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* Referring to any member of the [[Backstreet Boys]] ''except'' Kevin Richardson as a "former Backstreet Boy" is an instant [[Berserk Button]] trigger for BSB fans.
* Never ''ever'' wonder out loud how many bass drums [[Iron Maiden]] 's Nicko McBrain uses while drumming. The answer is one.
* ''[[DragonForce]]''{{'}}s [[That One Level|famed song from]] [[Guitar Hero]] is "Through The Fire And Flames". "Through The Fire And ''The'' Flames" is a lyric from said song. Also, ZP was ZP's actual first name, not initials.
* On the Band Geek side: Gorramnit, people, trumpets are NOT the awesome ones with the slides!!
* It's [[Beatles]], not "Beetles"! (This troper recalls an article in his high school newspaper about George Harrison's death - the student who wrote the article ''always'' spelled 'Beetles' incorrectly, though she claimed the editors insisted on it.)
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* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]:''
** D&D has demons and devils. Many, many fans commonly mistake the two and nearly just as many are really [[Fan Dumb|anal]] about fans who can't get it right. And when you throw in the fact that the most common kind of both demons and devils have more specific names (Tanar'ri and Baatezu respectively), it all just gets very messy, very fast. Not to mention other kinds like obyrith and archdevils that more [[Serious Business|pure-blooded]] fans know about.
** Furthermore, if you don't want to start an edition war, do not use past and present tenses to describe changes between 3.5 and 4th edition, e.g., "there is no lawful evil alignment anymore". And please, for the love of Pelor,
** Misspelling [[Rouge Angles of Satin|"rogue" as "rouge"]] will get you flamed in most online fora.
** "Minionions of Set" was such a common spelling error, they made it into an actual magic item. ([[Joke Item]], of course.
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** Which '''is''' actually the team's full name, and appears on the wall behind the endzones during home games at their new stadium.
* Pick a stadium in the US that's been renamed by a corporate sponsorship. Any stadium. Try calling it by its sponsor name in a local sports bar. For example, "I really like going games at 3Com Park," or "...Monster Park.' Proceed to get beat up by the guys who insist that it's "Candlestick Park" and it will [[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!|ALWAYS BE CANDLESTICK PARK!]]. Go to another city and repeat.
** One of the most insane examples: The park formerly known as Comiskey. Charles Comiskey is heralded as one of the worst sports owners; he intentionally made sure his Chicago White Sox players got less meal money than the league average and often skimped on ''washing their uniforms.'' All that led to Sox players conspiring to throw the 1919 World Series in one of sports' worst scandals. The White Sox never returned to the World Series in the next
*** We still call it the '''Sears''' Tower, too!
* The one time you'll get a pass for calling park by a corporate name is if it's never had a non-corporate one, or if the non-corporate name is unknown by most fans. If the corporate sponsor changes, generally use the most well-known name, which is usually the first one.
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