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To be still grinning at such silliness?

392 replies

BoobleMcB · 05/12/2017 16:56

So I was casually minding my own business, plodding along when I heard a fella on the phone state that:

Well it was clearly Thursday that broke the camel's straw...

I just about rounded the corner chuckling to myself hoping he didn't notice 😂

What other common sayings have heard people say wrong?

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overnightangel · 06/12/2017 05:55

Catch 24 😁

ElizaDontlittle · 06/12/2017 06:09

@ElephantsandTigers I'm actually really pleased that someone missed it - I think that's what makes it funny!! - it was 'cat among the penguins' to save you a scroll back Xmas Grin

hilbil21 · 06/12/2017 06:47

An ex colleague of mine said our boss made her feel anxious and meant she was always sitting on eggshells Grin

NisekoWhistler · 06/12/2017 06:52

My husband says it's a flat as a milkpond instead of millpond. He genuinely always thought the saying was milk pond

Balaboosteh · 06/12/2017 07:09

I thought that the Lords Prayer went “Our father who art in heaven, Alloway be thy name”. Mr Alloway was the name of my school’s headmaster. God / headmaster... easy mistake to make! Wonder what he’d have thought if he knew I’d got him down as God.

LizzieSiddal · 06/12/2017 07:21

I’m dyslexic and do mix up words/phrases a lot.

In fact I’m reading some of these and wondering what’s wrong with them😂

MrsGrindah · 06/12/2017 07:27

My husband said he needed some new swimming shorts “ but I don’t want any of them budgie snuggles”

....he looked really hurt when I fell about laughing bless him

Columbine1 · 06/12/2017 08:36

My dear sister, when much younger, in answer to the quiz question "Who wrote the diary of Anne Frank?" "Ooh - its on the tip of my tongue...."

MorwenTheWitch · 06/12/2017 09:20

My grandmother has been known to say, in a reassuring way, “Well, it all ends in the end!”

I’m fairly certain she means “all’s well that ends well”...

Domani · 06/12/2017 09:22

LizzieSiddal, I'm not dyslexic but also wondering what's wrong with some of them? Smile

thecakefairy · 06/12/2017 09:22

I'm still laughing at 'going off on a tandem!'
I've got visions of two people pedalling furiously away from the scene! Grin

Domani · 06/12/2017 09:27

My ex mil was quite prim and proper yet genuinely thought french stick was "french dick" and actually asked for one in a shop! Grin

LordSugarWillSeeYouNow · 06/12/2017 10:07

Howling at "too many cocks in the cockpit"

This thread should be in classics!

amusedbush · 06/12/2017 10:09

"What's for you won't kill you", said by my mum's friend Grin

Less hilarious was an ex-colleague who told me that I shouldn't exercise while I was losing weight because I'd "just turn my fat into muscle and not lose anything" Hmm

LizzieSiddal · 06/12/2017 10:12

Domani I’m glad I’m not the only one.Smile

spankhurst · 06/12/2017 10:14

As a child I thought it was we three kings of porridge and tar.
My mum once asked when V.D. Day happened.

teenybean · 06/12/2017 10:14

Ds goes to a CofE school & got a bit confused with the Lords prayer when he first started 'our father & aunty Kevin!' 😂

Frenchmom · 06/12/2017 10:36

My aunt in America, talking about my cousin moving appartement said, "He sold his condom and bought a bigger one.!"

amusedbush · 06/12/2017 11:05

As a child I thought it was we three kings of porridge and tar.

That reminded me, there was a little boy of around 3 at the airport last week singing Jingle Bells over and over again. From what I could make out he was singing "oh, what porridge is tonight in a one horse open sleigh" Grin

WhatALoadOfBaubles · 06/12/2017 11:44

DH is fond of saying, about someone who is the architect of their own misfortune, that they were "hoisted up by their leotard" rather than hoist by their own petard.

rockcakesrock · 06/12/2017 11:58

My MiL,who hated everyone, thought that fornicating, meant lying and thieving. She was a real prim and proper sourpuss. When I heard her describe, postman, electricians, strikers and anyone else who had gained her wrath as, “greedy fornicating wasters”, I asked my husband if she knew what it meant. He said “ No, but don’t tell her, because it is the only thing she does that makes me laugh”.

SistersOfPercy · 06/12/2017 11:58

For me nothing will ever beat the guy on the MSE forums who was offered a 'Jester of goodwill' by a company. I had this hilarious vision of full on juster suit with bells turning up on his doorstep.

LordBuckley · 06/12/2017 12:40

She’s not backwards in coming forward.

That's a proper saying, though; it's meant to be humorous.

lilathewerewolf · 06/12/2017 13:15

'hoisted up by their leotard'

😂😂😂

lilathewerewolf · 06/12/2017 13:16

Baubles that has made my day

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