Shocking confessions

Here are some realizations that I came to much later than by rights I ought to have:

• That word that sounds like "shiek" and that word that is spelled "chic" don't just have similar meanings, they are the same word! (2001)
  
• It's "up and at 'em," not "up and Adam." (2000)
  
• "News" is just the plural of "new." (2007)
  
• "Specific" and "general" come from species and genera. (2009)
  
• Just as that old cheap beer called Meisterbrau is the lion of beers, the lion itself is the lion of the animal kingdom. (2003)
  
• Mickey Rooney and Andy Rooney are two completely different people. (2007)
  
• Tom Colicchio (the bald judge from Top Chef) and Andrew Zimmer (the bald dude who eats weird food) are two completely different people. (2008)
  
• The Indian dude in Short Circuit isn't Indian at all. (2006)
  

I know I have had some more hilarious ones than this. Such are the consequences of not demanding too much sense out of the world. If I should die after all please let my epitaph be "late to the party." Do this for a man who only this year finally unravelled the concepts of Judge Reinhold, Judd Nelson, and the guy who played Judge Harry Stone on Night Court.