Things you can't believe people have never heard of

My DH is 78 and all his life has thought the phrase "one fell swoop" was "one fowl swoop". He had to be shown the dictionary definition before he believed me.

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Gosh I must be an innocent too!
I haven’t heard of half these things - it’s my sheltered upbringing!

Gagagran

My DH is 78 and all his life has thought the phrase "one fell swoop" was "one fowl swoop". He had to be shown the dictionary definition before he believed me.

It’s Shakespeare, from Macbeth.

Gagagran

My DH is 78 and all his life has thought the phrase "one fell swoop" was "one fowl swoop". He had to be shown the dictionary definition before he believed me.

Wel it does make sense as it's birds that swoop.

I heard something relevant on the radio this week. Apparently the power firm Powergen is Italian. Someone had to point out to them the foolishness of choosing as their web site moniker “Genitalia”. Sorry to be rude...

Jaxie ???

I had to google that, and it’s true! ??

I just looked it up, LMAO,,, thats hilarious!!!!

Mamardoit

I won't be able to look at a photo of Maggie Thatcher in her Pearl necklace without thinking of this.

Off to google tea bagging.

I would advise you to google it on someone else's computer...

Powergen Italia sells specialised battery products.

Pressed send too soon. Still an unfortunate choice.

Driving home from school with 8 yr old DGD talking about Christmas and related beliefs I mentioned the Bible. She asked ”What is the Bible?’

Just looked up Pearl necklace. I have led a sheltered life !

Hi, just joined and browsing past posts. Just learned about a pearl necklace! That's why I joined! To learn new stuff!

I suggest anyone Googling some of these posts uses Private Browsing Mode.

Am I the only one to have caught the early reference to Pampas Grass? I read about Pampas Grass (planted outside a house as a sign that 'swingers' lived there) in one of R D Wingfield's Inspector Jack Frost books. I wondered if it were true or part of the fiction.

Over Christmas dinner my grandson 20 asked where I got the idea of bread sauce (which he adores) from as none of his friends had ever heard of it !

When we moved to Kent none of the shops knew what daps or underskirts were. Think it's colloquial to the west country
Daps are black school PE slip on shoes and underskirts are known as a half waist petticoat lol

Pearl necklace- after googling I now know ?!

In NE England daps were known as sandshoes back in the day. I did a bit of sniggering myself when I moved down to Yorkshire and heard them called pumps, which meant something completely different up there.

Back at school in a language class, I translated a German phrase as "she peeped round the door". Our teacher (who was English) had never heard of the word "peep". By the time the whole class had shouted it at him many times and tried to convince him, some of us were crying with laughter and he was certain we'd invented it to wind him up. To be honest, the more you say it, the less real it sounds....

The 3 day week and rationing of electricity.
I was buying some furniture and the assistant was putting my order on an I pad which kept logging out. It took over an hour to complete the transaction that once would have taken a few minutes.
I casually remarked, "how would we have coped in the 3 day week?"
I got a blank look from the young man, so I explained what it was. He was stunned and called his Co workers over and asked them if they knew what it was. Non of them did so I left them to their "Googling."

Google must be busy today. I too had to look up pearl necklace and tea bagging!

Someone earlier mentioned young quizzers saying “it’s before my time” about historical occurrences,” which is a particular bugbear of mine. I remember a young team on Eggheads being asked which prime minister said “you’ve never had it so good” and responding in such a manner. It was several years before I was born but my husband and I were calling out “Harold Macmillan” before any of the three options. came on the screen. Another time a team were asked what the initials NB meant and they didn’t have a clue. I did not study Latin at school but certain Latin terms such as this one were once considered common knowledge. So much so, that neighbours of ours when l was a child actually called their house Nota Bene - a clever play on words as it can also be read as Not A Bean.

My daughter, 30, gave me such a quizzical look when I told I had heard something 'on the grapevine'!
I was astonished she had never heard that before, especially as Marvin Gaye's song is so famous!!

“He’s been dipping his wick”, left me keeling over in hysterics!