Honesty Moment: alpine
Waiting for breakfast the other day, I was perusing the bottled water display and one of the brands was advertising itself as "alpine." And it occurred to me, for the very first time, that "alpine" refers to a quality one might find in the Alps, and was not, as I had previously assumed throughout my suburban childhood, only the name of a car sound system manufacturer.
20 September 2005, 15:29
Honesty Moment: rat pack
The “Rat Pack,” the popular cutesy term to refer to Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr. and possibly some others, is a play on words based on “pack rat.”
That just now occurred to me.
30 May 2005, 18:57
Honesty Moment: calc
Did you know you could open up more than one instance of the calculator in Windows?
9 February 2005, 11:22
Honesty Moment: Eon hand
He’s got a watch with a minute hand,
millennium hand,
and an eon hand
Album’s been out for fourteen years and I just found out that he’s not singing “a neon hand.” Y’all realize I made a skin for this site with erroneous graphics?
Damn shame.
8 July 2004, 17:27
See Rock Stupid
Oh, check it out. You know those birdhouses that people hang up on their front lawns with the phrase “SEE ROCK CITY” written on them?
Well…
Turns out that they’re not actually advertisements hung by family members of the cast and crew of “Detroit Rock City,” like you or I, or especially I, had assumed. Nope. It’s a slogan used by tourist attraction Lookout Mountain on the Tennesee / Georgia border. You go there, and it’s way up high, and you can literally see Rock City. The same slogan is used by Rock City, itself.
I figured the filmmakers wanted people to go see their movie, because nobody had, so they sent out these birdhouses. But they needed the words to be large enough to be read from the road, so they didn’t include the word “Detroit” on there.
28 May 2004, 19:47
Honesty Moment: Van Cliburn
I spent about an hour once trying to find out Van Cliburn’s first name.
10 October 2003, 09:10
Honesty Moment: Dr. J
When I was a kid I believed “Dr. J” and “Julia Serving” were completely separate people. I actually kind of thought Julia Serving was Julia Child’s assistant.
5 September 2003, 21:30
I’m more impressed with farmers
The Army used to have this slogan, “we do more before 9 a.m. than most people do all day.” My childhood mind used to believe this meant that they’d get up around 6, work really hard at running and jumping and stuff, and then go back to bed ‘til around 4. Then maybe wake up… have a cappuccino… and laze around for a while before going back to bed again.
3 September 2003, 09:36
Throughout the entire series, I thought Dumb Donald had just blown a really large bubble and it exploded on his head, and either he wore it as a trophy, or couldn’t get it off.
I figured that was why he was Dumb.
31 August 2003, 13:04
