What stupid things have you believed/said/assumed before finding out to your embarrassment you were wrong?

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Could do with a laugh today

Here's mine...

1 - I thought a filet mignon was something presented on fire, you know with brandy or something...a flamin yon

2 - I thought rollmops where called roll 'em ups because they're rolled up but I was kind of right with that one.

Not hilarious, though dh did laugh at me til he was nearly sick, but I'm hoping some of you have much better, more embarrassing ones.

I was absolutely convinced that Matt Perry from Friends and Luke Perry from the original 90210 were brothers.

Oh, and that the Beegees were in charge of all other popstars because I once saw them in gold, shiny cat suits in the 80s (?!).

Up until the age of 16 I though God made the earth. Couldn't understand how it got here otherwise.

Until this year I didn't realise yellow dandelions and dandelion clocks were the flower and seeds of the same plant. I think I thought they were different varieties that just happened to grow together.

The hymn book we used in church when I was a child had the year of birth and death of the author beside each hymn. For years I thought this was how long it took them to write the hymn. That was an embarassing conversation!

Ok, please help me avoid making a fool of myself: a friend commented on how clever the word play in Peppa Pig can be, like "Madam Gazelle" / mademoiselle. Another one said, "Yes, I've only just got that. Like "Grandpa in my pocket"." ok, I should have asked there and then what they meant by Grandpa, but I didn't. Can anyone enlighten me?

I thought the Wombles of Wimbledon were common

Me too Horry! My DH still takes the piss when talking about "type 2 dandelions".... Git

Until recently I used the term 'Head Poncho' instead of Honcho - nobody ever corrected me.

I thought the lyrics to Band Aid were "Fever, woaah" ... until about 3 yrs ago when DH corrected me, he still finds this hilarious.

A guy at work thought the words to A town called Malice were "Animal House" which barely even fits?

Also that is brand new info re: dandelions!

Headlong by Queen has a line:

"she used to be a woman with a hot dog stand.."

I heard it as "hot downstairs"
hmmmm

DS3 : "look at my hairDude!" (instead of hair-do)

I remember seeing an ad on TV in America for a fast-food place called "Pope yes" and thinking that was a really weird name for a chicken restaurant.

It was really Popeye's.

Another time I saw a postage stamp with some tall buildings and the word Banking. I asked my dad where "Bahn -king" was, thinking it must be in Asia somewhere. Uh, no, it was just a stamp honouring the banking industry.

I thought the Batman symbol was a picture of some yellow teeth until I was 25.

That Sheryl Crow was a member of The Bangles.

I have no idea why I thought this, but even after DH proved me wrong, there is still a part of me that sort of believes she was.

I was convinced that, in personal ads, GSOH stood for 'Good Salary, Own House'.

Always thought that explained why there were so many single people advertising - they were clearly all being way too materialistic.

Horry I never knew that either!

I feel a lot better

I thought Carrie Oakey was a very popular singer in Dublin in the 80's as she seemed to be playing in loads of pubs.

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DS3 thought it was minimetre instead of millimetre.

DS5 ( 3 years old), is convinced that a duck ssys "backpack"

DH didn't realiza that muscle, meat and flesh are all the same thing.
he used to think a tiger was s mummy lion

my grandad used to say that he was a carpenter (true) and gynaecologist ( lie). I had no reason to doubt him and never understood why people laughed.
that is until I went to the gynaecologists.

my other grandad told us that if we saw a horse nodding it's head while walking thst means he likes us (they all do)

it was only a few years ago that I realised that the round blue road sign with 1 white arrow is not made in versions of pointing to the left or right or ahead etc.
They make ONE sign and TURN it round so the arrow points in the correct direction. (very )

because of ankle details on socks only on outside ankle bone I used to think that ALL socks were right or left footed.

I have hundreds of these. ....

by far the most spectacular misunderstanding was when I was barely going out with my now DH.
I had only been in England for a few months, my English was poor. he mumbles a lot.

we went to a pub and I was shocked when he asked if I wanted penis!
I said no thank you and was really .
he came back with our drinks and a bag of PEANUTS!

not long after this incident I was eating an apple and thought he might want a bite so I asked him if he wanted a nipple! ( I meant nibble)

Freudian or what? We've got 6 children!

I've just found out what tumbleweed meant when used online.
I thought it just meant "see you later/I'm off"

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