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re: Words, phrases, lyrics, ideas you misunderstood as a kid

Posted on 8/8/21 at 1:53 pm to
Posted by Lsutigerturner
Member since Dec 2016
5835 posts
Posted on 8/8/21 at 1:53 pm to
Lmfao when I was a kid prob 5-7 my dad brought me to a Humboldt state university game. I was having a blast running around under the bleachers eating hotdogs and cotton candy or something no idea what was going on with game but it was a good one I guess stands were pretty crazy. Well they shouted after a score or turn over H. S. U. H. S. U.

Lmfao I was getting into it and I started shouting with everyone super enthusiastic. Annnggell food! annnggle food!

So I was yelling angle food cake lmfao OMG I say it now and am dying inside. My dad just starts dying laughing and keeps shouting and egging me on. On the way home we got hot chocolate and donuts like we used to always do at coffee call later in my life and he told me what they were really saying lol he said No one noticed but I'm sure someone was like... Is that kid screaming angle food cake when we scored????

Frickin hilarious
Posted by Rouge
Floston Paradise
Member since Oct 2004
136850 posts
Posted on 8/8/21 at 1:53 pm to
The movie Tombstone

When Doc Holliday says "I'm your huckleberry."

That's not what he is saying.

He is saying, "I'm you huckle bearer."

A huckle bearer is the person carrying a coffin, essentially a pallbearer.

He was saying that I'm going to be the one carrying your dead arse to the grave.

Posted by johnqpublic
Right here
Member since Oct 2017
619 posts
Posted on 8/8/21 at 2:05 pm to
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He is saying, "I'm you huckle bearer."


Not according to Val or any official script. The best etymology is below. Some believe that Twain may have named Huckleberry Finn from the idiom.

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Some folks think that Holliday may have said something else in real life. He might’ve said, “I’m your huckle bearer.” In the South, a huckle was a casket handle. A huckle bearer would be the person carrying a coffin, essentially a pallbearer. According to this theory, what Holliday should have said in the film is, “I’m your huckle bearer.” The theory goes that Val Kilmer accidentally said huckleberry instead, and the line stuck. There are a couple of problems with that explanation. First, no official copy of the script has ever been seen with the words “huckle bearer” used. Second, Val Kilmer maintains that the line written in the script was huckleberry, and Kilmer even titled his autobiography I’m Your Huckleberry.


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So what’s the truth about Holliday’s famous catch-phrase? Here’s our best explanation for the meaning of the term. Another Southern slang usage of huckleberry was “the right person for the job.” In both instances of Holliday using the phrase in the film, Johnny Ringo is hoping to spark violence. What Holliday is saying to Johnny Ringo is that if he’s looking for trouble, Holliday’s the guy to give it to him.


Article on the line

A more extensive article

Idioms Online
Posted by LaLadyinTx
Cypress, TX
Member since Nov 2018
6073 posts
Posted on 8/8/21 at 2:07 pm to
quote:

I thought I was eating at Waterburger


Most Texans eat at Waterburger. It's a thing. None of them say Whataburger.
Posted by MoarKilometers
Member since Apr 2015
18061 posts
Posted on 8/8/21 at 2:16 pm to
Elton John singing "don't let your son go down on me" was always confusing.
Posted by Twenty 49
Shreveport
Member since Jun 2014
18823 posts
Posted on 8/8/21 at 2:23 pm to
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Van Halens The Cradle Will Rock, he sings "rock on" as a kid I thought he was singing "lock jaw".


A classmate thought he said "rock dog." That became ol' Rock Dog's new nickname.
Posted by liz18lsu
Naples, FL
Member since Feb 2009
17342 posts
Posted on 8/8/21 at 2:24 pm to
Memote patrol = remote control
Posted by pkleblanc
Maurice, LA
Member since Aug 2005
30 posts
Posted on 8/8/21 at 2:30 pm to
I thought AC/DC was singing about "Dirty Dees and the Thunder Jeep"
Posted by TigerSlippers
Member since Oct 2020
62 posts
Posted on 8/8/21 at 4:06 pm to
A kid in my neighborhood was convinced there was a person named Jason Waterfalls, and TLC was begging him to "Don't Go".
Posted by dgnx6
Baton Rouge
Member since Feb 2006
68930 posts
Posted on 8/8/21 at 4:57 pm to
Im blue id beat off a guy... id beat off a guy... Id beat off a guy


Someone convinced me it was... If i were green i would die.

But i dont think its that either.
This post was edited on 8/8/21 at 5:00 pm
Posted by luvdoc
"Please Ignore Our Yelp Reviews"
Member since May 2005
923 posts
Posted on 8/8/21 at 5:08 pm to
gogo's "Honest, I see you"
Posted by ParkMTN
Member since Jun 2016
47 posts
Posted on 8/8/21 at 5:10 pm to
Don't forget the line after douche:

Blinded by the light
Wrapped up like a douche
Another boner in the night
Posted by FAP SAM
Member since Sep 2014
2882 posts
Posted on 8/8/21 at 5:12 pm to
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But i dont think its that either.

It's gibberish

quote:

I'm blue, da ba dee da ba daa
Da ba dee da ba daa, da ba dee da ba daa
Da ba dee da ba daa, da ba dee da ba daa
Da ba dee da ba daa, da ba dee da ba daa
Posted by greenbean
USAF Retired
Member since Feb 2019
4661 posts
Posted on 8/8/21 at 5:15 pm to
"rock the casbah"

Thought it was "rock the cat box" or "rock the cash box"
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
98341 posts
Posted on 8/8/21 at 5:17 pm to
Oh say can you see by the dawnzer lee lie.
Posted by USMEagles
Member since Jan 2018
11811 posts
Posted on 8/8/21 at 5:20 pm to
I think we just had really crappy stereos.

There was a brief period, post-cassettes, where people listed to CDs and we could all understand the lyrics. The advent of MP3s and Bluetooth will doom us once more to hearing "hold me close and tie me down, sir" and "Newwwwww Orleans, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh."
Posted by dbeck
Member since Nov 2014
29453 posts
Posted on 8/8/21 at 5:28 pm to
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Stevie Nicks as well!

She is dancing, away, from you now
She was just a witch
She was just, a witch
And her memory is all that is, left for you now

I liked the song better that way.
Posted by Bigtime92
Solsbury Hill
Member since Jan 2017
3688 posts
Posted on 8/8/21 at 6:01 pm to
She's so popular instead of jeux sans frontieres- Peter Gabriel's Games Without Frontiers
Posted by DeltaTigerDelta
Member since Jan 2017
11351 posts
Posted on 8/8/21 at 6:06 pm to
Them good ole boys were drinking whiskey and rye singing SOB the day that I die.
Posted by Popths
Baton Rouge
Member since Aug 2016
3975 posts
Posted on 8/8/21 at 6:39 pm to
Aerosmith : Do the lucky lady

Billy Jean: Janet’s not my son

Jungle Bells: One orsopen sleigh

I wanna know, have you ever seen Lorraine. China don’t like water
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