Who here grew up believing that apples to doctors were like crucifixes to vampires?

[MrScorpio]

[applegrove]

1. I just got the joke "Why did the chicken cross the road?" "To get to the

other side". I never knew the 'other side' implied heaven or afterlife.

[WePurrsevere]

2. Wait! What?! All these decades...

of thinking that there was some sort of deep existential meaning and it was a "winner winner chicken dinner" joke? Noooooo....

[applegrove]

3. If you think that is bad I didn't know "Mares eat oats and does eat oats

and little lambs eat ivy, kids eat ivy too, wouldn't you" was a song about what farm animals eat. I thought it was just some random sounds put together.

[LeftInTX]

4. For years, I thought it was random sounds too.

It's sung quite rapidly and almost as a tongue twister. Unless you see the words they're hard to decipher.

[WePurrsevere]

6. Oh... I've known that was about farm animals but...

Since I've never known anyone who eats horsemeat I've not thought of it as a song about food I eat. I also wouldn't "eat ivy too" since there are some types that can have some nasty side effects. Eep!



ETA: It sounds like you hadn't heard the rest of the song before?

If the words sound queer and funny to your ear, a little bit jumbled and jivey
Sing "Mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy"

[LeftInTX]

5. Never liked apples. Never believed the hype.

Didn't know about crucifixes and vampires, cuz my mom didn't let me watch anything scary.

[cyclonefence]

7. My father asked a doctor friend what an apple a day does

and the doctor said "it makes you shit."