1. Coming out of the woodwork

My dad would always talk about how Carolina fans came out of the woodwork when they would win a game....it just amazed me that people would actually become part of wood and only come out when Carolina won

2. Getting cold feet

My grandmother asked my mom once if she was getting cold feet right before us moving to Conover. It was the middle of July and I had no idea how my mom could have cold feet at that moment.

12/19/2009 8:33:28 PM

ibt

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"your"

12/19/2009 8:34:14 PM

I did that on purpose...just wanted to see how long it took people to figure out my typo

12/19/2009 8:35:00 PM

it's hard to figure out a typo when you don't read the content

12/19/2009 8:36:14 PM

^^ haha

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12/19/2009 8:36:52 PM

"worked my ass off"

cause my uncle said this often, works a lot and has no ass even though hes fat.

12/19/2009 8:38:56 PM

When I was three, I thought the "magic word" was "A la peanut butter jelly sandwiches", thanks to the Magician from Sesame Street. My mom beat the word "please" into me. Hooray!

12/19/2009 8:42:32 PM

this thread confuses me

12/19/2009 8:47:03 PM

"Give us today our daily bread"

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12/19/2009 9:17:58 PM

I used to think "quarter-to-[time]" meant "25 minutes until [time]."

12/19/2009 9:18:56 PM

my dad always said "built like a brick shit house"

I always imagined a big house made out of bricks that were made out of shit.


Also, my grandmother used to always say "Jesus, Mary and Joseph!". I always thought she was saying "Jesus marrying Joseph", so one day I asked my mom: "Mom, why did Jesus marry Joseph?"

12/19/2009 9:21:04 PM

in church. the part that says "jesus takes away the sins of the world" i always thought that they said "jesus takes away the things of the world"

i always wondered why he was stealing our shit

12/19/2009 9:22:05 PM

I thought “P trap” (plumbing term) meant there was literally a trap-door with urine (pee) in it.

12/19/2009 9:23:18 PM

One time I was sitting in a restaurant with my dad and one of his friends and the kitchen was taking a long time to prepare our food. My dad made a remark like, "I guess they had to go up to the chicken coop on the roof to kill some fresh chickens" or something. For the next several years I kept trying to see the chickens on the roof whenever we drove by that restaurant.

12/19/2009 10:56:23 PM

"pen 15"

I just thought it was pen 15

12/19/2009 10:59:11 PM

My dad would describe the difference between Lutherans and Catholics by saying "We sing what they say and they sing what we say" Basically saying there isn't much difference in a Lutheran and Catholic service.

Well for the longest time I thought he meant that they would speak the hymns and sing the prayers.

12/23/2009 5:16:53 PM

my took?

12/23/2009 5:18:23 PM

"getting fired" i pictured a huge furnace where they threw the workers when they didnt need them anymore

12/23/2009 5:19:03 PM

"sleeping together"

12/23/2009 5:40:14 PM

never understood "pulling your leg"

12/23/2009 5:43:15 PM

Similar to "getting fired", I thought that "getting grounded" meant that bad kids got buried in the yard. I pictured bad teenagers with nothing but their heads sticking out, all lined up, waiting out their sentence. Turns out getting grounded isn't quite that bad.

12/23/2009 6:05:55 PM

My parents had always used the term bathroom and I never heard it called a restroom.

So the first day of kindergarten, it was nap time and I wasn't able to sleep. The teacher asked if anyone needed to use the restroom and I promptly raised my hand.

12/23/2009 6:11:08 PM