Yesterday The Bloggess posted a compilation of tweets in which her followers confessed their embarrassing misconceptions. You must visit it, because it is hilarious.
My contribution is below. What are yours?
1. I used to think that “flying” somewhere meant you strapped wings on your back like Icarus and Daedalus.
2. When I was preschool age, I thought that to make a baby, a woman had to put her nipple inside the hole in a man’s penis. (In my defense, I thought this because my mother had said that the woman’s parts fit with the man’s parts. However, she didn’t specify which parts.)
3. I also thought that sex had something to do with yard maintenance, because my mother said that the man “fertilized” the woman’s egg.
4. Until I was in college, I thought that the lyrics to “Jet Airliner” were “big old Carolina.” (I always wondered which one—North or South?)
5. I was also in college when someone disabused me of the notion that Eeyore is an elephant. (He’s fat and grey. Apparently, the pinned-on tail thing went right over my head—as did the fact that he has no trunk.)
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I am embarrassed to admit that reading through there was how I learned that it was NOT “Knights In White Satin”. 😦
Yeah, I didn’t know about the whole Roy Orbison thing either.
What about Roy Orbison!?
Apparently he’s not really blind?? Did I read that right?
i just got the “Why did the Chicken cross the road” Joke. It was right in my face the whole time 😉
I saw that Bloggess post. Hilarious! In ref. to #2, I thought the man put his penis in the woman’s bellybutton…
Ha! This guy I knew thought that the woman had to eat her husband’s testicles. He said he thought this because every couple in his neighborhood had 2 kids. Makes sense!
Wow. That is a scary thought!