I Only Just Realised...

This is a thread for things that you never realised before, or that you can't believe you only just realised. So these can be stupid things, like jokes or innuendos on TV, or other things.
Like my dad only just realised that "Will.i.am" is meant to mean both "William" and "Will, I Am".
I'm making this thread because I just realised that my ex-boyfriend, who was a bit of a douche, bought me The Midwich Cuckoos for my birthday, and I always wondered why. But I just realised that John Wyndham, who wrote the book, shares my birthday. I don't know if it was a fluke, or if I should feel like a horrible person, but either way I feel stupid for having only just realised.

Exboyfriend, douche, say it isn't so.....

Sootyj used to think the expression "last but njot least"

meant there was going to be another thing after the last one.

Haha! I didn't only just realise that.

I also always thought "Play it by ear" was "Play it by here". Internet says it can be either, but Elliot insists it's only the first.

I used to think the phrase "so and so" was actually one complete word as "soneso". I think I only realised the truth a couple of years ago.

It took me years to realise that Grade A milk (fat bottle stuff) wasn't Grey Day milk.

Qinetiq - the privatised arm of the British military research establishment is actually pronounced 'kinetic'. To be fair, the wanky spelling didn't help.

Oh and on the Madonna song La Isla Bonita, I thought she sang 'young girls with eyes like potatoes'. To be fair, potatoes do have eyes.

and finally

On the Radiohead song No Surprises, Thom Yorke does not sing 'Salad'. To be fair, I wasn't listening properly.

Quote: Renegade Carpark @ June 8 2012, 10:08 PM BST

Oh and on the Madonna song La Isla Bonita, I thought she sang 'young girls with eyes like potatoes'. To be fair, potatoes do have eyes.

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Quote: Ben @ June 8 2012, 9:47 PM BST

I used to think the phrase "so and so" was actually one complete word as "soneso". I think I only realised the truth a couple of years ago.

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Think I posted about this another thread at some point but I always thought when people said in this day and age they were saying danage. I'm not sure why as I always understood what people meant when they said it. I only figured it out when I saw it written down.

Swings and roundabouts was swings in roundabouts for me until not so long ago.

I always thought that when people said 'hear hear' they were saying 'here here' meaning, I agree over here - or I even thought it was 'ear ear' meaning I am listening. It turns out it's actually a shortened term of 'hear him, hear him'

And in the song by Jimi Hendrix - Purple haze, I always thought he said 'scuze me while I kiss this guy' Just thought it was a 'gay' song.

I used to think that Paul Weller in Eton Rifles sang 'what chance have you got against the tired oppressed' until a few weeks ago when, for reasons I can't remember, I looked at the lyrics and saw that he actually sang ' what chance have you got against a tie and a crest'.

Oh, if we're talking song lyrics then where do I start?
There's that old song, Poetry In Motion, that I used to think was "oh a tree in motion"...
In fairness I was very young.

I was saying VietMANese until the age of 31.

I used to pronounce 'Titian' as Tit-Ian until I made a tit of myself at an art course.

And then of course, there's 'meringue'.