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re: Have you ever called something by the wrong name in a spectacularly embarrassing fashion?

Posted on 8/12/25 at 12:14 pm to
Posted by keks tadpole
Yellow Leaf Creek
Member since Feb 2017
8451 posts
Posted on 8/12/25 at 12:14 pm to
Let’s say the timing between delivery and losing “baby weight” can lead to uncomfortable silence, especially in an extended duration between delivery and “when are you due”.
Posted by TideCPA
Member since Jan 2012
12969 posts
Posted on 8/12/25 at 12:17 pm to
I said the word "infrared" as inf-RARE-d for an embarrassingly long time. I think it was because I read it before I ever heard it, and took a long time to make the connection when people actually pronounced it correctly.
Posted by jorconalx
alexandria
Member since Aug 2011
10487 posts
Posted on 8/12/25 at 12:43 pm to
quote:

Asked a lady if her son needed a kids menu. Turns out it wasn't her son. It was her lesbian girlfriend that looked like a 12 year old boy. She was pissed and I sat her in a different servers section and offered to cover the tip if she didn't tip well.



Did something similar recently.said “yessir” to a park ranger that was a lesbian.
Posted by Festus
With Skillet
Member since Nov 2009
85943 posts
Posted on 8/12/25 at 12:49 pm to
I've never done it, but seen (heard?) it twice. Someone ask someone else "how far along are you"? And they're not pregnant, just fat.

That's the worst. There's no recovering from that.
Posted by wm72
Brooklyn
Member since Mar 2010
8995 posts
Posted on 8/12/25 at 12:56 pm to
In Italian, mensole means shelves.

Mensile means monthly and is commonly used for menstrual cycle.

The first day I met my girlfriend's father, I told him I'd be happy to fix his wife's.
Posted by IonaTiger
The Commonwealth Of Virginia
Member since Mar 2006
33223 posts
Posted on 8/12/25 at 12:59 pm to
Not wrong name but wrong phrase.

I was having breakfast with my now ex-wife years ago. I meant to say, “Honey, please pass the jelly”.

It came out, “You goddamn bitch you ruined my entire fricking life”!
Posted by Rex Feral
Member since Jan 2014
15788 posts
Posted on 8/12/25 at 1:04 pm to
My dad would add an R sound to the end of words that end in an A sound. He liked to talk about catching a barracuda and it always sounded like he was saying cooter instead of cuda.
Posted by N2cars
Close by
Member since Feb 2008
37867 posts
Posted on 8/12/25 at 1:08 pm to



Well, what kind of jelly was it?
Posted by Raoul Stimulato
Hale Bopp Comet
Member since Sep 2022
1983 posts
Posted on 8/12/25 at 1:09 pm to
quote:

wanted some perineums to plant at the house.


Why you planting taints, baw?

What kinda aberrant operation you got on over there!?
Posted by IonaTiger
The Commonwealth Of Virginia
Member since Mar 2006
33223 posts
Posted on 8/12/25 at 1:10 pm to
Vette, it’s the old “2 tickets to Pittsburgh” joke. It always made me laugh and it can be used by females as well as males!
Posted by jorconalx
alexandria
Member since Aug 2011
10487 posts
Posted on 8/12/25 at 1:25 pm to
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That's the worst. There's no recovering from that.


Yep, was at a company convention and one of my coworkers drunkenly asked our HR manager when was she due? She wasn’t pregnant
Posted by PerplenGold
TX
Member since Nov 2021
2209 posts
Posted on 8/12/25 at 1:26 pm to
My wife & I went to S Africa with a friend & his wife. They're S African. We have been learning S African phrases from our friends for years not always knowing exactly what they meant.

At dinner with both sets of their parents at a restaurant, my wife asks one of their mothers..."which word is worse?" and rattles off 2 Afrikaans slang words. One of which is much worse than the other. Most of the table had a huge laugh. The mother who was asked the question may have shite her pants. Don't know what my wife was thinking. She picked the bible bashing tea-totaler to ask.
This post was edited on 8/12/25 at 1:32 pm
Posted by The Boat
Member since Oct 2008
175379 posts
Posted on 8/12/25 at 1:30 pm to
Cajun me said piquante instead of picante at a border town Mexican restaurant. They double checked to make sure the white boy knew he was ordering something spicy.
Posted by littlebird92
Louisiana
Member since May 2018
307 posts
Posted on 8/12/25 at 2:38 pm to
I'm so glad I'm not the only one. For years I had a block against the correct pronunciation lol.
Posted by BR Tiger
Baton Rouge
Member since Mar 2004
4368 posts
Posted on 8/12/25 at 4:20 pm to
quote:

used to get Protestant and prostitute mixed up when I was a kid. I told my teacher at school that I was a Catholic but my grandparents were prostitutes.


I grew up Baptist and at about 7 was baptized. A friend of mine was riding with us and somehow it came up. His response: “I wonder when I will get Methodized?” He went on to say “if you are Baptist and got baptized l should be methodized since I’m Methodist”
Posted by dirtsandwich
AL
Member since May 2016
6349 posts
Posted on 8/12/25 at 4:43 pm to
quote:

my X’s name

If a tear should fall, if I should whisper her name
To some stranger I'm holdin' while we're dancin' to an old Buck Owens song
I know she won't mind, she won't even know
She'll be dancing with a memory crying teardrops of her own
Posted by Penrod
Member since Jan 2011
51550 posts
Posted on 8/12/25 at 5:02 pm to
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I was going through the Chick-fil-a drive thru years ago picking up lunch for me and a girl I was trying to hook up with, and accidentally ordered a "vagina" shake instead of "vanilla"...

Could not be plainer what you had on your mind.
Posted by hansenthered1
Dixie
Member since Nov 2023
2097 posts
Posted on 8/12/25 at 5:15 pm to
I got drunk at a nice steak house one time on a Saturday, I was a young Airman who had money to blow and was able to go downtown only one day a week, and asked some rich guy at the next table how the market did that day....he laughed and said it was Saturday. I still recall that with shame 30 years later. Lesson learned, don't get drunk and talk to strangers.
Posted by artompkins
Orange Beach, Al
Member since May 2010
6232 posts
Posted on 8/12/25 at 5:18 pm to
No but an engineer I work beside sent out a company wide email BCC'ing every big wig on the planet and called everyone morons but he spelled it maroons lol. It was hilarious how we roasted him. Now we call everyone maroons all the time.
This post was edited on 8/12/25 at 5:19 pm
Posted by Ponchy Tiger
Ponchatoula
Member since Aug 2004
48653 posts
Posted on 8/12/25 at 5:28 pm to
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I called my wife my girlfriend’s name when hitting it from behind. Not good!


Rodeo sex, call them a different name and hang on.
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