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Things you never really thought about...

The TVClubHouse: General Discussions: 2004 May - July: Free Expressions (ARCHIVES): Things you never really thought about, but make alot of sense..... users admin

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Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Tuesday, May 18, 2004 - 9:11 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I was watching a rerun of The West Wing. The president is getting ready to give the state of the union. The secretary of agriculture comes in and Barlett jokes about him drawing the short straw and missing the speech. He then goes on to tell him what he should do telling him who to appoint/call ect.
It never occured to me that someone is left in the oval office to be "in charge" in case anything did happened to everyone during the state of the Union address.
Silly, makes perfect sense but just never occured to me.
Anyone else have a "duh" moment?! LOL

Danzdol
Member

04-21-2001

Tuesday, May 18, 2004 - 10:42 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I have two that I can remember.

#1 I did not know that the little lid on the coffee cups at Bk and Mc Donalds attached to the back part of it. I always just tore it off because it would annoy me that it stayed up.

# 2 The song BRICKHOUSE (I forget who sings it) I always sung it like this:

"She's a freak, tum tum tum tum AAAAOOO!"


instead of

"She's a BRICK, tum tum tum tum HOUSE!"

A friend pointed it out and we had a good laugh at it!

DUH!!!!!!

Serate
Member

08-21-2001

Tuesday, May 18, 2004 - 10:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
After years and years and YEARS of interstate driving I just realized a couple weeks ago that the exit numbers correspond with the mile marker numbers. I mean granted the first 20 years of my life I'd maybe been on an interstate 3 times total, but still you'd think I would have realized it alot sooner!

Secretsmile
Member

08-19-2002

Wednesday, May 19, 2004 - 6:16 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
ppssttt...Serate, don't beat yourself up about that one, some states have just recently switched to the the mile marker/ exit number system, perhaps your state is one of them.

Secretsmile
Member

08-19-2002

Thursday, May 20, 2004 - 3:43 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
While reading Tom Clancy I discovered that the podiums used by the President in out door venues are larger and bulletproof. This makes sense, something I'm sure makes the secret service's job easier.

But I got a chuckle out of the image of a podium packed in the back of those black suburbans like a security blanket.

Mybbusername
Member

08-22-2002

Friday, May 21, 2004 - 6:34 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
alright...my moment of enlightenment came when traveling with my 16 year old son. We were in a rental car that needed gas. As I approached the pumps I was adjusting the electric mirrors to try to see which side the cap was on when my son starting laughing at me (nothing is funnier to a teenager than their parents ignorance). He showed me that the fuel indicator in the car also has a little arrow to tell me which side. I never even noticed it, and if I did, I surely did not know what it was. Well, its 9 months later, and I have carefully checked at least 20 other makes of cars, including my own, and he was right. There is a little idiot indicator arrow for people like me. Makes me wonder how many other things I have missed....

Texannie
Member

07-16-2001

Friday, May 21, 2004 - 6:51 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Really, Mybb..?? I will have to check my car too! I never knew that either.

Jmm
Member

08-16-2002

Friday, May 21, 2004 - 2:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL guys, on cars that are just a little older the fuel gauge was put on the side of the instruments that the fill spout was on. Then they started putting them in the middle, thus the arrow.

Twiggyish
Member

08-14-2000

Saturday, May 22, 2004 - 9:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Mybb.. you taught me something, too!

Lostintheglades
Member

07-10-2000

Tuesday, May 25, 2004 - 7:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Thanks Mybb....now I won't have to look like an idiot stopping the car (depending on which one I'm driving) and doing a walk around to find out where the tank is. Didn't know your little fact either Jmm.

Danzdol
Member

04-21-2001

Wednesday, May 26, 2004 - 1:31 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
my car has it too!!!!!!!!!! I never noticed.

Rache
Member

05-20-2004

Friday, May 28, 2004 - 1:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
On the pedals on bicycles
They have an L for left and a R for right...Duh, what are you gonna do, ride it backwards?

Draheid
Moderator

09-09-2001

Friday, May 28, 2004 - 1:19 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Rache, I believe those markings on pedals are for maintenance/assembly. Because they are usually threaded in opposite directions, to prevent them from coming 'unscrewed' through peddling and falling while you're riding.

Rache
Member

05-20-2004

Friday, May 28, 2004 - 1:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
HEE hee.....I swear I ain't blonde. ( no offense to those who are )