Pepper
Childish misconceptions..
Posted by Pepper on December 1, 2010
Since a while, I’ve been compiling a mental list of the misconceptions I had as a child, and thought this would make a perfect post. Here are some that I can remember.
* I was very little when I learnt that cows gave milk. Following that, for some reason I assumed that buffaloes gave tea. Probably because I once heard my aunt tell my mom to cut down on her tea intake, or she would become black like a buffalo. The thought stuck and made me believe it were the glorious buffaloes that gave us tea.
* I thought ‘breaking a signal’ actually meant hammering it and breaking down the pole.
* I was sure the word ‘hypocrite’ had something to do with the animal ‘hippopotamus’.
* ‘Chaalbaaz’ was the first movie I saw that had cast the lead in a double role. I actually believed Sridevi had a twin who acted alongside, for the longest time.
* My favourite and much repeated one – I believed Oral Sex meant talking about sex. It’s all because of the Oral Exams we had in school.
Wasn’t I brilliant? I am sure each one of you have had your own wonderful interpretations and ideas as a child. Do you remember any? Do tell me about it!
Edited to add: Like some of you suggested, I am turning this into a tag. Not an easy one, this, for most of you won’t remember stuff like that. But put on your thinking hats and dive into your childhood. I am not tagging people individually, but if you read this, consider yourself tagged. List a few misconceptions/ideas/beliefs you had as a child. Leave me a comment after doing it so that I can stop by and read.
A dash of Pepper... 
Pratishtha said
Hmmm… I was a dreamer and had way too many to describe here without leaking out details of my dismal IQ. I am still pretty ill-informed, and I like it that way.
Pepper said
But no child has a fully developed IQ and that was the point of this post! So go on and leak the details!
Bikram said
he he he tea from buffaloes Wow I was not that clever 🙂 he he he
and ok this made me laugh out loud on oral sex well hey this one i must confess I thought so tooo.. till offcourse one grows up and thats when it hits you he he heeh he
when i was a child i had so many let me write a few lyrics which shud sum up all my childhood
mujhko yakeen hai sach kehtin theen
jo meri ammi kehtin theen
jab mere bachpan ke din the
Chaand pe pariyaan rehti theeen 🙂
i still believe this ..
Bikram’s
Pepper said
You still believe that? 😀 That’s so nice!
Bikram said
YEah i do beleive.. at least it brings a smile and reminds me of the childhood days they were so good …
Pepper said
I know 🙂
Bikram said
and i am firsttt tooo AM I 🙂
Pepper said
Nope 😀
Bikram said
Well dont laugh Second is good tooo 🙂 he he hehee
celestialrays said
Buffalo gives tea 😀
Going by that logic, cows in Russia give ice cream and buffalos give iced tea 😀
Shd I take this up as a tag or write my intelligent misconceptions here?
There are so many!
Pepper said
Okay I officially tag you! Do it soon! I cant wait to read! 😀
Bikram said
DO they DAMN.. shud have gone to russia then for some fresh icecream and Ice tea.. I hope they make them eat all the flavours too that way we can get Flavoured Iced TEA … and the buffaloes and cows are also happy yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
🙂
deviantwave said
No cows actually give ice cream in a latest Salman Khan ad over here 🙄
Bikram said
Really Jai ho salman khan then
Pepper said
Okay CR, people here are quite taken to the idea of cows giving us ice cream.. 😀
Delhizen said
Interestingly funny… innocence of childhood. I actually thought money plant was my fav in childhood becoz I believed one day I will be able to pluck crisp notes off it
Pepper said
LOL! How I wish that were true!
DI said
ROTFL!
Would you believe that I had the same misconception about the last point you made? And for an embarrassingly long time too 😐
Pepper said
Yes, I know.. I believed that for an embarrassingly long time too!
smartassbride said
I thought it meant kissing. But I’m glad my misconception was advanced than yours 😛 talking it seems!
Pepper said
Mwahaha.. you can’t blame us okay? It’s the most logical thought 😛
Tanishka said
LOL… It was hilarious… Loved it… U were a fundoo kid gal… 🙂
Pepper said
😀 .. And what kind of a kid were you?
Titaxy said
LOL
I will have to think hard because I’ve easily forgotten all those silly things and moved on 😛 but will write if and when I remember 😀
Pepper said
Okay, remember and write 😀
Vimmuuu said
Dont mind, but you were one DUMB kid !! 😀 😀 😀 😀 and you knew there was something called ‘Oral Sex’ when you were a child ? 🙄 😯
Pepper said
Hmph! Okay Vimmuuu, go on and prove to me what an INTELLIGENT kid you were! 🙄
vimmuuu said
@ Pepper : Oh, I was a dumb kid too and that, my friend, was my childish misconception !!! 😀 😀 😀
@ Scribbler : Check your post on ‘new page added’ and you will know who visits who !! hmmpphh !!!
@ Pepper again : sorry for fighting like a child, but I guess, its because of the title of this post ! 😀
Scribbler said
Vimmu you go and check the reply there….and stop doing ‘tit for tat’ with me 😦 I’m your friend nah ???? hmmmpf…people change overnight !
Scribbler said
BTW Vimmu since you’re not visiting my blog I’m talking to you here… *sowwy for taking your space peppy*
Vimmu,I’m upset 😦 you are back on all blogs except mine 😦 Katti !
ajay said
I had many many misconceptions. I had this great confusion between heroin and heroine. I always wondered when I read reports in newspaper like ‘heroin recovered from gangster’! I thought there were people inside a stereo who played drums and all that when the stereo was turned on 😀 And many other weird, innocent assumptions that I can’t disclose here 😛 I think you should turn this post as a tag and ask us all to do it. It’ll be fun 😀 and I’d also get to know how intelligent a kid Vimmuuu was 😀 😀
Pepper said
Haha! I still get confused with the spellings of heroin and heroine 😀 You thought people were drumming inside the stereo? LOL!
This stuff is fun! Consider yourself officially tagged Ajay! Do it fast and share your innocent assumptions with us 😀
ajay said
Done! 😀 Ok could you tell me why’s that everyone’s having a snowfall on their page except me 😦
Pepper said
Hah! The mystery kept haunting me till I decided to uncover it. Everybody has it cos they enabled it. Go to Appearance on your dashboard –> then Extras.. and check the line that says Show falling snow 😀
ajay said
Thank you Pepper. I’m now having snowfall at my place too courtesy you 😀
PNA said
I always thought, the bakery peeps would think me off an addict and put me in some juvenille home for buying brown sugar! And wondered why Mum wanted only brown sugar sometimes!! 😉 😛
You were at blogger right, or did I jump into another peppermint’s page 😉
PNA said
Too sleepy early in the morning, do correct my mistakes!! I think I’ve already gone crazy missing so many spelling in that one 😛
Forgiveness is a your virtue, your highness Pepper 😛
Pepper said
Lol! In that case, we definitely are addicted to brown sugar 😛
Yes I moved from blogger to WP. Don’t worry Pinnoo, I am not only a forgiving soul, I am also blind. I can’t spot errors easily.
Scribbler said
already 20 comments on this post ❓ 😯 why I’m shocked is because I’vent received any feed for this post 😦 so I didn’t come here earlier… 😥
Need to check the reader…it needs serious discussion with ME ! 👿
Pepper said
Your reader must be like me. Too lazy to move and update itself 😛 But why am I the only person its ignoring.. 😦
Scribbler said
no you’ve company dear peppy…the reader does not even update Sag’s posts 😦 just because I’ve learnt the url to your blogs by heart I hover around time and again 🙂
Pepper said
Jeez! My reader isn’t updating her posts either 😦
Scribbler said
😆 @ buffalo giving tea !!!
really hammering it and breaking it ? 😆
hahahah hippo !
😆 at Sridevi’s twin
@Oral Sex: I think that was quiet intelligent and logical.. 😉
Laughed throughout the list and wanted it to go on a bit more 😉
Pepper said
😀 … And I want to read your list too!
deviantwave said
aaah my soul twin whwere were u all this while . I feel so human after reading all this 😉 😉
Ok I had loads of them .. one thing stilll that survives in the dumb head is that people after demise become stars . I used to talk to my Grandpa for hours ….
Another thing which mom made me belive was that upma was actually fried rice (Id gobble up anything chinese so!!)
As for the last one .. Geee lets not even get into how I thought babies were born 💡 !! 😉 😉
Pepper said
People becoming stars is a nice belief to have 🙂 Upma was fried rice? Your mom was smart and knew how to deal with you 😀
Please, please, tell me how you thought babies were born!
srishti said
Tea from buffaloes LMAO!!! Hillarious! I always thought powerpuff girls actually existed in the townsville and at 11 i hoped to get a letter from hogwarts .
I like the snowfall thing on the blog.
Pepper said
Oh, so you had the HP effect on you and waited for a letter from Hogwarts.. I know a few others who waited for the same thing 🙂
srishti said
I have another one , thanks to our adults for making us belive this , whenever we swallowed a seed we were told a tree would grow out of our eyes nose , food pipe and ears .Even my friends had this one( i made them read your blog and then we had a discusion on this)
PS: Im the ‘lil’ phoenx
Pepper said
Oh I knew it was you lil phoenix 🙂
Lol! Adults did have fun at our cost when we were kids, didn’t they? 😀
srishti said
of course they do and now we can do the same with the kids , take advatage of being older.
AlwaysHappyKya said
LOL!!! Too sweet you are/were 🙂
Cannot recall all ( I must have too many of such), but one stands out distinctly –
I believed women made babies by hanging their chaddis side by side with a mans on a drying pole after washing..especially if chaddis touched each other, a baby was a sure thing to happen 😛
Go ahead imagine the consequences of that notion 😉
Pepper said
ROTFL! ROTFL! ROTFL! God AHK, how did you get such awesome ideas? This is the most unique explanation I’ve heard for babies 😀 😀
Renu said
Nice misconceptions!
Pepper said
🙂
Always Happy said
OYEMMMMMMMGEEEEEEEEE….Teas from buffalo?? hahahaha..very cute.
Breaking the signal meaning literally breaking the signal? hehe..
I am tempted to write a post about my childhood misconceptions too.
Pepper said
Please do write it 🙂 I tag you. Go on and do it.
Always Happy said
Pepper, Thank you so much. I have written a post about my childhood misconceptions. Check out : http://dilkibaatblogkesaath.blogspot.com/2010/12/ae-dil-e-naadan.html .
Pepper said
Awesome 😀 .. Hopping over to yours right away..
Smitha said
LOL! That was hilarious! Buffaloes giving tea 🙂 I wish I had one in my garden to milk or should I say to ‘tea’ 😉
And Oral sex – that is too much, Pepper 🙂
Pepper said
Life would be convenient if Buffaloes indeed gave tea 😀 Though I’d prefer coffee..
Oral sex? what to do..I had some funny ideas at that age 😛
Dew said
A funny read 🙂 …buffalos gave tea 😉 (Thank God it was a misconception..else imagine..yuck I wud hv never loved tea as much and savour the joys 😉
I liked ur blog name 🙂
Pepper said
Welcome here Dew 🙂 Going by that logic, do you also dislike milk for the same reasons? 😀
Dew said
I hate MILK 😦
Pepper said
lol.. I hate it in India too, cos it smells. Here, its so processed, its tasteless white water and I don’t care.
mythalez said
lol at buffaloes and oral sex and hammering down a signal! hehe
Btw, how did you manage to remember these silly misconceptions? I am sure I had quite a few too but despite trying hard, none of them come to mind now 😦
Pepper said
Well, from the time I learnt that my beliefs were misconceptions, I don’t think I ever forgot the ridiculousness of my thoughts. Try going back in time and maybe you’ll come up with a few? If you write about it, let me know!
Anon Woman said
Great post! (And nice blog too…)
For the longest time I thought Mikhail Gorbachev’s name was Mikhail KARVACHAUTH!
I used to think babies were made by a man and a woman sleeping on the same bed. So for a very long time this was the reason I wouldn’t let my DOG sleep on the same bed as me….I was envious of my brother for he could do that!!
Later, I too thought oral sex was people talking about it OVER THE PHONE….because I couldn’t imagine anyone FACING their lover and talking about it! Chhee!! 😀
Oh, and after I got some rudimentary idea of what sex was, I figured it would have to be anal by default (all the other orifices seemed too small). All this, in spite of the sex-ed we got at school. They made it so boring I never paid any attention.
Pepper said
Mikhail KARVACHAUTH? LOL! Such pure innocence 😀
Err.. if you thought babies were made with a man and a woman sleeping on the same bed, why did you have a prob with a dog sleeping on it ..:D
I know.. sex ed in school was so boring!
Anon Woman said
I didn’t want to give birth to freaks-of-nature!
Pepper said
LMAO!
JJ said
Came here while blog hopping. Must say this is a lovely tag. I’m taking it up and going through rest of your posts too 🙂
Pepper said
Will stop by and read your list 🙂
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S said
Buffaloes give tea!!!!
insane!!
🙂
Pepper said
😀
S said
http://toblog-withlove.blogspot.com/2010/12/dil-to-baccha-hai-ji.html
here goes my version of childhood misconceptions
🙂
Pepper said
Lemme seee… 😀
Kartikay said
This is such a cool thought! You’re enthu-ing me enough to write about it too!
Pepper said
And what exactly are you waiting for? Go go! Do it..
Pesto Sauce said
That was damn funny. I too had misconceptions…once I was told that ghosts live in clouds, so on my next air flight I kept asking everyone if they have spotted ghosts
I too thought oral sex meant only talking; even when someone told me what it actually was I didn’t beleive – after all why should anyone do that!!
Pepper said
Lol.. all of us had some funny ideas 😀 See, the oral sex thing is not surprising. It’s the most obvious thought that can come to your mind on hearing that term ..
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Nuttie Natters said
Lol…how did i miss this post??? Just too cute!!!
Pepper said
😀 ..
neha said
hahaha.. childhood innocence!
I used to think (for an embarrassingly long time) that money grew on money plant creepers.
I used to think oral sex meant kissing.
Even I had such weird ideas, esp about sex! When the misconceptions were sorted out, I never wanted to have sex in my life!! :D:D
I might just take up this tag without being asked!! 😉
Pepper said
Haha. the money on plant creepers seems to be a common one 😀 And all of us have had such colourful ideas about sex 😀 ..
Do take up the tag and let me know when you’re done!