People/Things/ Facts you thought everyone knew...- Page 3

Posted: 8/8/05 at 8:30pm

You mean Dr Pepper comes from Texas? (Silly Californians.)

Posted: 8/8/05 at 8:31pm

I once sat through a screening of "Gone With The Wind" at Radio City Music Hall. In the final moments of the film as Scarlett says she'll go home to Tara and think about it tomorrow. The young woman sitting in front of me leaned over to her friend and said, "What's Tara?"

Hellooooo?
You've only been watching this film for 4 friggin hours.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 8/8/05 at 8:42pm

I had a friend in Michigan that thought Seattle was outside of Washington DC

Many people do not know that ALL air-traffic communication is done in English, worldwide.....whether it's a Russian, British, or Columbian flight.

Posted: 8/8/05 at 9:12pm

One day at a job I was speaking with a woman. She and I were unknown to one another. She asked me my name, and I answered. Here's the diaologue that ensued.

Woman: José [she used the accent égué]. That's Polish, ain't it?

José: Yes [I figured, what the hell? Let's see where this goes.]

Woman: I knew it. My daughter's boyfriend is named José, and he's Polish, too.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

I shudda guessed something was off when she told me earlier in the conversation that she made fruit baskets for a living.

José: Fruit baskets?

Woman: Yes, you know. For Bon Voyage gifts.

[What friggin decade is this, the 1930's?]

[The Grovers Corners Yenta]

Posted: 8/8/05 at 9:35pm

I used to work in health insurance and a hospital admitting person was callin g in an admission to us. She told me the patient lived in Lafayette, Los Angeles. I told her that Los Angeles was not a state and to please give me the state that the patient resided in. She told me the patient was from Lafayette, LA!!

[Thenardier]

Posted: 8/8/05 at 9:42pm

Jose - your stories are making me laugh.

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

HAHAHA!

Posted: 8/8/05 at 9:43pm

Oh, my...

[EverythingIsRENT]

Posted: 8/8/05 at 9:50pm

Jodie Foster is gay!? That's news to me!!

My mother is a riot. We were playing Trivial Persuit and she had no clue Egpyt was in Africa. Then the other night we were discussing the space program and my dad had to explain to her that the ocean is attached to the earth, it's not just floating around the globe. Hehe, my mom is a nut.

Oh, and my friend didn't know who Bernadette Peters was, but that's not as funny as my mom!

Updated On: 8/8/05 at 09:50 PM

Posted: 8/8/05 at 9:57pm

It was the 1970's and the night the US manned flight landed on the moon. The elderly mother of my mothers life-long friend was out in the yard looking up at the moon. She walked into the house and announced (in Spanish):

"I don't know what all the fuss is about. I don't see anything."

[Calvin]

Posted: 8/8/05 at 9:58pm

*actual conversation between a Blockbuster clerk and me as I was checking out "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"

CLERK: "Cat on a roof?"
ME: Yes.
CLERK: What's that?
ME: It's about a cat that sits on the roof.
CLERK: Like Garfield?
ME: Nah. More like Heathcliff.
CLERK: Who?
ME: Never mind.

And I think I mentioned this in another thread, but a friend of mine thought Old Man River was from "that Huck Finn musical."

Posted: 8/8/05 at 10:05pm

Like anyone who moves to NYC, living here you learn things. I had been working for several years at a major metropolitan daily. Passing through Times Square everyday. One day it hit me out of the blue. It was called Times Square because of The New York Times. And Herald Square was called that because of the newspaper that once was located there, as well.

Reminds of the old joke, "Who's buried in Grant's Tomb?"

Posted: 8/8/05 at 10:20pm

That's something I didn't know. Thanks, Jose'

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 8/8/05 at 10:23pm

My father walked in to the "Man Hole" in Chicago and did not know it was a gay bar. (That is folk lore in my family)

[Calvin]

Posted: 8/8/05 at 10:23pm

Cary Grant!