Realising Obvious Things (that Blow Your Mind)

Nitefly · 14 Apr 2021 at 11:46

From another thread, I just had my mind blown as it dawned on me the meal of the day, breakfast, comes from the idea of a ‘break in your fast’.

:eek:

How I have made it to adult life without realising this, I do not know. Derp!

Anyone else have any dopey realisations to share? I have two other recent realisations:

Pancakes are cakes made in a pan.

The “Bear Necessities” (the famous song from the Jungle Book) is a play on words.

Nitefly · 14 Apr 2021 at 12:35

Jean-F said:
I hope he was joking, I didn’t know it, but to continue the thread, in 1639, a Scandinavian, Jonas Bronck settled in the Dutch colonial settlement of New Netherland, now New York.
He and his wife were quite gregarious, and held in high regard by the other settlers from Europe, so much so, that often people would say, “It’s a nice day, let’s go visit the Broncks”.
Eventually the part where they lived, between Upper Manhattan and Westchester County, became known as the Broncks, but the spelling was changed to The Bronx.
Surely most people know that, I learned it while on a Circle Line boat tour of New York City, in 1976.

I always love how your posts have that signature @Jean-F style

Nitefly · 14 Apr 2021 at 19:23

Oh I have another one, which I revealed to the world (my class) when I was in maybe year 10 of school.

Several does NOT mean seven.

The laughter haunts me to this day

Nitefly · 17 Apr 2021 at 07:32

azazl187 said:
But does it? Nothing is infinite...

Eminem’s first album might have something to say about that.

Nitefly · 17 Apr 2021 at 08:52

Kreeeee said:
Your eyes don’t only move up and down and side to side, they rotate about the axis of the pupil.

Look in a mirror and tilt your head side to side (move your ears towards your shoulders) and you can see your pupils rotate a couple of degrees.

I think he was joking

Nitefly · 17 Apr 2021 at 09:22

Kreeeee said:
He’s not, you can easily see your eyes move in both the way he stated, and the way I started.

Oh - I took it as a "you can see your head move so your eyes are also moving" sort of comment

Nitefly · 18 Apr 2021 at 08:42

Crizzy said:
I've a couple, obvious when you think about them but I'd never given them much thought;

When you go to an audition and someone says "Break a leg" they are wishing that you end up in a cast.

When someone says "Hold your horses" they are telling you to be stable.

I’m not sure if either of those are historically true, but I like them!