Hot Air
Happy Mothers Day to all you Mommy-types! (That’s you, Mah!)
Okay, this isn’t based on anything in particular in regards to my own life. It’s based on the weird things we grow up misinterpreting as kids. For example:
There’s a lyric in a Neil Diamond song “Brother Love’s Traveling Salvation Show,” (my folks were big fans) and it scared the *&%% out of me as a kid! It’s the live version on the album, Love At The Greek… it is as follows (screamed by Mr. Diamond): “Grab the babies, grab the ol’ ladies, everyone goes, everyone goes…”
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! Where are they taking them?!!! Is a monster grabbing them? I envision screaming old ladies trying to escape! (the babies don’t have a chance)…
Total misunderstanding.
When I was a kid, I though the Alanis Morsett song “You Oughtta Know” line was “the cross eyed bear that you gave to me.” Instead of “the cross I bear that you gave to me.” My dad still makes fun XD
Little Randie is so cute :)! And freaked-out Randie made me laugh out loud.
Kids misinterpret lots of things, imagination is awesome except when you’re trying to grasp facts :)!
Ha Ha… Cross-eyed bears! That’s a cartoon waiting to happen!
Yeah, I imagine quite a lot, Meggie… sometimes it works against me. The What IFs… can be used for good (a basic component of cartooning) and not so good …(stupid nonsensical fears).
My Mom used to tell me about the animal song they sang in church…about “Gladly, the cross-eyed bear..”
I know how to make babies. You drop the “y” and add “ies”.
It’s at least a bit better than “Come on Eileen, I just ate my spleen.” I swear, that’s what I thought it was saying.