Things you didn't realize

GilliC · September 2015

Something I think I just consciously realized yesterday:

Brand names. Branding.

Of course it comes from the verb. To brand. To burn labels into livestock. Duh.

I have honestly never connected these two concepts into my head until yesterday when a non-English speaker was struggling to come up with the verb "to brand" referring to livestock.

Now I have this great mental picture of "corporate branding" or "brand managers" running around with hot metal sticks burning their logo into everything.

SnShne322 · September 2015

GilliC said:

Something I think I just consciously realized yesterday:

Brand names. Branding.

Of course it comes from the verb. To brand. To burn labels into livestock. Duh.

I have honestly never connected these two concepts into my head until yesterday when a non-English speaker was struggling to come up with the verb "to brand" referring to livestock.

Now I have this great mental picture of "corporate branding" or "brand managers" running around with hot metal sticks burning their logo into everything.

I'll have to tell J this, he's a Brand Manager. It never occurred to me either.

SusieBW · September 2015

GilliC said:

Now I have this great mental picture of "corporate branding" or "brand managers" running around with hot metal sticks burning their logo into everything.

But that's pretty accurate, isn't it?

jackiback · September 2015

sfgiantsjo · September 2015

jackiback said:

funkypineapple said:

I didn't know the toaster thing either!

When I was little I thought that the people that were killed in movies and TV shows were people that really wanted to die.

That's so morbid!

(Make this a book!)

Yes! Yes! Make this a book!

GreenBride624 · September 2015

I was a senior in high school before I knew that raisins were dried grapes. Yup... I knew that I didn't like them but I never knew exactly what they were. (Yet, I always knew the prunes were dried plums)

GreenBride624 · September 2015

MrsC7 said:

@InLovewSB That toaster thing is a revelation. I had no idea!

@jackiback That is my favorite story of you.

I didn't realize until high school that there are special clothes people wear to run or play sports. I ran the entire first half of the cross country season my freshman year in a T-shirt and cutoff jean shorts. (It was a newly formed charter school so I was a one-person team. No one else signed up for cross country.) To my coach's everlasting credit, she bought me some running shorts and off-handedly asked if I wanted to try these "new shorts" to see if they're more comfortable.

I went to my first cross-country practice wearing knock-off keds & jean shorts.

Your coach sounds like a perfect 1st coach!

j*&p* · September 2015

RhymeReason said:

I don't think the toaster thing is right because I put my English muffins on 6 and it definitely doesn't take 6 mins. My husband made fun of me for not knowing how our well worked. In my mind we had a really long pipe that pulled from the reservoir

My toaster isn't one to one either. I was so fascinated by this when I read the original post that I timed my toast. Six was only 3 minutes 20 seconds.

RevJen · September 2015

When I was little, I thought my teacher lived at school. It never occurred to me that they existed outside of it since that's where I saw them all the time.

j*&p* · September 2015

Contact lenses are called contacts because they make contact with your eyes. I guess that was lurking in the recesses of my mind, but I was teaching different meanings and uses of the word contact to my students the other day and had the realization that that's where the name came from.

jackiback · September 2015

RevJen said:

When I was little, I thought my teacher lived at school. It never occurred to me that they existed outside of it since that's where I saw them all the time.

julie37619 · September 2015

RevJen said:

When I was little, I thought my teacher lived at school. It never occurred to me that they existed outside of it since that's where I saw them all the time.

My students are in college and many days it seems like they still think I live here. I have one who is shocked every single day when I tell her that we're closing, which happens at the same time, every single day. It's like she can't grasp why I'd ever need to leave.

RevJen · September 2015

julie37619 said:

RevJen said:

When I was little, I thought my teacher lived at school. It never occurred to me that they existed outside of it since that's where I saw them all the time.

My students are in college and many days it seems like they still think I live here. I have one who is shocked every single day when I tell her that we're closing, which happens at the same time, every single day. It's like she can't grasp why I'd ever need to leave.

I choose to think it's because you work in the wonderland of a library.

) She's probably wondering why you would ever want to.

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