I though “Ibid” was some fabulous book that had everything I needed to know in it.
Nope - though I grew up around both, so that probably helps. Daffodils are long-stemmed, and shaped kind of like a lily - long, cupped flower, pretty large in size. One flower per stem/bulb pretty much. Buttercups grow very close to the ground, with a cluster of round largish leaves. They have thin short stems, and look much like how little kids would draw short-petaled flowers - stubby round petals and a bit of yellow fuzz in the middle. You’ll find several flowers on each plant.
I was about 22 when I learned that “aria” doesn’t rhyme with Mariah.
It took ages before I figured out what FOAK meant. Drove me absolutely bonkers.
I used to think there was an obscure local band called “TBA” that opened up for a lot of bigger names when they came to town.
Perhaps most embarrassingly, I wasn’t quite sure which part(s) “down there” constituted the labia until a fair while after I lost my virginity.
sorry about the “Ribena” thing guys.
Although trust me - you’d lovee it 
Awwww Thanks. I’m pretty mild accent/slang-wise in comparison to many out there though.
Be warned, however, the more legless i get the more dick van dyke i become. :rolleyes:
:o Thanks for cluing me in…
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Iceberg <snicker> that’s a good one, garius. One story from when I worked in a grocery store, a lost man with a list needed “egg noodles”. Thank goodness his wife had the sense to draw a picture of a wide, wavy noodle on the list or I don’t think we ever would have found them.
I managed to embarrass myself in a college literature class by mispronouncing Salome (girl who danced for Herod) as Sal-O-meh.
About two years ago I found out that Aussies and/or Brits use the term “Cordials” as a generic term for non-alcoholic concentrates you dilute with water to make drinks. Here in A-merry-kay, “Cordials” are either spiced/fruited wines or hard alcohol. A whole lot of on-line conversations with Aussies suddenly became clear.
most of the things on this page i never knew with the exception the few cough squirrels with testicles cough obvious ones
My first year of going to school, one of the other, older kids suggested I go up to all the girls on the school bus and ask them, “Can I suck your tits?” I had no idea what tits were, but it sounded like fun, and I did it, and sure enough there was much screaming and shouting and attempts to hit me. But the BIGGEST reaction was the one I got from my mother when I got home and excitedly told her about the great game I had played on the bus.:eek:
This one is fairly terrible…
I read a lot of Twain when I was too young to really know what was going on. I grew up in rural CT, which is VERY white (can you see where this is going?). One day, my Mom and I went to the big city. Walking down the sidewalk, I yelled out, “Look Mom, a ni**er!!!” I had no idea it was a bad word, and had never heard it said before, but if I could read it, I could say it, right? WRONG! The most embarrasing moment of my mother’s life.
Told you it was terrible.
I still don’t know what OEM means.
I always thought WAG was wager a guess & didn’t like it when people would say " this is a WAG" instead of “I’d WAG that…”
Took an embarrassingly long time before I realized Dubya stood for “W” and wasn’t pronounced Doobya. I just figured it was a goofy nickname.
When I was a kid my mom told me all about how painful labor pains & childbirth can be. For the longest time I was seriously dreading my eventual pregnancy & labor. I mean seriously. Imagine my relief when I found out men don’t get pregnant!
This was TMI probably for me at a young age, but my mom clued me in about homosexuality. I asked what the guys do. She said something to the effect that “they um, swallow each other’s penises.” I was absolutely shocked, disgusted, horrified. How could someone be so sick as to derive any pleasure from biting off another man’s penis & swallowing it??? Or letting someone bite their penis off? I mean geez, you could only do it one time & then you’d have no penis! What a relief when I found out she was talking about blow jobs. Thanks for psychologically scarring me Mom!
Lessee, what else? I have an intelligent banker friend who was pretty embarrassed to find out a fossil wasn’t just a brand of watch. Gotta love dem California public edjamuhcations.
I always thought that the word “penalize” had something to do with penis, until I was about 12 or 13…
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Oh, yeah! Just remembered. When I was in sixth grade, one day everybody started calling each other lesbians. I thought it was a type of alien from Star Trek or something. Ya know, Klingons, Romulans, Vulcans, Lesbians.
Shelley Winters had to have the concept of time zones explained to her by Johnny Carson one night on the “Tonight Show” many years ago. It was a complete revelation to her.
I also worked with a real blowhard once who was aware of way more words than he knew how to use correctly. For example, he thought that “common” and “carnal” were synonyms, and was always finishing his stories with, “well that’s just carnal knowledge…”
Chevy Chase used to open “Weekend Update” at the desk on the phone to his girlfriend. One night he said into the phone, “no, no, honey, you don’t actually blow on it; that’s just an expression. Whoops. Gotta go. Here now the news.”
I was typically very gullible and very impressionable as a kid.
When traveling, my dad would tell us to look for short-legged cows. Cows with the legs on the right side of their bodies would be longer than the legs on the left side. So they could walk on hillsides and not tip over. Oh and they had to walk backward at night to get back to the barn.
And eating raw potatoes will give you worms. (so don’t sneek a bite before they’re boiled!)
But weirdest… When I was about 9, my mom was taking about an unmarried aunt who got pregnant. She was mad “Flo knew better! She knows all it takes to get pregnant is to spread your legs around a man.” Yep. I was terrified if I didn’t keep my ankles crossed every time I sat down, that some unscrupulous man would impregate me.
I was such a confused child…
Then it’s just as well you never saw any Japanese tentacle hentai …
I just got this, as I’ve always said, “yourl”, or U-R-L. Does anyone say it, “Earl”?
You mean it’s NOT “Earl”??? All this time I’ve been wondering who the hell Earl is! :smack:
Ok, here’s one that’s terrifically embarassing. For me, at least.
You know the word “misled”, right? It’s pronounced “miss led”. Well… up until I was about 20 - every time I saw it written down, I read it as “my-zuhld”… and totally thought it was some strange word I didn’t know the meaning of. One day I thought to myself… godammit, I’m gonna find out what the hell this “my-zuhld” word means. So I looked it up in a dictionary.
Oops. :rolleyes: :smack:
Max 
Just an FYI: Ribena (undiluted) is also used as blood in the movies and on tv.
Up until I was almost 17, I though what everyone meant when they used the term “giving head” was that you took a penis and rubbed it on or against your head.
My high school boyfriend is still probably telling that story, lol.
For the longest time (well into my twenties) I thought that the “To Be Announced” listing in the TV Guide was the name of a television show. I had convinced myself that it was either some boring news show or some Christian prophecy show a la “Jack Van Impe”.
I also stink at deciphering song lyrics. Examples? Sure.
Theme from the Jeffersons.
“Now we’re up in the big leagues. Kiss my burnin’ fat.”
And that old Dusty Springfield chestnut, “You don’t have to say you love me”:
“You don’t have to say you love me just because I asked…”
Psycho Pirate 