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arimothereindeer Boi from here to eternity, that's where she takes me Since: Dec, 2016 Relationship Status: Staying up all night to get lucky
Boi
#2626: Mar 4th 2019 at 6:21:36 AM

I thought the coins in the Super Mario Bros. games were sliced bananas. I have no justification for that one at all.

Reindeer in the direction of reindeer
BrightLight from the Southern Water Tribe. Since: May, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
#2627: Mar 28th 2019 at 9:42:43 PM

The ghost stories they told us at high school camp.

Murataku Don't Feed The Plant from Straya Since: Jan, 2015 Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Don't Feed The Plant
#2628: Mar 29th 2019 at 12:53:34 AM

I thought my brother could hack the government on his pocket calculator.

I also thought if I forgot to de-vein my prawns I would slowly, horrifyingly, morph into a prawn. I really have no clue how I got that idea.

You need blood and he's got more than enough!
lalalei2001 Since: Oct, 2009
#2629: Apr 5th 2019 at 9:41:05 AM

This thread reminds me of I Used to Believe, a website for funny and strange childhood beliefs.

The Protomen enhanced my life.
Spottedleaf Fit check for my napalm era! (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
Fit check for my napalm era!
#2630: Apr 5th 2019 at 10:49:11 AM

I didn't realize that animation and live action were different media. Somehow.

>^owo^<
kablammin45 art lizer from Cleese's Battle Circuit (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
art lizer
#2631: Apr 6th 2019 at 1:22:30 PM

Once when I was four I thought my grandpa was gone (not necessarily dead, just "gone") because I had had a dream the night before where something bizarre but still horrible happened to him that he wasn't going to come back from and then I proceeded to not see or hear from/about him for the next several days. I was relieved when he finally showed back up (he had just been out of town the whole time).

"Hey, least I didn't lose all my artistic talent when I crash landed in the arena here."
Katdo fnich my beloved Since: Apr, 2018 Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
fnich my beloved
#2632: Apr 12th 2019 at 8:48:08 AM

I thought REO Speedwagon was one person named Reo Speedwagon because the first time I heard of them was in a Big Nate strip, whose lettering is in all caps. I was wrong. His name is Robert Edward Orville Speedwagon.

I also thought Adele was black until I saw a picture of her.

Edited by Katdo on Apr 14th 2019 at 12:32:27 PM

still cringe, just slightly better at hiding it
Katdo fnich my beloved Since: Apr, 2018 Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
fnich my beloved
#2633: Apr 14th 2019 at 10:36:21 AM

My first experience with Attack on Titan was seeing someone on the Warrior Cats Official Forum with the username Eren Jaeger. "Jaeger" is German for "hunter", so I thought that "Eren Jaeger" was the Germanized version of "Erin Hunter".

still cringe, just slightly better at hiding it
Lymantria Tyrannoraptoran Reptiliomorph from Toronto Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: Historians will say we were good friends.
Tyrannoraptoran Reptiliomorph
#2634: Apr 14th 2019 at 6:15:53 PM

I didn't know that having a baby required having sex, or that it didn't require getting married.

Join the Five-Man Band cleanup project!
unfortunatezorua from the old, in the new yesterday (Five Long Years) Relationship Status: Wishing you were here
#2635: Apr 14th 2019 at 6:26:12 PM

[up] Didn't we all though.

Well, that’d be jus’ a waste. Why would ya want to deprive the world of such anomaly as yourself?
HBomb from A little to the left. No, my left. Since: Feb, 2017 Relationship Status: Awaiting my mail-order bride
#2636: Apr 20th 2019 at 11:31:07 PM

I thought that the "color barrier" was a physical thing, like the sound barrier, and I thought that Jackie Robinson "broke the color barrier" by just running REALLY fast.

From the cherry, to the apple, to the peach, to the plum
AutisticAlivia I'm back, I guess. from Everywhere on TV Tropes Since: Sep, 2018 Relationship Status: Get out of here, STALKER
I'm back, I guess.
#2637: Apr 21st 2019 at 6:44:31 AM

When I was younger, I used to think Sylvia's name and gender are Yonder and male, respectively.

I can't think of a good signature.
Bixen Since: Apr, 2019
#2638: Apr 27th 2019 at 6:28:34 AM

I used to think CGI animation was live action, and you know, the whole you-can-only-get-pregnant-if-you're-married thing. Then I thought that periods NEVER stopped until either you got pregnant or until menopause. Silly me. [lol]

CustardAndPie Oh Captain!~ from in a tank 'bout to steal yo girl Since: Apr, 2018 Relationship Status: Remembering what Mama said
Oh Captain!~
#2639: Apr 27th 2019 at 9:57:30 PM

Probably a common one, but I also believed that when you turned off the TV, whatever program was on when you shut it off paused. Yes, even news broadcasts.

Hey how you doing well I'm doing just fine I lied I'm dying inside
Bixen Since: Apr, 2019
#2640: Apr 29th 2019 at 5:51:09 AM

Yep, I also believed you could pause live TV. And I believed that if a book didn't have pictures it probably was too inappropriate for me to read (though that was when I was 4 so I guess that would be valid.)

TwilightPegasus Since: Apr, 2019
#2642: Apr 29th 2019 at 5:53:29 AM

I used to think that cartoons were somehow real. Back when I was in fourth grade, I didn't understand the concept that cartoons were just drawings on paper made to move with technology. I thankfully grew out of that silly phase when I entered sixth grade.

HailMuffins Since: May, 2016 Relationship Status: Shipping fictional characters
#2643: Apr 29th 2019 at 6:05:23 AM

[up]Oh hey, I thought that, too!

Man, we were dumb kids.

Demetrios Lucky Seven from Des Plaines, Illinois (unfortunately) Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Lucky Seven
#2644: Apr 29th 2019 at 7:38:19 AM

On that note, I once thought the Muppets were actual living creatures.

Come on! Let's bless them all until we get fershnickered!
TropesForever God forbid women do anything from wait where is she Since: Sep, 2016 Relationship Status: I wanna be your dog
God forbid women do anything
#2645: Apr 29th 2019 at 3:14:31 PM

They're not?

thebeatles.com/careers
Bixen Since: Apr, 2019
#2646: Apr 30th 2019 at 8:25:00 AM

I believed that if you had an umbrella you could fly like Mary Poppins. Glad I didn't get hurt trying that tongue

DrNoPuma Streaky from the land of Humorous Hyenas (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: Married to the music
#2647: Apr 30th 2019 at 9:23:46 AM

@Katdo: Me too! (With what you said about Adele)

Very good kitty
Bixen Since: Apr, 2019
MsCC93 Since: May, 2012
#2649: Apr 30th 2019 at 6:23:14 PM

The dumbest thing I though was that being an adult would be much better than being a child...let's all laugh together.

TropesForever God forbid women do anything from wait where is she Since: Sep, 2016 Relationship Status: I wanna be your dog
God forbid women do anything
#2650: Apr 30th 2019 at 6:24:39 PM

For some reason I thought "nautical" meant silly or stupid.

Edited by TropesForever on Apr 30th 2019 at 11:25:02 PM

thebeatles.com/careers

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