# Things I Was Wrong About For Over 20 Years **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 11, 2011, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-was-wrong-about-for-over-20-years/574287 "2011-03-11T09:55:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-was-wrong-about-for-over-20-years/574287/21 "2011-03-12T19:31:22Z")
> [@Obeseus](#): > > Did you look that up in your Funk & Wagnalls? You bet your sweet bippy I did! ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-was-wrong-about-for-over-20-years/574287/22 "2011-03-12T19:51:23Z")
First of all, you don’t have to be 40 or over. Those of us in our 30’s can remember 20 years ago as if it were yesterday. Second… > [@RikWriter](#): > > The lyrics to more than a Feeling. > I always just thought it said > “More than a feeling > What I feel down inside me is > More than a feeling” > > When actually it said: > “More than a feeling > When I hear that old song they used to play/it’s more than a feeling” I never quiet understood what they were saying, but never thought to look it up, even though what I heard “More than a feeling When I’m here by my Sunday More than a feeling” Made absolutely no sense. Also, until it was brought to my attention sometime last year in thread on this board, I always thought that in the song **Groovin’** they sang “You and me and Leslie” But they really sang “You and me endlessly” ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-was-wrong-about-for-over-20-years/574287/23 "2011-03-12T22:54:18Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > Your disks might have compressed and/or your bone density lowered. I hope not. I was \<50 when I discovered my true shortness. I expect to lose some height as I age but I hope I haven’t already. ---
**Author:** ![Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harvey_The_Heavy)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-was-wrong-about-for-over-20-years/574287/24 "2011-03-13T14:24:19Z")
About one week ago, I discovered that Audrey Hepburn and Katherine Hepburn were not related. I assumed that they were sisters for the last thirty years at least. I also thought for a very long time that Max Weinberg of the E Street Band played drums on Edgar Winter’s [“Frankenstein”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1mV_5-bRPo). I don’t know where the hell I got that from, although when I discovered the truth, I learned that Rick Derringer plays guitar on it. That one’s extra embarrassing because I’ve repeated it a lot over the years. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-was-wrong-about-for-over-20-years/574287/25 "2011-03-13T15:04:34Z")
> [@Harvey\_The\_Heavy](#): > > About one week ago, I discovered that Audrey Hepburn and Katherine Hepburn were not related. I assumed that they were sisters for the last thirty years at least. Considering their age difference (22 years), they’d be more likely to be mother/daughter than sisters. ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-was-wrong-about-for-over-20-years/574287/26 "2011-03-13T20:41:41Z")
Recently I looked up two actors I thought were father and son, saw they weren’t, and then noticed the slight spelling difference in their names: George Reeves Christopher Reeve For a long time I thought it was kind of cool that father and then son played Superman. :o ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-was-wrong-about-for-over-20-years/574287/27 "2011-03-13T21:14:56Z")
I read _Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep_ two or three times – it’s my favorite P.K. Dick novel – and saw both the release and ‘final’ director’s cut of the movie, each more than once. I somehow missed the fan speculation and it never once occurred to me that Deckard might be a replicant. :dubious: :eek: :smack: ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-was-wrong-about-for-over-20-years/574287/28 "2011-03-13T21:21:19Z")
It was only recently (within the last year) that I realized that it is NOT “Knights In White Satin”. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-was-wrong-about-for-over-20-years/574287/29 "2011-03-14T00:49:25Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > It was only recently (within the last year) that I realized that it is NOT “Knights In White Satin”. Well, it originally was, but they kept sliding off their horses mid-joust. Joe ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-was-wrong-about-for-over-20-years/574287/30 "2011-03-14T00:52:32Z")
> [@wheresgeorge04](#): > > Well, it originally was, but they kept sliding off their horses mid-joust. > > Joe Well, what do you expect, with all that tilting. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-was-wrong-about-for-over-20-years/574287/31 "2011-03-14T00:59:20Z")
> [@koeeoaddi](#): > > I read _Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep_ two or three times – it’s my favorite P.K. Dick novel – and saw both the release and ‘final’ director’s cut of the movie, each more than once. I somehow missed the fan speculation and it never once occurred to me that Deckard might be a replicant. :dubious: :eek: :smack: The story would make no sense if he was. In the book he is not, I don’t believe Scott filmed it insinuating he was, regardless of what he said later. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-was-wrong-about-for-over-20-years/574287/32 "2011-03-14T03:13:28Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > It was only recently (within the last year) that I realized that it is NOT “Knights In White Satin”. And for me, this something I realized only within the last twenty seconds. ---
**Author:** ![Telperion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telperion/32/509_2.png) [@Telperion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperion)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-was-wrong-about-for-over-20-years/574287/33 "2011-03-14T03:30:21Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > It was only recently (within the last year) that I realized that it is NOT “Knights In White Satin”. I bet Giorgio Moroder will be disappointed to hear that. [http://www.discogs.com/Giorgio-Knights-In-White-Satin/release/36280](http://www.discogs.com/Giorgio-Knights-In-White-Satin/release/36280) ---
**Author:** ![sqweels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f19dbf/32.png) [@sqweels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sqweels)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-was-wrong-about-for-over-20-years/574287/34 "2011-03-14T03:31:21Z")
I always thought a line from Foreigner’s “Juke Box Hero” was, “Bought a beater up Sixth Street - in a second-hand store” Now I finally realize it’s, “Bought a beat-up six string…” ---
**Author:** ![Nobody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/94ad74/32.png) [@Nobody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nobody)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-was-wrong-about-for-over-20-years/574287/35 "2011-03-14T04:35:50Z")
From the way lots of people pronounce it, or at least how I hear it, for years I thought Jukebox was Jutebox because it always sounds like people are using a t sound instead of k sound. ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-was-wrong-about-for-over-20-years/574287/36 "2011-03-14T09:52:49Z")
> [@jabiru](#): > > For about 25 years, I’d thought - and told anyone silly enough to care - that I’m 5’ 5". Found out about six years ago that I’m only 5’ 4". I’m officially a short arse. I was 5’10" in high school, and then later found out I was only 5’8". However, after I started chiropractic treatment, I banged my head against the shower head. I lost the 2 inches because of a crooked spine. I thought Gene Wilder must have been very old since Young Frankenstein was in black and white, so it must have been made in the 50’s or something. I thought he looked great as a senior citizen in Charlie and Chocolate Factory. By 2000, I was convinced he was dead. But, [he’s still kicking today at 77](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Wilder). My friend still teases me that I was convinced Kevin Bacon was the star of Beastmaster. ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-was-wrong-about-for-over-20-years/574287/37 "2011-03-14T11:43:21Z")
I thought AC/DC was singing “she’ll be all night long” instead of “shook me all night long”. I thought Guns & Roses was singing “sweet China mountain” instead of “sweet child of mine”.\* - before you point and laugh, consider this: Guns & Roses titled their lastest album _Chinese Democracy_, maybe these bands are giving certain people subliminal lyrics, I mean, the lyrics I heard for AC/DC are just as perverse as the lyrics written for AC/DC. ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-was-wrong-about-for-over-20-years/574287/38 "2011-03-14T11:44:22Z")
> [@Nobody](#): > > From the way lots of people pronounce it, or at least how I hear it, for years I thought Jukebox was Jutebox because it always sounds like people are using a t sound instead of k sound. I thought that too. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-was-wrong-about-for-over-20-years/574287/39 "2011-03-14T12:22:00Z")
I’ve mentioned this one before m-- For years I thought that the line in CCR’s “Out my Back Door” was _Won’t you take a ride on the Glide-Wheel spoon_ This bothered me for years, because I had no idea what a “Glide-Wheel Spoon” was. Then I had a revelation – it was really _Won’t you take a ride on the Glide — we’ll spoon_ Which made a _lot_ more sense – a “glide” is, among other things, a swing-like thing of the sort people used to have on their front porches. They certainly were an appropriate place to “spoon”, in the old slang. Much later, I mentioned this to Pepper Mill, my wife, who was surprised it took me so long to figure this out. BUT… Every internet site says the lyrics are _won’t you take a ride on the flying spoon_ …which makes even less sense than my original interpretation. Lots of people think it has to do with drugs, particularly coke (for obvious reasons), although I believe CCR claims no drug reference. Nobody, apparently, thinks the line is “Take a ride on the glide. We’ll spoon” except for Pepper Mill and me, and we came to that conclusion independently. But, I swear, it sounds like “glide-wheel spoon” to me, every time I hear it, and not remotely like “flying spoon”. ---
**Author:** ![Shark\_Sandwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Shark\_Sandwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shark_Sandwich)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2011, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-was-wrong-about-for-over-20-years/574287/40 "2011-03-14T15:30:28Z")
> [@Koxinga](#): > > And for me, this something I realized only within the last twenty seconds. +1 Up until about 3 years ago, I always thought the “Immaculate Conception” referred to Jesus’ birth. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-was-wrong-about-for-over-20-years/574287.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-i-was-wrong-about-for-over-20-years/574287.md?page=3)