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    Childhood misconseptions

    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.

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    God
    "Chegitz, still angry about the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991?
    You provide no source. You PROVIDE NOTHING! And yet you want to destroy capitalism.. you criminal..." - Fez

    "I was hoping for a Communist utopia that would last forever." - Imran Siddiqui

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    • #3
      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
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      • #4
        I still say yolk is pronounced with a little bit of an l sound.
        Onyx is not onix, rather it should be ankhs.
        I never know their names, But i smile just the same
        New faces...Strange places,
        Most everything i see, Becomes a blur to me
        -Grandaddy, "The Final Push to the Sum"

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        • #5
          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?
          "Chegitz, still angry about the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991?
          You provide no source. You PROVIDE NOTHING! And yet you want to destroy capitalism.. you criminal..." - Fez

          "I was hoping for a Communist utopia that would last forever." - Imran Siddiqui

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          • #6
            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?
            I never know their names, But i smile just the same
            New faces...Strange places,
            Most everything i see, Becomes a blur to me
            -Grandaddy, "The Final Push to the Sum"

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            • #7
              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.

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              • #8
                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.
                "Chegitz, still angry about the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991?
                You provide no source. You PROVIDE NOTHING! And yet you want to destroy capitalism.. you criminal..." - Fez

                "I was hoping for a Communist utopia that would last forever." - Imran Siddiqui

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                • #9
                  It's pronounced with more of an ix sound, not ex like annex.

                  Yep! Thanks! No more teenager!
                  I never know their names, But i smile just the same
                  New faces...Strange places,
                  Most everything i see, Becomes a blur to me
                  -Grandaddy, "The Final Push to the Sum"

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                  • #10
                    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.
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                    • #11
                      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.
                      Deja Moo: The feeling that you've heard this bull before.

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                      • #12
                        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.)
                        "Spirit merges with matter to sanctify the universe. Matter transcends to return to spirit. The interchangeability of matter and spirit means the starlit magic of the outermost life of our universe becomes the soul-light magic of the innermost life of our self." - Dennis Kucinich, candidate for the U. S. presidency
                        "That’s the future of the Democratic Party: providing Republicans with a number of cute (but not that bright) comfort women." - Adam Yoshida, Canada's gift to the world

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                        • #13
                          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.
                          "Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master" - Commissioner Pravin Lal.

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                          • #14
                            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."
                            "Spirit merges with matter to sanctify the universe. Matter transcends to return to spirit. The interchangeability of matter and spirit means the starlit magic of the outermost life of our universe becomes the soul-light magic of the innermost life of our self." - Dennis Kucinich, candidate for the U. S. presidency
                            "That’s the future of the Democratic Party: providing Republicans with a number of cute (but not that bright) comfort women." - Adam Yoshida, Canada's gift to the world

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                            • #15
                              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..

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