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.

Oh lord, amazingmumof6 I didn't realise that about flesh/meat/muscle either!

YY to the Batman logo being yellow teeth too!

I was singing to my ds earlier and my dh had the revelation right in front of me that the 'Mow' in 'One man went to mow...' song wasn't a place, but a verb. He just kept shaking his head saying '37 years and I always thought he was going to a place called Mow... I thought it must be in Somerset...'

The roadsign one is a bit of a revelation too...

My own, very late contribution, a friend of mine thought Dún Laoghaire was pronounced Done le whore.

Another very clever friend refused to believe that gravid wasn't someone being serious.

Up until I was 5 or 6 I scanned crowds at pelican crossings as my mum said we couldn't cross until the green man came . I also used to cling tightly to the pipe on the wall next to the toilet at home as I was convinced I would be sucked down the loo if I didn't.

Just for those of you that don't speak Irish, Dún Laoghaire (as mentioned in flummoxed's post) is pronounced "Dun-leary" in English or "doon - lair - ah" in Irish.

I always thought Scotch Corner was on the England/Scotland border
I always thought eunuch was pronounced oonch

Insisting to the bloke I fancied as he did his crossword that there was a mountain range called the urinals (Urals) was not one of my finer moments .

I thought until very recently cat scratching posts were for cats to rub themselves on to relieve an itch. Whoops :S

When I was wee and helping my mum do the shopping, she would ask me to get her, for example, "a couple of tomatoes". I didn't know what a couple meant, and she told me it was two. When she asked me for "a few carrots", I didn't know what a few was, so she told me three.

Up until I was 16, whenever I asked for a few of something and was given more than three I corrected them and told them that they had given me too many, I only wanted three

My mother thought 'portakabin' was pronounced 'pour-take-a-bin'

I'll guarantee you won't get that out of your heads now!

DH still insists that a couple is about three and a few no more than five.

Many, many times I have told him that we are a couple - ie, two of us!