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Unicorndance Logic Girl from Thames, N.Z. Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
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#3176: Jun 21st 2022 at 1:38:50 PM

My cousin and I watched Angelina Ballerina : the Next Steps as a kid, and it was the episode where Alice and Gracie had "the sniffles". We'd never heard that expression before, but we did know that Alice was a Big Eater, so for some reason we concluded that "the sniffles" was a condition mice got if they were too hungry.

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#3177: Jun 22nd 2022 at 5:36:11 PM

I used to believe when I was around 7 that Hannah Montana (the fictional character) was a real life person, who killed herself after her show ended.

Edited by callmeamuffin on Jun 22nd 2022 at 10:38:34 PM

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#3178: Jun 23rd 2022 at 2:22:42 PM

I used to believe bunnies were a separate species from rabbits, like hares.

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Unicorndance Logic Girl from Thames, N.Z. Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
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#3179: Jun 24th 2022 at 12:23:42 AM

I thought bunnies were baby rabbits.

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#3181: Jun 24th 2022 at 6:28:23 AM

Bunny is just a cute word for rabbit. They don't have to be babies.

Edited by Bluethorn on Jun 24th 2022 at 6:28:31 AM

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#3182: Jun 24th 2022 at 10:15:17 PM

There’s a line in the read-along book of Toy Story 2 that says, “New Buzz thought he’d found an ally and jumped into the car.” When I was young, I thought that meant that New Buzz thought there was an alley inside Al’s Toy Barn because the toys were driving a toy car around there!

AmourLeFou You'll never find out who I am from Colorado Since: Apr, 2021 Relationship Status: One Is The Loneliest Number
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#3183: Jun 26th 2022 at 4:17:37 PM

[up] You could have posted that in this thread.

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#3184: Jun 26th 2022 at 6:11:13 PM

[up]Yeah, it could fit there, but I probably would have misunderstood the word elsewhere, unless someone said a definition.

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#3185: Jun 29th 2022 at 6:51:21 AM

Not necessarily dumb but it is something I believed as a kid. I thought the plot of Five Nights at Freddie's was that a kid had taken a bet that he had to hang out in an abandoned, supposedly haunted pizza place for five nights. Needless to say, that was not the plot. Would make a pretty cool fan game, though.

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KingofNightmares Since: Aug, 2016 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#3186: Jul 7th 2022 at 7:23:18 AM

[up] Funnily enough, I also had a misinterpretation of the game's plot, though mostly because I didn't even see the game, I was just told about it by my older brother. Regardless, I thought that you were in an abandoned house and trying to hold off killer toys (not even full size animatronics, just small toys that are somehow able to kill adults who could crush them underfoot)

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#3187: Jul 7th 2022 at 7:25:53 AM

[up] Well, you half predicted the plot if four.

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Unicorndance Logic Girl from Thames, N.Z. Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
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#3188: Jul 7th 2022 at 11:00:30 PM

I thought "spring fever" was another term for hay fever.

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#3189: Jul 8th 2022 at 4:29:02 AM

[up][up][up][up]Oh yeah, I had a similar experience too. I remember watching the Living Tombstone FNAF 2 Song without any knowledge of the series and I interpreted the part in the middle of the music video where Purple Guy took off the Bear Costume and killed all the Kids in the room to be that the games were about Animatronics had like scary monsters inside them that would escape the suits and kill you and it absolutely scarred me for like a month before I got into the franchise

Edited by ThatAsianInTheCorner on Jul 8th 2022 at 6:30:44 PM

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MikeK Since: Jan, 2001
#3190: Jul 14th 2022 at 11:42:45 AM

Growing up my dad would always complain about having a higher electric bill when you left a room without turning out the lights. Somehow from this I had concluded that electric bills were itemized to the point that it told you how long every individual electric device was used over the course of the month.

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#3191: Jul 14th 2022 at 11:49:22 AM

I didn't know what "Smash" meant so when I played Smash of Pass with my friends I thought we were literally talking about smashing people's faces with a hammer.

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#3192: Jul 14th 2022 at 12:22:29 PM

RE: Hannah Montana

Damn that's kinda dark ngl, especially since it came from a 7-year-old

Edited by Cutegirl920fire on Jul 14th 2022 at 12:22:39 PM

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Bootlebat Since: Dec, 2012
#3193: Jul 24th 2022 at 3:59:36 PM

I thought that the word "debut" was actually "day view", since it's the first time the thing saw the light of day. Even after I saw it written down, it took me ages to realize it was the same word.

Edited by Bootlebat on Jul 24th 2022 at 4:02:36 AM

Bootlebat Since: Dec, 2012
#3194: Jul 26th 2022 at 6:12:45 PM

I thought that parents choose if their child is a boy a girl (or at least the mother would, but I assumed she'd talk a lot with the father before making her choice). I learned the truth when I asked my mom why she made me a boy instead of a girl.

MikeK Since: Jan, 2001
#3195: Jul 26th 2022 at 6:54:33 PM

[up][up] Kinda reminds me of my confusion about the word "segue" - I thought it was pronounced like "seg" and "segue way" was just a longer way of saying the same thing, somehow never wondering why it was always "segue way" when I heard it out loud, but "segue" in print.

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#3197: Jul 27th 2022 at 5:32:11 PM

[up] I thought seagulls were called seagles.

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Bootlebat Since: Dec, 2012
#3198: Jul 29th 2022 at 7:17:51 PM

I saw a truck that said "non-potable water" on it. Not knowing that word, I thought it said "non-portable water", and wondered how they could transport it in a truck if it's not portable.

Edited by Bootlebat on Jul 30th 2022 at 11:46:45 AM

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#3199: Aug 3rd 2022 at 4:59:30 PM

When I first heard the phrase "illegal aliens", I thought it meant... well...

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AmourLeFou You'll never find out who I am from Colorado Since: Apr, 2021 Relationship Status: One Is The Loneliest Number
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#3200: Aug 3rd 2022 at 7:49:58 PM

[up] Lol, I think everyone thought it meant extraterrestrials. I mean, that's the first definition of "alien" we learn.

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