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Diogenes Oct 2020 9:22am, 14 Oct 2020 53,831 posts	Quote Pin Diogenes The ignorance, Dipps, it's self-explanatory!
HappyG(rrr) Oct 2020 9:24am, 14 Oct 2020 36,103 posts	Quote Pin HappyG(rrr) These are some crackers! (There is a Facebook sort of meme about this subject, isn't there? But it's mostly click-bait to get you to "10 tips" type websites with millions of ads on them.) That epitome is pronounced eh-pit-oh-mee not eppy-toam (maybe 15?) first time I heard it read aloud having read it wrongly in my head for years! Can't think of many others, but must be loads of rubbish I have assumed over the years and been wrong. I probably don't remember them because I like to think I am right all the time. These are fun. Good thread Fizz! G
Rossco Peeko Oct 2020 9:31am, 14 Oct 2020 119 posts	Quote Pin Rossco Peeko On the basis that I only saw gulls at seaside resorts, I always thought that the red spot on their bill was ketchup, as they were always eating chips. Yes, all of them.
McGoohan Oct 2020 9:35am, 14 Oct 2020 47,058 posts	Quote Pin McGoohan When Liebling was younger she used to read old hard-boiled thrillers which, to get round censors would say 'sonovabitch' which she would internally read as 'son-OH-FOR-bitch'. She asked her mum what a son-OH-FOR-bitch was Similarly coppy-lot for co-pilot!
Velociraptor Oct 2020 9:37am, 14 Oct 2020 49,177 posts	Quote Pin Velociraptor I once had a crisp stolen from my hand by a gull while out on a trip on the Waverley. I was able to point out which gull had stolen my crisp because it had some of the orange flavour-powder stuck to its beak. My parents thought this was highly amusing.
Sharkie Oct 2020 9:40am, 14 Oct 2020 16,617 posts	Quote Pin Sharkie That those small inverted boats on top of people's cars weren't small boats.... (about two years ago the penny dropped)
GordonG Oct 2020 12:24pm, 14 Oct 2020 8,356 posts	Quote Pin GordonG That riding in a Private Ambulance wasn't a thing you should wish for and it also wasn't something only rich people did.
Fitz Oct 2020 1:47pm, 14 Oct 2020 2,300 posts	Quote Pin Fitz Still well within childhood, so not completely dim, but it took a long time for the penny to drop for me with this joke: Q: what's worse than finding a worm in your apple? A: finding half a worm in your apple.
GordonG Oct 2020 2:47pm, 14 Oct 2020 8,357 posts	Quote Pin GordonG for years - in to adult life - I thought sea horses weren't real. I got them confused with 'white horses' (when the waves churn), which I knew weren't real horses. now sea horses are my favourite animal.
Surrey Phil Oct 2020 2:54pm, 14 Oct 2020 5,048 posts	Quote Pin Surrey Phil After coming out of the toilet, my mum told me sternly that my gran wanted to spend a penny. I thought I had missed out on some pocket money.