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Questiontime!

imremembering:

When you were a kid was there a word or phrase you heard that you totally misunderstood? For example, I once heard someone say “Pulitzer Prize” which I thought was “Pull it! Surprise!” Like that makes sense.  Any funny misunderstandings out there?

I asked my mom why my classmate’s dad could do the readings at church even though he wasn’t a priest, and she said that laymen could do the first two readings. I thought the term was “late men,” so for years I would rush to get to church because I was afraid we’d have to get up in front of everyone if we were late.

  1. jekyll-or-hyde answered: Eiffel 65’s song - “Im blue”, i thought the lyrics were “Im blue if i was green i would die” :P
  2. rarishes reblogged this from vomohiper and added:
    Took me like fifteen years to finally figure out that everybody was saying ‘guard rails’ but it was too late and I still...
  3. anothergb answered: MOSTLY JUST SONG LYRIC CONFUSION
  4. mooncard answered: I thought “dog eat dog world” was “doggy dog world” IDKWTF!
  5. until-morning answered: I used to believe that Michigan and Wisconsin rhymed (as in Wish-i-gan).
  6. mdsensei answered: All I can remember are misheard lyrics, for example I thought TLC was singing, “Go, go, Jason Waterfall”.
  7. naimtolga answered: I like = alike
  8. mycomputergoingtodie answered: shes not happy Jan my aunt would say in a really weird time
  9. shanea-yanie249 answered: yes
  10. potatosalad111 answered: NOT REALLY THE ONLY ONE I HEARD WAS BREAK A LEG AN I REALLY THOUGHT IT MENT BREAK A LEG HAHS
  11. raobala answered: true
  12. hotkisses94candy answered: issue lol
  13. lewiscarter answered: “old Outch potato chips”
  14. deepponders answered: I always said chester drawers instead of chest of drawers- Til I learned the truth!
  15. didacticism answered: When my mom would say “part-time job”, I thought she was saying “park-time job” and I thought all you had to do what play at the park.
  16. delusional-and-free answered: When ever somebody said “actually”, I thought they were saying my name!
  17. purityfalls answered: I always thought Rudolph was going down in “his story”…not “history”
  18. brogigay0 reblogged this from vomohiper and added:
    you know how at the end of some cartoons and stuff they would say like, “‘arthur’ is brought to you by ____”? i always...
  19. nailsnthangs answered: Marvin Gay’s song “Heard it through the Grapevine” I thought it said “hurry with those french fries!” haha
  20. fz1rdr answered: Misread “Enlarged to show texture” as “ENGLARED” on every cereal box I ever sleepily stared down until I was maybe 18.
  21. witty-even-in-retreat answered: The president’s oath,the day I learned it in school I came home to my mom and said the president promises to attack the united states
  22. dorothypzbornak said: I thought the “D” in Disney was a “G”!
  23. dorothypzbornak answered: I thought the “
  24. stron003 answered: “Like a twister, I was born to walk alone” - Whitesnake
  25. kempyjr answered: I always thought Stereophonice were singing ‘Have a nasty…’ and would go around singing it… doesnt even make sense!
  26. emgusk answered: I thought “brought to you by” on PBS was one word starting with a P. “Proctuedby,” or something like that.
  27. strawberrieswithbalsamic answered: I used to hear “traffic jam” on the radio in the late evenings an always thought it was an ad for a type of jam, with little lolly cars in it
  28. roseweightless-blue answered: I thought you could get pregnant by “sleeping with someone,” ie, in the same bed
  29. spandexandlippstikk answered: my mam thought the song “only the lonely” was a persons name “oweny deloney”
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  31. paperisweak answered: Pay-per-view. I thought it was called ‘Paper-view’, also thought it had something to do with looking at paper.
  32. musings-of-a-hairdresser answered: I thought “8/7 central” was a unit of time. Once at a party my parents hosted, I said “Mom tell me when it’s 8,7 central!” Hilarity ensued.
  33. thankyoukoala answered: Alzheimer’s was “Old Timer’s.”
  34. thesilvehntaireeomachine said: “Make Believe” I thought was “Maple Leave”.
  35. jasca answered: When someone mentioned reading “War and Peace”, I thought it was an author named Warren Peace…
  36. treeka215 answered: “alzheimer’s disease” was heard as “old timer’s disease” and I wasn’t too far off.
  37. b-rock08 said: I thought the TLC song “Waterfalls” was saying “go go Jason Warerfalls” instead of ” don’t go chasing waterfalls”, as if it was some guy’s name…
  38. ann-nonymous85 answered: When we were little we used to say “Can I be abused from the table?” Someone couldn’t pronounce excused.
  39. jesuisgenevoise answered: Old timers disease (alzheimers)