Misunderstandings as a child...

[Andy in Germany]

My father in law told my wife that paper was made from white smoke coming out of factory chimneys. He's a doctor, highly respected in Japan, but with a great ability to say ridiculous things in a very plausible manner...

 

[Andy in Germany]

I though planes left paper trails in the sky.

Snap...

 

[Cycleops]

"While shepherds washed their socks by night all seated on the ground"
Never thought that odd.

 

[Speicher]

My full first name being Penelope, I thought those beasts roaming the African plains were called ant-ell-O-pies, not ante-lopes. Funily enough I didn't have the same problem with envelopes.
That also explained why many people seemed to think my name was Penny-lope.

Why is ellemenope in the middle of the alphabet?

 

[colly]

The worst thing my mother could think of to call someone was common. I spent my entire childhood wondering why the wombles of Wimbledon were common and, if they were, why would they sing about it so proudly.

My second son said exactly that.

 

[colly]

I could never understand how they ever played football in Switzerland. All those mountains and so on....wouldn't the ball always be rolling away ?

30 years ago now I had a neice who wondered.
'So where is he then?' After watching Kenny Everet on tv. He would walk on dressed as a punk and say
'Ello. Sid Snot 'ere. ''

 

[Spinney]

The worst thing my mother could think of to call someone was common. I spent my entire childhood wondering why the wombles of Wimbledon were common and, if they were, why would they sing about it so proudly.

I mentally put a comma in the line:
'The Wombles of Wimbledon, common are we.'
Having never heard of Wimbledon Common, only Wimbledon as a place where tennis was played, it seemed an odd line, as Wombles aren't at all common (in the sense of frequent).

 

[Slioch]

30 years ago now I had a neice who wondered.
'So where is he then?' After watching Kenny Everet on tv. He would walk on dressed as a punk and say
'Ello. Sid Snot 'ere. ''

And all done in "the best POSSIBLE taste"

 

[Beebo]

My son asked my wife why she carries a ham bag when it doesn’t have ham in it.

 

[Oldbloke]

Young me thought that official looking letters came from "Inland Revenge"

 

[Dave 123]

I mentally put a comma in the line:
'The Wombles of Wimbledon, common are we.'
Having never heard of Wimbledon Common, only Wimbledon as a place where tennis was played, it seemed an odd line, as Wombles aren't at all common (in the sense of frequent).

Me too!

 

[Accy cyclist]

I've mentioned these before,but seeing as someone's asking i'll tell them again.
Two songs spring to mind. Poetry In Motion By Johnny Tillotson became in my head 'Oh A Tree In Motion' (Yes that's feasible as trees move in the wind,i thought) and The Green Green Grass Of Home's lyrics 'Hair of gold and lips like cherries' in my mind said 'Pair of golden lips like cherries'. Pair of golden lips?,but lips are red you fools, i thought .Then there was the 'He couldn't make ends meet',which i read as 'Hen's meat' 'Couldn't make hen's meat,but hens are meat you idiot i thought to myself.

 

[Blue Hills]

Only me who thought To Let signs were Toilets with a letter missing?

no

 

[Drago]

Somewhere, over the rainbow, weigh a pie....

I was 44 before sussed thqt one out.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I mentally put a comma in the line:
'The Wombles of Wimbledon, common are we.'
Having never heard of Wimbledon Common, only Wimbledon as a place where tennis was played, it seemed an odd line, as Wombles aren't at all common (in the sense of frequent).

So did I , so looked up lyrics and found this line.

"Relph and his pet subo, Common are we"