When I was younger I used to think that when someone said, "He is going to the gas chamber" that the "gas" was farts. I envisioned a bunch of people pressing there butts into holes in the wall and expelling gas. The gas was either bottled or the "victim" was in the room while the gas was being expelled. I now know the real meaning of the saying, but I still get a laugh out of my original thought.
A childhood belief about farting

others believed things like this
- I use to believe I had holes in my bum cheeks for my farts to come out— jackL
- i believed that the holes in swiss cheese were cow farts.— lily
- Pressing on the gas pedal means that your car can do anything...including going up a vertical wall.Anon
- I thought a Gas Chamber was just a place you went to put gas in your car!— Thais
- I used to believe that they got the lunchmeat bologna from cutting off dead people's butts.— angie
- When i was little i thought that people could laugh in different languages— Lauren