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Slow On The Uptake?

The Teletubbies are called "Teletubbies" because they have functional televisions on their tummies.

Teletubbies have been a thing for fifteen years. I am only just now realizing that Teletubbies are named so because they have televisions on their tummies.

I am so stupid.

Have any of you realized something late and felt stupid for doing so? What was it? How long from your initial "Oh! So that's why..." to your eventual "Oh god, I'm so stupid."?
  • #1
  • 11 May 2012 - 03:58 AM
Now imagine these things as the human beings they once were, strapped to operating table and having their innards replaced with electrical equipment to operate the televisions. Probably lots of screaming unless they were lobotomized before the procedure.
  • #2
  • 11 May 2012 - 04:17 AM
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I thought the Bear Necessities song was about necessities for bears, I didn't really consider it being a pun. I realised this when someone I follow on twitter made this embarrassing connection himself.
  • #3
  • 11 May 2012 - 05:13 AM
Shit. Shit. Shit. So many moments but it's hard to recall them for some reason. Come on brain do your god damn job. >:O

There have been so many references that go over my head for some time.

Or jokes that I think were funny because of one thing but then I realize Oh, the punchline was actually this



I can only recall one right now, German class we're reading Die Weisse Rose, a book about a resistance group in Nazi Germany. And the book is all in German obviously.

One of the questions for a worksheet we had to do on it asked about a teacher who was taken away by the Nazis and what he did to cause it. I read the pages over a couple dozen times and eventually just guessed by using a segment in the book regarding to the teacher.

I get home then after school at night and suddenly, "OH SHIT. WHAT AM I THINKING THEY WERE NAZIS, DUH!!! THE TEACHER DIDN'T DO A DAMN THING! DAMN YOU TRICK QUESTION!!!"

This post has been edited by ThatGuy: 11 May 2012 - 05:26 AM

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  • 11 May 2012 - 05:25 AM
I live near a liquor store called G-Will Liquors. I thought the owner's first name was something that started with G and his middle name was Will. Then after a year or so I thought that it mean Good Will Liquors, then just yesterday when I walked past it a little drunk I finally made the connection. Gee Wilikers.....I have known that liquor store for nearly ten years now....I just got it.

NO I AM NOT AN NOT AN ALCOHOLIC!!!
  • #5
  • 11 May 2012 - 05:42 AM
Kay Jeweler's

"Every Kiss Begins with K(ay)"

And I was in the middle of a family reunion and just burst out "Holy crap I get it now!"

This post has been edited by Blazenarm: 11 May 2012 - 05:54 AM

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  • 11 May 2012 - 05:54 AM

View PostLvl 50 Fighter, on 11 May 2012 - 05:42 AM, said:

I live near a liquor store called G-Will Liquors. I thought the owner's first name was something that started with G and his middle name was Will. Then after a year or so I thought that it mean Good Will Liquors, then just yesterday when I walked past it a little drunk I finally made the connection. Gee Wilikers.....I have known that liquor store for nearly ten years now....I just got it.

NO I AM NOT AN NOT AN ALCOHOLIC!!!


Don't fell bad about that. I never got that until you just explained it. XD

Now for my most embarassing. I once received a jacket (unzipped) that said LON on my right hand side and DON on my left hand side. I then procceded to ask, "What is LON DON? :question:

I still get made fun of for that. :(
  • #7
  • 11 May 2012 - 04:00 PM
Today i realized that a girl's hair in an extra manga in GTO is shaped in the form of a Lobster.
Now that comic makes finally sense to me.
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  • 11 May 2012 - 04:32 PM

View PostKaxbe, on 11 May 2012 - 03:58 AM, said:

The Teletubbies are called "Teletubbies" because they have functional televisions on their tummies.

Teletubbies have been a thing for fifteen years. I am only just now realizing that Teletubbies are named so because they have televisions on their tummies.

I am so stupid.

Wow, yea, I feel stupid too now. I just though teletubbies sounded cute or some shit to the producers.
  • #9
  • 11 May 2012 - 06:40 PM
Just today, I realized this:

the written word P-O-I-G-N-A-N-T and the spoken word that sounds like "Poy-nee-ent" are actually the same word.

I've been using both, but never have I realized that they are one and the same.

This post has been edited by Dr. Klaus: 11 May 2012 - 09:24 PM

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  • 11 May 2012 - 09:24 PM
Two spellings that were probably not necessarily tailored for their meanings that I just thought about recently:

Subtle has a silent "b" which makes it coincidentally have an awesome spelling.

And Spy. Spy has a consonant acting as the vowel - kind of like a spy.

I know there are actual references and knowledge that have blown over my head over the years, but I can't seem to remember them.

View PostRex, on 11 May 2012 - 06:40 PM, said:

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Wow, yea, I feel stupid too now. I just though teletubbies sounded cute or some shit to the producers.

I don't really feel all that bad... I never watched it when I was a child, so why would I bother thinking about it?

This post has been edited by Moosack: 11 May 2012 - 09:56 PM

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  • 11 May 2012 - 09:55 PM
Obligatory relevant XKCD:
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  • #12
  • 11 May 2012 - 09:56 PM
Haha, yeah, I saw that. I remember something on the negative side of that idea coming out of C&H...
  • #13
  • 11 May 2012 - 10:51 PM
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Had a doctor named Doctor Whitesell that had the nickname Doctor Leukocyte.
Took me a few days to get it.
  • #14
  • 11 May 2012 - 11:09 PM
I didn't notice until recently, but the FedEx logo has an arrow between "E" and "x."
  • #15
  • 11 May 2012 - 11:14 PM
I moment that I realized "breakfast" was named after you "break" your night time "fast". There is also some religious subtext to it but that's not as mind blowing as just putting the words together.
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  • 12 May 2012 - 12:30 AM
I was a huge fan of Batman: The Animated Series when I was little, but his logo confused me, because I saw the yellow shape and not the black "bat" that the yellow shape created.
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So I thought it was a bat's mouth or something until I was in high school.

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  • 12 May 2012 - 02:26 AM

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Kay Jeweler's

"Every Kiss Begins with K(ay)"

And I was in the middle of a family reunion and just burst out "Holy crap I get it now!"


I just got that when I read your post. :|

I've had this happen before too, but I am having trouble recalling a specific instance.

I did once have a jacket for five years before I found out it had pockets on the inside, but that's not really that great.

I also didn't learn the word cunt until I was in college. I had never even heard it before then.

A story of someone else, though: when I was in high school, someone invited me to a church thing. I told them no thanks, I'm an atheist. They asked me what that was, and looked very confused. Took one of their friends explaining for them to figure it out.

When I was in second grade, I got glasses for the first time. Before then, I had always wondered why people sat in the back of classrooms; you can't see the board from back there! My first words on putting on the glasses were something along the lines of "Wow, I can see leaves!" Yeah, I'm pretty blind.
  • #18
  • 13 May 2012 - 08:55 PM

View PostLvl 50 Fighter, on 11 May 2012 - 05:42 AM, said:

I live near a liquor store called G-Will Liquors. I thought the owner's first name was something that started with G and his middle name was Will. Then after a year or so I thought that it mean Good Will Liquors, then just yesterday when I walked past it a little drunk I finally made the connection. Gee Wilikers.....I have known that liquor store for nearly ten years now....I just got it.

NO I AM NOT AN NOT AN ALCOHOLIC!!!


When small businesses have punny names, it will always take me a while to get it.

For example: my cousin Cesar is a barber and his barber shop is called "Scissor's Palace". I never understood why he never used his name until he explained it to me... :C
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  • 13 May 2012 - 09:00 PM

View PostKaxbe, on 13 May 2012 - 09:00 PM, said:

View PostLvl 50 Fighter, on 11 May 2012 - 05:42 AM, said:

I live near a liquor store called G-Will Liquors. I thought the owner's first name was something that started with G and his middle name was Will. Then after a year or so I thought that it mean Good Will Liquors, then just yesterday when I walked past it a little drunk I finally made the connection. Gee Wilikers.....I have known that liquor store for nearly ten years now....I just got it.

NO I AM NOT AN NOT AN ALCOHOLIC!!!


When small businesses have punny names, it will always take me a while to get it.

For example: my cousin Cesar is a barber and his barber shop is called "Scissor's Palace". I never understood why he never used his name until he explained it to me... :C

Ahaahahahah I love it cause it's punny!
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  • 14 May 2012 - 03:55 AM
Well, I first learned the original definition for "stoned" (having rocks and shit thrown at you) before the more modern use, and it got me really confused for a while when people used the word before the day I got interested enough to yell "WTF? How does that even work?!?"
  • #21
  • 14 May 2012 - 04:11 AM
When I was younger and I was watching Ben 10 (Which I regret nowadays.) I never understood the pun for the names until I said it by accident.
"Fourarms is awesome, he has FOUR ARMS! Wait...
Ooohh..."
Not one of my best moments.
  • #22
  • 14 May 2012 - 07:29 AM

View PostKaxbe, on 13 May 2012 - 09:00 PM, said:

View PostLvl 50 Fighter, on 11 May 2012 - 05:42 AM, said:

I live near a liquor store called G-Will Liquors. I thought the owner's first name was something that started with G and his middle name was Will. Then after a year or so I thought that it mean Good Will Liquors, then just yesterday when I walked past it a little drunk I finally made the connection. Gee Wilikers.....I have known that liquor store for nearly ten years now....I just got it.NO I AM NOT AN NOT AN ALCOHOLIC!!!
When small businesses have punny names, it will always take me a while to get it. For example: my cousin Cesar is a barber and his barber shop is called "Scissor's Palace". I never understood why he never used his name until he explained it to me... :C


Haha Kax now that's a good one. Gotta say I would probably never get that one even if I met him and he told me.
  • #23
  • 14 May 2012 - 02:43 PM
Honestly, he's a wanker who loves puns. If you were to meet him, he'd drop fifty puns in a ten minute conversation, most of which would probably go over your head.
  • #24
  • 14 May 2012 - 04:20 PM
I like puns too, maybe not to that extent though.
  • #25
  • 15 May 2012 - 05:06 PM
I just realized something that should have been so obvious that I can't believe I didn't get it until now...

? and ! are question and exclamation marks... to MARK question marks and exclamation marks. I thought they were just symbols to show a question, but now I realized that the name itself is to denote an exclamation or question. /slowwwwwww

However, by that logic... it would make more sense to use the foreign term "full stop" instead of "period"... unless there's a reason they're called periods? "Full stop" seems more indicative of "yeah, okay, I'm completely done the sentence now."
  • #26
  • 19 May 2012 - 07:51 PM
I would presume it denotes a period of silence.
  • #27
  • 19 May 2012 - 08:29 PM
A friend of mine used to always use the pseudo-name "Jack Mehoff" in hypothetical situations. Neither me or another friend of mine ever got it until a few weeks ago.

I also didn't get that "ftw" meant "for the win" until after over a year of hearing it.
  • #28
  • 23 May 2012 - 12:06 AM
^ We have a winner, folks.
  • #29
  • 23 May 2012 - 12:26 AM
hey no, I always read that as "fuck the what"

as in wtf just backwards
  • #30
  • 23 May 2012 - 12:39 AM
I was talking about the first one, champ. Acronyms, I can understand missing out on those. But the other was either written or said out loud. No excuse there.
  • #31
  • 23 May 2012 - 12:42 AM
i'm going to use "fuck the what" from now on.
  • #32
  • 23 May 2012 - 12:53 AM
If you say "fuck the what" I will respond "fuck your butt."
  • #33
  • 23 May 2012 - 12:58 AM
I always thought it meant "fuck the world."
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  • 23 May 2012 - 01:26 AM

View PostJerk, on 23 May 2012 - 12:58 AM, said:

If you say "fuck the what" I will respond "fuck your butt."


you act as if this would be unpleasant for me
  • #35
  • 23 May 2012 - 01:41 AM
Baby, it'll blow your mind.

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  • #36
  • 23 May 2012 - 01:55 AM
Oh good, I thought I was the only one who read it as Fuck The What.
  • #37
  • 23 May 2012 - 06:59 AM
Oh good, the image link in Jerk's post about butt fucking is broken.
  • #38
  • 23 May 2012 - 08:07 AM

View PostmAceOfHearts, on 23 May 2012 - 06:59 AM, said:

Oh good, I thought I was the only one who read it as Fuck The What.

me too. it was probably 6 months or a year after I first heard it. :P
  • #39
  • 23 May 2012 - 08:54 AM
I still read it Fuck the What, it's one level past WTF confusion.
  • #40
  • 24 May 2012 - 02:36 AM

View PostJanus, on 23 May 2012 - 08:07 AM, said:

Oh good, the image link in Jerk's post about butt fucking is broken.

Don't pretend you're not curious about tasting the Forbidden Fruit.
  • #41
  • 24 May 2012 - 08:14 AM
It's difficult to argue against that, when my name has "anus" in it.
  • #42
  • 24 May 2012 - 09:34 PM
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I have a few of these, but most of them are too embarrassing to share. :smirk:

There is, however, the occasion - only a couple of years ago, in fact - when I realised that Paul McCartney was the bass player for the Beatles. I had always thought that George Harrison handled the lower registers, but he was the lead guitar.

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And Spy. Spy has a consonant acting as the vowel - kind of like a spy.


This is not quite true. The Y is both a consonant and vowel - although it is commonly counted as just a consonant, many other languages consider it to be a vowel alone and it is actually both a consonant and vowel in the English language. It depends on usage - 'spy', 'gylver' and 'syllable' are examples that use the vowel, while 'you', 'Yankee' and 'yak' employ it as a consonant. It might, of course, be considered a double agent, which is arguably even better.
  • #43
  • 25 May 2012 - 10:22 PM
I didn't know which instruments they played until my dad told me a couple months ago. I just never wondered.
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  • 25 May 2012 - 10:30 PM
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I had, however, read two books on them - biographies of the whole band - when I was approximately twelve, I believe. For some reason, I managed to interpret three different sources (my father being included in that number) as saying that George Harrison played the bass. ^_^
  • #45
  • 25 May 2012 - 10:52 PM
I watched all eight hours of the anthologies one Christmas, but I wasn't paying full attention.
  • #46
  • 25 May 2012 - 11:30 PM
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That might explain things quite a bit, yes. :smirk:
  • #47
  • 25 May 2012 - 11:52 PM
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I only realised Boromir wasn't a dwarf just before his death, when reading the Fellowship of The Ring. After that, the only way I could imagine him was with a hat with horns and ill-fitting mail armour because of his sudden transformation from dwarf to human :/
  • #48
  • 26 May 2012 - 03:24 AM
Have you never seen the movies? Psh that's Sean Bean we're talking about and he's all man. :smirk:
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  • 26 May 2012 - 06:43 PM
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I read the books before the movies came out. Well, I read FoTR and TTT before the first movie came out, and had already started reading RotK by then.

Edit:
I liked LotR before it was cool B)
Hipsteeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrr :P

This post has been edited by Migrant: 28 May 2012 - 10:58 AM

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  • 28 May 2012 - 10:56 AM
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