Tobias/TJ (He/Him)
When I first read the Calvin and Hobbes comic where Calvin and his family see some monkeys at the zoo
, I thought the intended punchline was that the monkey was just picking its nose or something.
In all fairness, it's never actually stated what the monkey is doing, just that it's "gross" and Calvin is amused because he's not allowed to do it, so there is still some possibility that I was right.
("Zoos let people see how wild animals really behave", indeed...)
Cold turkey's getting stale. Tonight I'm eating crow.
Logic Girl
Dad said a poem he learned from his grandma: "One drink, two at the most, three, under the table, four, under the host". I took it to mean that you'd be so drunk that you'd just be lying on the floor in a drunken stupor, not noticing that the host was walking on you like a rug or something.
A few years later, I realised it was probably referring to the other meaning of "under".
For every low there is a high.
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Same. I thought nose picking because that was the grossest thing kid me assumed Calvin would not be allowed to do.
Once I grew up and realized how disgusting monkeys are....it could be doing ANYTHING else.
That guy who stays for the closing credits.
One Boston Pizza restaurant location has a big poster of Devil in a Blue Dress. Since all the poster shows is Denzel Washington and the film's title with nothing to let me know that it's a film, it made young me think that he was the Devil!
The only think that my imagination cooked up from this was a young child running up to him, both of them being happy, and the scene fading to a zoom-out (I think) of an Establishing Shot as you're left thinking, "Stop, kid! You don't know what you're getting yourself into!"
Are we human, or are we dancer?
Not an evil Thievul
When I was very young, I thought the Lakitu Cloud item in Super Mario Bros. 3 was a tooth and so I thought it turned Mario into a giant tooth when he was on the world map. I nicknamed it "Wrigley's Tooth" or something like that (I probably got the name from a pack of gum) and wondered why Mario wasn't a tooth whenever I went into a level with it.
Of course, I found out what the power-up actually was and its actual purpose later.
"Lucian, don’t be afraid, we’ll make it through this."
When I was a child, I thought that the King Harvest song "Dancing in the Moonlight" was about a bunch of dogs and cats going into someone's back yard at night and having a party (the line "they don't bark and they don't bite" was what threw me).
Lemon curry?