26-04-2002 09:05									#1
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When I was little, I had a lot of misconseptions about the world around me.

I was convinced Chicago was California. I thought those little pasta shells were real shells that had been taken to a factory and processed so you could eat them. And no matter when, no matter what it was, it always happened "the other day". Last Thursday's dentist appointment? We went the other day. Pleasent trip to the zoo yesterday? We went the other day. The fall of the Soviet union? The other day.

As recently as 7th grade, I didn't recognize the word "rendevous". I knew the spoken word, but I had no idea what it looked like written out. So when I encountered a poster with "rendevous" on it, I of course tried to pronounce it "ren-div-onis".

Oh, and let's not forget the time I stuck the car keys into a power outlet to try and "drive" the house. Good thing they stopped me.

What about you guys?

	26-04-2002 09:07									#2
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	26-04-2002 09:10									#3
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Santa Claus
Easter Bunny
Tooth Fairy
Didn't recognize the written word "chaos," so I pronounced it chay-oz
Didn't recognize the written word "society," so I pronounced it sosh-ity
Mangled the pronunciations of about fifty additional words

	26-04-2002 09:24									#4
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I still say yolk is pronounced with a little bit of an l sound.
Onyx is not onix, rather it should be ankhs.

	26-04-2002 09:26									#5
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quote: Originally posted by MacTBone I still say yolk is pronounced with a little bit of an l sound. Onyx is not onix, rather it should be ankhs.

you from bahstin?

	26-04-2002 09:33									#6
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Naaah, rural (well, more suburban) Midwest.

I just never heard anyone say those words and when I read them that's what sounded right. Onix? How does that sound cool?

	26-04-2002 10:01									#7
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I didn't really get the concept and point of borrowing money. I thought you actually borrowed the bill, kept it for a while and then returned the very same bill back.

I thought an answering machine was a real person who answered all your calls.

	26-04-2002 10:04									#8
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quote: Originally posted by MacTBone Naaah, rural (well, more suburban) Midwest. I just never heard anyone say those words and when I read them that's what sounded right. Onix? How does that sound cool?

Ahn-ix = annex...it's the expansionists inside of us

Happy birthday by the way.

	26-04-2002 10:06									#9
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It's pronounced with more of an ix sound, not ex like annex.

Yep! Thanks! No more teenager!

	26-04-2002 19:38									#10
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I thought the entire world had only 4 nuclear reactors. Then the truth was revealed to me - there were 4 in Finland, hundreds all over the world.

	26-04-2002 20:15									#11
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I thought you could just go to the bank and get money for whatever you wanted. No sense that you had to put it in the bank on the first place.

Thought economy cars were cars, and large cars were named automobiles. My dad remembers me asking him why we didn't get an automobile like my aunts. My dad drove a vw beetle, my aunt drove a mercedes benz.

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I had little trouble remembering which one was US and which one was USSR.

I thought that school would last for three years, with first year being lower elementary school, second year high school and thrid year upper elementary school. (They have different names in Finnish.)

	26-04-2002 20:21									#13
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I didnt recognize "Bussiness"... But English is not my first language so it's forgivable.

When I was 3 or 4 I asked my father if the people in the movies die when someone shoots them. I was reffering to the artists, while my father thought i'm talking about the characters in the movie. So he said that yes, and until the age of 8-9 I couldnt understand how stupid the artists were. Getting killed only to be in a movie.

	26-04-2002 20:25									#14
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quote: Thought economy cars were cars, and large cars were named automobiles. My dad remembers me asking him why we didn't get an automobile like my aunts. My dad drove a vw beetle, my aunt drove a mercedes benz.

I'm reminded of a joke.

Dad and son are driving to visit granma. Daddy has to check his maps at crossroads, so he tells son "Son, you keep an eye on the road and tell me if there are any cars coming." Son does that. Daddy gets his maps in order, asks son "Are there any cars coming?" and the son answers "No." Daddy starts driving, when the car's hit by Lada. Son and dad are whisked to hospital, where they are treated, and after that, dad asks son:"I told you to tell me if there were any cars coming. You didn't do so. Why?"
"Lada isn't a car."

	26-04-2002 20:30									#15
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I thought since I was born in california..and that HOllywood that was IN california...that I was a shoe in to be a movie star. what a moron..

	26-04-2002 20:31									#16
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quote: I didn't recognize the word "rendevous".

quote: but I had no idea what it looked like written out.

You still don't.

I know... I'm an a ss.

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Before I learned about such things, I had a vague notion that the navel was involved in human reproduction. The penis had an obvious function (urination), but the navel didn't. And women carried babies "in their tummies". So maybe conception involved some sort of navel-to-navel contact.

	26-04-2002 21:44									#19
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There was someone with the same first name as me at my school, and I couldn't believe it - I was concvinced that is was a part of some sort of conspiracy and everyone was lying to me.


I also, for some unknown reason, thought tortellini was made of frog's legs.

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	26-04-2002 21:46									#20
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When I went to the movies as a kid I used to think that the people that would get killed or fall from the buildings and die etc....I used to think they were the convicts from jail that were sentenced to die.

	26-04-2002 21:49									#21
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I also had that stupid experience of wondering if the actors die in movies.

I felt so sorry for the actors , when I watched jaws... ...

damn amerikan movies.

	26-04-2002 21:58									#22
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I thought "Armour" was an element. You know, "armoured cars", obviously made from the metal "armour".

	26-04-2002 23:13									#23
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When I was four I decided to help my Dad by filling the car up...from the nearby hose (water).

He couldnt yell at me though because he knew I was only trying to help.

	26-04-2002 23:41									#24
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I used to think black and white movie's...that the world used to be black and white back then.


And I thought VCR tapes...umm, well. They actually where in a studio performing it for me.

	26-04-2002 23:47									#25
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quote: Originally posted by faded glory I used to think black and white movie's...that the world used to be black and white back then. And I thought VCR tapes...umm, well. They actually where in a studio performing it for me.

what about when you watched porn?

	26-04-2002 23:50									#26
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I thought my best friend was psychic, he took advantage of this mercifully as in "no Dave we shouldn't dig big holes in the back yard when your mom isn't looking we should go play wiffle ball like I want since I'm psychic and I know that they'll collapse on us and we'll DIE."

	27-04-2002 00:17									#27
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quote: Originally posted by MrBaggins what about when you watched porn?

i deny ever watching such filth...

	27-04-2002 00:20									#28
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quote: Originally posted by faded glory i deny ever watching such filth... *snippity snip snip*

2nd laugh out loud quote.

	27-04-2002 02:02									#29
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quote: Originally posted by OldWarrior_42 You still don't. I know... I'm an a ss.

Ah, give me a break.

	27-04-2002 02:26									#30
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Thinking Britain won WW1 and WW2 all by itself.

Getting Fife (a region in Scotland) confused with France.