I heard phrases on TV like "it cost $1 billion dollars per month to keep the war machine running" and "the US captured 100,000 barrels of oil per day to feed the war machine" and I thought this thing must be some epic beast.
The terrorists better watch out! We're sending the war machine! It must have, like, sawblade hands and tank tracks and breathe fire and have machine gun turrets.
Imagine my disappointment when I learned that THE WAR MACHINE was just a metaphor and not a Mecha Godzilla
5th grade. I knew what cloning was, but had never heard the word “Cyclone” until an ill-fated English lesson at school.
I actually raised my hand and asked the teacher why she was referring to a tornado using a term for genetic replication. She didn’t know, “Genetic Replication”.
Sorry comrade, Seems like everyone else had no problem, off-topic folks like yourself are the minority here (more alone than not), I'm afraid.
Maybe try to have a little fun and see if you can remember anything that you misread or misinterpreted as a child. Kinda the whole point of the thread but it takes all kinds I suppose🤣