On the back of chatting about the missus mixing up Christopher Columbus and Columbo, and the time she was on about that 'Scottish trampy bloke from the tele', - 'Rasberry Nesbit'... I thought I'd put up a thread to see if anyone had similar experiences.
When JD Salinger died last year, I mentioned it to my old nan (she's nearly 80), and her reply was a classic: "The chap who made the Tennis rackets?"
We were discussing films and my wife said she didn't like Star Wars, or Terminator, or Predator, or Aliens etc. I asked if she didn't like any sci-fi, and she said - in all seriousness - "well I used to watch Button Moon"
Loved Button Moon as a nipper. My mate (ahem) told his Mrs to drive him to the Chemist to pick up suppositorys and when they got back to the house she goes into the kitchen and comes out with a glass of water to 'wash the suppository down'.
genuine conversation bloke: car battery is dead and the car in front will have to move so I can get someone to give me a boost woman: why dont you drive the car over to there and get a boost? there's plenty of room bloke: coz the ****ing batteries dead pmsl lsitening to that
And yet she's an intelligent woman. I think they're all just a bit dizzy. Even Carol Vorderman drives to work with the handbreak on sometimes.
Mine aint totally stupid but to call her intelligent is probably stretching things a bit. She does loads of 'Malapropisms' like when she was trying to describe Hercules and called him Herpes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malapropism
