People/Things/ Facts you thought everyone knew...- Page 2

[Elphaba]

Posted: 7/14/05 at 5:16pm

well said Sueleen!

[WonderBoy]

Posted: 7/14/05 at 5:18pm

I overheard a girl in Blockbuster getting upset because all they had were the DVD in widescreen. Her remark was "Not everybody has one of those kind of TV's. I have a regular square one." She then proceeded to storm out of the store. I just laughed.

[popcultureboy]

Posted: 7/14/05 at 5:24pm

Wonderboy, the amount of people who think you have to have a widescreen TV to watch widescreen DVDs is astonishing to me. I have encountered SO many.

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 7/14/05 at 5:33pm

I had to explain to my Mother yesterday what Hummus is.

[WonderBoy]

Posted: 7/14/05 at 5:38pm

I had to explain to a friend that he had anchovies on his ceasar salad and why they were there. His face was priceless!!!

Popcultureboy ~ That is frightening. Is it not?

Updated On: 7/14/05 at 05:38 PM

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 7/14/05 at 5:42pm

Don't even get me started on the number of things I've had to explain to my mother. She calls me whenever she doesn't know what something is. I'm her google I guess. Some things she asks I really don't feel like explaining to my MOTHER.

[WonderBoy]

Posted: 7/14/05 at 5:56pm

Why am I having Margaret Cho flashbacks? "What is @ss Master?"

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 7/14/05 at 5:57pm

Very similar to that.

[Beergoggles]

Posted: 7/14/05 at 5:59pm

I like it when you tell people Big Brother comes from George Orwells novel 1984... scarily people dont seem to know who George Orwell was!

[Kringas]

Posted: 7/14/05 at 6:10pm

I thought everyone knew that Glenn Close should never open her mouth to sing, yet a lot of people don't seem to know that.


I <3 ConvinceMe2.

Posted: 7/14/05 at 6:16pm

I sell DVDs. People every day tell me that "Widescreen" DVDs have part of the picture missing. No matter how much I try to explain that movies are FILMED in a rectangular format and they "trim off the edges" to fit them on a square TV, there are always people who want to return movies because "Part of the picture is missing."

Of course, I thought that everyone knew that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11-- silly me.

[ashley0139]

Posted: 7/14/05 at 6:42pm

Someone I was talking to was talking about going to New York. They were convinced that Phantom or Wicked or TLITP was not a Broadway show because it isn't on the actual street Broadway. They were like, "yeah I'm going to see Light in the Piazza."
me:"Cool. It's supposed to be one of the best on Broadway right now."
her: "yeah. but it's not on Broadway because it's not on the street Broadway."
me: "ummm... what?"
her: "yeah, it has to be on Broadway (street) to be a Broadway theatre, right?"
me: "ummm... no."
her: "then what makes it a Broadway theatre?"
me: "Well, there are a lot of things, but it has to do with the size of the theatre and location and stuff."
her: "oh"
me: (laughing) yeah

Oh. My other favorite is someone who didn't know that every show performed every night and thought that there was one cast that performed every show on Broadway. "You mean RENT performs every single night?" Gosh, that was scary.

[VonTussleGirl]

Posted: 7/14/05 at 7:49pm

My friend made me write out a list of things I wanted for my birthday, and as a joke, I put Hugh Jackman as number one. Her response:

"What's Hugh Jackman?"

[Justice]

Posted: 7/14/05 at 8:09pm

It always shocks me when people say "Jodie Foster is gay??? But she has kids!"

(Yes, I have heard people say this)

[CurtainUp]

Posted: 7/16/05 at 2:40am

I met someone who thought Oy vey was French. OY VEY!!!

Updated On: 7/16/05 at 02:40 AM

[RobbO]

Posted: 7/16/05 at 2:54am

you people have some dumbass friends. i would seriously think about moving to a better neighborhood.

[Jon]

Posted: 7/16/05 at 8:25am

There was a guy who used to post on that "other" theatre chat board who once posted the following (paraphrased):

"I went so see a production of the musical ANNIE, which I've never seen before. It was really strange. At the end of a scene, the lights would all go out, and a cheesy painted drop would fly in. Then there would be a short scene in front of the drop while the sets were being changed behind it. Then the lights would go out, the drop would go up, the lights would come back up, and the next set would be there."

This guy had never heard of a BLACKOUT! He had never heard of an "In One" scene - which was common in musicals for about 75 years. Evidently, he had only seen "modern" shows like CATS and LES MIZ where the action is continuous and you see the sets moving while the show is going on.

The really scary thing is, this guy had been enlisted by that other chat room as a REVIEWER!

[wildcat]

Posted: 7/16/05 at 11:38am

A guy at my gym went to see THE PRODUCERS and asked if the cast all swapped parts every night to keep from getting bored.

[Stage Addict]

Posted: 7/16/05 at 11:54am

my friend: I love the phantom of the opera.
me: Yeah Andrew Loyd Webber is amazing.
my friend: whose that?

I almost died.

[BroadwayDiva]

Posted: 7/16/05 at 11:55am

A friend of mine thought Sondheim wrote Beauty and the Beast.

[Sporti2005]

Posted: 7/16/05 at 12:34pm

a lot of people ask what state vermont is in.


also, when i was auditioning at syracuse, i said "i'm from vermont." and a girl said "really???? i'm always wanted to live on a farm!!!" yeah.....most of us don't live on farms.

[Aigoo]

Posted: 8/8/05 at 8:03pm

Apparently some people don't know what Jewel-Osco or Dominick's is!

Posted: 8/8/05 at 8:14pm

I know a 40 year old that thought the days didn't change from year to year. For example, he thought that August 8 is always on a Monday.

I didn't care to explain it to him.

[The Grovers Corners Yenta]

Posted: 8/8/05 at 8:17pm

I had to have an xray once and the technician asked if I could be pregnant. I told her no. She asked me if I was sure. I told her that I had a hysterectomy. She asked again because she said even though I had a hysterectomy I could still get pregnant. I told her there was no chance of me being pregnant since women who have hysterectomies cannot get pregnant. Again she asked if I could be pregnant. I told her not only dont I have a uterus but I dont have a cervix. She still insisted I could get pregnant. I walked out!

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 8/8/05 at 8:24pm

My friend once thought that Oliver Stone was a member of the Doors.