I grew up thinking farting was really called beeping, until I said "Excuse me. I beeped." in class, and everyone cracked up.
A childhood belief about farting

others believed things like this
- Apparently from seeing EKG's on TV, my daughter believes people die when their heart stops "beeping."— Jager
- I was told that spaghetti grew on trees and i anounced it in class one day in grammer school.— w.b.
- I remember a girl in my kindergarten class told me she wanted to be a waterfall when she grew up.Anon
- I used to think that farting was flarting. Anon
- I used to believe that once you get older you stop farting.Anon
- I used to believe "flirting" was a girly way of "farting"— x