Is your mental encyclopedia out of date?

AlienGirl

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Wed Jun-21-06 10:24 PM
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Is your mental encyclopedia out of date?

So we were driving around and one of the kids asked me what the tallest building in North America is, and without hesitating, I replied, "The Empire State Building," thinking, That's the tallest building in the world! UncleSepp laughed his ass off and reminded me that the Sears Tower has had that distinction for a long time now. D'oh! My mental encyclopedia's a little dusty and out-of-date.

This isn't the first time I've accidentally used seriously out-of-date information. Who's with me? Is your encyclopedia outdated, too?

Tucker

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GoddessOfGuinness

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Wed Jun-21-06 11:35 PM
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1. Me...

I need to sit down with a map of Europe and Africa, because my mental encyclopedia is stuck in the 1970s.

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u4ic

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Wed Jun-21-06 11:36 PM
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2. Been to Rhodesia lately?

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GoddessOfGuinness

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Wed Jun-21-06 11:50 PM
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4. It's embarrassing to be so clueless!

:blush: I like the name Zimbabwe much better....

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u4ic

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Wed Jun-21-06 11:37 PM
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3. Yep

I feel old. x(

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EFerrari

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Thu Jun-22-06 12:04 AM
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5. I like feeling old. It's the perfect excuse, too.

When @sshole punks wake me up at 3 in the morning with their rock music, I can go out and cuss them out and they don't shoot me because they're afraid they'll give me a heart attack.

:rofl:

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u4ic

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Thu Jun-22-06 12:08 AM
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6. Silver lining

to every cloud, and all...:D

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hfojvt

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Thu Jun-22-06 12:17 AM
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7. No, I am pretty sure that Dublin, Ireland is still the largest city

because it's Dublin all the time.

Unfortunately, the capitol of Norway is no longer in the middle of Czechoslovakia. That makes me sad :cry:

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