When I saw a preview of, "The Lorax" I thought the Once-Ler's cigar was a pencil. Then when I saw the full movie, I realized I was wrong. So I used to pretend that pencils were cigars and had to discontinue this gesture because it wasn't a good example for little kids.
A childhood belief about cartoons

others believed things like this
- When I was little I thought "Pencilvania" was a huge store that sold pencils and nothing but pencils.— Tim
- As a kid I used to believe that when you sharpened your pencil, the eraser on the pencil grew.Anon
- I used to believe fog was caused by cows smoking cigars. How could mom be lying?!— La Duchesse
- The tooth Fairy smoked cigars and smelled like whiskey.— Bill Reilly
- I used to believe wolverines made good housepets -- I was wrong.— I told you so
- I used to believe that you could catch AIDS from just looking at a nud girl. Good thing I was WRONG— Mbm4615