You bet your sweet bippy I did!
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…
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”
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.
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”. 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.
Considering their age difference (22 years), they’d be more likely to be mother/daughter than sisters.
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
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:
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
Well, what do you expect, with all that tilting.
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.
And for me, this something I realized only within the last twenty seconds.
I bet Giorgio Moroder will be disappointed to hear that. http://www.discogs.com/Giorgio-Knights-In-White-Satin/release/36280
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…”
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 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.
My friend still teases me that I was convinced Kevin Bacon was the star of Beastmaster.
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.
I thought that too.
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”.
+1
Up until about 3 years ago, I always thought the “Immaculate Conception” referred to Jesus’ birth.