Oh yeh...you know how you see exploded tires on the side of the highway. I thought if you drove onto the shoulder your tires would explode, so the rumble strips made me quite a ball of nerves on family trips.

6/30/2011 11:30:02 PM

I used to think "All intensive purposes" as I said "All intents and purposes".

6/30/2011 11:45:54 PM

I called cucumbers "bumbers"

7/1/2011 12:15:46 AM

the signs before a bridge that say "Open joints on bridge" with a guy riding a motorcycle

i took joints to mean bars/hangouts or whatever because of the "bad guy" on the motorcycle, so i read the sign as telling people that there were motorcycle hangouts open at the time, on the bridge. nevermind that i never saw an establishment located on an actual bridge.

7/1/2011 9:12:05 AM

hot dogs were "dit dogs"

7/1/2011 9:21:47 AM

i went through a phase when i was real young where i would not acknowledge somebody unless they addressed me as "amanda panda miss elizabeth allen".

god i was such a brat

7/1/2011 9:26:18 AM

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"joepeshi: Oh yeh...you know how you see exploded tires on the side of the highway. I thought if you drove onto the shoulder your tires would explode, so the rumble strips made me quite a ball of nerves on family trips."

I had a similar notion.

And, for the most part, they're not even exploded tires, by the way! It's just retread that flies off big ole truck tires.

7/1/2011 11:43:54 AM

^ ^ ^ ^ LOL

7/1/2011 1:37:54 PM

When I was in elementary school, I found a "Truly Tasteless Jokes" book. Thanks to misreading a joke in the book, I referred to pubic hair as "public hair" for a number of years. My mom thought that it was funny and never bothered to set me straight.

7/1/2011 5:30:54 PM

When I was probably in elementary school I used to think "gun point" was a place. On the news they would always say that so and so "was being held at gun point" or "was taken at gun point" and I was just like, "why the hell would you ever live at place gun point...you're just asking for trouble." I just thought gun point was a place where all the criminals would take their hostages...lol

8/20/2011 10:48:08 AM

When I was two I was sitting at dinner with my parents and I turned to my dad and said "pass the salt you son of a bitch.". Flabbergasted my dad asked me where I learned to say that. I shrugged my shoulders and said, "school."

At that point my parents realized I shouldn't be watching HBO freely anyone

8/20/2011 11:42:18 AM

It's refreshing to know we were all once cute kids before we turned into the gaggle of whores and morons we are now

8/20/2011 12:42:22 PM

For the longest time when someone would say "you cut" (around Kindergarten/1st grade) I thought it literally meant that person had received a gash of some sorts not knowing it meant to illegally pass someone in line. I always thought that person was a liar.

8/20/2011 12:47:22 PM

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"It's refreshing to know we were all once cute kids before we turned into the gaggle of whores and morons we are now"

HAHAHAHA

8/20/2011 1:13:36 PM

around 5-7 I used to say "stick up your boobies and gimme all your milk" just because it got a laugh out of my brother and sister

I was smart enough to not say it outside our home though

8/20/2011 1:35:46 PM

when i was really little everything was in doubles, like cows: booboos dogs: doodoos cheerios: yoyos i've noticed i do this now with certain names...i have a friend brian and he is forever bribri

grape juice was purple juice due to orange juice obviously being orange


when i was about 4 or 5 i was having lunch with my sitter's family and as they were ending the blessing instead of saying "amen" i shouted out "all women" because i THOUGHT they were always saying "all men"

8/20/2011 6:15:04 PM

i didnt know what the difference between "born" and "conceived" was. i thought they meant the same thing. so one day in school our teacher told us to make a timeline with important historical events. i thought it would be funny to include my birthday on the timeline, so i said the date of my birthday and then, "the day i was conceived"

and the teacher was all

8/21/2011 2:43:30 PM

I used to call DUMP TRUCKS -> "DUMB TRUCKS" and nobody corrected me. EVER.

I can still get away with it.


When I sneeze, I say "BuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuullSHIT"

and nobody everrrr notices.

[Edited on August 21, 2011 at 2:52 PM. Reason : .]

8/21/2011 2:51:52 PM

My brother called cigarettes pockets when he was little since our dad usually kept a pack in the front pocket of his work shirts.

8/21/2011 2:57:27 PM

8/22/2011 3:34:05 AM

i was at work with my dad one saturday and managed to call the cubicles, pubicles in front of all his employees

8/22/2011 6:58:47 AM

stomach eggs= stomachaches

8/22/2011 7:41:49 AM

I called elevators alligators.

8/22/2011 8:33:09 AM

Quote :

" The first time I rode my big girl bike all by myself (no dad running along side, no more tricycle wheels) I got to the end of the driveway and my family watched in horror as I held both my hands up and gave them the bird."

omg Minkagrl01, i snorted in the middle of class. hahahhahahahahha

8/22/2011 9:26:35 AM

The expression "he puts his pants on one leg at a time, just like everyone else" freaked me out.

I always sat down and pulled my pants up both legs at once.

10/4/2011 2:32:42 PM

I remember when we moved to NC, I saw my first Home Depot. And I scolded my parents for saying it's name incorrectly. It was Home "De-pot", not "depo". Called it like that for several years.

10/4/2011 4:04:54 PM

For a while I thought music on the radio was live. Otherwise you have records and 8 tracks. I've always been a little ashamed of that so this is stupid shit I've said as an adult

Also, Minka that is the best mental image ever.

10/4/2011 4:24:23 PM

I thought the same thing about reruns. I was always amazed that Mr. Rogers could pull off repeat performances so well.

10/4/2011 6:08:30 PM

In my youth, this was known as a "choo-choo truck"

10/4/2011 6:29:53 PM

My dad called everybody whores when he was little.

Interestingly enough, I called a lot of people whores before I knew what a whore was. Now I know what whores are, and I still call a lot of people that.

10/4/2011 6:45:07 PM

I told my mom once that all nascar cars were automatic because the drivers had too much to worry about as it was to mess with shifting gears too


I really don't know where I got that one.

10/4/2011 6:50:59 PM

Friend of mine used to brag about The Forum office complex on Six Forks Rd being where the Lakers played.

10/4/2011 6:52:49 PM

Not me, but along the same lines:

My son refers to "robots" and "bee-bots."

10/4/2011 7:41:15 PM

I called my grandma "Mamaw" and whenever we went to visit Mamaw in Richmond, we would also visit my great-grandma... well my great grandma lived near railroad tracks and i loved trains as a kid and we would always go to the tracks... so i called my great grandma "Mamaw Choo-Choo"

name stuck until her dying day 20 years later (and beyond) for the whole family.

10/4/2011 7:47:33 PM

I said "yesterday night" for years instead of "last night". I still say this on occasion, because I think in order of conversation - it happened yesterday, at night.

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When I was a kid I LOVED car racing. I got this game called F1 Grand Prix, and I pronounced it "Grand Pricks", like Twix or Kix. My mom was horrified and told me for a long time to say is as "Grand Pree".

I honestly thought she was playing a joke on me to make me look stupid. So I kept saying pricks for years, until I finally learned what a prick was

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In 2nd grade I got all A's and got to watch Robocop. At school the next day my teacher asked me what my favorite scene was. I stood up and replayed the scene at volume for the whole lunch room:

"I loved it when Robocop threw the guy through all glass and then the bad guy says 'GIVE ME MY FUCKING PHONE CALL!' "

All the teachers turned to me, and my teacher dragged me by my ear to the office and I got sent home for the day. My mom was so incredibly embarrassed, my dad thought it was hilarious. And that was the last rated R movie they ever let me watch.

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On our way to Mississippi for Christmas when I was little, our van was broken into and someone stole all of our stuff -> presents, clothes, everything.

So the next day my parents took us to a nearby church to get some basic clothes for me to wear until we got to MS. They were talking to the pastor and he leaned down and asked how I felt about what had happened.

Remembering what my dad had said to my mother the night before I said with a smile "It's okay they took the presents, but can you believe they took all the damn god clothes too?"

The pastor looked at them and me, and just started laughing. Apparently I said damn god instead of god damn for years as a small kid.

10/4/2011 8:35:08 PM

i dunno if its dumb and i still do it but i say noon thirty or midnight thirty instead of 1230am or 1230pm

10/4/2011 8:39:44 PM

I once thought that "provenance" had the same syllabic structure as "providence"; that is, I thought it was "PRAHV-en-anss" rather than "pro-ven-ahnss"

10/5/2011 12:37:57 AM

when i was a little kid i wanted to grow up to be a my little pony

10/5/2011 12:47:59 AM

gainfully still employed as a kid who does stupid shit... you never grow out of it.

10/5/2011 12:53:04 AM

I used to say Atlanta Ocean.

And not because the public beach was full of poor black families either.

10/5/2011 12:53:07 AM

^^^^Those words are pronounced almost identically in my head.

provenance providence

The only difference is the n sound in the first word is changed to a d sound in the next word.

Right?

[Edited on October 5, 2011 at 12:54 AM. Reason : ?]

10/5/2011 12:54:10 AM

^pretty much. And that story uninteresting, anyway. Lamest in the thread

10/5/2011 1:11:04 AM

^on NPR at least they say that word very differently: The first syllable is pronounced like the word "pro" and the last syllable starts off like the word "on"

The way you're thinking about it, it's as if I had said that I mispronounced the name of the Arkansas River.

10/5/2011 1:17:16 AM

"W" was "daa-hoo"

"water" was "ooo-ga-laa"

10/5/2011 12:36:59 PM