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AshTree Mon 06-Apr-15 09:15:36

My son would sing "Oh come all ye faithful, joyful and trifle".
Once, at about 2 and a half, he asked me to sing the song about the 'sturdy piples who rode their bikes and played in the park'. After much head scratching, I realised he meant the hymn "Mothers of Salem": "When mothers of Salem their children brought to Jesus, the stern disciples drove them back and bade them depart ".
A friend's granddaughter goes into her garden to play on her jumpaline.

What stories do other gnetters have?

merlotgran Wed 08-Apr-15 21:24:03

Listening to Radio 2 in the car this morning, I was reminded of when DS thought the chorus to Kid Creole and the Coconut's 'Annie, I'm not your Daddy' was,
'Ono, ono, onomatopoeia'

Zoe Ball apparently thought the same.

Mishap Wed 08-Apr-15 21:19:17

Just checked with the vicar - definitely Egypt!

Woody Wed 08-Apr-15 21:09:07

My DD aged 5 came home singing " cook my arm" took me ages to find out it was cum bye are ( not sure about spelling even now 37 years later!)

Anne58 Wed 08-Apr-15 18:59:31

You're probably right, Mishap !

Margsus Wed 08-Apr-15 18:55:37

DS2 (now aged 30!) asked to watch his video of his favourite film A Fight with an Alligator. It took us a while to realise he wanted to watch The Flight of the Navigator...and 25 years on, guess what we call that film!

Mishap Wed 08-Apr-15 17:42:12

Phoenix - weren't they fleeing into Egypt? I am sure one of our experts will tell us!

merlotgran Wed 08-Apr-15 17:38:56

We're watching Pointless and DH has just commented on one of the answers to identifying chefs' names.

Despite years of watching Masterchef, he thought John Torode was Jonty Rhodes! grin

My response was 'Gordon Bennett!!!'

To which he replied, 'No....The other one's Greg Wallace!'

Maniac Wed 08-Apr-15 17:21:18

As a child I thought a line of the Easter hymn was 'Our salvation Aspro cured' -later learnt it was 'Our salvation hath procured'

Anne58 Wed 08-Apr-15 10:55:57

grin

Mishap Wed 08-Apr-15 10:54:58

Phoenix - that is so funny! Like the child's painting of a woman kneeling by what looks like a large puddle, who is "praying for the sick."

Anne58 Wed 08-Apr-15 10:03:41

There was also the little boy who appeared at Sunday school with a cucumber. Apparently he had misheard when the teacher said it would be nice if they could all bring a newcomer with them next week.

Lilygran Wed 08-Apr-15 10:00:40

absent grin

rosequartz Wed 08-Apr-15 09:57:52

phoenix lol

rosequartz Wed 08-Apr-15 09:56:47

That's OK absent smile

C of E belongs to the One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic Church
(The holy catholic church, the communion of saints etc)

We are just not Holy Romans.
However, I think I like 'suffered under a bunch of spiders' - which I most certainly would!

Anne58 Wed 08-Apr-15 09:49:17

bramblelover that reminds me of the little boy who did a painting of Joseph, Mary and the baby Jesus with an unidentified black object with them. When asked what it was he said "The flea, you know, when the angel said "take your wife and child and flea to Israel"

Falconbird Wed 08-Apr-15 09:28:32

absent - I love "suffered under a bunch of spiders," sounds so much more terrifying to me than Pontius Pilot. smile smile

absent Tue 07-Apr-15 22:15:56

Sorry – I know the Creed is mumbled through at every Catholic Mass but I don't know if it is said at all other Christian services. I was trying to be helpful.

Lilygran Tue 07-Apr-15 21:45:02

Same Creed throughout the Church. Same religion!

AlieOxon Tue 07-Apr-15 20:46:17

Hey, I'm not RC and I got it!

absent Tue 07-Apr-15 19:57:17

Church ritual offers quite a lot of scope for mishearing and misunderstanding. I rather like this variation of the Creed: "…suffered under a bunch of spiders…" (For the non RC, it should be suffered under Pontius Pilate.)

loopylou Tue 07-Apr-15 18:35:10

As a C of E at a convent school it took me five years to find out that the last line of Hail Mary wasn't 'now and at the howl of the deaf'
blush

KatyK Tue 07-Apr-15 18:34:14

We still sing go and get stuffed to that one sal!

shysal Tue 07-Apr-15 18:27:40

One of Terry Wogan's was Billy Ocean's 'Go and get stuffed' (going gets tough)

hildajenniJ Tue 07-Apr-15 18:20:42

From she first learned to talk my GD put her dirty clothes in the washing it clean. She doesn't now as she is 8, and like to put everyone right.

hildajenniJ Tue 07-Apr-15 18:17:10

My late aunt went to Church, and every week would say " Forgive us our trespasses, and the liver is evil".
She never liked liver!