Bear Down Wildcats

This was a thread on TOS. For the uninitiated, these are things you just discovered but figure everyone else has known about for a long time.

For instance, it occurred to me late in life that the golden arches formed the letter "M."

Another. The space between the E and the X forms an arrow. Kids noticed this. I smacked by forehead (then returned my hand to the steering wheel).



So without further adieu ... Reddit ... Read it.

I remember your notice (I believe it was you) of the smile on the Amazon boxes which is when I noticed them as well.

Another one where the kids enlightened me. But they didn't know ....

A merica's
R oast
B eef
Y es
S ir

Or that that's how you say "RB." To this day, it's my daughter's fave fast food (suck it, Jon Stewart!). So the tradition is:

Dad: "America's roast beef?
Daughter: "Yes, sir."

gumby wrote:Another one where the kids enlightened me. But they didn't know ....

A merica's
R oast
B eef
Y es
S ir

Or that that's how you say "RB." To this day, it's my daughter's fave fast food (suck it, Jon Stewart!). So the tradition is:

Dad: "America's roast beef?
Daughter: "Yes, sir."

Again? You already smacked your forehead over this one. Like three years ago. You don't get to smack your forehead twice about Arby's until you're driving a Winnebago around to national monuments while wearing this hat:

Longhorned wrote:

gumby wrote:Another one where the kids enlightened me. But they didn't know ....

A merica's
R oast
B eef
Y es
S ir

Or that that's how you say "RB." To this day, it's my daughter's fave fast food (suck it, Jon Stewart!). So the tradition is:

Dad: "America's roast beef?
Daughter: "Yes, sir."

Again? You already smacked your forehead over this one. Like three years ago. You don't get to smack your forehead twice about Arby's until you're driving a Winnebago around to national monuments while wearing this hat:

I was merely reprising the ... say, nice hat. I gotta get one of those.

TOS calls the Football Forum: The Rich Tradition.

I just got it. Then again, I just saw it.

That's rich.

Isn't it? Don't you agree?

Marshall Mathers ... M&M ... Eminem.

Saw this... Probably where Wazzu got the idea.



Milwaukee Brewers

The glove holding the baseball is an M and B.

Thought it was just for the M. Didn't see the B. I do think the Cougs have one of the best logos. Three letters!



Better execution than the original Diamondback. Oh, a tongue, if you flip it on its side.



Original D-Back colors were a fail, too.

Always thought Wazzu had the coolest logo ever.

Wasn't sure where to put this (dinner thread?)...

What Americans call endive, the British call chicory, and what the Americans call chicory, the British call endive.

Chicat wrote:Wasn't sure where to put this (dinner thread?)...

What Americans call endive, the British call chicory, and what the Americans call chicory, the British call endive.

What Americans call American Cheese, Canadians call Canadian Cheese.

Now you tell me why anybody wants to take credit for that one.

As a kid in the early/mid 90's watching Saturday morning cartoons, seeing the many Eggo Waffle commercials, it wasn't until years later that the wordplay was getting at Let Go of my Eggo. Duh!

Longhorned wrote:

Chicat wrote:Wasn't sure where to put this (dinner thread?)...

What Americans call endive, the British call chicory, and what the Americans call chicory, the British call endive.

What Americans call American Cheese, Canadians call Canadian Cheese.

And what Americans call Canadian Bacon, Canadians call ham. Which is what it actually is.

CatsbyAZ wrote:As a kid in the early/mid 90's watching Saturday morning cartoons, seeing the many Eggo Waffle commercials, it wasn't until years later that the wordplay was getting at Let Go of my Eggo. Duh!

I was stunned when a teacher corrected my spelling of "Sandy Eggo" to "San Diego".

Chicat wrote:

Longhorned wrote:

Chicat wrote:Wasn't sure where to put this (dinner thread?)...

What Americans call endive, the British call chicory, and what the Americans call chicory, the British call endive.

What Americans call American Cheese, Canadians call Canadian Cheese.

And what Americans call Canadian Bacon, Canadians call ham. Which is what it actually is.

There's only one bacon.

Chicat wrote:

Longhorned wrote:

Chicat wrote:Wasn't sure where to put this (dinner thread?)...

What Americans call endive, the British call chicory, and what the Americans call chicory, the British call endive.

What Americans call American Cheese, Canadians call Canadian Cheese.

And what Americans call Canadian Bacon, Canadians call ham. Which is what it actually is.

What Americans call rubber, the British call condom.
What the British call rubber, Americans call eraser.

What Americans call fanny, the British call bum.
What the British call fanny, Americans call vagina.

What Americans call pants, the British call trousers.
What the British call pants, Americans call panties.

Imagine trying to get into some girl's pants AND trousers??

Thank God for George Washington.

Puerco wrote:What Americans call pants, the British call trousers.
What the British call pants, Americans call panties.

I thought the Brits called them all knickers.

I actually wanted to be creative when tired once and said, to a pretty smart person I knew at U of A, that I was "pretty fagged."

I got the weird look. Does nobody know that, in American parlance, "fagged" has meant worn out going back to at least the mid-1800s?

Stephen King even used it in a secondary character's dialogue in The Stand. Yet that word and "gay" uniformly draw the juvenile giggles and looks. I don't get it.

"Trousers" is a go-to funny word. Some sentences are funny just because you use it.

known as "ranch" in the US:

catgrad97 wrote:

Puerco wrote:What Americans call pants, the British call trousers.
What the British call pants, Americans call panties.

I thought the Brits called them all knickers.

I actually wanted to be creative when tired once and said, to a pretty smart person I knew at U of A, that I was "pretty fagged."

I got the weird look. Does nobody know that, in American parlance, "fagged" has meant worn out going back to at least the mid-1800s?

Stephen King even used it in a secondary character's dialogue in The Stand. Yet that word and "gay" uniformly draw the juvenile giggles and looks. I don't get it.

I keep telling all my British friends and colleagues to never ask, 'Fancy a fag, mate?' when they're visiting our site in Louisiana.

Yeah, I think knickers is the most common. But the Brits look funny at you if you talk about buying a new pair of pants over the weekend.

11. When Sweden is playing Denmark, it is SWE-DEN. The remaining letters, not used, is DEN-MARK.

Puerco wrote:

catgrad97 wrote:

Puerco wrote:What Americans call pants, the British call trousers.
What the British call pants, Americans call panties.

I thought the Brits called them all knickers.

I actually wanted to be creative when tired once and said, to a pretty smart person I knew at U of A, that I was "pretty fagged."

I got the weird look. Does nobody know that, in American parlance, "fagged" has meant worn out going back to at least the mid-1800s?

Stephen King even used it in a secondary character's dialogue in The Stand. Yet that word and "gay" uniformly draw the juvenile giggles and looks. I don't get it.

I keep telling all my British friends and colleagues to never ask, 'Fancy a fag, mate?' when they're visiting our site in Louisiana.

Yeah, I think knickers is the most common. But the Brits look funny at you if you talk about buying a new pair of pants over the weekend.

I know those usages (fag and fagged) mainly from listening to English music (The Kinks' "Yes Sir, No Sir" So you think that you got ambition, stop your dreaming and your idle wishing, you're outside and there's no admission to our play, wrap your ambition in your old kit bag, soon you'll be happy with a packet of fags . . .) and then looking it up. I sometimes use the word "fagged" when I am in fact, worn out. Faggot actually meant a "bundle of sticks".

I just realized the other day that the word "alphabet" comes from "alpha" and "beta". And I took Latin for three years. Definitely smacked my forehead.

I did not know that. Smack!

Chicat's avatar is quite fitting.

gumby wrote:I did not know that. Smack!

At least I'm in good company.

NERDS!!!

It was long after learning Latin that I started to make obvious connections, like the meaning of "contradict," for example.

Wait! Denali wasn't a president?

Well it sure ain't no river in Egypt.

Egypted me!

B asic
I nstructions
B efore
L eaving
E arth

And other variations, like Living Eternally.

New to me.

gumby wrote:B asic
I nstructions
B efore
L eaving
E arth

And other variations, like Living Eternally.

New to me.

I'd tell them to stick with the etymology. Be intuitive but lick everything.

Don't drink Gatorade, but next time I see one in the store...

Chicat wrote:I just realized the other day that the word "alphabet" comes from "alpha" and "beta". And I took Latin for three years. Definitely smacked my forehead.

"Alphabet" is derived from Greek, actually.

Am I the last person here to learn that Simon and Garfunkle didn't write Scarborough Fair, and that there are countless recordings of it going back decades before them, and that it's traceable in various forms to the Middle Ages?

I didn't know that.

Harry Nilsson also didn't write "Everybody’s Talkin’" which was his biggest hit song, although he was a great songwriter in his own rite.

I learned that today when I googled, "What the fuck is a Cambridge shirt?" And google said it was a "cambric shirt" and brought up the song and its history and never even mentioned Simon and Garfunkel. It was originally a song sung from the perspective of an elf dicking around his ex.

I just found out that Justin Guarini (who came in second to Kelly Clarkson in Season 1 of American Idol) is “Lil Sweet” from the Diet Dr. Pepper commercials.

Not sure why that was so shocking to me, but here we are…

They’d lock US up in the looney bin if we rambled like that.

He’s up to reading two-letter words?

Miracles never cease…