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Topic: What confused you, as a child?
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fordnmerc
Gearhead Posts: 196
From: Watkins Glen, NY USA
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 05-25-2002 07:54 PM
   
There was a time when my cousin was young and suddenly refused to drink her milk. Seems she found out where it came from and had also encountered another cousin who was...busy, and got a little confused:"I'm never going to drink milk again! Joey's got one of those and HE PEES OUT OF HIS!"  Me? I was confused by the word brassiere. I never could figure out where ladies hid their brass ear.  Later, I couldn't figure out what a chass titty belt was. I thought it was some kind of a boob binder.  ------------------
David "Lean on me. I am just another dumb fence post." 1979 Ranchero GT
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SteveLaRiviere
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posted 05-26-2002 05:13 PM
Udderly hilarious!  I remember figuring out why chickens would disappear just before a big sunday meal and being HORRIFIED! I never thought of them as food before! ------------------
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mellowyellow
Gearhead Posts: 4608
From: So. Fl.
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 05-29-2002 11:34 PM
Frustrated by my inability to make a trough out of my tongue so I could spit better. Spitting on store windows with a Hershey bar chewed up was big sport for a 12 yr old!
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johnmustang
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posted 05-29-2002 11:40 PM
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kwazykat
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Registered: Jun 99
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posted 05-30-2002 04:11 PM
sorry to intrude in the mens room
but i had to reply to this one.....the one thing that truly confused me as a kid
was this line of thinking: (remember this is a kk as a kid ponderance... so it is not rocket science!! teehheee) 1. cave men were the first people
2. they had no spoken language to communicate
3. adam and eve were the first people
4. they apparantly had a lot to say
5. if adam and eve were the first people
but they were "cavemen" how did they have all those words to say and how did someone write them all down?? ok ok ok ok ok
it is simplistic stuff as an adult
but as a little kid
it was very confusing to me that the story of adam and eve could be told to others if they were cavemen.....(and surely, i thought, they must be cavemen if they are the first man and woman to live) and how did they know english so well???? teeheheheheheee
sounds danged silly now that i have typed it out!!! but man oh man! it baffled me as a little itsy bitsy grrl!!!!!
kk
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capri man
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posted 05-30-2002 08:11 PM
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fordnmerc
Gearhead Posts: 196
From: Watkins Glen, NY USA
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 05-30-2002 11:21 PM
Well kk, there is a school of thought, albeit a small one right now, that not all human beings on this planet have the same origin. That there may have been more advanced humans living in the world at the same time that the cave people existed. There is even the suggestion that there were humans of some kind living at the same time as the dinosaurs, over 65 million years ago. That contradicts "accepted" theory that humans have only been around for 3 to 5 million years. But when artificially constructed items are found within coal that is 500 million years old, it makes you wonder if traditional thinking has everything all wrong. It is a very fascinating subject. The book 'Forbidden Archaeology' delves quite deeply into it. Then there is 'The Monuments of Mars: A City on the Edge of Forever.' There are evidently some artifacts on Mars that the government doesn't want to admit to. The book is not a lot of whacko weirdness. It makes a strong case, based on scientific investigation of the available evidence.Who are we and where did we come from? Fundamental questions worth pondering. But so many people go through everyday life thinking that such questions are only asked by nutty flying saucer freaks or something. There is no harm in looking up into the starry night sky and wondering. Just beware of those little green men! Hey, I had to inject a little humor there....
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David "Lean on me. I am just another dumb fence post." 1979 Ranchero GT
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chetta
Journeyman Posts: 57
From: Plano, Tx
Registered: Jun 2001
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posted 05-31-2002 01:23 AM
One thing that confused me was during the 72 Olympics in Munich when the news kept saying the "guerrillas" were holding the Israeli Olympic team hostage. Then they would show long distance shots of the balcony with black figures on it. I kept wondering how the "gorillas" got out of the zoo and into the big building.------------------
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bfxcomet
Gearhead Posts: 307
From: Port Alberni, B.C. , Canada
Registered: Mar 2001
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posted 05-31-2002 01:36 AM
Heck as a kid lots of things confused me oh ya alot of things still confuse me.
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mellowyellow
Gearhead Posts: 4608
From: So. Fl.
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 05-31-2002 06:52 PM
At what time and HOW did the F word and C words evolve. How and when did they get together???? LOL!
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helping hand
Journeyman Posts: 59
From: Salem,OR
Registered: Apr 2002
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posted 06-02-2002 05:25 AM
As I lay here gaizing at the leaky trailer ceiling I know I have only one reply as I wasn't confused much as a child. Why is my Sister also my Mom? I'm 35yrs old and that still has me stumped.I better not talk so loud my father will hear me.He wont get too pissed at me if I wake him,we are good buds.He shares his women with me.
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RickBook
Journeyman Posts: 77
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Apr 2002
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posted 06-02-2002 04:04 PM
LOl @ Chetta and guerillas! That one had me confused too. I just thought the "guerillas" came out of the wild and were taking over!But, the most confusing thing to me was when my dad told me what the single yellow line in the middle of the road was for, "It's to let you know if it's safe to pass". After sitting back and thinking bout that one for a while, I followed up with "How do the LINES know when it safe to pass?" (I assumed that it just 'appeared' when there was a car headed our way and we couldn't see it from behind the slower vehicle we wanted to pass - and then the line would just vanish) ????? Mom and Dad got a laugh outta that one and this one other "confusement": We were parked at a store my Dad had gone into. Me, my mom and older sister were sitting in the parking lot for a long time waiting for Dad to return.
I break the long silence by uttering two simple words: "grand pricks".
Mom and sister laugh until they're crying. I just called it like I saw it! I was just reading out loud what was on the fender of the car parked next to us. Who knew at my age what the correct pronunication of "Gran Prix" was and why it it was so funny to say it out loud ???
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Ken
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From: Prospect, Ct. M&M Member No. 31 MCA Member 49299
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 06-02-2002 04:58 PM
Where chocolate milk came from ------------------
Conciousness - that annoying time between naps. Ken
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SteveLaRiviere
Administrator Posts: 24286
From: Saco, Maine Toys: '70 Mustang Mach 1 - '72 Mustang Sprint - '94 F-150
Registered: May 99
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posted 06-02-2002 05:51 PM
The first time I saw a naked girl I was about 8 and I thought 'it' was a wound. ------------------
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fordnmerc
Gearhead Posts: 196
From: Watkins Glen, NY USA
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 06-02-2002 06:21 PM
Hey mellow,
The F word goes back to the days when the reigning monarch had to give permission, or people were not allowed to make love. It stood for Fornication Under Consent of the King. As for the C word, I haven't gotten into that yet. Ooh, that didn't come out right. Ugh! I better quit while I'm ahead.
Geez, once you get into these things, you just can't get back out again! OHHH.... ------------------
David "Lean on me. I am just another dumb fence post." 1979 Ranchero GT
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SteveLaRiviere
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From: Saco, Maine Toys: '70 Mustang Mach 1 - '72 Mustang Sprint - '94 F-150
Registered: May 99
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posted 06-02-2002 06:40 PM
There's also another rumor that in days old in England when they arrested a person for prostitution, the charge was 'For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge' and the acronym was what was commonly entered in the ledgers. For the other, well... One entry found for ****.
Main Entry: ****
Pronunciation: 'k&nt
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English ****e; akin to Middle Low German kunte female pudenda
Date: 14th century
1 usually obscene : the female pudenda; also : coitus with a woman
2 usually disparaging and obscene : WOMAN 1a------------------
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SteveLaRiviere
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From: Saco, Maine Toys: '70 Mustang Mach 1 - '72 Mustang Sprint - '94 F-150
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posted 06-02-2002 06:44 PM
Wow, the dictionary covers the other word, too... Main Entry: 1****
Pronunciation: 'f&k
Function: verb
Etymology: akin to Dutch fokken to breed (cattle), Swedish dialect fokka to copulate
Date: 1503
intransitive senses
1 usually obscene : COPULATE -- sometimes used in the present participle as a meaningless intensive
2 usually vulgar : MESS 3 -- used with with
transitive senses
1 usually obscene : to engage in coitus with -- sometimes used interjectionally with an object (as a personal or reflexive pronoun) to express anger, contempt, or disgust
2 usually vulgar : to deal with unfairly or harshly : CHEAT, SCREW------------------
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Fastymz
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From: Reno Nv USA MEM#1240
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 06-02-2002 07:46 PM
"What confused you, as a child? "Girls, just Girls and they still do.
Yes is no,maybe is maybe or yes or no.  SCOOP ------------------
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jsracingbbf
Gearhead Posts: 251
From: Batesville,MS. , U.S.A.
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 06-02-2002 09:54 PM
I never could figure out why they called it a "hot water heater". If the water was hot why did you need to heat it? think about it.
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kwazykat
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posted 06-03-2002 06:49 AM
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Originally posted by RickBook:
...to let you know if it's safe to pass....
heh heh ..... this one sounds familiar!!
on the way to my granny's house we would PASS a sign that read "do not pass" i always thought daddy was breaking the law when he would drive past it and i never could figure out how a car load of folks going to granny's house was supposed to get there without 'breaking the law'...... teeheheheheeee
the only thing is .... i never asked about it.... every time we would pass that sign i would wait a few seconds to make sure we werent all going to get into trouble.... have a sigh of relief when nothing happened and then jump my attention back to getting to the grandparents house thinking ~whew~ that was close!
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Ken&Shell
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From: Mocksville, NC
Registered: May 2000
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posted 06-03-2002 10:02 AM
We always got home at a quarter past 5. I never could understand why that was 5:15 and not 5:25 since a quarter was 25 cents.. Used to just confuse the heck out of me as a yungin.. And my 8 yr old would love to know where chocolate milk comes from. He is still trying to find a chocolate cow. There's a farm between my house and KK's on Hwy 64 who have oreo colored cows.. they are black on the front and back and white in the middle.. He loved them, but still couldn't figure out if they had white milk or chocolate milk
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gttorinofan
Gearhead Posts: 177
From: Charlevoix, mi, USA
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 06-03-2002 10:58 AM
Mine was "aliens" having to report to the government. If there was no such things as martians why do they have to report?
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Mach1Maniac
Journeyman Posts: 29
From: Texas
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 06-03-2002 02:32 PM
What confused me as a child was the price of gasoline. If gas was 24 and nine tenths cents a gallon and you bought exactly one gallon, what in the world happened to that other one tenth of a cent?
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fordnmerc
Gearhead Posts: 196
From: Watkins Glen, NY USA
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 06-03-2002 07:54 PM
Even as late as college-age, one of my half-brothers was still confused by some street signs. One time my father went to bring him home, but he was not waiting on the corner where they had agreed he would be. He was farther down the street. When my father asked him why, he replied:"The sign over there says NO STANDING HERE TO CORNER." ------------------
David "Lean on me. I am just another dumb fence post." 1979 Ranchero GT
1990 Grand Marquis GS
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mellowyellow
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From: So. Fl.
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posted 06-03-2002 09:12 PM
Did he know the cross-eyed seamstress who couldn't mend straight??
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Marshall
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From: san diego, CA, USA
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 06-05-2002 05:33 PM
Sitting in the back of my dads old truck, i would watch the turn signals with amazment... the left arrow would start blinking, then my dad would turn left, and the same with the right turn arrow. And somehow we would always end up where we were supposed to go! How on earth did the car always know exactly where and when to turn?!?
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fordnmerc
Gearhead Posts: 196
From: Watkins Glen, NY USA
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 06-05-2002 09:34 PM
That reminds me of an incident that my father tells about. He was stopped at an intersection with a four way traffic light. He was intending to go straight ahead. The only other car was one with an elderly lady driver, coming from the opposite direction and stopped at the light with her right turn signal on. When the light turned green, my father proceeded straight ahead, but the lady turned left, directly in front of him. He managed to stop in time, so that the front of his bumper just touched the right front corner of her bumper. He got out and checked to see that there was no damage to either car, then he spoke to her:"Lady, do you know that you had your right turn signal on?" This was her reply: "Of course! I put it on to show you where I wanted YOU to go!" I think she had more of a problem than simple confusion....  ------------------
David "Lean on me. I am just another dumb fence post." 1979 Ranchero GT
1990 Grand Marquis GS
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SuzyQ
Gearhead Posts: 2096
From: Garner, NC
Registered: Sep 2000
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posted 06-21-2002 04:11 PM
the
GO
CHILDREN
SLOWsign. I asked my Dad and he said, "it means GO, children are slow" DOH!
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