JCC When I was a kid I thought shark skin suits were made from actual shark skin

What stupidity from your youth will you share?

 

Wait...you mean they’re NOT made of shark skin?!?

I thought Halls cough drops grew their own eucalyptus trees for the drops. It gets worse, I also thought they grew the trees in, uh, halls...

 

When I first got my Luke Skywalker (Bespin Fatigues) action figure I pronounced it's name "Luke Skywalker, Bespin Fat-ee-gews".

 

Imagine how I pronounced yacht after reading it and never hearing it.

 

Yeecht? Or Throat Warbler Mangrove perhaps? No apology necessary to Monty Python.

 

I didn't do much better with frigate, either.

 

I thought the Chicago Cubs name was the Chicago Cups.

 

Vin, I'm curious then what your take on seersucker was then...

 

I thought Star Wars was good.

 

I thought the people in charge generally knew what they were doing.

 

When I was 4, I tried going deep sea fishing for whitebait with nothing but my spade and bucket.

My brave attempts at deep sea exploration were foiled by a local taverna owner, who had to dive in after me.

 

I thought a fortnight was one night .

 

I thought a "professional student" was someone who got paid to go to school. I was interested in this line of work.

 

I thought guerrilla warfare involved primates wielding chain guns.

 

My brother convinced me that cows control the rain. They would lay down which would squeeze the water out of the ground and then it would fall back to the ground. That's why you'd always see them laying down while it was raining.

 

I thought the criminal justice system was fair/worked.

 

I used to lie on the ground and look up my gym teacher's shorts. I have no idea why... he wasn't even remotely attractive (I was, like, seven)

 

i thought adults had their **** together.

 

I thought ponies were just baby horses (like puppies are baby dogs).