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We were playing table tennis and my friend didn't know what gay (fagget) means...so while we were outdors and there were some bats flying around we told him fagget=bat...well he kind of liked the new word he learned and started telling us how many faggets there are around his house all the time and then he started flapping his hands aroud and screaming that he is fagget too...i needn't say we almost pissed ourselves laughing (no offense to gay community meant)
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My daughter and I had a long discussion about the plain frock like gown thjat girls and working ladies used to wear. I never got her to accept that it wasn't called a pininform. A few weeks ago she had to admit that I was right. Then she came out with a good one, that "Bonanza" is in fact called Bonzana. mmmmmmm
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When I was young I used to be amazed when I watched news programmes where someone was being interviewed and you could see dozens of microphones shoved in their face. I thought that each microphone automatically translated the speakers words into a different language so that everyone in the world would be able to understand it!
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I used to believe that twenty was the largest number in the universe.
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when i was 4 i thought id run out of words after id told a joke to all my friends and family. i had nothin else to say... and thats all i have to say about that.
I was maybe, twelve, and was a bit confused at the disticntion between the words "discreet" and "secrete". I made a speech about spies or something like that for a "What You Want to Be When You Grow Up" type project. NOBODY EVER TOLD ME. It took me until I was fifteen to realize that spies do not ooze everywhere.
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When my big sister was a junior high school cheerleader, I would hear her practice a cheer that said:
Send them to their doom-doom-doom-doom-doom-doom!
Boob-boom-boom-boom-boom-boom!
I was unfamiliar with the word "doom" at the time, so the nearest word I could hear was "dune". I really wondered why the cheer was calling for sending someone to a sand dune.
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I used to think that a cadaver was a type of knife. Maybe that was because of its similarity in sound to the last two syllables of "dagger".
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I used to have the idea that scrimshaw was a card game.
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When I was in 2nd grade, my teacher would make the class share news stories that we had read in the paper. We'd have to make a speech presentation about it. When we'd do it, it was time to share our "Current Events." When she explained what we had to do, I always heard "current events" as all one word strung together. When it was my turn to share, I designed a poster board with a title that read, "My Curnavent."
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When my brother and I were younger my mother used to say "sugar!" instead of shit as she didn't want us kids to learn to swear. Consequently my brother thought that all such words were swear words and called me a "stupid cocoa" for years after.
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A friend of mine only realized about a year ago (when she was 12) that a laptop computer was called that because it sits on your lap. And I didn't realize until 6th grade that the Beatles was spelled funny because it includes the word Beat...I just never thought about it...
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My sister is older than me and when she got to a certain age, she did not have to wear knee socks any more, but instead got to wear leotards. Since her name was Leah, and my name is Holly, I thought that when I grew up I would get to wear holly-tards.
I used to believe that the definition of "party pooper" was "a person who poops a party." I guess that was because "party pooper" has the word "poop" in it. But now, I know that being a party pooper has absolutely nothing to do with pooping.
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So when I was little I used to think the alphabet song just named a lot of letters and I spent inordinate amounts of time trying to think of the letters that weren't in the song.
I used to think that "a couple" meant any small amount, such as 3 or 5. My mom once corrected me and said that "a couple" always meant 2, and that if I meant some other small number that I should say "a few" instead.
I told her that she must have it backwards, and that "a few" must mean 2, because "few" and "two" rhyme.
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When I was young, I asked my mom, "You know how 1+1 is 2, and 3+3 is 6, and 7+7 is 14? Well, what 2 numbers make 5?" She said, "Well, 2 + 3 is 5". I said, "NO!!! I mean what two SAME numbers make 5?"
She told me that there weren't any. I couldn't accept that answer. I must have spent an hour trying to come up with the correct answer. No, I didn't know about fractions or decimals at that age.
I used to believe that cursive handwriting was French. After all, the French are so sophisticated, and it made sense that their writing would look fancier than plain American (print) writing. However, when I finally learned how to read cursive, I was disappointed that the words weren't different.
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I used to say "Shut up the hull" instead of "Shut up the h***," according to my mom.
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When I was just learning my alphabet, I thought "L M N O" was one whole letter "ellamino" .... my mother had to tell me to start saying it slower, then I finally learned. teh.
