In before someone from New York posts:

"I always thought everyone called it 'standing on line' until I found out most people say 'standing in line'"

this **** is no joke, almost 1 korean a year is rumored to have been killed by a fan.

this was actually a very common misconception in my and friends homes growing up.

another korean myth is that going to a good college is everything.

bacon fat?

I say "cran", I'm from Colorado. Don't know why really.

Quite often when I was growing up and we were on vacation in the US my father would sometimes say: "Famous Last Words" after talking about doing something awesome (but stupid)

So I was curious who this Famous guy was because he certainly said lots of last words... It took me way to long to figure this one out :x

In high school one of the downs syndrome special ed kids was nicknamed, "pinhead". He was actually reasonably popular and well liked (very "high functioning") but everybody called him that - I don't know if I ever heard his real name. He took it in stride and answered to it and I just thought of it as any other nickname and not any kind of insult or slur. It wasn't until years later that I realized what a bunch of dicks we were.

Maple syrup is also very good on ice cream.

I think I've told this one somewhere on here before but oh well.

When I was in maybe 2nd or 3rd grade, I was the last kid in my class to know what sex was (or at least I thought I was). I pretended I knew what it was to be cool, but I really had no idea.

One night I was getting ready to go in the shower while my mom was coming out of the shower and obv I saw everything which is super standard if you're 7 years old-ish but eye opening nonetheless. I knew sex involved being naked, but that's about it, so I figured this had to be what everyone was talking about.

So the next day I went to school and told all the kids I had sex with my mom.

Oops.

the correct way to fry eggs is in bacon fat you ****ing weirdo

LOL awesome.

Maybe he was Irish and it was pronounced pin-AID.

GF's mom thought that the song lyrics were "Why do you feel me up, Buttercup" until sometime in the last 10 years or so.

I thought that "rendezvous" (pronounced exactly how it is spelled) and "rondayvoo" were synonyms until I said "ren-dez-vous" in my 12th grade AP English class. Someone said "ren-dez-vous lol" and I was all, yeah, it means the same thing as ron-day-voo.

lol - words that i have heard otherwise intelligent people mispronounce horrible include inchoate and paradigm

the president of the Kings NBA team is named Geoff Petrie. My friend pronounced it Gee-Off Petrie for like 3 years untill I was finally fed up and told him he was an idiot. He still says it like that to this day because he knows hes right.

Don't have anything specific that I can think of, but good thread.

Do have one from my sister. She was convinced that at the grocery store when they had free food for you to try, it was called "zamples". I tried explaining to her it was samples, and she said that was something totally different.