Obvious things you've only just realised (2017 THREAD)

[Stoneage Dinosaurs]

Nah, I'm almost certain it was CBBC. I can remember Otis the Aardvark saying it in the '90s.

Otis was an Aardvark

[Stoneage Dinosaurs]

As was Arthur from the animated kids TV program show "Arthur the Aardvark"

[Pijlstaart]

Arthur wasn't an aardvark, they've got long bits on front. I reckon arthur was a ground squirrel. The problem is when they do obvious ones, like the rabbit friend and the yam friend, the implication is that all the characters are identifiable species. If they just said monsters it would be fine, arthur is a brown monster, no-one would care. Sylvanian families never would've botched an aardvark.

[Twed]

What was Gordon the Gopher?

[Stoneage Dinosaurs]

What was Gordon the Gopher?

Aardvark

[ollyboro]

What was Gordon the Gopher?

A cunt.

[black_betty]

If it's been done before, I didn't notice. Fortnight = fourteen nights. Jesus.

[Cerys]

Arthur wasn't an aardvark, they've got long bits on front.

So did Arthur in the original book.  The message of the book was that it's okay to look different - Arthur was very self-conscious because of his nose, and that was the whole point.  So they obviously had to change what he looked like.









Wankers.

[Repeater]

wow

[Replies From View]

Holiday.

Holy day.

[Replies From View]

So did Arthur in the original book.  The message of the book was that it's okay to look different - Arthur was very self-conscious because of his nose, and that was the whole point.  So they obviously had to change what he looked like.









Wankers.

They should have progressed to him looking more and more chiselled as he conditioned himself to fit in.

In Arthur's Eyes (after Arthur's Nose), his nose is shortened.

In Arthur's Teacher Trouble (following on from Arthur's Eyes), his eyes are shrunken.

In Arthur's Birthday (on the back of Arthur's Teacher Trouble), no more teacher.

In the next book, no more birthdays for ol' Arthur lad.

[Ian Drunken Smurf]

People who refer to holidays as "holibobs" are subnormal.

[Bingo Fury]

Actor Tom Hardy uses the shortened form of his name because there's a rather famous Thomas Hardy already.

[Serge]

Then why doesn't he just call himself Edward Hardy?

[Custard]

Peppa The Pig's face looks like a tiny penis with a ballbag underneath

[Replies From View]

And a double urethra arrangement, which is actually what all pigs have instead of nostrils.

[hedgehog90]

Wendy Carlos is a WOMAN!???!?

Subconsciously I must be very sexist, it takes a lot to override the natural assumption that someone called Wendy is female.

"A woman playing Bach on a Moog synthesizer? Surely not."

That's how my brain works.

[Icehaven]

People who refer to holidays as "holibobs" are subnormal.

Yes.

[Joy Nktonga]

Wendy Carlos is a WOMAN!???!?

Subconsciously I must be very sexist, it takes a lot to override the natural assumption that someone called Wendy is female.

"A woman playing Bach on a Moog synthesizer? Surely not."

That's how my brain works.

Umm...

Seriously, click the link. It's only Wiki, you'll be safe there.

[Replies From View]

Delia Derbyshire isn't a man's name either, and by sheer coincidence Delia Derbyshire wasn't a man.

[checkoutgirl]

Vocal Fry. Holibobs. I'm learning all sorts today.

[Norton Canes]

The volume on the BBC iPlayer goes up to 11.

[hedgehog90]

Umm...

Seriously, click the link. It's only Wiki, you'll be safe there.

Fancy that! At some point I must have seen a picture of her when she was known as Walter, leading to the confusion earlier.
Either that or I have one of the strangest super powers ever conceived.

[Repeater]

The volume on the BBC iPlayer goes up to 11.

I fucking hate this

[Steven]

I fucking hate this

Knew you would you duodecimal-digit handed twat!

[Ian Drunken Smurf]

Knew you would you duodecimal-digit handed twat!

That bloke's v-flicking must be well weird... and giving the bird...

[kittens]

the word pox (chicken pox, etc) comes from the pock marks (or pocks [pox]) that you get all over you when you have it. so it like chicken pocks. pox. i assume

[shiftwork2]

Knew you would you duodecimal-digit handed twat!

South Norfolk strikes again.  I have two cocks actually.

[Replies From View]

Dutch Elm Disease is so named because of the way it makes trees go DED.

[Dex Sawash]

But only the DEDciduous kinds