My wife was raised southern baptist. She was told the only reason Jesus drank wine was because *the water was bad in those days. *
Believed until she was 35.
Well, the water certainly wasn’t all that clean back then.
Three for me:
There’s a line in A Chorus Line: “When I was five I remember my mother/ dug earrings out of the car/ I knew that they weren’t hers but it wasn’t/ somthing you’d want to discuss”. For years, I thought this implied that the mother was a jewel thief
Then there’s the Doonesbury strip where Duke, while Ambassador to China, says that it’s been his dream to “drop acid on the Great Wall”. I assumed that he meant he actually wanted to take a beaker of H2SO4 and pour it onto the wall.
Finally, I just recently fully understood a pun in the pun-filled song Wet Dream, which is all fish references. "She said ‘hey big boy, you’re really a game fish. What’s your name?’ I said ‘Marlin’ ". It just a few days ago occurred to me that a Marlin is not only a fish, it’s a GAME fish, ie, one that people fish for.
In Pulp Fiction Uma Thurman snorts John Travolta’s heroin and goes into cardiac arrest. I always figured she was a complete dumb@$$ for snorting some random unknown drug she found in someone’s pocket. Then my little sister pointed out the throwaway line by Eric Stoltz when Travolta’s character bought the stuff. The one about how he was out of balloons, so would a baggie be OK? thus implying that had it been in a balloon, like it was supposed to be, she would have known it was heroin, instead of automatically assuming it was cocaine.
Ohhhhhhhhh.
The character’s still a dumb@$$.
I still don’t get it. Will someone fill me in?
Diagon Alley = diagonally
Knockturn Alley = nocturnally
I once was in a D&D group where one of the other player’s character was named Sir Cocksmith. (His coat of arms depicted an iron rooster being hammered on an anvil). Years later I had occasion to look up the derivation of the word “smith” in the dictionary, and read that it’s related to the word “smite”: to beat or pound upon. Suddenly I go “D-UUUUH!!!”
This is sorta one:
In Joan Crawford’s career-defining role in the 1968 classic “Berserk!,” the circus performers (The Skinny Man, Bearded Lady, Little Person, and Strong Man) perform a quartet.
I first saw this movie when I was about 12 years old (and not again untile last year, 30 years later), and didn’t realize that the voiced were dubbed (well, all except the Skinny Man). When the Strong Man sang his part, he had this great tenor voice. Similarly, the Little Person had a great bass voice.
Unrelated to the OP, this movie had a very touching love scene in it featuring 64-year-old Joan Crawford, and 38-year-old Ty Hardin. "I haven’t seen a kiss that uncomfortable since Richard Gere kissed Jodie Foster in “Sommersby.”
when i realised so many of those ‘romantic’ love songs were all about explicit sex. (yes, i don’t pay attention to lyrics much.)
This made me feel really dumb.
Before I met Mr. Rilch, I had seen Superman at least 20 times. Flash forward to 1998, when he bought a laserdisk boxed set that had been released for the 20th anniversary. Teenaged Lana Lang is flirting with teenaged Clark Kent.
Mr. Rilch: I think it’s so cool that they dubbed Christopher Reeve’s voice for that kid.
Me: …Yeah!..neat. :::runs upstairs to check IMDB::: “Young Clark Kent…Jeff East”. Although to be fair, there was one hell of a resemblance. And considering how young Reeve was at the time, I’m mildly surprised that they didn’t just have him play the scenes straight up.
Rilchiam-sorry, I am confused. Do you mean they that they did dub CR’s voice for Jeff East’s or that it wasn’t dubbed and Jeff sounds similar to CR?
It took me a while to realize that the phrase “No news is good news” can mean both-The lack of new information is a good sign–as well as–All new information is unfortunate/unwanted.
And only recently did I realize that Allibaba could be saying, “Open! says me.”
CR’s voice was dubbed for JE’s. But they looked so much alike, I think I can be forgiven for thinking JE was CR.