Stolen Poll from GCNML Dumb Sh!t you thought as a kid

pixiedust84

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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: Stolen Poll from GCNML Dumb Sh!t you thought as a kid : This is hilarious Pixie.
Posted by kd.joseph[/QUOTE]

Right? My BFF still gives me a hard time about it. haha

mehgank

Oh lordy, I was a very naive child with a big imagination, so I have a ton of these.

First, I thought the word 'fuchsia' was pronounced foo-chee-zee-uh. Yeah, I got laughed at a lot in 3rd for saying my favorite color was foocheezia.

Second, I thought that there was a tiny devil living inside my grandma's heater vent in her living room floor. I would get too scared to even walk over it for fear of it reaching up and grabbing my toes.

When my mom was nursing my little brother when he was a baby, I thought one of her boobs was milk and the other was OJ, because she would say stuff like "Why does he only want the right boob?".

I used to think that if you bonked your head on something, you would lose brain cells. Being a very clumsy person, I was so afraid that I was getting dumber every time I hit my head on stuff (bunk beds, doors, cupboards, etc).

jjolovich

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[QUOTE]I thought girls could get pregnant anytime after they started their period, sex or not. I'm not sure why, because I knew how it all worked. I think I was just paranoid.

I was the same way!

I also thought my brother was adopted and that my parents donations to the school for boys were there payment to pay him off.

I also thought my brother was born in 1988 (the year before me) even though he is 5 years older.

I used to think that everytime I put a VHS in, the people that "lived" in the tv were performing just for me.

And I am sure the list could keep going.

pixiedust84

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[QUOTE]Oh lordy, I was a very naive child with a big imagination, so I have a ton of these. First, I thought the word 'fuchsia' was pronounced foo-chee-zee-uh. Yeah, I got laughed at a lot in 3rd for saying my favorite color was foocheezia.
Posted by mehgank[/QUOTE]

I love this!

Adams0509

my little cousin thought the aflack duck said "ass crack" and would shout it all the time

Anysunrise

I honestly can't really think of anything. The closest to any of these that I have is I thought epitome was pronounced "epi-tome" (epi, like the pen, then tome like a book) and that it and e-pit-o-mee were just two words that meant the same thing. But this was like, 4 years ago = / That's what I get for reading so much as a kid and not actually talking to people =P

anna.oskar

Not exactly the same thing but in Are You There God, It's me Margaret, the babysitter signs her letters to her boyfriend "Love and other indoor sports,"  I didn't get it at age 8.  I didn't get it so hardcore that I thought about it constantly for ages.  i randomly though about it just a few years ago and was all "OMG she meant SEX!"

Bkseller13

I thought that if I took a drink of water and peed right after, the water would go straight through into the toilet. 

dmiller9274

Oh another one. I thought a french kiss just meant that you tilted your head to the side. (that's what happens when your mom makes you watch days of our lives.) We were at my grandparents house and I wanted show off how cool and smart I was so when I kissed my grandpa good-bye I said "I'm so mature I just french kissed grandpa." He was mortified and yelled "HOLY SHIIIT, NO SHE DIDN'T, I SWEAR." I was so confused and my feelings were hurt because I thought I was so smart. So I also learned at an early age what exactly a "french kiss" was. It still took me awhile to figure out why people tilted their heads when they were kissing, but as I got older, it all came together lol. 

KateJ10

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[QUOTE]I honestly can't really think of anything. The closest to any of these that I have is I thought epitome was pronounced "epi-tome" (epi, like the pen, then tome like a book) and that it and e-pit-o-mee were just two words that meant the same thing. But this was like, 4 years ago = / That's what I get for reading so much as a kid and not actually talking to people =P
Posted by Anysunrise[/QUOTE]

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</div><div>This is so funny to me beecause I tend to do the same. I read so much and then don't always figure out the pronunciations. Or I skip words I don't know and then sometimes a lightbulb moment happens. Example: Segue. I used to pronounce it seg-goo when reading. I finally clicked that it was Seg-way and things started making  a lot more sense. :)</div><div>
</div><div>or, debris. I always included the "s"</div>

AllAboutTheBenjamin

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[QUOTE]my little cousin thought the aflack duck said "ass crack" and would shout it all the time
Posted by Adams0509[/QUOTE]


That is really effin' funny.

I'm having a hard time thinking of stuff.  My sister used to think Olive was the "Other Reindeer," and a few years ago apparently someone wrote a book about it.  That was pretty funny.

I think I also thought babies came out of butts.

I thought everyone went to church, because I mean, why wouldn't they?

I thought every Christmas tree had a magic porthole to like... I have no idea.  Christmas spirit?  Anyway every Christmas when we would decorate the tree my sisters and I would fight over where to hang this clear glass heart ornament.  If one of my sisters got to hang it, I'd move it later - to this magic Christmas porthole to Christmas magicalness.  I thought all trees had this special corner.  Yeah.  I dunno.  I was VERY weird as a child.

The first time I said the F word was caught on tape.  I was 2 and a half and my grandma was visiting from California and taping me while I ate a brownie from the oven - it was hot so I started crying, and my grandma started talking about the treat she gave me earlier in the day to take my mind off the hot brownie.  She said "Grandmama bought you a Tootsie Roll today!  Your first Tootsie Roll."  I replied, "No, it's not a Tootsie Roll it's a <em>FUCKING TOOTSIE ROLL."</em>  My grandma was pretty much floored, lol.  They think I must have picked that up in line at the grocery store from the kids behind us or something.

Ilovethelaw07

I loved Saved by the Bell, but in the theme song where they say "If I can hand it it tomorrow it will be alright", I always sang "If I can have it in some butter, it will be alright".  Fat kid mistake.

RamonaFlowers

My favorite Care Bear was Wish Bear ... mostly because she was my favorite color. Except I had no concept of words like "Aqua" and "Turquoise" as a kid, so I just called the color "Wish". And that's how it's been ever since.

I'm 27 years old, and whenever anybody finds a purse or something that they think I'd like, they still say to me "Oh, well, it's wish with zippers", or "It's a white cotton with wish embellishments," lol.

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AATB, most of my brother's funny kid stories involve cussing. One of my favorites is when we were watching Independence Day. The movie ended and we were all sitting around the living room (some of my parents friends were over by that point) and someone asked my brother how he liked the movie.

So he holds up this lego sword thing and screams, "Lets get those alien assholes!" He must have realized by the look on my mom's face that he said something abd because he got up and hauled ass to his room and hid under the covers.

andrea2473

I remembered another one while I was out.  I thought penises were really, really long (like down to their knees) and that men had to roll them up and tuck them into their underwear.

bjhubble

My parents were watching Spaceballs on TV one day and about a half hour before it ended changed the channel to an infomercial for an exercise machine and left the room.  I thought that was actually part of the movie until age 20 or so.

I also thought that LMNO was one letter  "ELEMENO"

I was always scared that there was an invisible shark in the deepend of my pool, but it couldn't get me if I crossed the point where the safety line would go in the middle.

mehgank

I used to think 'misled' was pronounced my-zulled. Every time I read that word, I have to re-read it because my brain thinks my-zulled first. It sounds much more sinister my way haha.

I also used to think the reason boys had to hold their penis when they went pee is because if they didn't, it would spray all around like a garden hose.

These aren't half as bad as when I told my little brother that if you really want to insult someone, you flip them off with your palm facing them. Or that since boys stand up to pee, then girls stand up to poop.

AllAboutTheBenjamin

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[QUOTE]AATB, most of my brother's funny kid stories involve cussing. One of my favorites is when we were watching Independence Day. The movie ended and we were all sitting around the living room (some of my parents friends were over by that point) and someone asked my brother how he liked the movie. So he holds up this lego sword thing and screams, "Lets get those alien assholes!" He must have realized by the look on my mom's face that he said something abd because he got up and hauled ass to his room and hid under the covers.
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Lol that is so funny and cute Sesh.

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[QUOTE]I used to think 'misled' was pronounced my-zulled. Every time I read that word, I have to re-read it because my brain thinks my-zulled first. It sounds much more sinister my way haha. I also used to think the reason boys had to hold their penis when they went pee is because if they didn't, it would spray all around like a garden hose. These aren't half as bad as when I told my little brother that if you really want to insult someone,<strong> you flip them off with your palm facing them</strong>. Or that since boys stand up to pee, then girls stand up to poop.
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I just tried and it's surprisingly difficult.

I thought you pronounced the name "Jose" as "jo-see"

Also, when Jesus was first introduced in True Blood I didn't catch his name and just didn't know it. So when I read the intro to the next episode and it said something about Lafayette talking to Jesus I seriously though it meant Jesus as in Christ. And I was all, "WTF! Lafayette has a chat with JESUS?"

Megbo2012

I thought everyone was at least 1% Irish. I asked my friend what percent she was, and she said none, and I asked her if she was sure, because she had to be at least a little Irish. 

My friend told me in preschool every man had a worm.  We used to make "wormies" out of play dough and make beds for them so that's how it came up. I said I didn't think my dad did, and she said "He must have, to have had you" So I went home and my 3 year old self asked Dad about his worm.  My mom said he just about fell over....

dannie134

When I was a kid I had a lot of catholic friends.  One night I got back out of bed and went up to my parents and asked, "why do all the other girls get to buy pretty dresses to go to Grand Union and I don't?"

It took them quite a bit of further prompting to figure out that I meant First Communion.

We still laugh about the idea of girls buying pretty white dresses to go to the grocery store!

I also remember thinking the Madonna song 'dress you up in my love' was 'dancing in the miloh', and I always wondered what a miloh was and why one would want to dance in it.

ylime8286

Until my mom read me a book about how babies are made when I was 6, I thought babies came from weddings.  I thought if you wanted to have a second baby, you'd have to walk down the aisle with your husband again  in order to get pregnant.

After that until I was about 11, I worried like crazy about what would happen if the man accidentally peed during sex.

In the song "America" the last line is "Let Freedom Ring" and I sang it "Levry Dumb Ring"

I also thought "elemeno" was one letter.