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Anonymous wrote:I love these! Especially "We'll burn that bridge when we get to it" and Note Bene.

I did not realize I was supposed to keep those stupid cardboard and/or plastic things in my husband's dress shirts. I'll have to look up what exactly you mean. Do you re-place the cardboard each time you wash the shirt?

No, you are supposed to throw out the cardboard, but the plastic tabs that look kind of like arrows and fit inside the collar are the collar stays and they’re there to help the collar lay properly so it doesn’t turn up at the corners. I thought they were just there to make the shirt look perfect in the package and they were meant to be thrown out.

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Anonymous wrote:I just found out two years ago that reindeer are real animals and are not make believe.

I had always assumed they were a made up animal because I only ever heard them referenced in relation to Santa who is ....

I had this experience with the narwhal. Who knew!?

Anonymous wrote:I just found out two years ago that reindeer are real animals and are not make believe.

I had always assumed they were a made up animal because I only ever heard them referenced in relation to Santa who is ....

Anonymous wrote:I just found out two years ago that reindeer are real animals and are not make believe.

I had always assumed they were a made up animal because I only ever heard them referenced in relation to Santa who is ....

Saint Nicholas of Myra (traditionally 15 March 270 – 6 December 343), also known as Nicholas of Bari, was an early Christian bishop of the ancient Greek maritime city of Myra in Asia Minor (Ancient Greek: ????, modern-day Demre, Turkey) during the time of the Roman Empire. Because of the many miracles attributed to his intercession, he is also known as Nicholas the Wonderworker. Saint Nicholas is the patron saint of sailors, merchants, archers, repentant thieves, prostitutes, children, brewers, pawnbrokers, and students in various cities and countries around Europe. His reputation evolved among the faithful, as was common for early Christian saints, and his legendary habit of secret gift-giving gave rise to the traditional model of Santa Claus ("Saint Nick") through Sinterklaas.

Anonymous wrote:I just found out two years ago that reindeer are real animals and are not make believe.

I had always assumed they were a made up animal because I only ever heard them referenced in relation to Santa who is ....

Anonymous wrote:My 17 year old recently informed me that up until a few weeks ago, she thought Martha's Vineyard was the personal estate of Martha Stewart.

I worry.

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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!

I didn’t know. I’ll check next time I’m in car!

Yup.

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Anonymous wrote:The difference between e.g. and i.e. Was blissfully using them interchangeably until my mid 40s.

Could you please educate me? I'm 43, so right on time to learn this, right?

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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.

Anonymous wrote:That road signs that say NB mean northbound. I thought it was nota bene.

Anonymous wrote:The difference between e.g. and i.e. Was blissfully using them interchangeably until my mid 40s.