Not just realised but until they revamped university challenge and you could see the true orientation of the contestants I did genuinely think there was a two tiered set with one of the UNIs being seated "upstairs"!!!
Not just realised but until they revamped university challenge and you could see the true orientation of the contestants I did genuinely think there was a two tiered set with one of the UNIs being seated "upstairs"!!!
I always thought the nursery rhyme was 'One man went to Mo, went to Mo, a meadow' - that is, a meadow named Mo.
I always wondered why all these people were going to this meadow Mo. Although I suppose a whole load of people going to mow a meadow with lawnmowers or whatever doesnt make much more sense!
I've been using Amazon for more than a decade now, yet it was only a month or two back that I noticed that the little smile under the Amazon logo is actually an arrow that points 'From A to Z'.
When Mrs Doubtfire first came out, I was about 7. I remember my family and I watching it, roaring with laughter at some of the lines. I asked what was funny, they told me an alternative line without the swearing (I think it was broke my bag of plaster) I just accepted this and duly giggled along with them.
A few years ago (more than 2 decades later) I'm sat watching the film with the subtitles on. The line comes up (broke my bag the bastard!) I couldn't believe they'd lied to me and I'd just accepted it, so enraged I called home to give the parents a lecture! I can still hear them laughing now that it took me so long to figure out!
A really embarrassing one is I used to think the disabled signs for parking was if you need the toilet really really badly I was a young kid though.
The other thing was when I heard on the news on the radio something about rape I would always hear rake and think think that someone went to another person and hit them with a rake again I was young.
That I don't need to enter the 4-digit passcode and log into my iphone to take a photo, the obvious camera icon on the lockout screen means I can do it from there. A recent tip from my colleague.
I've been using Amazon for more than a decade now, yet it was only a month or two back that I noticed that the little smile under the Amazon logo is actually an arrow that points 'From A to Z'.
Oh, yes, so it does. I never realised that until you pointed it out!
The other thing was when I heard on the news on the radio something about rape I would always hear rake and think think that someone went to another person and hit them with a rake again I was young.
When I was very young I once heard rape described as "sexual assault" but misheard it as "sexual salt". That puzzled me for a while!
I spent a lot of my life thinking that 'Good King Wenclas last looked out' - still have trouble remembering that his name is actually Wenceslas
I thought that too for a while. Probably a common mishearing due to the incorrect(?) stress on the last syllable of Wenceslas.
Also it took me a long time to realise that in the hymn "There is a green hill far away/Without a city wall", the word "without" actually means "outside"...
I spent a lot of my life thinking that 'Good King Wenclas last looked out' - still have trouble remembering that his name is actually Wenceslas
A small interesting add on is that the proper un-Anglicised name for the King is Vaclav whcih does fit in the line as 'Good King Vaclav last looked out...'.
Had fun belting that out wandering around Prague last December
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So did I.
Used to wonder why he had such a girlie first name.
I then knew that Oleg is a version of Alex.
Nice post
Ain't it just:)
Something that sometimes seems almost impossible to get across.
well they did it with top of the form
http://www.staugs.org/tvtoftf_images/Academy%20TOTF%20picture.jpg
It DOES sound very Irish though doesn't it?
I thought Dunstable was in Scotland, it's in Bedfordshire
I always wondered why all these people were going to this meadow Mo. Although I suppose a whole load of people going to mow a meadow with lawnmowers or whatever doesnt make much more sense!
A few years ago (more than 2 decades later) I'm sat watching the film with the subtitles on. The line comes up (broke my bag the bastard!) I couldn't believe they'd lied to me and I'd just accepted it, so enraged I called home to give the parents a lecture! I can still hear them laughing now that it took me so long to figure out!
The other thing was when I heard on the news on the radio something about rape I would always hear rake and think think that someone went to another person and hit them with a rake again I was young.
It isn't though.
Okay. It's about a young girl, transported to a surreal world kills the first person she meets, then teams up with three strangers to kill again.
I was like that with Freddie Mercury, when the tragic news about his Aids infection broke.
"Gay? Are you quite sure about that? He just seems such a man's man........ohhhh"
Oh, yes, so it does. I never realised that until you pointed it out!
When I was very young I once heard rape described as "sexual assault" but misheard it as "sexual salt". That puzzled me for a while!
I thought that too for a while. Probably a common mishearing due to the incorrect(?) stress on the last syllable of Wenceslas.
Also it took me a long time to realise that in the hymn "There is a green hill far away/Without a city wall", the word "without" actually means "outside"...
A small interesting add on is that the proper un-Anglicised name for the King is Vaclav whcih does fit in the line as 'Good King Vaclav last looked out...'.
Had fun belting that out wandering around Prague last December