You didn’t learn from Unca Cecil? :eek:
I had a moment like that last night. I was watching The Matrix for about the 15th time, and I finally realized what was being said in the car when Neo is picked up at the bridge. Switch looks over at Neo and says “Listen, Copper Top…we don’t have time for 20 questions.” Copper Top…HA.
Of course, since you don’t know what people trapped in the Matrix are to the machines at that point in the film, it’s nearly impossible to get the first time…but I’ve seen this movie so many times, you’d think I’d have picked up on it sooner.
Jman
This is embarrassing, but I’ll admit it anyway.
When I was about thirteen, there was a kiosk at the mall that sold buttons, bumper sticks and t-shirts. Some were a little risque, and I would giggle along with my friends.
But there was one that I just didn’t get. “I snatch kisses, and vice versa.” For the life of me, it just didn’t register. I kept thinking “And kisses snatch me? That doesn’t make any sense.”
It wasn’t until I was about 16 or 17 that I remembered that button and finally realized what it meant. :o
Sheri
Mr. Pol just realized a few months ago what the “5-0” stands for in “Hawaii 5-0”…
Hint: Hawaii is the most recent state to be added to the Union…
Wow, while watching that show last night, I suddenly wondered if that was what it meant, and then thought it was a stupid idea.
New one on me.
When I was a kid and learning to read, I’d sound out the letters on railroad cars as they passed my grandparent’s house. I’d read Rock Is land, Rock Is land and think yeah, no shit.
Wow, some of these are pretty funny. And embarassing, like this one.
I teach high school and once a couple of years ago I was telling some of my students about a friend of mine named Amanda. One of the students–a girl–started giggling and asked me if Amanda’s last name was “Hugnkiss.” The rest of them started laughing, too. I thought they were just trying to imply that Amanda and I were romantically involved–which we’re not. So I protested that we were just friends, nothing serious, etc.
Every so often, though, these kids would bring it up again, saying something like, “Hey Mr. ****, have you called Amanda Hugnkiss lately?” I never knew why they found this so terribly funny–but I would always explain again that Amanda and I were just friends.
Then the other night I’m watching The Simpsons and Bart makes one of his prank calls to Moe’s Tavern and asks to speak to “Amanda Hugnkiss” and so Moe hollers out to the bar, “Hey, I need Amanda Hugnkiss.”
AND BOY DO I FEEL LIKE THE WORLD’S BIGGEST IDIOT!
That joke may have originated elsewhere, but I am a Simpsons fan and I’ve probably seen that episode at least 3 or 4 times before… I guess it just didn’t register for some reason.
Next time I see one of those students (they’ve graduated), I’ll have to tell them that I FINALLY got it!
I don’t know how many times I had to see that Bailey’s commercial with the three men and the woman around the pool table before I realized that it’s not a gangbang, the other two guys are gay.
My dad (in his mid fifties) told that just last month, he finally got “what 's black and white and red all over?”.
:eek: Those guys are gay? I just thought she couldn’t smell the baileys on their breath. :smack:
A rather obscure one: in the Sandman comics by Neil Gaiman, in “The Kindly Ones” storyline, Hob Gadling mentions his wife Peg, who died in the Blitz. In the “World’s End” storyline, Gadling meets a young girl in 1914 who goes by the name of Jim, but whose real name is Margaret or “Peggy”. The umpteenth time through the series, it suddenly occurred to me they might be the same person. Or is this just wild speculation?
I just realized that INXS is ‘in excess’.
I was always pronouncing it Inkss.
What’s so embarrassing about not getting “catching snitches”? 
Politzania, I so hate to tell you this, but “5-0” is code for a police officer. Like in New Jack City, when Nino finds out that Pookie is wearing a wiretap and squeaks, “What, you 5-0?”
Be comforted, though, that you’re not the only person to make that mistake. I once heard a stand-up comic admit that this knowledge had recently dawned on him, and that he had theretofore thought that cops in his home state would announce themselves, “Freeze! New Jersey 3!”
Rilch, the 5-0 as slang for a cop postdates Hawaii 5-0. The 5-0 does indeed refer to it being the 50th state.
However, I also had no idea RuPaul was gay. In fact, I recall hearing him specifically say that he WASN’T gay on some talk show, and that the whole thing had started on a dare “in my Army days.” Hmm…maybe that was sarcasm.
I just “got” the baseball commentary in Meat Loaf’s “Paradise by the Dashboard Lights” about 3 years ago. I knew the song was about sex. I knew the baseball/sex analogy. I never put the two together. When it finally hit me, I felt like such an idiot.
It never even occurred to me that there was a secondary meaning to this. CLICK!
Crud.
Well, “Freeze! New Jersey 3!” is still funny.
Huh. Until a couple of years ago, I always thought the chorus from ZZ Top’s Sleeping Bag “…slip inside my sleeping bag…” was really “…super sonic secret man…”
And when I was younger, I could have sworn that Van Halen was singing “Cannonball” instead of “Panama”. I couldn’t figure out their obsession with Dom Deluise.
Hi, John…