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Unicorndance Logic Girl from Thames, N.Z. Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Logic Girl
#3351: Nov 7th 2022 at 10:07:39 PM

I thought "dismemberment" was when a guy had his wiener cut off.

For every low there is a high.
ThatAsianInTheCorner the biggest hair of all from the corner. read the username, dummy. (Y2: Electric Boogaloo) Relationship Status: Tweaking my holographic boyfriend
the biggest hair of all
#3352: Nov 8th 2022 at 6:57:32 PM

I remember when I met someone who was of mixed ethnicity and I was really jealous of him cause I thought that being of 2 different nationalities was like being a dual type in Pokémon and it immediately made you cool.

Edited by ThatAsianInTheCorner on Nov 8th 2022 at 9:58:24 PM

"...This is too much information for a brain that just wants to visit Planet Tensuns..."
Demetrios Lucky Seven from Des Plaines, Illinois (unfortunately) Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Lucky Seven
#3353: Nov 10th 2022 at 3:12:39 PM

I just remembered this one. Who remembers the game with the Zoombinis? It was one of my favorites, and one of my favorite teachers introduced me to it. :) Anyway, for a while, for some reason I thought that the Zoombinis were young children and that the Fleens were jerkish teenagers.

Come on! Let's bless them all until we get fershnickered!
NoonboryKedabory Fanfic Advertiser from Toobalooba (Handed A Sword) Relationship Status: In Lesbians with you
Fanfic Advertiser
#3354: Nov 10th 2022 at 3:15:23 PM

When I was 8, I was super terrified of Grover from Sesame Street (I don't even know why) and thought that he would come into my room and watch me sleep, so I would always hide under the blanket for a bit until I was sure he was gone.

Number 1 CGI Fireman Sam defender
Demetrios Lucky Seven from Des Plaines, Illinois (unfortunately) Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
isbillyhere Since: Jun, 2021 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
Unicorndance Logic Girl from Thames, N.Z. Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Logic Girl
#3357: Nov 12th 2022 at 9:24:42 PM

This was more something I imagined than something I outright believed, but when I was a kid and was taught about the sun's "harmful Rays", I imagined a group of Ray Stanzes, and was wondering how they could be harmful.

For every low there is a high.
Segal991 A loyal animal lover from Somewhere Beyond the Sea Since: Mar, 2015 Relationship Status: Yes, we're lovers, and that is that
A loyal animal lover
#3358: Nov 20th 2022 at 1:17:05 PM

When I was a kid, because of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "The Last Roundup" (where Pinkie briefly has a Potty Emergency because the train doesn't have a bathroom for some reason), I thought that trains didn't have bathrooms, as I had not been on one before. This was a problem once; I was on a train with my dad and I had to use the bathroom quite badly, but he noticed how stressed I was and he revealed that there was indeed one. So, I learned something important that day; Poor Communication Kills, and if you jump to conclusions...urine trouble.

Oh, I believe in yesterday
Demetrios Lucky Seven from Des Plaines, Illinois (unfortunately) Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Lucky Seven
#3359: Nov 20th 2022 at 2:02:34 PM

For a while when I was a kid, I thought that the word “attitude” exclusively meant when somebody was in a bad mood.

Come on! Let's bless them all until we get fershnickered!
ParanoidAndroid252 [she/her] from None of your business Since: Nov, 2022 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
[she/her]
#3360: Nov 21st 2022 at 10:13:51 AM

I was super Naïve as a kid. In like first grade some girl convinced me that Hatsune Miku lived in a purple house with red-polka dots in Tennessee and I was comically stupid enough to fully believe her lol.

I simply am not there
apocalemur Behold, the Beast. from My house (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Look at all the lonely people
Behold, the Beast.
#3361: Nov 21st 2022 at 8:31:34 PM

I used to think that the type of radiation that causes sunburns was called "ultraviolent" radiation, rather than ultraviolet.

Demetrios Lucky Seven from Des Plaines, Illinois (unfortunately) Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Bootlebat Since: Dec, 2012
#3363: Nov 29th 2022 at 10:35:20 AM

I thought a person's motorskills meant how good they were at driving.

Bootlebat Since: Dec, 2012
#3364: Dec 1st 2022 at 5:33:33 PM

I thought that when a song rhymed they somehow made sure it rhymed in ALL languages in case they need to translate it.

Edited by Bootlebat on Dec 1st 2022 at 5:33:46 AM

Bootlebat Since: Dec, 2012
#3365: Dec 3rd 2022 at 8:26:57 AM

I thought when adults talked about "sleeping with" someone they meant a sleepover!

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
#3366: Dec 3rd 2022 at 9:42:56 AM

[up] Didn't we all think that?

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Excessive-Menace Time to SLEEP from the Velvet Cage (Fifth Year at Tropey's) Relationship Status: Dancing with myself
MisterToodleoo Since: Jul, 2018 Relationship Status: Waiting for you *wink*
#3368: Dec 24th 2022 at 1:45:18 PM

I used to think that my entire life was stored somewhere in my brain. This belief was started by Meet the Robinsons and was ended by Inside Out.

Demetrios Lucky Seven from Des Plaines, Illinois (unfortunately) Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Lucky Seven
#3369: Dec 24th 2022 at 4:29:12 PM

Our newest trope made me remember this one. In that one part of Winnie the Pooh and Christmas Too, when the eponymous bear said “On Badminton!”, for the longest time when I was a kid, I thought he said “On Batman!”

Come on! Let's bless them all until we get fershnickered!
ShinySubstitute Smartass with too few friends from Technical Record 20 Since: Jun, 2020
Smartass with too few friends
#3370: Dec 24th 2022 at 4:37:26 PM

You could make dry ice by sucking all of the moisture out of regular ice.

...Yeah, I probably shouldn't have wasted money on college.

Demetrios Lucky Seven from Des Plaines, Illinois (unfortunately) Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Lucky Seven
#3371: Dec 26th 2022 at 8:00:51 PM

When I was a kid and I heard the song “Going Up the Country,” I thought the singer, Canned Heat, sounded like the Animaniacs version of Albert Einstein.

Come on! Let's bless them all until we get fershnickered!
StewieGriffin34 from Sea ice (Season 2) Relationship Status: Buried in snow, waiting for spring
#3372: Dec 27th 2022 at 11:47:45 AM

When I was very little, I thought that Pixar was either the word for CGI or the software used to make CGI-animated films.

This also ended up making me think that DreamWorks Animation films and Disney’s in-house CGI films were “made in Pixar.”

Edited by StewieGriffin34 on Dec 27th 2022 at 2:49:16 PM

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Bootlebat Since: Dec, 2012
#3373: Dec 31st 2022 at 11:10:23 AM

I thought The Three Musketeers was a true story. That it has some HistoricalDomainCharacters certainly didn't help.

Unicorndance Logic Girl from Thames, N.Z. Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Logic Girl
#3374: Dec 31st 2022 at 6:19:46 PM

I thought a "baby boomer" was someone who was born during WWII and helped the soldiers bomb places when they were still only a baby.

For every low there is a high.
Bootlebat Since: Dec, 2012
#3375: Jan 1st 2023 at 5:43:01 AM

When I first heard someone say "goodbye, cruel world" in a cartoon or something, I thought it meant they were planning on moving to another planet because they don't like it on Earth, rather than it being a Deadly Euphemism for suicide. (it was a kid's cartoon, so they obviously couldn't actually say suicide.

Edited by Bootlebat on Jan 1st 2023 at 5:49:30 AM


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