OK, Saguaro's post about not knowing how to spell "missile" got me to start this thread. I've been thinking it would be a good one.
Name the worst, or one of the worst, moments in your life where you realize you've been thinking, believing or doing something incredibly stupid for a long time. Not something where people might have a difference of opinion, but something that your good friends would just have to shake their head and laugh at you and you, after you've quit blushing and apologizing, have to laugh at also. It need not be a big thing, just something stupid.
For me, it was sometime either late in high school or early in college when I finally found out the meaning of the phrase "He weighs ____ pounds dripping wet." I had always used that idiom to mean that somebody was exaggerating their weight because, you know, all that water added some weight. When somebody finally told me, "No, Monsignor you idiot, it means they just stepped out of the shower and are naked as can be," I responded with the universal "D'OH!"
Name the worst, or one of the worst, moments in your life where you realize you've been thinking, believing or doing something incredibly stupid for a long time. Not something where people might have a difference of opinion, but something that your good friends would just have to shake their head and laugh at you and you, after you've quit blushing and apologizing, have to laugh at also. It need not be a big thing, just something stupid.
For me, it was sometime either late in high school or early in college when I finally found out the meaning of the phrase "He weighs ____ pounds dripping wet." I had always used that idiom to mean that somebody was exaggerating their weight because, you know, all that water added some weight. When somebody finally told me, "No, Monsignor you idiot, it means they just stepped out of the shower and are naked as can be," I responded with the universal "D'OH!"
Guilty as charged.
I ask a girl friend the next day and she read me the
riot act for being so naive.
