When listening to the radio as a child, I often heard the d.j. stating that to win such and such prize, you had to wait for the "q-ta-call." I was unsure what the q-ta-call was...if it was a special noise or sound that told you when to call. A couple of years ago, a d.j. who spoke more slowly than the others helped me understand what a "q-ta-call" is....its the "cue to call."
A childhood belief about radio
others believed things like this
- My mother used to call my behind "a paw paw" and for many years I refused to eat paw paws (papayas)— Garth
- My father used to call soya sauce "monkey blood". I didn't even consider tasting it for years!— Me
- I used to believe that an oncologist was an "on-call-ogist"Anon
- I used to call the shoulder of the road, the elbow.Anon
- I used to call the rays of light from the sun "sun BEANS". That's what it sounded like to me.Anon
- i used to think that the word 'clothes' was the plural for 'clo.' so i'd call a sock or a shirt a clo. — jessimocha