Dumb things you used to believe as a kid

I thought that if food goes to your stomach, then drinks must go straight to your kidneys.

Similarly, I had an educational video game about colors, and one of the activities was matching various animals with their correct color. The elephant was blue, which my grandmother of all people thought was ridiculous.

I thought TNT and dynamite were the same thing.

They're not?

Agreed, they're not?

Our brain was made out of worms.

Then I learned about the real worm that could grow in the head...

I thought that drugs would make you hallucinate cats everywhere due to a confusion involving a Minecraft mod.

Dynamite is nitroglycerin in a clay matrix while TNT is trinitrotoluene. TNT is rather more powerful.

I thought the player character in Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire would die from staying underwater for too long.

When I first saw Pinocchio, somehow it didn't occur to me that Stromboli and Monstro were different beings. My train of thought was:

• Stromboli is evil
• Whale eats heroes
• Therefore, whale is One-Winged Angel Stromboli

I feel like there is a version of Pinocchio where that actually is the case, but I don't know what it is.

I remember this version of Pinocchio taking that approach. I don't think he was actually named Stromboli, but the guy who owned the puppet show was also the mastermind behind Pleasure Island. The island had a well of magic water that transformed the bad boys into donkeys. Pinocchio tricked the Stromboli analogue into falling into the well, and that turned him into the whale.

edited 1st Aug '15 4:39:02 PM by MetaFour

So it was Accidentally Accurate. Whaddayaknow.

EDIT (because I can't double-post):

I was one of those kids who just didn't understand romance when I was little. And one of my mother's favorite CDs at the time was the Greatest Hits of Styx. Anyway, the first track on that CD was "Babe", and since I didn't understand that it was short for "baby", I thought for the longest time that the song was about... well...

Now that I DO know what it's about but still remember thinking that, I can't think about it without laughing... That'll do, pig. That'll do.

edited 2nd Aug '15 7:51:23 PM by BaffleBlend

I thought the Pink Panther movies were actually about the cartoon character. I was therefore really confused when I actually watched one of those movies

The recent ones?

I don't actually know, it was ages ago and I was a kid. I just heard the name, saw the character in the opening, and got myself pumped for a movie about the cartoon character...and then I remember seeing a live-action...I dunno, lake, or something, and being really, really confused

Love

that a god existed

I once thought Microceratus was smaller than Compsognathus.

When stores had signs saying "we do not accept $100 bills", I thought it was to avoid counterfeit money.

To be fair, a lot of the time it is. Over here forgers are very fond of £50 notes, so a lot of places won't take them.

I always got confused as to whether cows made milk or drank it. I guess I was half-right, because of course calves drink milk. I thought of this recently because a kid at my store apparently had similar confusion, as she was carrying around a stuffed cow and making up a song about it drinking a lot of milk.

I may have mentioned this before, but I decided any time a store had a visible "Employees Only" door, they had to be hiding something really cool in there.

I had something similar re: the Pink Panther. I saw the cartoons, also saw the character in insulation commercials, and assumed he was a commercial mascot who was spun off into his own show. Then I saw one of the old Peter Sellers movies come on tv once and was totally baffled.

edited 10th Aug '15 6:02:43 PM by MikeK

I thought that hydrogen was pure water (since I knew hydro meant water) and h2o was impure somehow

Let's see... Talked to a boulder... After watching Iron Giant (only movie I've let myself cry over...) I believed a dark area of the house held the brain-eating monster from that movie-within-a-movie... After reading Tailypo, I was scared of computer lights. With poor eyesight, they looked like green glowing eyes... Again, my poor eyesight turned a horse with a red blanket draped over it...into an anthropomorphic Giraffe with a bathrobe. I was terrified of it...

When Mystikal debut single came out I thought James Brown release a new song.