2011 2:51:19 PM

6/1/2011 2:55:40 PM

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"What tl;dr stands for (and i've been on TWW for a while now.. )"

I'd would like to know this too.

6/1/2011 2:56:10 PM

lol

you can google that shit bitch

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6/1/2011 2:56:45 PM

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"I WOULD WOULD"

6/1/2011 2:57:01 PM

I recently learned (on the history channel) where the expression "Balls Out" came from. And it does not involve testicles

Though I don't think this would qualify as a commonly known fact.

6/1/2011 2:57:47 PM

I think paerabol's 49th post is the best response so far in this thread.

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"Yeah when they rotate your tires they put the car up on the lift and spin all your wheels so that the logo in the center of the hubcaps all line up"

6/1/2011 3:01:17 PM

ahahaha didn't read that

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6/1/2011 3:02:03 PM

ahahahah

6/1/2011 3:03:27 PM

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"There are armadillos in south carolina"

they're in north carolina, too.

not sure what came of it, but a few years ago there was a push to add them to the game tags for hunted animals here.

6/1/2011 3:03:42 PM

Nobody reads the 49th post.

[Edited on June 1, 2011 at 3:04 PM. Reason : haha, This is in response to ^^^]

6/1/2011 3:03:57 PM

tl;dr means "Too long; didn't read"

6/1/2011 3:04:42 PM

6/1/2011 3:05:42 PM

tl;dr means "Too long; didn't ride"

6/1/2011 3:06:17 PM

Chicken in the Sea Tuna isn't actually made of chickens that live in the sea.




j/k

6/1/2011 3:18:17 PM

One of my exes didn't know tobacco had nicotine in it naturally. She thought they added it to cigarettes, hence why she smoked American Spirits, no additives...

6/1/2011 3:35:41 PM

it is 100% impossible to coast in neutral down the entirety of Lineberry Rd, regardless of how fast you start

6/9/2011 8:53:54 PM

mass amounts of bass from a subwoofer will vibrate a grenade off the shelf 30 feet away.

6/9/2011 9:00:13 PM

^x7

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"tl;dr means "Too long; didn't read""

I had always seen the abbreviation for that as 'tldnr' and didn't start seeing 'tl;dr' until a few months ago. It looks like 'tl;dr' would be 'too long; did read' which doesn't make a lick of sense. and it isn't even any shorter to type!

6/10/2011 10:04:10 AM

Koala bears arnt bears.

6/10/2011 10:49:28 AM

what makes a bear a bear?

6/10/2011 10:52:08 AM

whether or not stephen colbert is afraid of them?

6/10/2011 11:30:16 AM

so if he is afraid of you, you are a bear?

6/10/2011 11:31:06 AM

Generally bears are overweight, very hairy, and into leather

6/10/2011 11:32:21 AM

also ~

6/10/2011 11:50:00 AM

spirits = liquor

6/10/2011 11:50:44 AM

up until about a year ago, I didn't know deli was an abbreviation

6/10/2011 12:01:35 PM

deli = delicatessen

fax = facsimile

[Edited on June 10, 2011 at 12:07 PM. Reason : i knew these already but i felt like posting]

6/10/2011 12:07:02 PM

Pickles are made from cucumbers.

Raisins are dried up grapes.

6/10/2011 12:12:14 PM

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"I had always seen the abbreviation for that as 'tldnr' and didn't start seeing 'tl;dr' until a few months ago. It looks like 'tl;dr' would be 'too long; did read' which doesn't make a lick of sense. and it isn't even any shorter to type!"

tl;dr has been around forever. never seen tldnr.

6/10/2011 1:23:36 PM

I didn't just learn this, but I didn't learn it in the last year or two:

It's "chest of drawers" not "chester drawers". I only ever said the phrase and never had to know how to spell it. And my mom always said it kind of fast so it sounds like "chester drawers", so that's how I thought it was spelled. I still it say it "chester drawers" but it pretty much sounds the same and rolls off the tongue a little easier. I felt very stupid when I figured it out...

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"fax = facsimile"

Didn't know that. I am familiar with the word "facsimile"...but never associated it with faxes. Interesting.

[Edited on June 11, 2011 at 11:36 AM. Reason : ]

6/11/2011 11:35:08 AM

Clover honey comes from bees that pollinate clover flowers.

6/11/2011 1:21:01 PM

I felt that way about renege. People always said it like renig. Sounds racist.

6/11/2011 1:26:59 PM

^^^reminds me, while we're on the topic: the phrase is "for all intents and purposes." The first person I heard say "for all intensive purposes" was a UNC english major. Sadly, she wasn't the last.

[Edited on June 11, 2011 at 1:59 PM. Reason : h]

6/11/2011 1:57:15 PM

i just learned that it actually is "i could care less"

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6/11/2011 2:01:26 PM

Dauber is Patrick from Sponge Bob

6/11/2011 2:14:50 PM

^^ How does that make sense?

LOL DID YOU KNOW TWILIGHT WON THE MTV AWARD FOR BE--No. I couldn't care less. It is literally impossible for me to care any less about this subject.

or

LOL DID YOU KNOW TWILIGHT WON THE MTV AWARD FOR BE--No. I could care less. I don't care very much, but, relatively speaking, I could care less.

I vote for (and use) the former.



Another thing that confuses me: a phrase that normfolk as well as lots of narrators in TV programs and documentaries... If I want to say that "the storm completely destroyed the harbor," lots of people would say "the harbor was all but destroyed by the storm," indicating total destruction. But the way I see it, saying that would imply that it was everything but destroyed. Perhaps the storm boogered everything up into general disorder but stopped short of completely wrecking it all...I dunno

6/11/2011 2:39:15 PM

Strain vs strand

Still not absolutely clear but one of us is wrong!!

6/11/2011 2:49:27 PM

^^ its idiomatic, either is correct. i could care less could imply that you could care less if you tried. either is appropriate.

6/11/2011 3:45:28 PM

There are some things I care a little about. Therefore I could care less.

6/11/2011 4:01:12 PM

Well... I thought it was clear that i was joking, since people usually bring up all of these mis-sayings every time one of them is brought up... but i guess it wasn't clear


and if you are talking about plant species (couldn't assume you would be talking about anything else lol) it is strain. Strand would be a good metaphorical/substitution term for it if it didn't sound almost exactly the same.

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[Edited on June 11, 2011 at 4:08 PM. Reason : strand as in strands of hair that are different but all come from the same place originally]

6/11/2011 4:04:04 PM

We don't get French benefits

6/11/2011 4:10:07 PM

it took me well over 20 years to realize that Joe Cocker is British

6/11/2011 4:16:50 PM

barack obama is black

6/11/2011 4:24:07 PM

Probably not commonly known but "slut" is in neither my phone's or Words With Friends' dictionaries. My gf played "whore," affording me the opportunity to snag a triple word score and a felicitous touché in playing "slut." I was smitten with a fit of ungovernable sniggering right up until the display

6/13/2011 7:59:07 PM

^ Don't feel bad... it wouldn't let me play queef

6/13/2011 8:00:08 PM

P'raps not commonly known but "slut" is in neither my phone's nor Words With Friends' dictionary. My gf played "whore," affording me the opportunity to snag a triple word score and a felicitous touché in playing "slut." I was smitten with a fit of ungovernable sniggering right up until the display of the dreaded message of denial. I was prompted to investigate the etymology of the word, an interesting endeavor should you share my curiosity


[Edited on June 13, 2011 at 8:04 PM. Reason : sploling]

6/13/2011 8:02:33 PM