Homonyms: Words with the same pronunciation but different meanings.
Me: Maybe we should watch an adult movie tonight.
Kiefer: What? ::realizing I’ve never suggested watching an “adult movie”:: Really?
Me: Yeah. Like a noncartoon movie since the boys aren’t here.
Kiefer: Oh….
This homonym meant disappointment for Kiefer.
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Synonyms: Different words with similar meanings.
Me: May I have a bit of your cotton candy bar?
Kiefer: Sure. You can have a bite.
This synonym meant disappointment for me. Because, to me, a “bit” means “half.”
PS: I have 3 words for you concerning cotton candy bars’ tastiness: Cotton. Candy. Crack.
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May 2nd, 2012 at 7:59 am
Me too, if you’re going to have a bite you may as well eat a lot!!! Heh heh…Joke
May 2nd, 2012 at 8:29 am
OMG!
May 2nd, 2012 at 8:56 am
Cotton candy bar? What is this? I love cotton candy so I NEED this information….I WANT a cotton candy bar, NOW!!!!!!!!!!
May 3rd, 2012 at 7:53 am
I linked to it above so we can all share in their yumminess!
May 2nd, 2012 at 9:01 am
LOL I always get upset when a “bit” gets confussed with a “bite”!!
May 2nd, 2012 at 9:22 am
At least he didn’t ask you for a byte of cotton candy. That might be a bit more, ya know.
May 2nd, 2012 at 10:14 am
Men with their one track mind!
I knew what you totally meant! Adult means no cartoons, or singing, or anyone falling off a building and surviving!
If you wanted to watch that kind of movie…. you wouldn’t say “Adult movie” … you would say “Lets pay for one of these special movies on demand, wait they are like $20?!?! Never mind lets go to sleep.”
May 2nd, 2012 at 10:18 am
Well, to be fair, you could have just bitten off half. Then you both would have been right!
Poor Keifer’s heart about stopped when you said “adult movie,” huh? What a disappointment for him, I’m sure. I would try that with the hubs, just to see the reaction, but I fear that might be cruel.
May 3rd, 2012 at 7:54 am
I should have just shoved the whole thing in my mouth. It totally would have fit. I’m not sure I should be bragging about that.
May 2nd, 2012 at 10:44 am
I would bite that.
I might get sick afterward, but I’d go for the gold until then.
May 2nd, 2012 at 10:51 am
It’s worse when you’re on the receiving end of the bit/bite confusion
May 2nd, 2012 at 10:58 am
Such a cruel joke…I can understand his confusion though.
May 2nd, 2012 at 11:15 am
This post made me want to take a bite out of an adult movie.
Wait. That came out wrong.
May 3rd, 2012 at 7:55 am
I’ve never seen this side of you before!
May 2nd, 2012 at 11:17 am
I, for one,would like to see an ‘adult film’ (but the dirty kind) of two of those cottan candy bars mating and making more little baby cotton candy bars. They sound like something that totally needs to “get in mah belleh”
May 3rd, 2012 at 8:03 am
Whoa…I thought you didn’t like scary movies?
May 2nd, 2012 at 12:03 pm
cotton candy bar? COTTON CANDY BAR??!?!? i love you. i love you. i love you.
May 3rd, 2012 at 8:04 am
I saw ‘em first! I mean…there’s plenty to go around.
May 2nd, 2012 at 1:18 pm
I’m generally opposed to food that color, but the name…hmmmmm.
May 2nd, 2012 at 1:29 pm
Usually a “bit” means the whole thing in my house.
May 2nd, 2012 at 2:56 pm
Lol my dad is like that – when he asks for a bit it means as much as he can fit in his mouth!
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
May 2nd, 2012 at 4:00 pm
Perhaps you should call them “grown-up” movies, just to be clear. No wonder he did’n't want to give up half his cotton candy bar.
May 2nd, 2012 at 5:44 pm
I have to be very careful about “bite” because Tom has the mouth of a whale and it could mean half of whatever it is will be gone.
May 2nd, 2012 at 7:10 pm
Your dentist called. He wants to know if you’re flossing.
May 3rd, 2012 at 8:04 am
Uhhhh…yeah…of course.
May 2nd, 2012 at 10:10 pm
Oh, my gosh, my husband would not have let the “adult movie” comment go, I would have heard it all night until something happened
Oh, and Cotton Candy Bar? Yikes, that would just about kill me, my stomach would never forgive me but oh well…..
May 2nd, 2012 at 11:43 pm
I love cotton candy, pink being my favorite (the blue stuff looks so weird)!
May 3rd, 2012 at 5:03 am
Bits means half – sounds like a good life motto to me
May 3rd, 2012 at 11:34 am
communication is an art…but then so are finger-paints
May 3rd, 2012 at 6:10 pm
The person in charge of creating this cotton candy bar deserves a Nobel peace prize.