to have only recently realised..

[TheQueenOfDiamonds]

What the phrase "birthday suit" means... Ffs!

But let sleeping dogs lie does originally come from not waking dogs up. Think it was Chaucer originally

When I was a little girl I used to think W H Smith was pronounced "Wa" "Ha" Smith

I never even thought to question what food group a yon might belong to.

CookieRookie

Bless you, you have made my day.

I thought there was a musical instrument called a "trombolese" which was a bit like a trombone but more exotic

As in "My lover's got no money, he's got his trombolese"

I thought Abbas song Chiquitita was actually chicken tikka

I never understood why they sang about it. To this day I sing chicken tikka as it doesn't song right if I don't

I only realised last week that the turkey ham that DS2 devours with such relish isnt a mix of turkey and ham.

I dont know if it makes me feel better or worse.

I was 25 before I knew that Par for the Course was about golf.

And I didn't get the two meanings of 'if I said you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me'. Neither did my friend, but luckily we got one each

I didn't realise that Carlisle was in England until I was in my mid-twenties. This is worrying because I moved to England from Scotland when I was 20 and regularly drove up and down the motorway visiting my parents . In my mind it sounds Scottish!

Only Smarties have the answer

When I was about 6 I called 7 UP 'zup' thinking the 7 was a Z - it's been 'zup' ever since!

And a friend (no, really, a friend, not me at all!) thought the lyrics to The Prodigy's 'slap my bitch up' was 'snap my picture'! Horrible song, I prefer her version

I thought stockholm was a city in England. It wasn't until i spoke to a friend who said she was staying there and i said i thought she was going to sweden.

This reminds me of the old jokes...

"I thought Doris Day was a bank holiday"

And

"I thought Johnny Cash was the change for a Durex machine"

My sister asked where 'kerb-side' was as she read on a dustbin lorry it stops at kerb-side. She was 15.

"I only realised what a flamin' yon was a few years ago. Could never understand why the waiter didn't serve it on fire"

Err... I still thought it was flamin' yun... Until Psammead said what it was... I always wondered what it looked like, and why I'd only ever heard about it on TV. I imagined some oriental dish, possibly duck, with a hot sauce

My then 21yo sister couldn't understand why I didnt go to the bank on a Bank Holiday.

I'm st in my office at work reading all of these with tears streaming down my face with laughter.....makes me glad that i'm not the only one!

I agree with the Abba song....I only ever sing chicken tikka. A lady i used to work with theough the Amy Winehouse song 'Valerie' was actually 'pal of me'....and that was all that she sang. She was slightly embarrased when we pointed it out to her

I really need someone to explain 'only Smarties have the answer' to me, I don't get it

Smarties=clever people or chocolate sweets

I'm going to be really a embarrassed if there is yet another meaning I hadn't thought of

Ohhhhhhh I get it now. When I saw there was a double meaning I presumed that meant something dirty and was thinking about all the possible uses of a smartie.

I need to get out more.

God I hate these threads. Always show how thick I actually am! Penny just dropped with 'only Smarties have the answer' for me, too. It had never occurred to me it might have a double meaning!

Last thread like this was when I realised that Arkansas and Arkansaw are not 2 different places.

We were watching the news and they showed the olympic pool that would be used for water polo. I said to dp, "they will never fit horses in that!"