Creedence:
Theres a bad moon on the rise.
Me:
Theres the bathroom on the right.

Even with the Internet today, I don’t know who Hogan was or why his goat was so fucked up... but Dad seemed to think so. Not sure how it related to what he was working on, either.

"Eat all your dinner. There are children starving in China!"

Not sure that I misunderstood it so much as it had the opposite effect that my mom intended. I would lose my appetite immediately. I couldn't eat knowing that others were starving. I wanted to box up my food and send to the kids in China.



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^^

I remember the same, but for me it was Africa. Then I heard some comic make a joke about boxing up his leftovers and sending them to Africa and how exactly that was supposed to work.

I felt vindicated.

For a long time I though it was "Hail Mary full of grapes".

I mentioned this thread to Mrs. John1 and she remembered listening to a song about "Secret Asian Man".

Back in the 70's I had one of my kids with me going through a mall. He was dawdling along and I told him to "shake a leg, boy". He stopped and shook his leg and that got a laugh from the crowd.

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I mentioned this thread to Mrs. John1 and she remembered listening to a song about "Secret Asian Man".
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Me too!

When I was six or seven we were riding over to some other family's house for dinner.

My dad reminded my mom that Joe had quit drinking.

I remember spending the entire ride there thinking about how thirsty that guy must be now.

When I was a kid to pre-teen I thought the phrase I heard was, "Throw caush into the wind." I knew how to use the phrase, but I didn't know what "caush" was, like it was some old-timey substance no longer used in contemporary society. When I would use the phrase, people just heard the correct phrase and never corrected me, so it took me awhile to figure out what everybody was really saying.

My American Gramdmother and her wild sisters used to say what to me were the craziest expressions. My child's brain could not figure them out. A small sampling:

Uglier than a mud fence.

She could eat corn on the cob through a picket fence.

Summer teeth.

Irish Grannie and her crazy sisters were worse.

Catch yourself on.

I did so I did.

"Your man" in reference to any man you knew.

Good craic. "crack"

Learning old school American Appalachian slang and Belfast slang as a child was quite confusing.

I remember when I was 4 or 5 years old hearing someone talking about someone being horny and thinking it meant they were angry.

Sleep in Heavenly Peas.

My mom told me our car broke down, so after it was repaired, I inspected it...for scratches on the body parts.

In my skull full of mush, I imagined the car physically falling apart when it was ‘broke down’, which would have caused scratches on the body parts when they hit the ground while moving. It was clarified to me with giggles from the family.