I used to be up late one evening lately, unable to sleep after all, and I someway got here throughout a thread on Reddit that then sucked me in for actually about two hours! It was such a enjoyable learn and it made me assume of some issues of my very own.
The thread was a query: What’s one thing that you just discovered embarrassingly late in life?
I considered one instantly (which I am going to checklist) however then I began pondering of others. And one in all them I truly discovered whereas I used to be studying the thread! Hahaha. So right here it goes…
Three Issues Thursday: Three Issues I Discovered Embarrassingly Late In Life
1) “This little piggy went to market” did NOT, in reality, imply that he was going grocery buying.
He was going to the market to be bought for meat! I solely discovered this inside the final 5 years or so, which implies I spent 35+ years pondering that the little youngsters’s rhyme was cute and joyful. (Now, as an moral vegan, it is a bit traumatizing–ignorance is bliss typically, for positive!
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| Look how deceptive! I imply, a fox and a rabbit buying collectively? C’mon! 😉 |
2) The film Spaceballs is a parody of Star Wars.
It is no secret that Jerry is obsessive about Star Wars. And I do not use the phrase “obsessed” evenly. I’ve by no means had any curiosity within the sequence and I solely watched the film for the primary time about two years in the past for Jerry’s birthday (I strongly disliked it and nonetheless have little interest in it). I even dressed like Princess Leia for the occasion–luckily, Jerry is aware of what a cool spouse he has, haha)
Nevertheless, once I was a child, I *beloved* the film Spaceballs! My older brother and sister would watch it, too, and I can keep in mind when their buddies came to visit Jeanie and Brian used me like a celebration trick–they would ask me to cite issues from Spaceballs and I knew each goddamn line of that film, hahaha.Â
They particularly appreciated once I quoted the “We’re taking a look at now, sir. All the things that is occurring now could be occurring now.” (See the brief scene beneath.) Their buddies thought it was hilarious–I should have been fairly younger for them to seek out it humorous that I knew the traces!
It by no means registered to me that Spaceballs was a parody of Star Wars as a result of I might by no means seen the film Star Wars–or even questioned something about it! I used to be simply by no means concerned with it. When it lastly clicked a few years in the past, I could not consider it. I believe it was the Darkish Helmet/Darth Vader factor that made the connection for me. Then I began asking Jerry one million questions on how every factor from Spaceballs was related to Star Wars.
3) Hen eggs are fertilized from chickens mating.
I always–until final week, once I learn this on the Reddit thread!–thought that rooster and chook eggs had been fertilized AFTER the egg was laid. I suppose I assumed the rooster got here alongside and deposited sperm or one thing on it? I by no means actually gave it any actual thought!
The longest I might ever actually been round chickens was for an hour or two, and even then, there most likely wasn’t even a rooster round; I might by no means witnessed something that I believed was mating. I do not know why I believed that the eggs had been fertilized afterward, however fascinated about it now, it positively makes extra sense!
This image beneath is not in any respect associated to mating chickens, however I believed it was humorous. We had been dying Easter eggs when Eli was 15 months previous, and the explanation Eli is crying so laborious on this photograph has nothing to do with the eggs–but the truth that I would not let him drink the glass of egg dye, hahaha.
Now that I’ve learn the Reddit thread, I do know that I am not the one one to be taught issues like this embarrassingly late in life… however please share any of your individual! I might like to learn them 😉Â
(Here’s a hyperlink to the Reddit thread if you wish to learn some actually nice ones. I am going to share beneath a few ones that made me chuckle approach too laborious.)
