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inej | 23:20 Tue 25th Jul 2006 | Body & Soul
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My nan is great but she get's names muddled up. She asked the bakery for a quicky when she wanted a quiche.
Asked for the condoms when she meant condiments.Calls a jacuzzi a kakoozi . Little thing's bless her she comes out with make me laugh.
ALso kids say funny thing's to show you up in public, i tried to help my niece down the stairs on the bus once
she shouted out loud i can do it myself you know i'm not handicapped ( it was a full bus )
Have you any funny little thing's to share ? thanks
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Allso the once when i was at school many years ago , my nan attended my parent's evening and decided to say heil hitler to my german teacher which luckily for me she laughed at. bless.
it was no secret that my Mum used to buy her furniture from MI5.
my brother insisted he could memorise me.

i said i'm sure there is no need - you rarely forget a sibling!

even when i explained he meant mesmerised, he wouldn't have it -
i eventually had to explain what both memorise and mesmerise meant, and that a guy named mesmer, a famous hypnotist, was the reason this word exists.

he also, attempting to be snooty, said in front of people he was showing off to 'oh i love listening to wagner' ...

... pronounced wag-ner not 'vargner' - all the other snooties just smirked.


incidentally inej, bit of trivia, the word for what your nan does is malapropism - named after a character in a book who said a lot of them.

similar is things like saying bixing mowl instead of mixing bowl is a spoonerism - again named after a bloke who said them a lot.
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When my daughter was about 10 she went out for the day with a friend of mine, when she got back I asked if she had a good time and she said "oh yes mum, I went on a stimulator" I had to put her right saying "no darling, you went on a simulator"
i'd asked my friend for a lime and soda and she shouted over a crowed bar 'pint of slime and odour' she got a few looks!
Oh I could write a book on the funny things my mum used to come out with. Bless her..
The ones that will go down in our family histoy are:
On phoning Homebase to see if they did dildo in 6 foot lengths. (she meant dado rail!!). And the time she was having a new fence she phoned the fencer and asked if he did "erections". She was absolutely priceless.
my b/f changed aspergers-hamburgers, tempremental -sentimental, rectified to correctified and many more now i know what its called is there a cure as the fun element has worn off for me and just left the "cringe what a tit" thing?
Go Nan!! Good for her still needing condoms at her age!
my mum has always called testicles tenticles!!
My dad used to buy furniture from MI5 too, Dotty! oh and joko ~ my dad was once looking for a Wagner LP in a record store..looking in the 'V' section....

My daughter was once sitting there staring into space. When I asked her what she was doing she replied ''I'm hibernating'' when of course she meant to say 'meditating'.

My mother in law insists on calling a prostate a 'prostrate'

When I was little, my nan was reading to me from the newspaper & proceeded to tell me that some people had died in Chaso. I asked her where Chaso was and she replied ''Switzerland''. When I looked at the story I discovered that she was referring to a headline 'Hundreds injured in Chaos'..apparently due to an avalanche in Switzerland.
My brother was at work one day and they were talking about wrinkly foreheads, and he said his was quite wrinkly because he had a lot of foreskin... instead of forehead skin! How embarrassing!
My Mum also shops at MI5!! And I thought it was just her!

I did tell my partner once that I was going to "divulge" in a glass of wine..!
Mrs Malaprop was in The Richard Brinsley Sheridan story The Rivals! I did this at Uni and the other woman in it is ridiculous, an early version of a sloane ranger in the Bodlean lol

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