forum Murphy's Revelations About Everyday Life (AKA Random Trivia Thread)

Started October 18, 2020 by @murphysgirl

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The word 'tall' is shorter than the word 'short'.

The word 'tall' is shorter than the word 'short'.

also 'fat' is thinner than 'thin'

When you clean your shower, you're your shower's shower.

There was a woman who would lure men to her home and then convince them to marry them, take out life insurance on them, have kids with them, take out life insurance on them, then the husband and kids would all die of mysterious causes later revealed to be poisoning of some kind. She did this a lot before supposedly dying in a house fire, though some people believe she faked her own death and kept doing that. I don't remember her name or how many victims she had but there's a spooky little piece of trivia for you

According to Irish legend, Jack O’Lanterns are named after a stingy man named Jack who, because he tricked the devil several times, was forbidden entrance into both heaven and hell. He was condemned to wander the Earth, waving his lantern to lead people away from their paths

Why is my girlfriend so cute? Who gave her permission to be that cute?

I have the same questions about my fiancé and my guinea pig

Monosyllabic isn't.

The opposite of deja vu is Jamais vu.
The opposite of Memento mori is memento vivere

Don't leave heels next to the door, because when coming home from work, you might not see them because the lights are off, and then you might trip over said heels and nearly impale your feet. And don't tell that story to your fiancé, who will poke fun at you, despite thinking that you're very sexy in heels.

Honry is a word I have never seen in print.

I've never even heard of "honry".

My point exactly.

So… what does it mean?

Obstinate, stubborn, and just grumpy in general, I think. To me, it's some sort of twisted form of the word ornery, and if you'll pardon my French, with a breath of horny in there as well. Only the h is unvoiced; the beginning of the o is sharp.

Oh, that makes sense. I've seen ornery before. I'll be honest, most often I see honry as a misspelling of horny rather than it's actual definition lolol

KFC is a Utah company.

What does Halloween bring us today?

-Full Moon
-New Moon was last week
-SATURDAY
-Blue Moon
-Daylight Savings, or 25 hours of spOOk
Apocalypse? Maybe! But hey, that’s JUST a theory! A PAINFULLY REALISTIC theory!!

The song Hexagon Force by Waterflame would make a really good end credits song.

two plus eleven is an anagram of one plus twelve.

Cookie Clicker is, at heart, an 8-bit game.

Love means Zero

the word 'unlockable' means 'able to be unlocked' and 'not able to be locked'

the owl Duo from Duolingo is a girl

In his theme song and a couple of times in the show, they refer to Perry the Platypus as 'an egg laying mammal'

However only female platypus lay eggs. But Perry has only male pronouns used for him

Is Perry the Platypus trans?

I was wondering that too. I mean, I have a character who's part platypus, and she's pretty friken cool (and Taters can confirm that).
Or he could have been neutered, so you know.