The "vendée globe" is kind of a famous boats race. Now, phoenitecally it sounds in French pretty much the same as "vent des globes" and that's exactly what for 30 years i thought the name was until i saw it written in some magazine. I was like, da hell?
In the same vein there is also the infamous "poteau rose" (actually it's "pot aux roses", pink pot, meaning something deceptive) and of course "autant pour moi". (au temps pour moi, er, that one is tough to translate, the meaning is "my fault")
Phonetic traps!!!!
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Q Cinema 9
It's a local movie theater that I saw multiple movies at, and no longer exists.
Maybe 2016 thinking about it I think of why 9 because of 9 theaters also the Q because it's on Q street.
Ha, well, in the NY/NJ area, "on line" doesn't have much to do with computers. It's a phrase that a lot of us take for granted and for me it just conjures the image of a line of people waiting for something. I told an elderly gentleman from the area that other parts of the country say "in line" and he too looked baffled and confused. "Never heard that before!" he said. I've heard that the phrase alledgedly has its roots from Ellis Island, where newly arrived immigrants were told to wait on lines marked on the ground. So, I think I'm keeping alive a piece of history .
But I digress, other epiphanies:
- For the longest time, I never ate cheesecake. I always thought that it was some cake made out of a real cheese, like cheddar or Swiss. Those things are great, but who'd want to eat them for dessert?! Thankfully, I learned that cheesecakes are made out of deliciousness, not cheddar .
"I am a man of peace."
"A man of peace...who fights like ten tigers."
It was some time after hearing that King John lost the Crown Jewels in the Wash that I discovered that the Wash was the name of a bay. Prior to that, I had assumed that he had somehow accidentally sent the jewels out with his laundry (maybe he forgot to check his pockets?).
Mince pies.
Similar to the cheesecake above, I had no idea why anyone would want mincemeat as a dessert... so, for many Christmases, I avoided it at school lunches. I used to check the labels and it would say 'mincemeat'.
Then new labeling regulations came into play (in the UK) and I saw the mince pies had big 'V' signs on them - suitable for vegetarians. The 'mincemeat' was broken down and contained apples and sultanas etc. But there was alcohol (brandy) in the ones in the first box I looked at, so that was a 'no', but the second had no alcohol and
Mercy Me
Mercy My
Deliciousness
(Of course, back in the day, it did contain meat, but still...)
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Here's a very recent dumb epiphany: you know how Gomez Addams always calls Morticia "Tish?" I just realized it's based on the second syllable of her name.
As someone who grew up watching the first televised reruns of the show as a preschooler, I never, ever questioned it until this year. I actually winced when the epiphany came to me.
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One of the Hernandez Brothers had a character mistake the song-lyric "Two Faces Have I" for "Do Vases Have Eyes?"
I know I've made some of those myself, but nothing comes to mind right now.
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That Secret Agent Man was actually not Secret Asian Man.
Every day is a gift, not a given right.
One the theme of misheard lyrics:
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In a 1960s issue of PLASTIC MAN, the hero met a Russian villain whose name was written as "Ivan Byturnozov." I mentally read it as "By-turn-o-zov."
Maybe twenty years later, I looked at it again, and realized that this was not the correct pronunciation.