When I was about 22 I was in a restaurant with my boyfriend and I remarked to him about how I thought it was so nice of restaurants and stores to put the 'height chart' beside the door so that people could measure how tall they were...LOL...

And up until about 3 years ago I thought that the song "Patio Lanterns" was a song about a guy named "Paddy O'Lantern".......I finally saw a video of it and boy did I laugh at myself.......

I thought that Paddy O'Lantern was the first to dance and the first to kiss........

Today I heard Eliah singing "Row Row Row Your Boat".............Merrily merrily merrily merrily life's a spider dream...........

I guess the apple doesn't fall far from the tree..........

fiona

By Palmbchprincess on Saturday, November 6, 2004 - 06:36 pm:

ROFL... that's cute Fiona!! We all have our moments, there's been a few times something "clicked" and I realized how much of a ditz I was!!

By Bea on Saturday, November 6, 2004 - 07:59 pm:

Hubby used to sing "Bringing in the Cheese" instead of "Bringing in the Sheaves". I thought it was "A monk swimming" instead of Amongst Women in the Hail Mary. Part of being kids.....LOL

By Tink on Saturday, November 6, 2004 - 08:24 pm:

Instead of "one nation, indivisible" I thought it was "one nation, indeliverable". I think we all have something like this we've done.

By Jayne2 on Saturday, November 6, 2004 - 09:37 pm:

Syd sings abcdefghijk I'm a little pea qrstuvwxyz...its so cute!

By Dawnk777 on Saturday, November 6, 2004 - 10:36 pm:

Super-cali-fragi-lipstick-expi-ali-do-cious

instead of

Super-cali-fragi-listic-expi-ali-do-cious

from Mary Poppins

By Fionadeassis on Saturday, November 6, 2004 - 11:07 pm:

Jayne2-...I'm a little pea.......LOL!!!

By Missmudd on Sunday, November 7, 2004 - 11:17 am:

Did not internalize that song "lola" was about a cross dresser, was amazed that Keifer sutherland and Donald were father and son.... dur...

By Melana on Sunday, November 7, 2004 - 06:04 pm:

for me it was m&m o p when saying the alphabet when I was little. I really think the I'm a little pea thing is cute, made me laugh.

By Colette on Sunday, November 7, 2004 - 08:25 pm:

the litte pea thing is so cute. make sure you write it down.

By Bellajoe on Monday, November 8, 2004 - 07:37 am:

I'm still confused about the 'height chart' in the restaurant. I don't know what your talking abou there.

My dd says "ska-betty" for spaghetti. And I used to say "pasghetti" for spaghetti.

When my dd was 3 she thought they were the O-lipsticks, instead of the Olympics

My sister in law thought the song "you make me feel like a Natural Woman" was "you make me feel like a man, since your a women" ROTFL!!

I recently did this same sort of thing, i wish i remembered what it was!

By Mara on Monday, November 8, 2004 - 07:58 am:

My ds just started preschool this year and had to learn the pledge of allegence. It would crack me up! He would say "I pledge the allegence to the flag of the United States of America, and TWO IN THE BUCKET for which it stands! Instead of and too the republic! He knows the correct words now but I was always soo funny to get him to recite it for people

Mara

By Fionadeassis on Monday, November 8, 2004 - 10:27 am:

Bellajoe-I don't know if you have them in the
U.S.-but in Canada beside most doors of stores and restaurants there is a height chart so if you get robbed, as the robber leaves you can get an idea of how tall they are so you can give a good description of the person.......

My friend Kerstin thought that in the song 'Karma Chameleon(Boy George)'...."how to sell a contradiction" was-"how to sell a country kitchen"....

There was a song that was popular in the early 80s called 'Urgent'. Me and Kerstin thought it was 'Virgin' and we would always be uncomfortable walking through the mall when it played because we thought the guys would look at us and know we were virgins...LOL.....

fiona

By My2cuties on Monday, November 8, 2004 - 10:32 am:

LOL these are all so funny, I don't think any kid can say spagetti correctly when they are little, DD says basghetti and she is 3 now, poor thing she finally says "Ugh, I can't say it!" and we have to sit and work on it for a while...lol At least she is determined, I guess.

By Janet on Monday, November 8, 2004 - 11:36 am:

"Lola" is about a cross-dresser???!!! LOL Never made the connection...
I used to think your blood was blue until it hit the air, when it turned red (well, your veins look blue, right?).
And I believed it when my friend told me dandelion milk was poisonous!

By Cat on Monday, November 8, 2004 - 12:04 pm:

We had one young, niave airman back at Whiteman AFB convinced that the little bales of hay grew up to be those big bales of hay. My mom and some of her college roomates had another roomate convinced that the reason the bottom of the trees (pine trees) were all the same height was because a helicopter flew next to them upside down and cut them all the same height. It's amazing what some adults will believe! lol

*N* calls Scooby-Doo "Spiga-Boo." It's too cute.

By Cat on Monday, November 8, 2004 - 12:05 pm:

ROFL, Janet! Do you know what the song "Afternoon Delight" is about???

By Janet on Monday, November 8, 2004 - 12:20 pm:

*ahem* Yes, Cat... thank you... LOL It's a flavor of ice cream, right?

By Tink on Monday, November 8, 2004 - 04:07 pm:

Seth calls lasagna "pizanya" and Bella combined night and dark and used to look out the window in the evening and yell "The nark is coming!"

By Laurazee on Tuesday, November 9, 2004 - 08:36 am:

nark - ROFL!! And I must admit, I never did listen to the words of "Afternoon Delight," but I would assume some kind of *ahem* dessert as well. (So, now: what on earth is Turkish Delight? Could my reading of The Lion, Witch, and the Wardrobe be way off?)

I know for a while I used to hear "a girl with colitis goes by" instead of "a girl with kaleidiscope eyes" on some Beatles tune. And sometimes I still can't shake the hearing of "olive" instead of "our love" in several songs.

By Bellajoe on Tuesday, November 9, 2004 - 08:44 am:

Laurazeee "a girl with colitis goes by" that's hilarious!

I worked at the book fair at school yesterday. On the back of most books where the price is, it usually has the price in U.S. and the price in Canada. So a little kid came up to me and says "which price is it? Us or Can? I thought that was so cute. Expecially since i did the same thing when i was little!

By Janet on Tuesday, November 9, 2004 - 09:48 am:

Laura, I always assumed Turkish Delight was some type of rich chocolate! Must've been pretty darn good, is all I can say...

By Ginny~moderator on Tuesday, November 9, 2004 - 09:49 am:

Laurazee, you can relax. Turkish delight is a form of candy:
http://www.world-recipes.info/turkey-turkish/turkish_delight.html

My parents, for years, told the story of when they took me (age 4) to some place with a sign and I cheerfully read the sign "capa city 1000 gallons".

My favorite from my sons is when Greg sat on the stairs and said "I thunk", and I said WHAT - and he said "think, thank, thunk - isn't that right?"

My oldest was in special ed for many years and at age 4 one of his teachers was so frustrated because she couldn't figure out what he meant by googygopper and gaggygoober - turned out to be helicopter and caterpillar.

By Tink on Tuesday, November 9, 2004 - 10:48 am:

Ginny, I've been speaking toddler-ese for long enough that, while reading your post, I translated googygopper and gaggygoober to the correct words before I got that far!

By Bellajoe on Tuesday, November 9, 2004 - 04:28 pm:

Tink...now THAT's impressive!

My dad had big hands with big, wide thumbs (think Fred Flintstone hands). He used to tell me that his thumbs got run over by a garbage truck and that is why they are so big, wide and sort of flat looking. For years i couldn't figure out how in the world his thumbs got run over and nothing else! LOL!

By Imamommyx4 on Tuesday, November 9, 2004 - 08:24 pm:

I'm not even going to start telling tales on myself. The list would be way too long. But one cute from middle ds. There is a story in the Bible about Shadrach, Meschach and Abednego. DS thought it was Shadrach, Meshach and a billie goat.

By Missmudd on Tuesday, November 9, 2004 - 10:59 pm:

When my 15 yo ds was in kindergarten he came home w/ a note saying how they were practicing fire safety and to practice w/ your child. So we went over the fire exits, how to dial 911 ect. Then I asked him to show me what he should do if his clothes caught on fire. He ran to his closet and stopped dropped and rolled. I asked him why he had ran (because that is the worst you can do) He said he went to where his clothes were..... Had to explain they were talking about the clothes on your body

By Jujubee on Wednesday, November 10, 2004 - 08:03 am:

LOL Imamommy....my daughter always called them Shadrach, Meshach, and A bend to go.

By Cat on Thursday, November 11, 2004 - 07:53 am:

Yesterday when I picked Randy up from school he informed me they didn't have school tomorrow (today) because it was veterinarians day! rofl