Enough to fall and stick their heart with a tack and have a heart attack.
I thought that the “End Construction” signs at the end of roadwork areas were put there to tell the construction crews where to stop repaving the road; without the sign, they would just keep going.
The “Bee Sting Myth”:
As a kid, I thought that you can only allow yourself to be stung by a bee once. That 1st sting would not itself hurt you much, but it would cause you to develop a fatal allergy to any subsequent bee stings. If you got stung a 2nd time at some point in the future, it would be fatal.
Strangely, on a couple of songs, you were right- at the recording session the singer just goes off on a riff and doesnt follow the printed lyrics.
Aretha Franklin famously did that on Respect.
It is called scat.
"*scat3
NOUN plural scats
mass noun
Droppings, especially those of carnivorous mammals.
‘fresh bear scat’
count noun ‘samples of scats from otters’
‘wolf scats’"
:D:D:D
Yeah, Esperanza Spaulding sings scat, but won’t call it that for your reason.
As a young boy with an interest in science, I knew about sperm and ova but was a bit fuzzy on how exactly they meet up. I had some vague idea that sperm were airborne like cold germs.
This was me, too. Right down to imagining the Beatles rushing to pack up their equipment and hurrying to next station. I couldn’t imagine how they could do that so quick all day long.
Imagine not knowing that many girls have irregular periods for some time after their first one and being one of those girls. My mom did forewarn me about periods but there were some details that were sorely lacking. So, when I was late, at the tender age of eleven, the only thing I could think of was that I must have gotten pregnant somehow. As my mother didn’t explain how babies were actually made while having the period talk and sex ed wasn’t taught for another year or two, I didn’t have much to go on. However, she did tell me that the reason childbearing was so painful was that it was God’s punishment to womankind for Eve having eaten the apple. Yeah, life with my mom was…interesting.
I did know about the pain of childbearing because I had seen the episode of Get Smart where Agent 99 is ready to deliver twins and Max is freaking out about her labor pains. I was shocked and I think a bit of my childhood innocence died that day.
How many of us can say they learned about sex from Get Smart?
Would you beleive…?
I missed it by that much!
…not that there’s anything wrong with that
I thought that too, but I was sure I got the idea from Gulliver’s Travels. Possibly a TV show rather than the book.
I was 8 or 9 before I heard a girl fart. Shocked and appalled, I was!
My G-d, you were an innocent!
In the fifth grade I looked up from the shelves under the desk I shared with a girl and realized that she was wearing panty hose.
In 1968 I came home from school (I was eight) and my mom was going through baby clothes that had been stored in suitcases in the attic. I asked her why she was doing that and she said my 18 year-old sister (who lived with us) had a baby. I said, “But she’s not married.” I thought only married women had babies. I knew she’d been getting fat but nobody ever said anything to me about why, or what was going on.
I was unclear on this also and somewhere along the line after hearing about swabbing the inside of your cheek to get a dna sample I concluded that the sperm/dna must be transmitted through kissing. Not your basic peck but some passionate spit swapping kissing.
Once in a while you’d hear about some young girl getting pregnant and I’d assume her and her boyfriend got a little too into making out one night.
Some people believed that sperm were swimming around in public swimming pools.
Thanks, guys, for giving me my laugh of the day.