Weird things you believed as a child

OK, there's millions of things in the "Weird things you believed as a child" catgeory[1], but this amused me.

I was reading about Bertrand Russel (on plover.com/blog, linked to by Tony), and the quote:

Hardly anything more unwelcome can befall a scientific writer than that one of the foundations of his edifice be shaken after the work is finished. I have been placed in this position by a letter of Mr Bertrand Russell just as the printing of the second volume was nearing completion[2]...

However, in my head, I had the impression that this had been Russel's response to Godel's paradox torpedoing *his* system of arithmetic, whereas in fact, it was Russel's paradox torpedoing Frege's.

Obligatory exposition.( Spoilers for mathematical progress between 1908 and 2004. )

Talking to yourself

I occasionally talk to myself. Generally only a few words in a musing sort of way, but enough to appreciate the possibility. This is when:

(i) I'm feeling exuberent, and unable not to break out declaiming what I'm thinking
(ii) Everything's wrong and I'm crying "Why me, God, why?"
(iii) Or sometimes, just too full of thinking to contain it, and start muttering the next thing on my todo list, as if my head is full of the maximum 7 things, but I can keep an 8th in my mouth
(iv) Or about aubergines.
(v) Or when I'm thinking of writing a story or poem and it gets too real and bursts out.
() Not really in the list, just to say, "Look at the pretty > shape!"

OK, I know which one you're curious about. No, I don't know why aubergenes, it just seems to be the case. I think they're inherently amusing. And often represent me being on schedule and happy and (i), because when I'm overhwlmed I'll have easy food, maybe including frozen quorn pieces for bulk, but when I have time I'll go to tesco's and get something vegetably to fry with onions and spices.

Does anyone else always say 'avocado'[1] when they mean 'aubergine'?

[1] Obligatory mock-the-stupid gack: "This guacamole is icky. I think the guacamoles must have been bad. Why are you looking at me like that? Is it "guacamoli"? ... Avocados?"