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Demetrios Lucky Seven from Des Plaines, Illinois (unfortunately) Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Lucky Seven
#2901: Jan 28th 2021 at 7:15:29 PM

I used to think that not only would the Universe restart after going through the Big Crunch, but also that it would replay the exact same way as it did before. And I said that when it would get back to the time when I was a kid, I would say this: "You know, I have a feeling that I said that already."

Come on! Let's bless them all until we get fershnickered!
lalalei2001 Since: Oct, 2009
#2902: Jan 29th 2021 at 2:11:42 AM

[up] I still kinda wonder about stuff like that, though more like Mario Galaxy's "not QUITE the same way" thing.

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BackSet1 I <3 Zinnia from I'm sure you'd love to know that, wouldn't you? (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
I <3 Zinnia
#2903: Jan 29th 2021 at 5:28:38 AM

I used to think that the line "He's got more than just mad skills" in the Perry the Platypus Theme Song was "He's got more than just man skills."

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V-Alighieri Pompous Nitwit from Stowaway on the Per Aspera Since: Jan, 2021 Relationship Status: In Spades with myself
Pompous Nitwit
#2904: Jan 29th 2021 at 7:37:15 AM

My dad told me that thunder was made of clouds bumping together (though he vehemently denies this). I was very angry when I found out it wasn't true, and swore to give any small children who asked me a more science-friendly, if simplified, answer.

Full moon is on the sky and he's not a man anymore
BackSet1 I <3 Zinnia from I'm sure you'd love to know that, wouldn't you? (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
I <3 Zinnia
#2905: Jan 29th 2021 at 8:55:01 AM

[up]

I long ago swore never to give a child a dumbed down, fake answer.

Also to tell them where babies came from if they asked because I like making parents angry.

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V-Alighieri Pompous Nitwit from Stowaway on the Per Aspera Since: Jan, 2021 Relationship Status: In Spades with myself
Demetrios Lucky Seven from Des Plaines, Illinois (unfortunately) Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
MisterToodleoo Since: Jul, 2018 Relationship Status: Waiting for you *wink*
#2908: Feb 7th 2021 at 11:02:17 PM

My bizarre history with profanity, part 4:

One time in elementary school, a female friend and I were being pushed on a tire swing by her older brother and a male friend of his. At one point, the tire swing almost hit the brother’s friend, which caused him to say something that, to my young self, sounded like “Polygrammit!” The brother then said to his sister and I, “That’s a bad word. Don’t ever use that grammar.”

Did I fantasize about this being an actual curse word? Yes, I did! Using my extremely limited knowledge of The Powerpuff Girls (which I had obtained by not paying much attention to and fast-forwarding through a preview on a VHS rental of The Best of Dr. Seuss), I imagined a Sir Swears-a-Lot simian named Bearer the Swearer yelling at the girls about something being “polygramite-ish”. And by the way, I imagined him being intentionally poorly animated, with his mouth only moving in an “O” shape.

And what did the boy actually say? I’m guessing it was “Holy dammit!”

And now, here’s a bonus:

When an elementary school assignment paper included a sentence that featured the word “immigrants”, I was nervous because I didn’t know that word before and it seemed similar to “ingrates”, which I had heard from A Bug's Life. You see, similar to my Open Season fiasco, I thought that certain words in the movie could be curse words. In this case, however, I thought this because the aforementioned female friend had once told me that her mom didn’t “like the language in that movie”. But nowadays, I think she was getting A Bug’s Life confused with Antz.

Edited by MisterToodleoo on Feb 8th 2021 at 4:51:10 AM

Gustone Gustone from Gustown Since: Jan, 2020
Gustone
#2909: Feb 12th 2021 at 12:10:41 PM

i thought that horses pooped out of their hooves

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MikeK Since: Jan, 2001
#2911: Feb 15th 2021 at 9:32:41 PM

[up] I actually didn't know he wasn't until a couple years ago. I was unfamiliar with the comics he actually originated in, it was the first place I saw the character, and I didn't really give it much thought. Sure all of the other characters in Mickey's Christmas Carol were "played" by established Disney characters, and it would be weird to suddenly move a character that was originally in 19th century England to 20th century Duckburg, but no weirder than Baloo suddenly wearing clothes and flying a plane.

On the TaleSpin note, this was more of a mondegreen, but did affect how I viewed the show: In the theme song I somehow heard "friends for live through thick and thin" as "friends for life with Rin Tin Tin", and wondered if the Heroic Dog of that name was every going to make an appearance, probably also turned into a Funny Animal like the main cast.

Edited by MikeK on Feb 16th 2021 at 2:18:19 AM

Wabbawabbajack Margrave of the Marshes from Elbows out Since: Jun, 2013 Relationship Status: Awaiting my mail-order bride
Margrave of the Marshes
#2912: Feb 17th 2021 at 5:26:48 AM

I thought when adults wanted babies, there was a special store they would go to. And they could pick different styles of various body parts (legs, head, hair, etc) and put them in a shopping cart. Then when they get to the cashier, they put the parts on a conveyor belt and the cashier puts the parts together and VOILA, you have a baby.

kablammin45 art lizer from Cleese's Battle Circuit (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
art lizer
#2913: Feb 17th 2021 at 1:49:36 PM

I thought for a while that "the big green" was a euphemism for a Groin Attack because I saw the the poster/cover for The Big Green and assumed the title was describing was was going on in it.

"Hey, least I didn't lose all my artistic talent when I crash landed in the arena here."
C105 Too old for this from France Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
Too old for this
#2914: Feb 18th 2021 at 6:24:13 AM

I used to think that the South Pole was very warm. Living in the Northern hemisphere, I had come to associate North with cold and South with warmth. So if the North Pole was the coldest possible place, it made sense that the South Pole would be the warmest possible one. I know there was at least another kid in my school who thought the same thing.

Also, it took me long into adulthood to know which of the poles was called Arctic or Antarctic, but that's another story.

Edited by C105 on Feb 18th 2021 at 3:24:37 PM

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Omega-Z Gaming God from your mom's hive Since: May, 2019 Relationship Status: I love you for psychological reasons
Gaming God
#2915: Feb 18th 2021 at 12:36:51 PM

i used to think the illuminati was more than a tiny organization somewhere in the 1500s-1600s that died out within decades. i totally believed all the secret society media brainwashing stuff and thought they were gonna take me lmao

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BackSet1 I <3 Zinnia from I'm sure you'd love to know that, wouldn't you? (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
I <3 Zinnia
#2916: Feb 18th 2021 at 12:49:42 PM

I also believed that.

I still love the first real life entry on The Illuminati page just for this line

That's right, folks: the actual Illuminati were secular liberals.

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BackSet1 I <3 Zinnia from I'm sure you'd love to know that, wouldn't you? (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
I <3 Zinnia
#2917: Feb 22nd 2021 at 7:29:11 AM

I used to think that everyone could see their face all the time even without a mirror and I thought there was something wrong with me because the only way I could see my own face was in a mirror.

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Delibirda from Splatsville Since: Sep, 2020 Relationship Status: I wanna be your dog
#2918: Feb 22nd 2021 at 8:57:34 AM

That if I slept on other parts of the bed but the middle I would get nightmares.

"Listen up, Marina, because this is SUPER important. Whatever you do, don't eat th“ “DON'T EAT WHAT?! Your text box ran out of space!”
Omega-Z Gaming God from your mom's hive Since: May, 2019 Relationship Status: I love you for psychological reasons
Gaming God
#2919: Feb 22nd 2021 at 1:32:50 PM

i used to believe that thomas jefferson wasn't racist and a generally bad teacher.

honestly I just believed the founding fathers were honest good people.

i know better now.

tvtroputtin these nuts in yo mouf
BackSet1 I <3 Zinnia from I'm sure you'd love to know that, wouldn't you? (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
I <3 Zinnia
#2920: Feb 22nd 2021 at 1:39:21 PM

Well, that is what they try to teach us in schools. The internet makes it so much harder for them to brainwash us.

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MikeK Since: Jan, 2001
#2921: Feb 22nd 2021 at 1:54:26 PM

I thought for a while that "the big green" was a euphemism for a Groin Attack because I saw the the poster/cover for The Big Green and assumed the title was describing was was going on in it.

Looking at that poster, I can imagine how a kid might think that - the title is even oriented right under the character's crotch!

I was fascinated with "Employees Only" signs and figured they'd only have that sign up if there were some really cool stuff in the breakroom.

BackSet1 I <3 Zinnia from I'm sure you'd love to know that, wouldn't you? (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
I <3 Zinnia
#2922: Feb 25th 2021 at 8:07:59 AM

I used to think that Toon Link was called Tomb Link.

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Omega-Z Gaming God from your mom's hive Since: May, 2019 Relationship Status: I love you for psychological reasons
Gaming God
#2923: Feb 26th 2021 at 1:32:27 PM

i used to think cold stone creamery was stone cold creamery and that steve austin had retired from wrestling to enter the ice cream biz

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MikeK Since: Jan, 2001
#2924: Feb 26th 2021 at 2:42:01 PM

[up] Reminds me of when my family traveled to Maryland and I kept seeing Chevy Chase ATMs (a bank not native to our region of the US) - I thought the actor/comedian also had his own bank.

clemont107 Taunie from Lumiose City, Kalos (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
Taunie
#2925: Mar 3rd 2021 at 5:38:52 PM

I used to think insects were chordates instead of arthropods. Maybe because I saw them too much in conjunction with birds, mammals, amphibians, fish and reptiles.

"Great, now this gal named Dawn is stalking me and complaining about no Sinnoh Megas! It's getting on my nerves!" - Taunie

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