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Using the wrong words or phrases
My SIL posted something on Facebook that reminded me of some of the words I used to mishear/misuse when I was a kid. SIL's post was about an "old wise tale" instead of an "old wives' tale". lol
What are some of the words or phrases you misheard or just totally screwed up as a kid? (Or maybe even today? lol)
I always thought that song "Secret Agent Man" was "Secret Asian Man" lol
I also thought brain washing was when they took someone's brain out and actually... washed it. I was a moron when I was a kid (maybe someone washed my brain!)
Also, I was probably 20 before I realized that "whore's bath" wasn't pronounced "horse bath" LMAO!!!
Oh, and um, I thought Frito Chilli Pies were mexican food until I was in high school. lmao There's a local taco stand place that sells them and that's what I always got if we stopped to eat there and so I thought they were mexican food. lmao
Missing our little turkey.
Estimated Due Date 11/13/12 | Natural Miscarriage 4/17/12
Re: Using the wrong words or phrases
Oh man, I have so many for this, but I have to head out soon...
The one that always makes my skin crawl is when my coworker says something is "clear as mud", but she REALLY MEANS something is clear. Hello! Mud is not clear, so you only use that when you are being sarcastic. ARGH!
Oh, and when people say "off the back", instead of "off the bat". :-/
Same coworker above refers to people as "light in the loafers" when she's trying to say they are dense. Isn't it ironic? Dontcha think?
est. 10/10/10
LOL
Your "prosecute" made me think of prostitute, which made me think of...
When Pretty Woman came out, my little cousin (she's 5 years younger than me) was around 8 years old. She declared that Christmas, that she wanted a pair of hooker boots like Pretty Woman had. LOL I thought it was HYSTERICAL (because I was 13 and thought I knew everything) and so I laughed a lot and then said, "Amy, you don't even know what a hooker is!" and she said, "Yu-huh! It's a person who stands on the street and does drugs." lmao And, well, she kinda had parts of it right. lol Sort of. Sometimes.
Missing our little turkey.
Estimated Due Date 11/13/12 | Natural Miscarriage 4/17/12
Oh gosh! That reminds me of another one...this phrase drives me up. A. WALL!!
I cannot STAND it when someone says "You're more than happy to...(insert action here)" instead of "You're more than welcome to...". Who the heck are they to tell me whether or not I'm happy to do something, and isn't telling me I'm more than happy a little presumptuous?
Missing our little turkey.
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Does anyone watch Modern Family?!?!
"Doggy Dog World" instead of "Dog Eat Dog World"
Why the face?
LMAO
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Alzheimer's - thought it was "Old Timers'" (always thought it was insensitive)
Ethereal - always tried to pronounce it "erethreal"
Beatle's lyric "Girls with kaleidoscope eyes" - thought it was "Girls with colitis go by" as a child.
My great aunt used to say all kinds of things wrong. "An-cha-rude-o" instead of enchilada was my favorite though. lol
Oh! There's a guy at work who says, "Suposively" and it drives me insane. And he uses that term ALL the time.
Missing our little turkey.
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What is a "whore's bath"? I've never heard that one before!
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TTC Since January 2011 - We have bad spermWell, I've also heard it called a spit bath or "hitting the hot spots" lmao
Missing our little turkey.
Estimated Due Date 11/13/12 | Natural Miscarriage 4/17/12
HEE! That's pretty fabulous!
Missing our little turkey.
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Mom (whom I love BTW:) )
Mute (as in irrelavant): Moo
Swiffer: Swifter (same as another one here!)
Genre: I got her an iPod a few years ago, and looking at it she says, "What's jean-ree?" Oye.
DH
From the song Every Breath you Take
The line is: My poor heart aches with every step you take.
DH thought it was: I'm a pool hall ace with every step you take.
When I first heard him sing that I was like...wait, what?! That makes NO sense!
Not so much saying, but when I hear someone say "foreign" film, it sounds like "porn" film. And I have had people think I said porn instead haha.
Oh, how could I forget this one?!? This is BY FAR by husband's biggest pet peeve. I accidentally said it once and he totally stopped me and said "you what?". He hates it!
As a cute kid I used to sing, "I can see clearly now, the rain is gone, I can see all POPSICLES in my way". Instead of "obstacles". Still makes me smile every time I hear that song.
est. 10/10/10
Damn, I had to read all of those "whore's bath" examples like 8 times before I finally "got it", now I can't stop laughing!
zomg! That totally should have been a question on the hygiene poll!! LOL!
"How many whore's baths a week?"
god, I still can't stop laughing!
All of this made me LoL and smile real big
I kinda love you now, for real!
I have never heard the term "whore's bath," but I can guarantee I'll be making good use of it.
My friend used to think that King of Wishful Thinking song was "I'm the king, I wish for bacon." I still sing it that way when I hear it in a store. And for a hot second I thought the lyrics to Pearl Jam's Glorified G were "glorified virgin on a pelican." (They're actually "glorified version of a pellet gun.")
And total agreement on the "could" care less, grrrr! Also, no matter how many times I correct her, my mom always calls Eric Clapton "Eric Clampton" and it makes my teeth itch.
I can't say pedestrian to save my life - always comes out 'pedrestrian'. No idea why. For years, my mom thought the lyrics to the song 'Sweet Home Alabama' were 'no one's home in Alabama', and she couldn't figure out why the song had caught on so well. "So they're on vacation. Big deal." God love my mom!
My MIL, no matter how many times we correct or tease her, still says 'warsh'.
Is she from Warshington?
est. 10/10/10
My great-grandma called it a PTA Bath, which is "Pits, tits, and @ss."
Lance says "fashlight" instead of "flashlight and it makes me crazy. The other one that really drives me nuts is "breaFast" uh...how bout "breaKfast".
That's because even after you KNOW the correct lyrics it STILL sounds like "glorified virgin on a pelican" LMAO
Missing our little turkey.
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I seriously lol'ed for like five minutes- DH looked at me like I'm insane.
PTA is also pretty epic.
DH calls it a bird bath.
LOL Aww - that's totally a sweet way to put it though. Notice the dude is far less crass on the subject than us "ladies" lmao
Missing our little turkey.
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seriously. haha.
FIL asks her that all the time, actually! East St Louis, before it turned "bad".