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Post by dazed on Dec 8, 2017 14:39:03 GMT
I never understood why people sang "My body lies over the ocean/My body lies over the sea." Always seemed like an odd lyric. I hated the song anyway, never bothered to search out the reason. I was around 20 when I learned the truth. I still prefer "body," it just sounds creepier. Wait, it’s not body? What the fuck. 😂 This is news to me.
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Post by Martin Stett on Dec 8, 2017 16:17:32 GMT
I never understood why people sang "My body lies over the ocean/My body lies over the sea." Always seemed like an odd lyric. I hated the song anyway, never bothered to search out the reason. I was around 20 when I learned the truth. I still prefer "body," it just sounds creepier. Wait, it’s not body? What the fuck. 😂 This is news to me. It's supposedly "Bonny." Son instead of a crappy ghost song, it's a crappy love song.
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Post by Film Socialism on Dec 8, 2017 17:34:21 GMT
I use to think that ALL bees died after they stung someone until last year. I thought that until I disturbed a yellow jacket nest doing some yard work when I was 17 or so. I saw first hand that they could sting several times. I found out I was allergic to the little bastards that day too. I actually couldn't walk for around 12 hours due to swelling around my groin. Nothing on my gonads, mind you, just the groin. THOSE ARE NOT BEES
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Post by Martin Stett on Dec 8, 2017 18:22:43 GMT
I thought that until I disturbed a yellow jacket nest doing some yard work when I was 17 or so. I saw first hand that they could sting several times. I found out I was allergic to the little bastards that day too. I actually couldn't walk for around 12 hours due to swelling around my groin. Nothing on my gonads, mind you, just the groin. THOSE ARE NOT BEES
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Post by marvelass on Dec 10, 2017 17:15:25 GMT
It never really did. I recall an Arlo & Janis comic strip from the summer of 1994. The couple is sitting around, and Arlo randomly quotes "Life is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you're gonna get!" There's a pause, and Janis retorts with, "Chocolate. You get chocolate." Touché!
I never understood this effect. Though I was only 10 when he was freed from prison after several decades, I distinctly recall him coming to Boston and giving a speech at the Hatch Shell, shortly after his release. It was a very big deal at the time, and my parents made us watch it on TV.
As for me, I was in high school when I learned that the Golden Gate Bridge was not made of gold. After that, I didn't see what the big deal was. It's just a bridge.
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Dec 10, 2017 17:35:42 GMT
Yeah, yellowjackets are wasps. And I don't mean the villains from Get Out.
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Post by forksforest on Dec 11, 2017 5:43:37 GMT
Wait, it’s not body? What the fuck. 😂 This is news to me. It's supposedly "Bonny." Son instead of a crappy ghost song, it's a crappy love song. LOL i thought it was my bonnie, as in short for bonnet...so some chick lost her bonnet over the ocean or whatever. damn, i had no clue it was a love song. now that im looking at the lyrics, bonnet honestly makes sense if you take the song literally, like i did
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Post by cheesecake on Dec 12, 2017 3:12:11 GMT
I never understood why people sang "My body lies over the ocean/My body lies over the sea." Always seemed like an odd lyric. I hated the song anyway, never bothered to search out the reason. I was around 20 when I learned the truth. I still prefer "body," it just sounds creepier. Wait, it’s not body? What the fuck. 😂 This is news to me. I find it very amusing that you guys thought the song was that morbid. Haha.
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Post by Sharbs on Dec 5, 2019 5:26:20 GMT
sorta in line with this topic, but I just learned that Phoebe Bridgers & Phoebe Waller-Bridge are separate people. I thought she was everywhere and doing everything...
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Dec 5, 2019 5:46:22 GMT
Asparagus growing out of the ground doesn't come in bundles... it looks like someone tried to prank you in thinking that asparagus grew there.
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Post by DeepArcher on Dec 5, 2019 6:10:00 GMT
sorta in line with this topic, but I just learned that Phoebe Bridgers & Phoebe Waller-Bridge are separate people. I thought she was everywhere and doing everything... Dude wtf That said I adore the fact that their Wikipedia pages are perpetually linked by the “Not to be confused with” thing.
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Post by cherry68 on Dec 5, 2019 12:18:04 GMT
^ On the other side, I find annoying when some women add their husband's surname then eliminate it after divorcing. I'm thinking about Joanne Whalley-Kilmer or Robin Wright Penn.
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Post by Martin Stett on Dec 5, 2019 13:08:12 GMT
I thought that Michael Jackson was white until I was in my twenties.
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Post by cherry68 on Dec 5, 2019 15:17:40 GMT
I thought that Michael Jackson was white until I was in my twenties. What about Winnie Harlow?
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Post by Martin Stett on Dec 5, 2019 16:05:25 GMT
I thought that Michael Jackson was white until I was in my twenties. What about Winnie Harlow? I have never heard that name in my life.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2019 16:12:07 GMT
Thought "times square" was called "time square" for the longest time
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Post by cherry68 on Dec 5, 2019 16:54:17 GMT
What about Winnie Harlow? I have never heard that name in my life.
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Post by wonky on Dec 6, 2019 9:29:39 GMT
Maybe not way too old to learn this but I was in my late teens when I realized that US grocery store chains/brands like Piggly-Wiggly, Ralph's etc. were regional, not national. Growing up as an Illinoisan I'd sometimes wonder where the nearest Winn-Dixie was and why I'd never been, and Food Lion always confounded me visiting family in North Carolina. But I discovered it when talking to an online friend from Florida and casually mentioning that she should pick something up at Jewel....she was like and then explained it to me lmao
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Post by wonky on Dec 6, 2019 9:48:29 GMT
Similar to yours, I went a ridiculously long time thinking this was Barg's. This is like when I realized Jay's and Lay's were two different potato chip companies.
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Post by Sharbs on Aug 28, 2020 22:52:06 GMT
Apparently, it is perfectly legal to drive with the overhead light on. The lies of parents i tell ya.
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Post by cheesecake on Aug 29, 2020 0:19:45 GMT
Apparently, it is perfectly legal to drive with the overhead light on. The lies of parents i tell ya. When I was 8 my dad told me that bisexuality was when you had both male and female reproductive organs.
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Post by mhynson27 on Aug 29, 2020 4:08:15 GMT
Apparently, it is perfectly legal to drive with the overhead light on. The lies of parents i tell ya. Wait, wait... what?
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 27, 2021 21:09:49 GMT
WTF This is one of my favorite cover songs - ever - by Joan Jett - I always thought this was a Tommy James song from the 60s but it turns out HE covered it from Gary Glitter (yeah, yeah I know) in the 70s - just found this out today. Um, I'm like never wrong about stupid sh it like that much less wrong about how far the song goes back - I've been walking around saying "Joan Jett's cover of Crimson & Clover isn't even her best Tommy James cover song" for like 120 years ..........well I guess it is actually
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Mar 27, 2021 21:39:13 GMT
This might be fun. I learned three years ago (20yo) that the restaurant Perkins wasn't called Jerkins, I always thought it was a J, but nobody corrected me up until then. Everybody must thought I was making a joke when I called it Jerkins. I thought everybody else was wrong, but being the non-confrontational sort; I always let it be. I mean comeon that looks like a J Have you guys run into this problem? Thought the name of this restaurant was Peel for about a minute until I noticed the image in the logo was... um... a reel. Also, when I was really really young, my dad had this Casablanca poster in his office, and for a while I thought that Bogart had long hair because as a kid I hadn't seen the movie yet, didn't really study the poster that closely, and didn't realize it was just the black background of the poster behind his head.
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Apr 6, 2021 6:13:58 GMT
Not necessarily something I "should" have known, but kind of a funny instance of conflating things as a kid: When I was really young, I saw part of The Princess Bride on TV, but didn't know what the movie was at the time. I just remember seeing the sword fighting scenes and thinking it was cool, but didn't find out what the movie was until much later. A couple years later, I saw TV spots for The Mask of Zorro and thought it was the same character from The Princess Bride. So I remember being excited about seeing The Mask of Zorro because I thought I had finally figured out that I was watching a Zorro movie that one time and The Mask of Zorro was a sequel or something.
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