I do like to fornicate

@p1kef1sh (45681)
June 5, 2008 4:26pm CST
No no, that's not the right word. I mean procrastinate. My daughter told her mother today that she had sat at home and fornicated when she meant procrastinated. That caused her mother to have a double take. It reminded me of an occasion when a friend told me that his sister had had an accident and had been given a vasectomy! What she actually meant was tracheotomy! Have you ever used the wrong word or said something silly when you meant something completely different.
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@novataylor (6570)
• United States
5 Jun 08
Ha, I can just imagine the double-take she must have done on hearing that come out of your daughter's mouth! And yes, I do that stuff all the time. The only one I can think of right now is this. I can't seem to say the word trellis - I always want to say trestle. Very different things. Especially when I'm at the garden center looking for a trestle! Trellis! Aaargh! See what I mean? There can be many rafimications from stuff like that- ooops, this is getting confuscious!
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
5 Jun 08
Your roses won't grow along the trestle Nova. It is very confuscating!
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• United States
5 Jun 08
Yeah, I think they'd get run over by the train. I'm obtusifiying the issue though. Ridiculous - aristophenes!
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@ellie333 (21016)
6 Jun 08
LOL, I can just inmagine your wifes face when your daughter said that. I can't think of any that I have done myself at this moment in time but I am sure there are many and probably quite a few written ones on here too! My son though nearly got soap in his mouth because he said what I thought was bloody bee when what he actually said was buzzy bee as his speach isn't that clear yet bless. Ellie :D
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• United States
7 Jun 08
This may sound really dumb, but I am wondering now... Is "bloody" a bad word?
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
6 Jun 08
Buzz Buzz Ellie. Poor boy. That was close. They did think that it was funny.
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@ellie333 (21016)
7 Jun 08
Used in the context of something being bloody like a nose or a handkerchief no but it is swearing if used in the context of 'Oh that bloody bee' with a sipe of the hand. I don't like my children to use these words anyway but would prefer use of this one if they did over some others. Ellie :D
@34momma (13882)
• United States
6 Jun 08
oh my goodness of course i have. I think we have all done that to many times to count. but it is fine because no matter what it is we say wrong. it always makes for a funny story later!
@34momma (13882)
• United States
6 Jun 08
that may be true, but we alway remember the good times, and those are the only memories that are really important
@p1kef1sh (45681)
6 Jun 08
It does make a for a funny story later - if you can remember what was said. I find that somedays I can remember everything, the next nothing at all.
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@cher913 (25781)
• Canada
6 Jun 08
congratulations on a great attention grabber! no i havents said anything like that, but that sounds like something a kid would say! i find that my daughter (who is now 11) used to say the funniest things!
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
6 Jun 08
Thank you Cher. Daughters do say the most amazing things. Mine's (19) latest was "Dad, have you got any money you could lend (meaning have) me?"
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• Canada
9 Jun 08
Ah, Pike, that's funny, too, cause all our kids say that! Or will one day, anyways. My daughter says things that are crazy and so totally made up in her mind that it makes me burst out laughing. Last week I was watching Dr Phil with the captions on so I could turn the sound off if need be and still read it when my daughter who is 4 going on 14 said, " You know, Mom, I can READ, y'know.
@ruby222 (4847)
5 Jun 08
LOL Pikey ear...well the former sounds quite well what shall we say!!!malapropisms..thats the right word is it not??or have i got it all wrtong,more than likely lol...anyway I cant think of any particular instance of this happening here,but I know there are a good few daft words bandied about on a regular basis.But thinking about words...I love words and if I see a word that is new to me or im unsure of its meaning i have to investigate it,an enquiring min methinks here,but out comes the dictionary and im head down and the investigation begins ,I need satiating ,until that happens im half a woman!!!!...but no seriously I do love looking thnigs up!!!!!
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
5 Jun 08
I like looking up things Ruby. Skirts....... Rude boy! I think that it is a malapropism to say things wrong. Remember Hilda Ogden's "Murials"?
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@ruby222 (4847)
5 Jun 08
Awwww Hilda and Stan,what a couple of stars eh????they were brilliant and those muriels were wonderful...and those ducks!!!and today those lovely..NOT..ducks are worth a little fortune .I only wished that Hilda had had the joy of seeling them and then she could have treated herself,lol thats if Stan hadnt got their first and taen the money to the bookies!!!and what about that lodger they had ..wass he called Eddie???he was a binman I think !!
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@ruby222 (4847)
5 Jun 08
Ive just thought of one hubby uses!!!instead of saying `irate` he says `highrated !!
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@SomeCowgirl (32189)
• United States
6 Jun 08
I have been told that my sister once wrote something to my father (not her father) and it went something like this "You are so CU-T" instead of cute. She didn't mean to, but she did. Hmmm, as for myself one time when I was in middle school I accidentally said "petroleum jelly is a vampire" and I meant to say Petroleum Jelly is Vaseline". My friend at the time thought it was hilarious, and I have to laugh at myself today. Happy Postings to You and Have a Great Day! By the way, the dash is a space for another letter, it won't let me use the word but i'm sure you can use your imagination with this one!
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
6 Jun 08
LOL. I bet he was pleased to read that. I heard of an African general who styled himself the "Commander United Nations Transport" on some mission. In the military it is usual to abbreviate titles to their first letters. I'll leave you to work it out what his soldiers called him.
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@SomeCowgirl (32189)
• United States
7 Jun 08
lol just things like that must bring humor to the military. I'm sure i'd be smirking every time I called my Commander CU-T... hmmm I just wonder what his last name was? I sure hope it wasn't Johnson!
• United States
6 Jun 08
rotflmao Pike I bet your wife's head swiveled on her neck when she heard that... Oh my gosh too funny. I would have been in the floor laughing with out a doubt. I am sure I have made boobs like that, but I can't think of one off hand.
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
6 Jun 08
They both thought that it was funny Angel. And both fell about.
@agfarm (930)
• United States
5 Jun 08
Absolutely!!!!!!! But.....I think it's funny ( your story ) Once again you have succeeded in MAking my DAy. There is no One like you p1key...........( some might think that's a good thing! ) But not me.....I could listen to you all day! You Rock!
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• United States
5 Jun 08
I'm with you, agfarm. P1key rocks. Yup.
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
6 Jun 08
LOL. I do rock Ag. With insanity!
@makingpots (11915)
• United States
6 Jun 08
ROFL Thanks for the laugh, p1ke. I have made mistakes such as this but I can't come up with one at the moment. It is midnight where I am..... I need to be in bed.
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
6 Jun 08
"Night night. Sleep tight. Shhhh. She's asleep."
@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
6 Jun 08
pikefish this reminds me of something that happened to my friend when years ago we were both in college. she was going to have an oral test in her spanish class and she was telling me that she was afraid she was going to mix 'up the two words prostrate and prostate as they were very simlar in spanish. I was doing my homework later when she came in and burst into tears. I asked what happened and she said I went to translate the sentence he prostrated himself' before the king and instead I said he prostated himself before the king and everyone just laughed and laughed.I had a hard time convincing her that all was not lost.lol.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
6 Jun 08
I used to do that all the time. Some years ago I had a female boss with whom I got on very well. She'd ask me to do something and I'd say "I am prostate before you O wise leader" - she'd say "I don't want to know about your prostate'! Laugh and move on.
@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
5 Jun 08
Multi lingual joke, will explain... Back in 1988 my father-in-law had his 60th birthday and somehow he managed to get through all of the red tape and arrange for two of his nieces from East Germany to come out for a visit. Now my sister-in-law's German is only so so. Enough to make conversation, but definitely not totally correct. Anyway she was driving the cousins around and she was telling them about this car accident that she had had where she was rear ended. She didn't know the right word and when she told the cousins that the other car had 'gebumsed' into hers, there was uncontrollable giggling. That was the day that she figured out that bumsen was the German equivalent of the 'F' word.
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
6 Jun 08
Reminds me of the English friend who on being asked whether he had had an easy trip down to Bavaria said that he had been caught in a "Fahrzeuge Marmalade" or literally a "vehicles jam". Wonder if it spread easily on toast?
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@judy43 (299)
• United States
6 Jun 08
I did a double take for a second on your first sentence. lol I did this when I was younger. I told my husband I went shop lifting with my friend,what I meant was window shopping.
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
6 Jun 08
I like that one Judy. Did you get away with much? LOL.
@allen0187 (59648)
• Philippines
6 Jun 08
hi p1kef1sh. yeah me too, that makes two of us. oh, procastinate??!!! yeah, me too, that makes two of us. lol!!! seriously, i try to do things on the dot. i try not to procastinate because time is the one thing that you can never get back. imagine this, if you were given a bank account with a million dollars and you have to use everything in it by the end of the day or else you lose it, wouldn't you use every penny of the million dollars? that million dollars is the time that you have for the whole day, use it wisely or watch it waste away at the end of the day. just my thought.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
6 Jun 08
Good for you. The discussion wasn't about procrastination but why not? I'd spend that million dollars double quick don't you worry. Thank Allen.
• United States
6 Jun 08
When I was about 14 years old I was talking to my mother about how men get ED. Don't ask! Well, my stepdad walked in and attempted to make me and my mother laugh with his cheap excuse for humor and I said to him "Does you impetance know no bounds?" when I meant incompetance. I am 20 now and we still laugh about that to this day. My mother and I do anyway. My stepdad didn't find it very amusing at all.
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
6 Jun 08
He probably felt very incompetent himself. Good one. LOL.
@mtdewgurl74 (18151)
• United States
7 Jun 08
Here I thought we was getting a intriguing discussion..lol Yes I have and have heard others do it as well. I think we all have done that atleast several times. My little sis does it all the time and we correct her. God forbid she be at church and say some of the stuff she does...lol
@mtdewgurl74 (18151)
• United States
9 Jun 08
Yeah sometimes..I just don't want some people getting the idea that is the wrong idea. She is only just turned 7 a few days ago. She does say the darnedest things sometimes though, Like when I was watching E! and they was doing a segment on Brad Pitt and Richard Gere and talking about their wealth and I said they were HOT! as in looking sexy and she looked at me and said "sissy with all their money they should be able to buy fans.." I let it slide and said yeah.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
7 Jun 08
LOL. People do come out with some very interesting words at times. Now I wonder what you could encourage your sister to say........!!
@p1kef1sh (45681)
9 Jun 08
LOL. Sometimes it's just better to say nothing and let them wonder.
@balasri (26537)
• India
6 Jun 08
It is not me .But I just cant help mentioning what a person known to me told inside the school campus.Once he said that there is stray dog inside the campus and it has to be caught or shot or else the children are likely to get 'Antirabies'. How is that?
@balasri (26537)
• India
7 Jun 08
The animals will take care of him.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
6 Jun 08
LOL. Hope he doesn't become a vet!
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@foxyfire33 (10005)
• United States
5 Jun 08
I can't think of anything like that but the mention of 'fornicate' reminded me of an awkward Bible study I was at once. The host and hostess, as everyone knew, were days from celebrating their 5th wedding anniversary, and had an almost 5 year old child. The math was obvious but we weren't an extremely conservative group. Anyway, by pure coincidence, the chapter we were studying that night was one that mentioned fornication. The hostess turned to our Pastor and asked what it meant...as a 45 year old virgin, he was red to say the least. He did manage to explain though and when he was finish,the hostess, in a rather giggy mood that night, proudly declared that she had in fact been fornicating 5 years prior! (I think her hubby may have slipped something in her kool-aid because later in the evening she managed to get on the topic of her underwear...)
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
6 Jun 08
Poor Pastor. In both stories!
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@maddysmommy (16230)
• United States
5 Jun 08
My poor laptop got a taste of some chocolate chip cookies when I read your comment under goodies one LOL too funny. I can't think of any at the moment but i have been embarrassed by many wrong words I've said LOL
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
6 Jun 08
Chocolate chip laptop - my favorite!
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@Rozie37 (15499)
• Turkmenistan
6 Jun 08
I have never slipped up that bad, LOL. I feel very sorry for your wife. Tell your daughter, that is a rather dangerous slip up. Poor mother, it is a wonder she remained standing.
@Rozie37 (15499)
• Turkmenistan
7 Jun 08
It is hilarious.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
6 Jun 08
They both thought it hilarious Rozie.
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@CanadaGal (4304)
• Canada
6 Jun 08
I am guilty of saying the wrong words all the time. But of course, being on the spot to think of an example, I can't. My kids make funny mispronounciations all the time too. The most frequent one is using the word "construction" instead of "instruction". I've explained the difference to them more than enough times... but they're dense, and it won't sink in. There was one time when my older son was talking to a friend about a ps2 game, and said that one of the powers was "Convincibility". She later adopted that as her own superpower, and never claimed she was "invincible".
• United States
7 Jun 08
Thats funny. My kids mix up invisible and invincible. They think they are interchangable.
@CanadaGal (4304)
• Canada
6 Jun 08
ah yes... I DO remember that one. That was funny... and I didn't have the heart to correct you, b/c the intent was not to be funny.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
6 Jun 08
LOL. I like the construction/instruction one. You are absolutely right though. We let these things slip out and then cannot remember what was said. Remember when I said 7/11 when I meant 9/11?
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