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

[CookieRookie]

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.

[Pippinintherain]

I too thought scampi was a creature

Have googled it now and stand corrected.

[BillComptonstrousers]

my favourite liger picture....

[DeepPurple]

I too thought that lingerie was pronounced how it's written. Would be a very sexy word? No?

[ILovePonyo]

Ah yes Bill - thats what I was thinking of

I thought a scampi was a creature too.

[ILovePonyo]

Haha madamdeathstare - a lippo not a liger I think?

[cjbartlett]

I thought the first Live Aid song was 'Feed the Birds'

[ILovePonyo]

*tippo

[earlyriser]

I used to be a geography teacher and i frequently asked my Head of Department stupid questions. My worst by far was when i pondered aloud whether the sun rose in the west and sat in the east if you were in the southern hemisphere

Not sure why i wasn't sacked on the spot

[aliceliddell]

Loving this. My friend & I were puzzled s to why Alice Cooper wanted to be a lettuce. A Kestrel Manoeuvres is comedy gold! The tiger/ lion thing is good - its true that you get two different animals (liger/tigon) when cross-bred depending whether you have female lion or tiger. They get big because the female lion has the 'grow' gene and the male lion has the 'stop' gene; other way round with tigers. So you get two 'grow' and no 'stop' (apparently this is approximately true) And quite odd, imo

[ziptoes]

In primary school a boy asked me in front of the whole class if I was a virgin. I answered "of course not" thinking that virgins were ladies who wore blue dresses and rode around on donkeys at Xmas.

ho hum

[RhinestoneCowgirl]

That Kiefer Sutherland was in fact called Keith O'Sullivan (because what sort of name is Keifer anyway??)

Also confused Roger Daltry and Timothy Dalton...

[aliceliddell]

A friend told me that his friend said at the end of 'Gone with the Wind' - "Funny name for a romantic hero, Reg Butler"

[faverolles]

Until quite recently, I thought CID stood for copper in disguise.
I still don't know what it stands for.

[BalloonSlayer]

Someone on our freecycle tonight is offering a "Chester Draws."

[Playingwithbuses]

i love it when people advertise 3 birth caravans, is that for triplets

[Onemorning]

I used to pronounce 'pharmaceutical' as pharmacuticle. For years. I still do, occasionally.

I genuinely thought Gok Wan was straight, but camp, until he went on the F word and told Gordon Ramsay he liked penis too much to be straight.

[tallulah]

DD1 was 21 when DD2 was born. The first time she saw her she exclaimed "she has knees!". She thought they grew later, like teeth.

[Longtime]

I am crying with laughter at some of these, especially the water polo and decapitated's dh! faverolles, crime investigation department.

I have to admit to not having heard of ligers or tigons before and that when I was young (very young though), I though cats were female and dogs were male. Apparently dh thought the same.

Most English speakers pronounce lingerie incorrectly even when they think they are pronouncing it correctly. Mind you, I'm thinking of it as a French word.

[thisisyesterday]

there was a sign outside a shop i saw once advertising "pillar cases"

[Tee2072]

Well, TIY, what else would you use to cover your pillars?!