because it made me giggle

[ysobel]

Via vass, Mortifying things we used to believe.

I may or may not identify with some of these... :D

(I also used to think that people were silly for paying off credit cards, when all you had to do was get a second one and pay for A with B and pay for B with A and just keep bouncing them back and forth forever. Which is not quite as amusing as some.)

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[pauamma]

“I thought signs that said ‘To Let’ were for the bathroom and were just misspelled.”

Saw one in London that read something like "Amazing 1,000 sq.ft to let", and reflected that it would be indeed an amazing bathroom. Slightly scary one, but still amazing.

[not_a_sniglet]

Made us giggle too. Especially the one about Aunt Yvette. So, I'm gonna put a few of ours for your amusement.

We thought for years that the band was called Sticks, not Styx, and when we were little and Lorimom said she bought albums by Bread and Styx, we asked her why Breadsticks made an album.

We live in the south, so the word graveyard is often said very quickly, and so for a looong time we thought they were called Gravyyards and we wondered if people were buried in gravy.

We used to think if you had a dream, and you liked it, you could do the exact same thing the next day, down to the letter, and you'd have the same dream.

We did the one about thinking that the song said, "Wrapped up like a douche" too and only just recently found out that it was "Wrapped up like a deuce" and only found out because we actually looked up the lyrics.

We thought the group Hall and Oats was Holland Oats and wondered what happened to other Oats.


We thought Christ was Jesus's last name too.

We used to think damnation was a nation built on a dam.