March 15, 2004

The "I'm an Idiot" Thread

What are some really obvious things that you "just flat out" missed for way too long?

This morning it finally dawned on me that "Friendster" is probably referencing "Napster" by adopting the "ster" suffix.

Posted by AlecEiffel at March 15, 2004 04:12 PM
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-U-Haul

-the Nut and Honey cereal commercials

-My gay uncle

Posted by: mrp at March 15, 2004 10:40 PM

"blog" is short for "weblog"

"adios" / "adieu" = "to god"

californication

Posted by: Shippy at March 16, 2004 07:40 AM

the computer voice on "intergalactic" saying, "another dimension" over and over again.

as opposed "anominimanoma", which had been my assumption.


i file "ster" in the same catagory as "gate". illogical, but spontaneously generated suffixes. was napster about internet naps? was watergate an aqua-scandal? nevertheless...

this phenomena confuses me, and so i hate it.

Posted by: jrrd at March 16, 2004 09:56 AM

The fact that Don Smith is gay also eluded me for an embarassingly long time.

Posted by: Shippy at March 16, 2004 10:15 AM

Arby's

thank you ade.

Posted by: Graver at March 16, 2004 10:25 AM

If you wear 30x32s, but you complain about the pockets being too tight, you should go to a 31x30, not a 32x32, because the pants will sit lower on you, and therefore lengthen.

Here is my favorite quote of all time, as said (by me) to my younger sister.

"Alena, if you were a crackwhore and you asked me for money for diapers for your baby, I'd go buy you the diapers, not give you the money, 'cause I know what you'd do with it."

I was so amazed when I realized that you shouldn't give money to people with addictions. That's why I give leftovers and food to homeless people I see. Then they get mad at me for not giving them money.

Posted by: sundaykofax at March 16, 2004 10:44 AM

i just applied to be a proofreader for a non profit group in milwaukee.

it's a non profit group for blind people.

so they called and asked if i had any proofreading experience... in braille.

Posted by: lw at March 16, 2004 11:04 AM

Not so obvious, but readily apparent. FES on 70's show is an acronym for Foreign Exchange Student.

Posted by: ade at March 16, 2004 12:06 PM

the jeff buckley lyric "all that was so real," which i misheard for ages as "all that was sorry." this, in a song titled "so real." killer. i have a lot of lyric mis-hearings...

Posted by: robin.. at March 16, 2004 01:33 PM

Colin has some of the best lyric mis-hearings I've ever encountered. In the Gorillaz song, M1A1, he heard: "M1-A1.... doesn't matter uh-oh"

uh-oh??

Posted by: Graver at March 16, 2004 01:49 PM

I think we can just point out our OWN messups...and yes, the real lyric is M1A1....thousand miles an hour
doesn't matter uh oh

He slurs. And I have plenty more lyric problems.

Posted by: colin at March 16, 2004 02:20 PM

i'll second the jeff buckley lyric, and goddamn it all, i thought, in "intergalactic", that the computer voice was saying "i'm coming to get you".

Posted by: mrp at March 16, 2004 02:21 PM

Hey Win: "Big window crash of death."

Posted by: Shippy at March 16, 2004 02:44 PM

"gigantic...i beat people up."

Posted by: robin.. at March 16, 2004 04:11 PM

"I don't think you're ready for this, Kelly"

Posted by: Beyonce at March 16, 2004 05:03 PM

I have a friend who saw the movie "Face Off" and didn't connect that title to the fact that the characters were taking their faces off. His excuse: "I watch a lot of hockey."

Posted by: ae at March 16, 2004 05:25 PM

Daddy Warbucks

That's a girl in the "Smack My Bitch Up" video

Posted by: terp at March 16, 2004 05:54 PM

That Terp's post right above this one was actually about two separate things. "What the hell does "Annie" have to do with Prodigy," I kept asking myself.

Lyrics, but more obscure/unimportant than The Pixies: "Where I walk is where I go/My mother's arm is a burrito." - Atom and His Package, S/T

Posted by: e lo at March 17, 2004 09:42 AM

Sub-thread: Celebrities you get confused with each other.

Example: I used to get Burt Reynolds and Tom Selleck mixed up.

Posted by: Shippy at March 17, 2004 09:48 AM

Apropos Arby's: Graver, I've apparently taken this to the next level. I don't get what it was that you didn't get. Sort of a meta-idiocy. Can you explain?

Apropos Jake's subthread: Jack Black and Philip Semour Hoffman. Not so much anymore, but I was unflappably convinced for a while that Jack was in "Almost Famous."

Posted by: e lo at March 17, 2004 11:11 AM

Arby's = R B's = Roast Beef (it took me a little while)

Posted by: at March 17, 2004 11:28 AM

I dunno if that was you, Graver, but if so, that's not actually true. I've also heard people say that it's an acronym for "All Roast Beef, Yes Sir," which is also false.

Arby's does = R.B.'s, but that doesn't stand for Roast Beef -- it actually stands for Raffel Brothers, 'cause the restaurant was started by a couple of guys named Raffel: Arbys.com.

Posted by: e lo at March 17, 2004 12:04 PM

Grilled cheese and tomato soup...who knew?

Posted by: colin at March 17, 2004 12:25 PM

Damn you and your lying heart, Aden! Making a fool of me!

Posted by: Graver at March 18, 2004 01:33 PM

Yeah, I actualy meant to respond to that sooner. I never looked it up, I just thought it made enough sense to start spreading it as truth. Research defeats me again!

Posted by: ade at March 19, 2004 11:00 AM

The No Doubt lyric from their smash hit Spiderwebs: "I'm gonna scream my phones off."

I don't know why that is what I heard, but perhaps the absurd is more fun than the real.

Alllso, I have yet to look up that Weezer lyric from Pinkerton- the one that sounds like "watching grunge leg-job new jack city"

Posted by: sundaykofax at March 22, 2004 06:33 PM

oh yeah, i always heard "watchin' grunge leg-drop-new-jack-doin' press table..."

Posted by: robin.. at March 23, 2004 09:07 AM

Here's what I've discovered today:
If you put your chocolate chip cookie in the same ziplock baggie as your pb&j, your cookie will retain or regain moisture.

I had a really good cookie.

Posted by: sundaykofax at March 23, 2004 02:09 PM

Sign outside Barne's and Noble:

- Customers must wear shirts, shoes
- No outside food or beverages
- No animals allowed (except for seeing eye dogs)

Posted by: Da Dizzle at March 25, 2004 11:29 AM