What's the dumbest/funniest misconception you had as a child?

[ViciouS]

My mom told me the moon was made out of cheese. Not to funny, until I beat a kid up for calling my mom a liar. My mom still apologizes for that.

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: Tinkerhell
I thought babies came out of your belly button

I thought the same thing, but eventually I thought that babies came out between the butt hole and the pee hole. I didn't realize women had vaginas, I just thought doctors cut the hole open.

 

[JulesMaximus]

I believed in Bigfoot and Santa Claus.

 

[SagaLore]

Wow... just an observation here, but we have some people on this board that are angry and miserable. Instead of contributing humorous stories to the thread, they trash God, America, and our political leaders.

geez get a life

 

[earthman]

Probably the dumbest thing I thought was that the steam from hot food was actually smoke because it was so hot. I was confused though because it didn't smell like smoke. I also thought the tiny whirling objects in your vision when you look at something bright were atoms too. I remember thinking I must be the smartest kid in the world for figuring this out, but I was depressed because I knew no one would believe me. I was able to jump really hign when I was a kid too, and I used to think that meant it was possible I was from another planet with higher gravity, but no one would buy that story either.

In fifth grade I was already well-versed in astronomy, and I remember the teacher telling us there were 9 planets...I disagreed saying there were planets around other stars (which was well known at the time) She laughed at me and said "stars don't have planets, silly, that's not how God made them". When I got mad, I had to stay after class for an hour.

 

[SpecialEd]

Originally posted by: BillGates
I always thought that fireworks that you see at big shows were two dimensional (exploding along a flat plane instead of in a spherical shape).

whoa! you just expanded my mind!!!!

 

[SaltBoy]

I used to think -- based on the commercials -- that Transformers made a really cool "clicking" sound whenever you started transforming them. Then I actually got one...

 

[gistech1978]

i thought there were guys under the wheel in 'wheel of fortune' that had sticks attached and would run in circles under the wheel to fix the game.

 

[Smithy18]

My dad used to tell me that the multi-meter was actually a lie detector and used it on me when he thought I was lying. He would just cross the wires in my hand when he thought I was lying and I would see the meter move and then I had to tell the truth!

 

[Mandos]

Originally posted by: Smithy18
My dad used to tell me that the multi-meter was actually a lie detector and used it on me when he thought I was lying. He would just cross the wires in my hand when he thought I was lying and I would see the meter move and then I had to tell the truth!

That is GENUIS!!! *Takes notes* My son is 1 year old, I'ma have to remember this!

 

[Crappopotamus]

oh i have a really recent one... i thought concur meant that i disagree.

link

 

[Looney]

That if you swallowed gum, there's a chance that it could clog up your penis so that you couldn't pee.

Another funny one was an ex of mine who still believed in the tooth fairy. She fell and banged her teeth, and swallowed it accidentally, so she couldn't leave her tooth under her pillow for her quarter. So she wrote a letter explaining what happened instead. LOL cute

 

[unclebud]

that st. louis, mo was 35 miles from little rock, ar
i need to stay awake more often

 

[MaxDSP]

Originally posted by: Elitebull
that babies come out from the mommy's butt

me too...

 

[BoyFreak]

I remember on one of our trips to China we were riding on a train and i noticed that the restrooms on the trip is bascially a hole in the floor panel. I asked my mom about it and she told me that all transportation was like that. And there i thought that even planes provided just a hole for all restroom needs. So i was always afraid of a plane flying overhead, not knowing whether someone was going to use the restroom or not.

 

[Corporate Thug]

that life was fair

 

[bootymac]

I thought my dink was my belly button so I went around showing it to my friends and teachers!!

 

[Evadman]

I thought that girls had testees, but no penis.

 

[cronos]

i thought that since tv antenna receives tv signals from the satellite, i shouldn't touch the antenna or even get too close to it or i would get electrocuted.

 

[dman]

Originally posted by: CptObvious
I was a sucker for advertising. I remember a Pops cereal commercial where some kids flick the 'o' on the front of the cereal box and the cereal explodes out of the box. My sister and I spent maybe half an hour taking turns flicking the box until our mom stopped us. Also I remember a Stride Rite shoe commercial where they showed different shoe styles, and each one had a special power (e.g. jump super high, walk on walls). I tried to convince my mom to buy me a pair of the wall-walking shoes, but she wouldn't.

I was convinced that ZIPS made you run faster and jump higher. Let's just say that opened my eyes to the whole concept of false advertising. After spending time convincing our parents that we needed them (my cousin and I) and they eventually got them for us, and sent us outside to play, and no matter how we made the Z's with our feet nothing happened.

Also, before that, I used to think that you could make bombs by putting leaves and dirt (and other natural stuff) in glass bottles and throwing them. It never did work. Lucky for me.

On the positive side, I did discover naked women pics in my search for bomb-making materials. I stumbled across a spot where older kids used to hang out, and there was some nudie-mag-scraps left behind.

Ah, to be a kid again.

My favorite torture story is from Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy... about how he promised his nephew he would take him to disney land, so he drove him around and around and eventually to an old burned down warehouse. And told him, "Oh No, Disney Land burned down". Heh!

 

[McCarthy]

I thought emeralds came from 7-Up bottles. Or 7-Up bottles were made out of rejected emeralds, not sure now. Either way I never could figure out what the big deal with emeralds was since 7-Up didn't cost any more than colas.

 

[Gurck]

Originally posted by: earthman
In fifth grade I was already well-versed in astronomy, and I remember the teacher telling us there were 9 planets...I disagreed saying there were planets around other stars (which was well known at the time) She laughed at me and said "stars don't have planets, silly, that's not how God made them". When I got mad, I had to stay after class for an hour.

Ugh Normally I support teachers as they do a thankless job no one else wants for meager pay, but this one needed a boot to the head :|

 

[BatmanNate]

I used to think that if a person was falling from the sky, while standing on another object (say an airplane wing) that if they were to jump and the last possible moment before impact, they would land gracefully.

 

[Childs]

Originally posted by: jntdesign
gonna sound retarded...
but i thought all dogs were male and all cats were female

My mother still refers to dogs and cats in this way. Calls my cat a she all the time....and he has huge balls!

 

[hevnsnt]

I also thought a sheet was an acceptable parachute for jumping off the house. No matter how many times I tried and it didnt work