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18 Oct 2007, 10:42 pm

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Also, there used to be a store near where I grew up called the Sewing Center. Both me and my brother thought that it was the "sueing" center (i.e. where you go to bring a lawsuit against someone). When someone made me angry I used to threaten to go to the Sewing Center and sue them. :lol: Maybe they thought I was going to go and make an embroidery out of them. :lol:


or perhaps a voodoo doll? :twisted:


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18 Oct 2007, 10:47 pm

I thought 'bonking' was dancing when I was about 11 and a few 16 year olds at school asked me what it meant.



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19 Oct 2007, 2:22 am

I thought there was a kind of monster living under the bed :)



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19 Oct 2007, 8:08 am

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I was insulted by the word "intuitive". Intuition to me meant stupidity. :oops:


My adult cousin once felt offended by his daughter's teacher from kindergarten because she told him his child was an individualist. Not knowing this word 8O he was sure she was saying something bad about his daughter.



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19 Oct 2007, 9:13 am

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I thought the teachers might have made up the language I was learning. That it was all a conspiracy to deceive the kids: it wasn't really French, and if I ever tried to speak to real French people, they wouldn't understand a word I said.


This is true.



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19 Oct 2007, 10:14 am

Coyote27 wrote:
juliekitty wrote:
I thought the teachers might have made up the language I was learning. That it was all a conspiracy to deceive the kids: it wasn't really French, and if I ever tried to speak to real French people, they wouldn't understand a word I said.


This is true.

I'd imagine that a French person would have a hard time understanding French Canadian.



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19 Oct 2007, 8:30 pm

I thought I would travel a lot when I grew up. Now, it seems far too dangerous.



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19 Oct 2007, 11:23 pm

When I was little, me and my cousin sealed a bet with a chant that said "house of wood, hose of steel, if you don't ay me you go to hell", and she won, and I had no money, so I started crying because I thought I was actually going to hell.



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19 Oct 2007, 11:28 pm

I thought that you couldn't eat the ice in drinks because it was poisonous.


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19 Oct 2007, 11:54 pm

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I thought my vicar was Jesus and/or God, despite the fact that we used to go to his house for tea.


For a while there, I was sure God was the little typewriter dude on sesame street!! :lol:

I took a knife to the new television several times trying to get Casper the friendly ghost out!!

I used to drag my cousin all over the streets of the neighbourhood looking for houses that had beautifully sparkling white rocks and was sure they were diamonds, so we would steal them!!

and finally, all that my memory will allow....

I was sure that my uncle was Bob Marley!!

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20 Oct 2007, 9:33 am

Graelwyn,

Actually, in the American South in the 1950s, "dancing" and "Rock and Roll" were synonymous with sexual intercourse, so it isn't so dumb after all.



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20 Oct 2007, 10:26 am

I thought that they had just invented the color pink.


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20 Oct 2007, 10:45 am

Yotsuba wrote:
I thought that they had just invented the color pink.


some colors in clothes, plastics and many products are "new", that is, they have only been available until recently because of new chemistry methods/techniques :)


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20 Oct 2007, 2:16 pm

One time when I was like, 2 or 3, my mom was about to throw this cheeseburger wrapper with sesame seeds in it that I'd picked off the bun. I stopped her because I was saving them to "grow a cheeseburger tree".


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20 Oct 2007, 2:23 pm

KristaMeth wrote:
One time when I was like, 2 or 3, my mom was about to throw this cheeseburger wrapper with sesame seeds in it that I'd picked off the bun. I stopped her because I was saving them to "grow a cheeseburger tree".

That's so cute!


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20 Oct 2007, 2:26 pm

I wanted to be a boy, when I was little, because I thought that a penis was the greatest thing to have.


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