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Anonymous wrote:That it's astigmatism and "a stigmatism."

me too!

This raises an interesting spinoff. Do you correct your spouse when they say something like this? I do, because I don’t want others to think less of my spouse. However, I appreciate it can be viewed as patronizing. I always struggle whether to say something.

Anonymous wrote:Well into my 30's, I thought vanilla/strawberry/chocolate ice cream was "napoleon flavored" until realizing it was actually Neapolitan. Oops

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This isn’t mine, but my mother’s. She is very proper. To give an example, she addresses birthday cards to male children as “Master John Doe.” That level of proper. She has never, nor would she ever, utter something as crass as the F word. That’s what makes this hysterical. At some point in her life, she heard the phrase “shot his wad,” and had no idea what that referred to. She interpreted it as “he gave his all,” so she would occasionally describe someone who had put in grueling hours at work and she would say, “He has really just shot his wad.” The first time I heard her say this, I was too shocked and horrified to respond. The second time, a year or so later, I could barely keep myself from laughing out loud, and decided it was my dad’s duty to speak up, so I didn’t say anything. The third time, a couple years later, Mom even referred to a woman “shooting her wad.” At that point, it occurred to me that Dad wasn’t correcting her (surely he knows what it means, right?!), and that she was probably uttering this phrase to people outside of our family, since she was so clearly unfamiliar with its meaning. I steeled my nerves, sat her down and explained it to her. It was so awkward for me that I don’t even remember how she reacted.

You need to look up the origin of this saying. It's NOT sexual.


NP: It's not?? I'm afraid to google for further confirmation at work...

Go ahead and Google. It goes back to the days of muzzle loaded guns.

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Anonymous wrote:I didn’t know until I went on vacation to London with my husband and 3 elementary aged kids that the London Bridge is in Arizona, not London.

Go back and try again.

Anonymous wrote:Some of these remind me of a story from a sommelier I used to work with.

A customer looked at the very expensive wine list, and then ordered the "cor-CAHJ". Confused at first, the sommelier then smiled and said they were all out, and steered them towards the cheapest wine they had. The customer had likely been looking for the cheapest item, and saw that the CORKAGE fee was $15, and tried to order it.

Anonymous wrote:I used to love the movie Dirty Dancing when I was a kid. I had NO IDEA that Penny’s character was getting some back room abortion. The whole time they kept saying, “Penny is in trouble.” I had no idea what that meant.

It was only when I was watching the movie in grad school when it finally clicked and I was like, “holy hell!”

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Anonymous wrote:How to pump gas but in my defense I am from NJ

This comment reminded me of something I recently learned:

That there is a little arrow by your gas gauge on your dashboard that tells you what side of the car the gas tank is on. Who knew!

Anonymous wrote:That I was my mother's favorite! When my mother died my sister told me this and I'm sure it had to do to my being born with a really bad disability. I guess she felt guilty in some way but thanks to my mom I really overcame it. But I was one of five and she spread the love so I was clueless.

Anonymous wrote:I didn’t know until I went on vacation to London with my husband and 3 elementary aged kids that the London Bridge is in Arizona, not London.