Things I Didn't Know

Ksyrup · 02-04-2004, 09:08 AM

No, this isn't the follow-up to Skydog's smash hit album.

I just read that Andrea Mitchell of NBC news is married to Alan Greenspan. I had no clue.

I was similarly clueless about the fact that Leslie Visser is married to Dick Stockton, although I found out about that a few years ago.

So, what didn't you know that shocked or surprised you when you found out about it?

corbes · 02-04-2004, 09:16 AM

When John Mayer told me, "there's no such thing as the real world."

I was blown away. I had no idea.

Butter · 02-04-2004, 09:17 AM

When Captain Kangaroo died, I was doubly shocked because I thought he already had died.

rkmsuf · 02-04-2004, 09:17 AM

There actually IS always room for Jell-o...

corbes · 02-04-2004, 09:18 AM

also,

"a lot" is always two words, and is never spelled, "alot". I just learned that this year, to my obvious embarassment.

Ksyrup · 02-04-2004, 09:19 AM

I'm glad I made that question purposely open-ended. This could be an entertaining thread.

JonInMiddleGA · 02-04-2004, 09:21 AM

I was just thinking "this thread could get really really really long".

Butter · 02-04-2004, 09:24 AM

The red zone IS for loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the WHITE zone.

Fascinating.

rkmsuf · 02-04-2004, 09:25 AM

Caddyshack II WAS one of the worst movies ever. The rumors were true...

Chubby · 02-04-2004, 09:30 AM

there are some crazy people that go bonkers if I'm out of Frosty Paws...

corbes · 02-04-2004, 09:38 AM

I didn't know you were allowed to take out your breast on live television. Think where we could all be if we had known this earlier?

corbes · 02-04-2004, 10:18 AM

...that a primary can have odd polling results.

Poli · 02-04-2004, 10:25 AM

When I went to boot camp, I didn't realize we'd be in such an urban area. When they said it was in Great Lakes, IL, I thought:

"Illinois = corn fields" I'll be in the middle of nowhere for bootcamp. Probably won't be a whole lot of people there either.

Wrong. It was culture shock city.

I also assumed that the dungaree uniforms that were issued to me were for boot camp use only. I thought sailors went to sea in their dress blue and white uniforms. After all, that's what you see them leave and return from ports in.

Again, when I left boot camp I was in for a surprise.

Fonzie · 02-04-2004, 10:34 AM

Here's something that many people remain unaware of thanks to inaccurate portrayals by the media and entertainment industries: schizophrenia is not another term for multiple personality disorder (which, in fact, has itself been replaced by the term "Dissociative Identity Disorder").

They are, in fact, very different disorders, with schizophrenia featuring serious thought disorders (e.g., delusional beliefs, neologism creation, "word salad" speech generation, tangential thoughts, hallucinations, etc.) and a supposed "split" (which is where the "schizo" comes from) between cognition and emotion (they often feature flat affect). These people are psychotic, in the clinical sense of the word, but do not have multiple personalities.

Schizophrenia literally means "split" (schizo) and "mind" or "thinking" (phrenia). Some less astute folks took the "split mind" definition and jumped to all sorts of inaccurate conclusions about the term schizophrenia.

corbes · 02-04-2004, 10:36 AM

When I found out that the whole world could hear all of my thoughts, and was laughing at them, that bothered me.

Honolulu Blue · 02-04-2004, 10:36 AM

I knew about Alan & Andrea. It gives "economic stimulation" a whole new meaning.

Anyway, you could fill whole universes with what I don't know. I'm not sure I know anything about anything anymore.

Blade6119 · 02-04-2004, 10:37 AM

Bill Murray was the original first choice for Forrest Gump

Fonzie · 02-04-2004, 10:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Honolulu Blue

I'm not sure I know anything about anything anymore.

I knew that.

corbes · 02-04-2004, 10:42 AM

When I realized I knew everything, that was kind of a letdown.

Fonzie · 02-04-2004, 10:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by corbes

When I realized I knew everything, that was kind of a letdown.

No it wasn't. At least that's not what your thoughts were saying at the time.

Of course, we all had a good laugh at that!

Easy Mac · 02-04-2004, 10:43 AM

Bet you didn't know it would be a letdown.

corbes · 02-04-2004, 10:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fonzie

No it wasn't. At least that's not what your thoughts were saying at the time.

Of course, we all had a good laugh at that!

ACK! It's true!

Aylmar · 02-04-2004, 10:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Butter_of_69

The red zone IS for loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the WHITE zone.

"No, the WHITE zone is for the immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the RED zone."

Butter · 02-04-2004, 10:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aylmar

"No, the WHITE zone is for the immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the RED zone."

The red zone has always been for the immediate loading and unloading of passengers. There has never been any stopping in the white zone.

Aylmar · 02-04-2004, 10:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Butter_of_69

The red zone has always been for the immediate loading and unloading of passengers. There has never been any stopping in the white zone.

Listen Betty, don't start up with your white zone shit again.

Ksyrup · 02-04-2004, 10:55 AM

I'm filing this under things neither of you know.

Blade6119 · 02-04-2004, 10:55 AM

people dont like getting killed...

Ksyrup · 02-04-2004, 10:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blade6119

people dont like getting killed...

How do they know? They're dead.

Blade6119 · 02-04-2004, 10:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

How do they know? They're dead.

I get that guy who talks to dead people for his audience to tell me...whats his name?

corbes · 02-04-2004, 10:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blade6119

I get that guy who talks to dead people for his audience to tell me...whats his name?

Haley Joel Osment?

Blade6119 · 02-04-2004, 11:03 AM

nononono...the guy who says like: "im getting a meesage...from a J...Jake?...John?...Jason?" Oh you know jason!~

KevinNU7 · 02-04-2004, 11:05 AM

http://dynamic2.gamespy.com/~fof/for...ad.php?t=20912

KevinNU7 · 02-04-2004, 11:06 AM

Dola,

I'm surprised I haven't seen a cocky and funny joke yet

Butter · 02-04-2004, 11:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aylmar

Listen Betty, don't start up with your white zone shit again.

You just want me to have that abortion.

Blade6119 · 02-04-2004, 11:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KevinNU7

Dola,

I'm surprised I haven't seen a cocky and funny joke yet

You cant pick up girls unless you cocky and funny

bbor · 02-04-2004, 11:15 AM

Taco bell makes me poo.

fantastic flying froggies · 02-04-2004, 11:18 AM

Doesn't eating anything else makes you poo too ?

rkmsuf · 02-04-2004, 11:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fantastic flying froggies

Doesn't eating anything else makes you poo too ?

Perhaps there was a missing word at the end...like 'lots' or 'profusely'...

Aylmar · 02-04-2004, 11:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Butter_of_69

You just want me to have that abortion.

Well, it's the only sensible solution. If done properly, there really isn't any risk involved.

Fritz · 02-04-2004, 11:43 AM

this thread had so much promise

Ksyrup · 02-04-2004, 11:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fritz

this thread had so much promise

Yes, it did. But we knew that.

Fritz · 02-04-2004, 11:46 AM

In the spirit of Ksyrups original post:

Ron Jeremy, Pornstar:

He was a former high school school teacher.

According to Jeremy in an interview with "Time Out New York" magazine, in order not to upset nor alert executives at Disney, Jeremy's role as Blisterface in the children's series "Bone Chillers" (1996) was kept secret. Producers disguised Jeremy so much that he is unrecognizable, which helped them from alerting pro-family studio executives that a pornstar was on their payroll.

He holds a master's degree in Special Education.

Is quite a talented piano player.

fantastic flying froggies · 02-04-2004, 11:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fritz

this thread had so much promise

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

Yes, it did. But we knew that.

Well, we are FOFC, after all...

MacroGuru · 02-04-2004, 11:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fritz

In the spirit of Ksyrups original post:

Ron Jeremy, Pornstar:

He was a former high school school teacher.

According to Jeremy in an interview with "Time Out New York" magazine, in order not to upset nor alert executives at Disney, Jeremy's role as Blisterface in the children's series "Bone Chillers" (1996) was kept secret. Producers disguised Jeremy so much that he is unrecognizable, which helped them from alerting pro-family studio executives that a pornstar was on their payroll.

He holds a master's degree in Special Education.

Is quite a talented piano player.

Now this is something I didn't know!

McSweeny · 02-04-2004, 12:23 PM

all i know is that i don't know nothin'

and a large cash sum to the first person to get that reference

Ksyrup · 02-04-2004, 12:46 PM

Well done, Fritz! Now THAT's what I'm talking about.

rkmsuf · 02-04-2004, 12:52 PM

All right...didn't realize this...

Apparently, Tom Cruise has dyslexia. I heard that whenever he studies his lines for a movie he has them recorded onto an audio cassette so that he can play them back aloud instead of reading them. This may account for the fact that he has never appeared on Saturday Night Live, a show that relies heavily on the ability of its actors to read cue cards on live television.

QuikSand · 02-04-2004, 12:58 PM

I learned something of a similar nature here at FOFC, to my modest embarassment.

When you have a dramatic shift in an entire circumstance, the term for what you've undergone is a "sea change." Until about a year or two ago, I thought the term was "C change" (and was originally some sort of reference to music, which still makes at least as much sense to me).

Ksyrup · 02-04-2004, 01:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by QuikSand

I learned something of a similar nature here at FOFC, to my modest embarassment.

When you have a dramatic shift in an entire circumstance, the term for what you've undergone is a "sea change." Until about a year or two ago, I thought the term was "C change" (and was originally some sort of reference to music, which still makes at least as much sense to me).

I knew that, but like you, I have no clue what it really means.

Fritz · 02-04-2004, 01:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by McSweeny

all i know is that i don't know nothin'

and a large cash sum to the first person to get that reference

OP Ivy (or Rancid)

02-04-2004, 09:17 AM	#3
Butter Coordinator Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Dayton, OH	When Captain Kangaroo died, I was doubly shocked because I thought he already had died. __________________ My listening habits

02-04-2004, 09:17 AM	#4
rkmsuf Head Coach Join Date: Dec 2001	There actually IS always room for Jell-o... __________________ "Don't you have homes?" -- Judge Smales

02-04-2004, 09:19 AM	#6
Ksyrup This guy has posted so much, his fingers are about to fall off. Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: In Absentia	I'm glad I made that question purposely open-ended. This could be an entertaining thread. __________________ M's pitcher Miguel Batista: "Now, I feel like I've had everything. I've talked pitching with Sandy Koufax, had Kenny G play for me. Maybe if I could have an interview with God, then I'd be served. I'd be complete."

02-04-2004, 09:24 AM	#8
Butter Coordinator Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Dayton, OH	The red zone IS for loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the WHITE zone. Fascinating. __________________ My listening habits

02-04-2004, 09:25 AM	#9
rkmsuf Head Coach Join Date: Dec 2001	Caddyshack II WAS one of the worst movies ever. The rumors were true... __________________ "Don't you have homes?" -- Judge Smales

02-04-2004, 09:16 AM	#2
corbes College Benchwarmer Join Date: Nov 2003	When John Mayer told me, "there's no such thing as the real world." I was blown away. I had no idea.

02-04-2004, 09:18 AM	#5
corbes College Benchwarmer Join Date: Nov 2003	also, "a lot" is always two words, and is never spelled, "alot". I just learned that this year, to my obvious embarassment.

02-04-2004, 09:21 AM	#7
JonInMiddleGA Hall Of Famer Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA	I was just thinking "this thread could get really really really long".

02-04-2004, 09:30 AM	#10
Chubby Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Syracuse, NY	there are some crazy people that go bonkers if I'm out of Frosty Paws...

02-04-2004, 09:38 AM	#11
corbes College Benchwarmer Join Date: Nov 2003	I didn't know you were allowed to take out your breast on live television. Think where we could all be if we had known this earlier?

02-04-2004, 10:18 AM	#12
corbes College Benchwarmer Join Date: Nov 2003	...that a primary can have odd polling results.

02-04-2004, 10:25 AM	#13
Poli FOFC Survivor Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Wentzville, MO	When I went to boot camp, I didn't realize we'd be in such an urban area. When they said it was in Great Lakes, IL, I thought: "Illinois = corn fields" I'll be in the middle of nowhere for bootcamp. Probably won't be a whole lot of people there either. Wrong. It was culture shock city. I also assumed that the dungaree uniforms that were issued to me were for boot camp use only. I thought sailors went to sea in their dress blue and white uniforms. After all, that's what you see them leave and return from ports in. Again, when I left boot camp I was in for a surprise. __________________ Cheer for a walk on quarterback! Ardent leads the Vols in the dynasty forum.

02-04-2004, 10:34 AM	#14
Fonzie Pro Rookie Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Illinois	Here's something that many people remain unaware of thanks to inaccurate portrayals by the media and entertainment industries: schizophrenia is not another term for multiple personality disorder (which, in fact, has itself been replaced by the term "Dissociative Identity Disorder"). They are, in fact, very different disorders, with schizophrenia featuring serious thought disorders (e.g., delusional beliefs, neologism creation, "word salad" speech generation, tangential thoughts, hallucinations, etc.) and a supposed "split" (which is where the "schizo" comes from) between cognition and emotion (they often feature flat affect). These people are psychotic, in the clinical sense of the word, but do not have multiple personalities. Schizophrenia literally means "split" (schizo) and "mind" or "thinking" (phrenia). Some less astute folks took the "split mind" definition and jumped to all sorts of inaccurate conclusions about the term schizophrenia.

02-04-2004, 10:36 AM	#15
corbes College Benchwarmer Join Date: Nov 2003	When I found out that the whole world could hear all of my thoughts, and was laughing at them, that bothered me.

02-04-2004, 10:36 AM	#16
Honolulu Blue Dynasty Boy Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Michigan	I knew about Alan & Andrea. It gives "economic stimulation" a whole new meaning. Anyway, you could fill whole universes with what I don't know. I'm not sure I know anything about anything anymore.

02-04-2004, 10:37 AM	#17
Blade6119 Coordinator Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Scottsdale, Arizona	Bill Murray was the original first choice for Forrest Gump __________________ *Underachievement* The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the lawnmower. *Despair* It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black. *Demotivation* Sometimes the best solution to morale problems is just to fire all of the unhappy people. http://www.despair.com/viewall.html

02-04-2004, 10:42 AM	#19
corbes College Benchwarmer Join Date: Nov 2003	When I realized I knew everything, that was kind of a letdown.

02-04-2004, 10:43 AM	#21
Easy Mac Registered User Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Here	Bet you didn't know it would be a letdown.

02-04-2004, 10:55 AM	#26
Ksyrup This guy has posted so much, his fingers are about to fall off. Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: In Absentia	I'm filing this under things neither of you know. __________________ M's pitcher Miguel Batista: "Now, I feel like I've had everything. I've talked pitching with Sandy Koufax, had Kenny G play for me. Maybe if I could have an interview with God, then I'd be served. I'd be complete."

02-04-2004, 10:55 AM	#27
Blade6119 Coordinator Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Scottsdale, Arizona	people dont like getting killed... __________________ *Underachievement* The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the lawnmower. *Despair* It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black. *Demotivation* Sometimes the best solution to morale problems is just to fire all of the unhappy people. http://www.despair.com/viewall.html

02-04-2004, 11:03 AM	#31
Blade6119 Coordinator Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Scottsdale, Arizona	nononono...the guy who says like: "im getting a meesage...from a J...Jake?...John?...Jason?" Oh you know jason!~ __________________ *Underachievement* The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the lawnmower. *Despair* It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black. *Demotivation* Sometimes the best solution to morale problems is just to fire all of the unhappy people. http://www.despair.com/viewall.html

02-04-2004, 11:05 AM	#32
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02-04-2004, 11:06 AM	#33
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02-04-2004, 11:15 AM	#36
bbor Pro Starter Join Date: May 2001 Location: toronto	Taco bell makes me poo. __________________ Pumpy Tudors Now that I've cracked and made that admission, I wonder if I'm only a couple of steps away from wanting to tongue-kiss Jaromir Jagr and give Bobby Clarke a blowjob.

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Fritz Lethargic Hooligan Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: hello kitty found my wallet at a big tent revival and returned it with all the cash missing	this thread had so much promise __________________ donkey, donkey, walk a little faster

02-04-2004, 11:46 AM	#42
Fritz Lethargic Hooligan Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: hello kitty found my wallet at a big tent revival and returned it with all the cash missing	In the spirit of Ksyrups original post: Ron Jeremy, Pornstar: He was a former high school school teacher. According to Jeremy in an interview with "Time Out New York" magazine, in order not to upset nor alert executives at Disney, Jeremy's role as Blisterface in the children's series "Bone Chillers" (1996) was kept secret. Producers disguised Jeremy so much that he is unrecognizable, which helped them from alerting pro-family studio executives that a pornstar was on their payroll. He holds a master's degree in Special Education. Is quite a talented piano player. __________________ donkey, donkey, walk a little faster

02-04-2004, 12:23 PM	#45
McSweeny College Starter Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Somerville, MA	all i know is that i don't know nothin' and a large cash sum to the first person to get that reference

02-04-2004, 12:46 PM	#46
Ksyrup This guy has posted so much, his fingers are about to fall off. Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: In Absentia	Well done, Fritz! Now THAT's what I'm talking about. __________________ M's pitcher Miguel Batista: "Now, I feel like I've had everything. I've talked pitching with Sandy Koufax, had Kenny G play for me. Maybe if I could have an interview with God, then I'd be served. I'd be complete."

02-04-2004, 12:52 PM	#47
rkmsuf Head Coach Join Date: Dec 2001	All right...didn't realize this... Apparently, Tom Cruise has dyslexia. I heard that whenever he studies his lines for a movie he has them recorded onto an audio cassette so that he can play them back aloud instead of reading them. This may account for the fact that he has never appeared on Saturday Night Live, a show that relies heavily on the ability of its actors to read cue cards on live television. __________________ "Don't you have homes?" -- Judge Smales

02-04-2004, 12:58 PM	#48
QuikSand lolzcat Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Annapolis, Md	I learned something of a similar nature here at FOFC, to my modest embarassment. When you have a dramatic shift in an entire circumstance, the term for what you've undergone is a "sea change." Until about a year or two ago, I thought the term was "C change" (and was originally some sort of reference to music, which still makes at least as much sense to me).

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