My 16 yr old son often finds my wording hilarious as he's not up on the old Yorkshire accent. Since he went too far I decided to have a 'pop' back and reminded him of his own gaffes as he was growing up.

The song, 'More Than A Woman', he once expressed suprise at but then he did think they were singing, ' Bald-Headed Woman'.

Ever said, 'For Pete's sake'? He used to say, 'For Pete's Snake'. I know where he got that from though as a wrestler with a snake as his mascot happened to be called Pete.

One morning on the bus to school he kept talking about, 'The Radiator Man', and asking when he'd be on again. I didn't have a clue until we finally worked out that he meant, 'The Renegade'.

Another one that we still find puzzling was when he said, 'My Norah', instead of, 'My Lord'. Well that's what we think he was saying. Ok he was only a kid but it wasn't half funny.

I do have friends that say strange things and wondered if you lot had any gems to share.

My mate last night, when explaining how to put bikes on the back of his car:

"oh it's really easy, you just oink em on"...

:)

Originally posted by tiffy
The song, 'More Than A Woman', he once expressed suprise at but then he did think they were singing, ' Bald-Headed Woman'.


My friends daughter used to think they were singing 'Organic Woman' when that was on!

My daughter has come out with some pearlers in her time.

When she was about 4, she came running in to me shouting that there were going to be some cauliflowers playing football on the TV and I must come and watch. I duely went in to watch NewsRound to find they were talking about the World Cup Qualifiers!!

I once caught her singing along to Gary Glitter (spit spit) on the radio ......... "Do you wanna be a miagraine, migraine, migraine!!"

I used to sing along to madonna's 'Like a Virgin' when i was younger, except i'd sing 'Like a burning'! Well i was only 5 at the time!

My five year old son has only just stopped calling the botanical gardens 'the mechanical gardens' which I shall miss as I thought it sounded just great!

My dad used to threaten me with what I thought was : "There'll be some fish flying around here!" Of course he meant, 'fist'.

Our son used to call amusement arcades, 'museum arcades'.

I have a friend who once mentioned Mrs Thatcher's Gang Bang, I think he meant Press Gang (I hope he did anyway).

There was also the time when my younger brother after his first trip to the pictures was asked about his evening by Dad when he got home. He'd actually been to see a film called, 'Tentacles' but when Dad asked he said, 'Testicles'. Dad's eyes almost popped out of his head cos he was only about 12 at the time.

my sister used to call sheep "wooly backs" which now doesn't sound so stupid....much more logical than "sheep".

:rolleyes:

My parents grew me up listening to the soundtrack to the Rocky Horror Picture Show whenever we went on long car journeys. This was until I was about ten years old - basically the time when there would be a chance that I actually know what the words meant.

Having now seen it at the theatre and the cinema I'm embarrassed now as I always sang along at full voice to the tunes with most of the words completely wrong. BUT... I can safely counter any accusations by my parents of me messing about by claiming that their repeated playing of the Rocky Horror Picture Show sountrack warped my mind. Every cloud...