Things everybody knows that are actually wrong

[Associate Justice PiT]

     That Marie Antoinette said "let them eat cake."

[Associate Justice PiT]

     What about Hebron?

[Associate Justice PiT]

The oldest continuously inhabited city is Jericho.

     I remembered it was somewhere in that exact area, but I was thinking it was Hebron rather than Jericho.

BRTD, while I agree that Damascus is overlooked as the oldest city, I disagree that Rome is commonly referred to as the oldest.

I'm pretty sure most people would say Athens or Jerusalem.  Granted, they are both wrong.

It also wouldn't surprise me to hear people chime off some Egyptian city like Cairo even though Cairo was long after ancient Egypt.

     I have never heard of Rome or Athens even being considered by anyone for oldest city. I've experienced that most people are aware that it would have to be Africa/Middle East.

[Associate Justice PiT]

Ah.

Well here's another one: "You forgot Poland". Never said in the debate. It's another "Luke, I am your father" and "Beam me up Scotty"

     Or "Play it again, Sam".

[Associate Justice PiT]

That Germany and Japan were the only enemies in WW2. (Italy was bad too folks)

Is there anyone who's ignorant of that or unaware of who Mussolini was?

Mostly unaware. I know people who think he was just one of Hitler's generals.

     How does one know of him at all without even being aware that he was from an altogether different country than Hitler?

[Associate Justice PiT]

Richius is not an extremist

(he claimed so)

     Ah yes, but everyone knows that that is wrong, so it doesn't really count.

[Associate Justice PiT]

It's 'liberal' to regulate and spend vast amounts of taxpayer money on the economy.

Read again the title of the thread.

I did.

You think that everybody knows this?

     The idea that he refers to is a common notion for Americans to hold, though I think that people in most other parts of the world are aware of how silly it is.

[Associate Justice PiT]

Syllable initial [dz] sounds much more natural than [zd]. But what do I know?

     I could only imagine [zd] being easily pronuncible if it were something more like Zih-dei-uss. It's probably okay though if you say it fast enough.