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Post by bluckarma on Apr 10, 2007 12:57:22 GMT -5
I remember watching the news where they talked about villagers in Central America being killed by Guerilla fighters with a base in the mountains. I thought they meant gorillas were coming from the mountains and killing people. It scared me shitless. I was seriously hoping those gorillas wouldn't come to the North Georgia mountains. Another thing that threw me off was drinking and driving. I didn't realize they meant alcohol. I told my mom that she was going to get arrested for guzzling an orange Nehi on 285 if the cops saw her.
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Post by snarkalicious on Apr 10, 2007 18:39:26 GMT -5
I pronounced the L-M-N-O-P part of the alphabet as "L-pimento-P" until 5th grade...
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Post by Sherry on Apr 10, 2007 19:49:23 GMT -5
I pronounced suitcase "soup"case.
And of course "Pasketti" was spaghetti.
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Post by Red on Apr 10, 2007 19:52:12 GMT -5
I thought the song lyric "give me the beat boys" was actually "give me the Beach Boys"
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Post by one on Apr 10, 2007 20:53:07 GMT -5
"another one bites the dust" was in reality "another one bust the dust" to a 7 yr old.
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Post by el Gusano on Apr 10, 2007 20:58:33 GMT -5
I also thought of gorilla fighters.
My cousin came in singing "Lucille" when we were kids, and it went:
"You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille, With four hundred children..."
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Post by RuneDeer on Apr 10, 2007 21:34:01 GMT -5
I learned how to recite the "Hail Mary."
The one that ends "Now, and at the hour of our death, Amess."
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Post by Justin Thyme on Apr 10, 2007 21:57:56 GMT -5
I started first grade in 1960. There was a washateria down the street from me at the time with a sign on the front door stating 'whites only.' I thought it was referring to the laundry.
By the late '60s I was sophisticated enough to educate my younger brother on news stories. A man was charged with crimes against nature which my brother didn't know what it meant. I informed him that the man had been littering and destroying vegatation.
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Post by el Gusano on Apr 10, 2007 22:11:05 GMT -5
Our Father who art in heaven,
Hello. What be thy name?
(Not mine, but amused me.)
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Post by snarkalicious on Apr 10, 2007 22:29:00 GMT -5
My daughter thought the song "We're An American Band" was "We're An Asparagus Band". And in the early 70s I asked my mother what a "generation cap" was-I was picturing a bottle cap of some sort.
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Post by Dreamwebber on Apr 10, 2007 23:45:27 GMT -5
I remember when Grease came out I was in 3rd? grade I think? anyway...I didn't know about the birds and the bees and I didn't get the adult humor stuff...I just liked the music and dancing in the film. Anyway, the song "Look at Me I am Sandra Dee lousy with virginity" I thought was "Lousy with birginity" have no idea what I thought that meant...but, I had never heard the word "virgin" before.
Then, in the line "You know that I ain't braggin', she's a real pussy wagon Greased Lightnin'" In the song Grease lightnin' I would sing "she's a real puss a ring"
I have no idea what I thought that meant either lol
Looking back on it my mom probably got a real laugh about it...I listened to that soundtrack over and over again (Okay, I thought I was Olivia Newton John there for a while ha ha) so, she had to have heard the real lyrics.
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Post by creekcat62 on Apr 10, 2007 23:57:26 GMT -5
I also thought it was, "400 children and a crop in the field", from the song Lucille. In the wedding vows, for years I thought they were saying, awfully wedded wife/husband, instead of lawfully wedded.
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Post by Babs on Apr 11, 2007 0:23:49 GMT -5
One summer, when I was about 5, I brought home and into the house a dead cat I had found somewhere. It was as stiff as a board. I thought it was frozen and asked Mother to please thaw it out. I vididly remember her reaction!
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Post by tcrashfx on Apr 11, 2007 4:03:21 GMT -5
When we were potty training our oldest, she went potty all by herself while at Gramma's house.
Proud of her accomplishment, she told Gramma she'd peed all by herself. Gramma, being ever so correct, said, "Urinate, Julia!"
To which Julia replied, obviously offended, "No, You're a Nate, Gramma!"
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Post by ScarlettP on Apr 11, 2007 5:46:34 GMT -5
*giggle* Ok, I'm not feeling so bad about some of my own missunderstandings now. Of course, I was so dim... that I held onto some of these misconceptions until I was a teen. Most embarrassing one? When I was taking "Social Studies" in Jr High (now they call that "Middle School" ) I couldn't figure out how this amazing stuff called "Barbed Wire" had changed the west. I finally ASKED the teacher - IN CLASS "What is Barbed Wire?" My people are from Harrison. We'uns called it "Bob Wire". Heck! LAST WEEK, JoeDog corrected me on "Guide Wire", not "Guy Wire" - the cable that holds power poles upright. --------------- I never knew that people moved around during sex until I was at least 13 or 14. I couldn't understand why people were so upset about a radio advertisment for ".... the most, jump'n, thump'n, body get a pump'n, place in town." My brother finally explained it to me. Until then, I thought people were like dogs and just go 'hooked together'. Yeah. It's good to be Baptist.
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Post by Babs on Apr 11, 2007 5:47:50 GMT -5
precious!!
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Post by Warkitty on Apr 11, 2007 7:01:32 GMT -5
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Post by gridbug on Apr 11, 2007 7:08:37 GMT -5
I lived my first six years in Seattle. I had seen a blue sky so few times that I often wondered if it had ever been real or I just dreamed it.
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Post by daworm on Apr 11, 2007 8:30:20 GMT -5
When I was very little, I thought rain was angel pee. I mean, they were angels, right? So it had to be pure, not nasty like people pee.
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Post by bluckarma on Apr 11, 2007 8:58:52 GMT -5
for all you folks that misunderstood song lyrics there is a word for that. It is called a Mondegreen.
two of my favorite mondegreens:
I've got two chickens to paralyze!
and
Hold me closer Tony Danza!
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Post by Dreamwebber on Apr 11, 2007 11:02:12 GMT -5
Babs, I love your story. Up until this topic posted I did think the Kenny Roger's song was saying 400 children....I had to look it up on the internet to see it was 4 hungry children....funny I just heard that song on my satellite radio a few days ago and was singing along and even thought why would they write 400 children in the song. Funny how someone brought it up...it's like they were on my same wave length....scary for them lol
Outside of music and film I don't remember anything funny I thought or said....the two pretty much consumed my life.
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Post by Tookie on Apr 11, 2007 11:23:53 GMT -5
I thought Creedence Clearwater's "there's a bad moon on the rise" was "there's a bathroom on the right."
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Post by Bob on Apr 11, 2007 11:32:02 GMT -5
My sister had a habit of walking around in just her night-dress. My mom would say "Go put your bathrobe on". Nobody knew the thing she was putting on was her bathrobeon until she said she was going to put her bathrobeon on.
I was born the next year...
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Post by RuneDeer on Apr 11, 2007 11:37:56 GMT -5
My mom would always say "It's past your bedtime," but pronounced it like "pasture" bedtime. So when the teacher asked me what a pasture was, I raised my hand and said it was where your mommy put you to sleep.
The teacher was too polite to respond negatively; she just settled for a puzzled look.
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Post by Dragon Lady on Apr 11, 2007 12:31:06 GMT -5
I was not allowed to say things incorrectly ... or misunderstand things. My mom ALWAYS corrected me ... pretty damn quickly too. She never talked "baby talk" to me, which helped as well. I was not allowed to point and grunt for things. If I did not ask for what I wanted, and say it correctly, I didn't get it.
My step-sister on the other hand ... up until she was nearly 10 years old ... said things like 'taper towels' and 'wook at the wittle duckie' and many other "baby talk" mispronunciations. It drove my mom absolutely nuts!! Come to think of it, I need to call Sis and thank her for this!!! LOL!
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Post by el Gusano on Apr 11, 2007 12:35:05 GMT -5
Well, DW, you do live near most of my family. Maybe we're related.
When I drive charter buses and tourists ask me if it ever stops raining, I usually reply, "I don't know. I've only lived here four years." (In all reality, it's clear a lot, but during tourist season, it will be cloudy and/or rain for weeks on end.)
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Post by ScarlettP on Apr 11, 2007 17:37:19 GMT -5
Thanks WK! That's one for my side. Grid, that's just sad. Really, REALLY sad!
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Post by Babs on Apr 11, 2007 20:28:15 GMT -5
I liked the pasture story! I have a bedtime story. Sometimes when we would go visit my grandparents, before I was old enough for school, they would plead with my parents to let me spend the night. One night, dressed in one of my grandaddy's t shirts, Grandmother put me to bed in a room across from the living room. I could hear the tv going, as Grandaddy was watching it. I asked my grandmother if I could get back up and go in and watch tv with grandaddy. She told me that sometimes if you'd been watching tv at night, you could still hear it when you went to bed...even if it wasn't on. I believed her and went on to sleep.
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Post by Jay on Apr 11, 2007 21:06:08 GMT -5
Hah hah hah, you got played..
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Post by snarkalicious on Apr 11, 2007 22:00:48 GMT -5
My youngest told me the other day she thought hot dogs are made of DOG meat...
Reminded me of The Addams Family movie when Wednesday asked the little girl selling Girl Scout cookies if they were made of REAL Girl Scouts....
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