What did you learn late in life that made you feel like a fool?

[jtval 0]

actually when I was in 4th grade or so we were readin about differnet countries I mispronounced the niger river.

I didnt even know what the"N" word was back then but I never uinderstood why the teacher was upset until years later....I can laugh about it now.

I did the same thing with the word basted. In MY NY accent I pronouced it Bass-tid

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[Kate1973 0]

That food gives you energy...i learnt it not so long ago...it still amazes me it works...i thought they were kidding!!!!

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[KawiZX900 0]

all kinds of shit. GO NAVY.

Accelerate hard to get them looking, then slam on the fronts and rollright beside the car, hanging the back wheel at eye level for a few seconds. Guaranteed reaction- Dave Sonsky

[kelel01 1]

Ooooh, how about when people say, "I have a prescription to that magazine." It's SUBSCRIPTION, dumbass! Heard a playmate talking about her dad's "prescription" to Playboy, proving once again that they are the most intelligent beings on the planet.

Kelly

[cocheese 0]

I thought a "taxidermist" did your taxes not stuff dead animals. ( til I was like 16 years old)

[FallingILweenie 0]

A prescription to playboy would rock--cuz then you could put it on your insurance!

[Malfunction 0]

I learned that skydiving isnt exactly diving from the sky. some people ride rafts....

I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it.
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[kelel01 1]

Yeah, but if you had an HMO, all of the playmates would be 85 years old, with no teeth or hair.

[VanillaSkyGirl 6]

Well, I had quite the dumb blonde moment when I signed up for the Airspeed tunnel camp last fall. The guys and Eliana were so down-to-earth, funny (silly!), friendly...like a sibling or close friend...especially after I was attacked walking back to my hotel the first night. They were totally there for me emotionally and looked after me, like I was their little sister. It's totally embarrassing, but I didn't know that my tunnel camp instructors were actual Airspeed members...until the second afternoon. I knew that we were going to be taught how to "train like the members of Airspeed", but I didn't know that we would be flying with them.(Doh!)

When I was about half-way through my camp, I made a phone call to my mentor & friend back home. My friend was asking me about my tunnel coaches on the phone, and I began by telling him that some guy named "Todd" was my first coach. He said, "Todd Hawkins from Airspeed?". Me, "No, not him! He had some other last name, I think. I can't remember it right now. He's an excellent coach and amazing flyer. He's been soooo nice and made me feel at home by telling me that we have Elsinore in common, as he used to be a part of the Matrix Team at Elsinore." My mentor/friend, "Ummm...Rosa, that's HIM...Todd Hawkins!" Me, "Noooo...nooo (silence) (The light bulb goes off in my head...) Ohhhh..." My friend, "Who were your other coaches?" I named off the coaches. My friend, "Rosa, those are all Airspeed members..."

[Sheenster303 0]

I used to say "I'm POST to do something tonight." instead of SUPPOSED. My dad used to yell at me for that but I would never understand what he was talking about.

I also remember walking through the woods with my sister and she would throw a stick into the trees and I would freak out and be like "What was that?" She would tell me it was the boogie man. I would go home and look in the encyclopedia to find out what the boogie man looked like.

Yeah I was a weird kid.

I'm so funny I crack my head open!

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[champu 1]

until I was probably 4 or 5 I thought more planes/trains crashed than actually made it to their destination cause I was never around them and that's all that ever made the news.

/eta: I suppose 4 or 5 isn't late in life, but what are you going to do? sometimes threads go astray...

[dropoutdave 0]

My mum used to cut my sandwiches into 2 triangles and say that there was less crust on them because it was only on 2 sides of each half and not 3 like if you cut is across.
Man I believed her for years, never trust Mums, they know everything and tell you TCP doesn't hurt on cuts and grazes.

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[FallingILweenie 0]

bwaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahhahaha.

stupid HMO.

[RkyMtnHigh 0]

That the beginning words to the song "Brown-eyed Girl" is:
Hey where do we go instead of Hey there Amigo

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[SpeedRacer 1]

Misheard lyrics: Prince's song, Little Red Corvette.

I thought they were singing, "Baby come back" it makes sense because the next line sounds like "you're leaving me much too fast."



My family moved to the Boston area when I was 9 & I heard a lot of dumb phrases. Like people would say "I could care less" when they meant "I couldn't care less".

Another dumb Boston thing: when they mean to say either "same thing" or "what's the difference", they blend them together and say "same difference."

That's kind of like that other annoying word "irregardless", which is a blend of "irrespective" and "regardless".


I don't know, it must be something in the water.

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[Lee03 0]

"My thing is, I still don't know if the saying goes "end all, be all", or "end all, beat all".
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It's "end all, be all." To be honest, I cannot remember having this problem with anything.

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To put your life in danger from time to time ... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.

--Nevil Shute, Slide Rule

[skygrl70 0]

This was a great idea for a post!!!!
I can't believe I'm gonna post this but is wasn't until maybe two years ago I learned that Stevie Nicks song.."White Winged Dove" WASN'T "One Winged Dove". One of those 70's show round table moments...feeling good, singing my heart out and having my two best friends practically pee themselves!!! T'was hilarious!!!!

[Vertifly 0]

I was embarrassed to learn, at about 26, that IRREGARDLESS is not a word, only REGARDLESS.

Now it is a pet peeve.

[jumpinjackflash 0]

women

still haven't learned though

still feel like a fool

It's a gas, gas, gas...

[gary350 0]

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she read a handfull of books that used the word rendezvous quite often. she always thought it was pronounced (ren-dez- vuhs

When I was younger (middle school maybe) I thought that debris was pronounced de-bris ("bris" as in circumcision). Stupid silent letters.

D'oh! Stupid French words. Reading Jack London as a boy, rendezvous was always ren-da-vus for me as well. . . I was probably a teenager before I put it together.

[gary350 0]

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Song lyrics work for this topic as well.

A guy actually wrote a book full of those. He picked the perfect title - a classic mistaken song lyric - the line Jimi Hendrix sings in Purple Haze that comes after "Actin' funny, and I don't know why". . .

Do YOU know the next line? It's. . . .It's. . . .











It's NOT "'Scuse me, while I kiss this guy"!

It's 'Scuse me, while I kiss the sky"

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671501283/102-2274157-1612110?v=glance

[JUDYJ 0]

My daughter thinks the beginning of the star spangled banner is "HOSEA can you see...."
and although we told her it was "OH SAY can you see"... she still at the age of 15 thinks I am not telling her the truth. AFterall, the older she gets the dumber I am!

IF you are going to be Stupid - you better be tough!

[airtwardo 7]

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What did you learn late in life that made you feel like a fool?

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That the IRS ain't fuc*ing around!

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[Vallerina 2]

I learned that milk doesn't come from dandelion stems (my brother can be a jackass.)

There's a thin line between Saturday night and Sunday morning

[RkyMtnHigh 0]

That I am really blonde....

That ketchup IS NOT blood;
That mustard IS NOT baby poop;
That mayo IS NOT snot!
My brother just HAD to ruin it for me with condiments!

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