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The old thread is here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/sh...hreadid=2720564 All 3 years and 450+ pages of it. Be funny, or die. And for the love of god, don't post about the Fedex Arrow or Gisnep or the Amazon logo.
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| # ? Jan 26, 2011 20:05 |
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The Cheetos people chose a cheetah as a mascot because "cheetah" sounds like "Cheetos." That powdery revelation occurred to me last night.
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| # ? Jan 26, 2011 20:17 |
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Here's some of the most common ones from past threads, near the top of the first page, in the vain hope it will keep people from posting them again. The FedEx Arrow:   In the manuals and such, Tails' full name is given as 'Miles "Tails" Prower'. Miles Prower sounds like Miles Per Hour, referring to Sonic being fast.  This says WALT DISNEY, not Waly Gisnep or any variation thereof.  The Amazon logo has an arrow from the A to the Z, implying they carry "everything from A to Z".   Dual meaning: "Kiss" begins with "K", and they're implying that buying their jewelery will get your girl to kiss you. Sleepy's Mattresses uses the slogan "For the rest of your life." It has a dual meaning: it gives the best rest you've ever had, and you'll never need another mattress. In the song "Blinded by the Light" It says "revved up like a deuce" not "Wrapped up like a douche" or any other variants. Wikipedia posted:Arby's was founded in Boardman, Ohio, in 1964 by Forrest and Leroy Raffel, owners of a restaurant equipment business who believed there was a market opportunity for a fast food franchise based on a food other than hamburgers. The brothers wanted to call their restaurants "Big Tex," but that name was being used by an Akron business. Instead, they chose the name "Arby's," based on R. B., the initials of Raffel Brothers. If anyone knows other common ones I've missed, PM me or something and I'll add 'em. m2pt5 fucked around with this message at Aug 20, 2012 around 02:32 |
| # ? Jan 26, 2011 21:10 |
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m2pt5 posted:
No PMs here, but you should probably mention "Every kiss begins with Kay" and "For the rest of your life" advertising slogans. Actual thing I just figured out yesterday: "When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie..." That's amore. Not a more, or a moray. Amore. The Italian word for love. Duh.
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| # ? Jan 26, 2011 21:52 |
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Rest in piece, old thread. You served us well. I realised something the other day. New Jersey is not to the north of New York. It's to the south. So is Washington DC. And Baltimore? Yeah it's there too.  I'm British so this is kind of excusable... right? It'd be an interesting experiment for me to draw the USA from memory. e: and holy poo poo Newark and Hoboken and all these other places I've heard of are like RIGHT THERE next to NYC. I don't know how I've managed to live this long not knowing this poo poo.
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| # ? Jan 26, 2011 22:49 |
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eating only apples posted:Rest in piece, old thread. You served us well. Do you expect Americans to know where all of your counties are in relation to one another? Most of us probably don't know our own geography, either.
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| # ? Jan 26, 2011 23:01 |
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Not all Captain Morgans' Rum is spiced. Doi.
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| # ? Jan 27, 2011 00:34 |
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bewilderment posted:"When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie..." When I was a kid, we'd sing: When a fish swimming by Takes a chunk out of your thigh It's a moray. But we were sick kids.
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| # ? Jan 27, 2011 02:03 |
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m2pt5 posted:I forget the company, but a mattress brand uses the slogan "For the rest of your life." It has a dual meaning: it gives the best rest you've ever had, and you'll never need another mattress. It's Sleepy's Mattresses.
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| # ? Jan 27, 2011 02:03 |
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The Sleep Shop in Austin used to run a commercial with the slogan, "If you're not sleeping with us, you're sleeping alone"
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| # ? Jan 27, 2011 02:19 |
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eating only apples posted:Rest in piece, old thread. You served us well.
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| # ? Jan 27, 2011 02:36 |
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(from the previous thread)helopticor posted:In case you've never heard of the song, this is right out of Crazy ABCs. mystes fucked around with this message at Jan 27, 2011 around 02:44 |
| # ? Jan 27, 2011 02:41 |
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Elijya posted:Don't feel so bad. Most Americans probably couldn't even point to where London is within 200km To be fair, they probably don't even know how much 200km is, anyway.
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| # ? Jan 27, 2011 03:26 |
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m2pt5 posted:
In the song "Blinded by the Light" It says "revved up like a deuce" not "Wrapped up like a douche" or any other variants. That was a pretty big one last thread.
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| # ? Jan 27, 2011 03:47 |
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Elijya posted:Don't feel so bad. Most Americans probably couldn't even point to where London is within 200km I'm from the North American midwest and I couldn't differentiate between the colonial states if I had to. I know more about European geography than North American. Content: a week ago I had the pleasure of seeing a child figure out that the alphabet song and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star were the same song. He came running up to me like he'd uncovered the ark of the covenant.
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mojo1701a posted:To be fair, they probably don't even know how much 200km is, anyway. 200 km is like 933 Celsius deciliters, right? To contribute: In the song "Love Game" by Lady Gaga, when she says "I wanna take a ride on your disco stick" it means she wants to have sex with you. I know I should pick up on these things faster, and usually I do with my filthy mind, but that one just slipped by me for whatever reason.
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Slim Killington posted:Content: a week ago I had the pleasure of seeing a child figure out that the alphabet song and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star were the same song. He came running up to me like he'd uncovered the ark of the covenant. This is of course not the case for some, I believe British, or maybe all non-American. Not a thing I just figured out but something good to know.
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mojo1701a posted:To be fair, they probably don't even know how much 200km is, anyway. They'd probably wonder what a k mile is.
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Elijya posted:Don't feel so bad. Most Americans probably couldn't even point to where London is within 200km Can you point to every capital in the world? 
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Quibb posted:In the song "Blinded by the Light" It says "revved up like a deuce" not "Wrapped up like a douche" or any other variants. That was a pretty big one last thread. Was this linked in the last thread? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCdpPMR6nEc
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Captain Kickass posted:In the song "Love Game" by Lady Gaga, when she says "I wanna take a ride on your disco stick" it means she wants to have sex with you. I know I should pick up on these things faster, and usually I do with my filthy mind, but that one just slipped by me for whatever reason. I hadn't though about Madonna's song "Into The Groove" since I was a kid, when I'd assumed it was somewhat suggestive but was actually about dancing. I heard it the other day and realised it's not really about dancing at all.  quote:Only when I'm dancing can I feel this free OMG she was singing about masturbating!!!
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RagnarokAngel posted:Can you point to every capital in the world? There's a difference between pointing to every capital in the world, and pointing toward one of the largest and most important cities in the world for the last 500 years which was the center of one of the last globe-spanning empires, and is also the seat of power for the country that America used to belong to until the Revolutionary War, which we continue to have strong ties to in every facet of our cultures, and is also the third/fourth largest English speaking city. But to answer your question, no, I can't point to the capital of Burkino Faso, Bangladesh, Ghana, Paraguay or a hundred other countries. But are they really comparable to loving England in this context?
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I can't believe I just figured out I'm gay. Edit: I can't believe I just figured out I should require a password when waking the computer from sleep mode. (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
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It was relatively recently I found out that Scotch and Bourbon were sub-categories of the greater liquor family that is Whisky. I thought they were three totally different alcohols. In the same vein, that Vodka is in fact not Russian, but Polish. And Vodka is not generally made with potatoes. None of the original recipes involved potatoes, and even today most use other sources of starch, and the best Vodkas in the world are made with rye and wheat. This info shattered what I thought I knew about alcohol.
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| # ? Jan 27, 2011 09:39 |
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Samfucius posted:It was relatively recently I found out that Scotch and Bourbon were sub-categories of the greater liquor family that is Whisky. I thought they were three totally different alcohols.
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Just realised that Elton John mixes potions in a travelling show, not a travelling shoe.
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| # ? Jan 27, 2011 10:16 |
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Slim Killington posted:I'm from the North American midwest and I couldn't differentiate between the colonial states if I had to. I know more about European geography than North American. Well there's mine. I never even saw the connection between Twinkle Twinkle and the alphbet song.
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dinozombiesgoRARR posted:I hadn't though about Madonna's song "Into The Groove" since I was a kid, when I'd assumed it was somewhat suggestive but was actually about dancing. I heard it the other day and realised it's not really about dancing at all. Now that I think about it, it was quite an appropriate song for a Gap advert.
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| # ? Jan 27, 2011 14:51 |
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Elijya posted:There's a difference between pointing to every capital in the world, and pointing toward one of the largest and most important cities in the world for the last 500 years which was the center of one of the last globe-spanning empires, and is also the seat of power for the country that America used to belong to until the Revolutionary War, which we continue to have strong ties to in every facet of our cultures, and is also the third/fourth largest English speaking city. This is the most self-important post ever. Take a step back and read your post again. Do you really feel this way? If so I feel sorry for you.
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m2pt5 posted:Sleepy's Mattresses uses the slogan "For the rest of your life." It has a dual meaning: it gives the best rest you've ever had, and you'll never need another mattress. On that note, I've always thought "The mattress professionals, doin' it right" would make a killer rap lyric. 
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This isn't recent, but it happened a lot later than it should have: I have seen The Wizard of Oz approximately 200 times in my 26 years. Somewhere around the 190th time, I realized that the farmhands were the Tin Man, the Scarecrow, and the Cowardly Lion. HOW DID I loving MISS THAT?? I knew the fortune-teller guy was the Wizard, I knew that Miss Gulch was the Wicked Witch...what the gently caress? 
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Russes Sister posted:This isn't recent, but it happened a lot later than it should have: This is even worse because somehow you missed the entire segment with "and you were there, and you were there, and you were there... and you were there!", or somehow misinterpreted it. I managed to reach the age of almost 20 before I realised that The Beatles keep a Beat.
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| # ? Jan 27, 2011 15:49 |
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This just in: Roger Bart, John Michael Higgins, and Steve Hytner are, in fact, three different people. I have a hard time explaining how I always got the three of them confused for many many years, except that they all generally look a tiny but alike if you squint.
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Noonsaliwah posted:I managed to reach the age of almost 20 before I realised that The Beatles keep a Beat. This honestly took an epsiode of the Powerpuff Girls for me to get.  "Oh, haha, the Beat-Alls, like the beat everyone, but are the Beatles... OH! The Beat-les, like keapping a beat. Haha, did you guys ever realize that about the Beatles?"
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| # ? Jan 27, 2011 16:07 |
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Synonamess Botch posted:This is the most self-important post ever. Take a step back and read your post again. Do you really feel this way? If so I feel sorry for you. It's not self important at all. I'm just acknowledging that the fewer the barriers and the greater the history between two countries, the more likely it is for residents of one country to know a little bit about the other. I don't know much about Bangladesh, because they're on the other side of the world, don't generally come up in the news I'm exposed to, I'm not familiar with any artists or entertainers who hail from there, and they never really came up in any history I've studied. But I'll betcha a lot of people in India could tell you the capital of Bangladesh.
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| # ? Jan 27, 2011 16:17 |
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Captain Kickass posted:In the song "Love Game" by Lady Gaga, when she says "I wanna take a ride on your disco stick" it means she wants to have sex with you. I know I should pick up on these things faster, and usually I do with my filthy mind, but that one just slipped by me for whatever reason. What else did you possible think she meant?! I mean...did you think that there was an actual stick that was used in disco, or something, and that it was somehow big enough to ride on? To contribute and let someone else make fun of me: I grew up in Vermont, went to college in upstate NY, and yet it wasn't until I was out of college and living less than 30 miles from the Ontario border did I find out that no, Toronto is NOT the capitol of Canada.
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DrBouvenstein posted:What else did you possible think she meant?! I mean...did you think that there was an actual stick that was used in disco, or something, and that it was somehow big enough to ride on? She does carry around a stick with a glowing crystal thing on the end of it and calls it her "disco stick," so I can understand the confusion. http://www.google.com/images?rls=en&q=disco%20stick Edit: To provide my own recent revelation. The Slanket or Snuggie is really just simple robe you wear backwards. It isn't a "blanket" with "sleeves" at all. Aleph Null fucked around with this message at Jan 27, 2011 around 16:51 |
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Caseus Maximus posted:To provide my own recent revelation. I just recently picked up a Snuggie, and it is in fact a blanket with sleeves. It's not robe-shaped. Try wearing one backwards and you can see that.
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Synonamess Botch posted:This is the most self-important post ever. Take a step back and read your post again. Do you really feel this way? If so I feel sorry for you. I feel sorry for you that you seem to feel political correctness is more important than reality. As a matter of fact, the US and UK *are* more important on a global scale and in simple general terms than Burkina Faso.
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I know we're trying to avoid logos here, but there are some people that are bound to have not yet realized this: there are cups in the Os in SOLO, the disposable cup/kitchenware brand. Never saw that mentioned in the old thread.
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