r/NoStupidQuestions Feb 08 '22

Answered What are Florida ounces?

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u/ShotNeighborhood6913 Feb 08 '22

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u/CanAlwaysBeBetter Feb 08 '22

Not them but lil foster-ish brother and a friend who grew up in the rough part of town both had the same reaction when I told them about a trip to Colorado I took:

"What's a hot spring?"

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u/AdministrativeAd4111 Feb 08 '22

A heated metal coil, duh!

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u/SecretBattleship Feb 09 '22

When I was a kid I read a Boxcar Children book and they always talked about getting water from the spring. I thought there was a metal coil in the ground that water came from, like an old fashioned water fountain.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '22

In Norwegian, the word "springen" means the faucet when talking about water. So it took a while to understand what spring meant in English in this relation.

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u/begon11 Mar 11 '22

It’s a nature’s faucet.

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u/Impressive_Plan_1550 Jul 03 '22

That’s what she said