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Bootlebat Since: Dec, 2012
#3126: Mar 26th 2022 at 2:44:59 PM

I thought that real-life foreign languages worked like cypher languages, and all you had to do to translate something was find the correct "decoder sheet" and translate each letter.

Edited by Bootlebat on Mar 26th 2022 at 2:45:19 AM

Demetrios Lucky Seven from Des Plaines, Illinois (unfortunately) Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Lucky Seven
#3127: Mar 30th 2022 at 10:53:28 AM

I thought Sleeping Beauty and The Sword in the Stone had the same style of opening credits. So I would get peeved (at first) when the movie we put in turned out to be the latter and not the former. ^_^;;

The Obsidian Destroyer is the best non-hero unit in WarCraft III.
Bootlebat Since: Dec, 2012
#3128: Apr 5th 2022 at 10:24:37 AM

When I was little I learned that picking California poppies is illegal (I live in California). Sometime later, I went on a field trip, and somebodies lawn had a bunch of California poppies in it. I was terrified to go near it, as I thought if one went missing somehow (as if they count them every day) they would think I picked it and I would go to jail.

Demetrios Lucky Seven from Des Plaines, Illinois (unfortunately) Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
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
#3130: Apr 5th 2022 at 8:30:44 PM

....I literally did until now. I know the phrase is "bare necessities", but I thought it was called "bear necessities" to be punny because it's sung by a bear.

Reindeer in the direction of reindeer
Demetrios Lucky Seven from Des Plaines, Illinois (unfortunately) Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
ChicoTheParakeet Since: Oct, 2019 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#3132: Apr 5th 2022 at 11:37:04 PM

It’s actually titled “bare”? The more you know.

RacattackForce (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#3133: Apr 5th 2022 at 11:43:38 PM

Add me to the list of people who just assumed the song title made use of the obvious pun for the longest time.

Edited by RacattackForce on Apr 5th 2022 at 2:44:08 PM

J79 Since: Jan, 2015
#3134: Apr 7th 2022 at 3:16:40 PM

I used to assume that much like how English-language TV Shows and Movies were dubbed into other languages for other countries, English-language music albums were recorded with vocals of whatever (non-English speaking) language other countries spoke (though some artists HAVE done that, but it's not frequent).

lalalei2001 Since: Oct, 2009
#3135: Apr 7th 2022 at 6:41:03 PM

I also thought it was 'bear.'

The Protomen enhanced my life.
DeathsApprentice The Ultimate Lifeform from The Ark Since: Aug, 2011 Relationship Status: Is that a kind of food?
The Ultimate Lifeform
#3136: Apr 7th 2022 at 6:46:04 PM

I used to think that just like how kids at school are taught by adults, that adults at work worked under a boss who was a kid. I don't remember when I learned that wasn't the case.

When we're done, there won't be anything left.
Demetrios Lucky Seven from Des Plaines, Illinois (unfortunately) Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
PhantomDusclops92 Nitpicky Nitwit from Italy Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
Nitpicky Nitwit
#3138: Apr 8th 2022 at 4:27:38 AM

11x[up] Welp, the fact that sometimes activity books based on Japanese or Japanese-themed stuff featured "decypher the code" games where they deliberately used kanji as symbols didn't help.

Unicorndance Logic Girl from Thames, N.Z. Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Logic Girl
#3139: Apr 16th 2022 at 10:55:43 PM

I thought capitalism meant writing in all-caps.

For every low there is a high.
Kiobi20 Since: Sep, 2016
#3140: Apr 17th 2022 at 2:49:13 PM

I thought actors had to die if their character did

Demetrios Lucky Seven from Des Plaines, Illinois (unfortunately) Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Lucky Seven
#3141: Apr 19th 2022 at 11:06:46 AM

I just remembered this one. For a while when I was a kid, I thought “adorable” and “durable” meant the same thing. ^_^;;

The Obsidian Destroyer is the best non-hero unit in WarCraft III.
Bootlebat Since: Dec, 2012
#3142: Apr 19th 2022 at 2:58:55 PM

2 similar ones I thought I'd put in the same post:

Some kid told me that if you prank call the FBI, they will send some kind of electric charge that will blow up your phone. I have no idea if he really believed this or not (I'm guessing his parents told him this so he wouldn't prank call people) but I believed it for a long time.

Around 5th grade some kid asked me if I like slugs. I said something like "they're ok" and he said "ya, they're cool amphibians, huh?" Even then, I knew this was incorrect, but didn't know if he was trying to trick me or actually believed this, so I just didn't respond.

Edited by Bootlebat on Apr 19th 2022 at 2:59:34 AM

AmourLeFou You'll never find out who I am from Colorado Since: Apr, 2021 Relationship Status: One Is The Loneliest Number
You'll never find out who I am
#3143: Apr 19th 2022 at 7:45:25 PM

[up]x6 I thought that too. And when Timon proposed to Shenzi in The Lion King 1 ½, I thought it was a gay joke and I didn't even know the word "gay".

I also thought Dory from Finding Nemo was a boy.

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MikeK Since: Jan, 2001
#3144: Apr 19th 2022 at 8:07:05 PM

Some cartoon (maybe Inspector Gadget?) had a gag where a character had to jump into a kiddie pool from his roof and said something about how at least he'd have a safe landing because they didn't have hard water. This was the first time I heard that term and for a while I did think "hard water" was literally harder than normal water, rather than water with high mineral content.

GenericGuy2000 I’m here, I guess. from a generic place. Since: Jul, 2021 Relationship Status: Cast away
I’m here, I guess.
#3145: Apr 19th 2022 at 8:10:37 PM

On the subject of Finding Nemo, for the longest time as a kid I thought his name was Memo.

I’m gonna put some Gloom in your eye.
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Just getting into Utena... (he/they)
#3146: Apr 23rd 2022 at 3:42:29 PM

I used to believe when I was 7 that Hava Nagila was an Indian song.

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I <3 Zinnia
#3147: Apr 24th 2022 at 6:30:33 PM

I used to thin Imagine Dragons was a song and not a band.

Read Pokemon Ultimate Emerald
AmourLeFou You'll never find out who I am from Colorado Since: Apr, 2021 Relationship Status: One Is The Loneliest Number
You'll never find out who I am
#3148: Apr 24th 2022 at 6:37:27 PM

[up][up][up] That's funny, you could post that on I Read That As.

I used to think when people join law enforcement, they get their car painted and turned into a police car.

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Unicorndance Logic Girl from Thames, N.Z. Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Logic Girl
#3149: Apr 27th 2022 at 2:39:28 PM

I thought "catkin" meant "little cat".

For every low there is a high.
MisterToodleoo Since: Jul, 2018 Relationship Status: Waiting for you *wink*
#3150: Apr 29th 2022 at 8:06:47 AM

I once thought that "Raise a Little Hell" was by The Eagles and that "The Kid is Hot Tonite" was by The Rolling Stones (or "The Stones"; back then, I didn’t know if there was a difference or not). This was because of radio announcers making mistakes.


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