# Totally wrong stuff you believed to an embarrassingly advanced age **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 18, 2007, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/totally-wrong-stuff-you-believed-to-an-embarrassingly-advanced-age/408477 "2007-06-18T16:42:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 27
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2007, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/totally-wrong-stuff-you-believed-to-an-embarrassingly-advanced-age/408477/521 "2007-07-05T20:33:41Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > No, the occasion for Marilyn’s “sweet and wholesome” singing was JFK’s 45th birthday. Have you ever seen Wayne’s World? ---
**Author:** ![Plan\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Plan\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plan_B)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2007, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/totally-wrong-stuff-you-believed-to-an-embarrassingly-advanced-age/408477/522 "2007-07-06T04:38:59Z")
[QUOTE=OtakuLoki] Yes, Jack Kennedy is how many people refer to JFK. For that matter, JFK junior was known as Jack-Jack in memorium of his father. [/QUOTE] Well I just learned something. I always thought he was known as John-John. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2007, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/totally-wrong-stuff-you-believed-to-an-embarrassingly-advanced-age/408477/523 "2007-07-06T04:48:03Z")
I always heard John-John. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2007, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/totally-wrong-stuff-you-believed-to-an-embarrassingly-advanced-age/408477/524 "2007-07-07T16:48:14Z")
I just thought of one yesterday: I was well into my teens before I realized that poison arrow frogs don’t actually shoot poison arrows out of their mouths. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2007, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/totally-wrong-stuff-you-believed-to-an-embarrassingly-advanced-age/408477/525 "2007-07-08T00:37:53Z")
[QUOTE=Plan B] Well I just learned something. I always thought he was known as John-John. [/QUOTE] He was. I think the Jack-Jack thing was a whoosh. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2007, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/totally-wrong-stuff-you-believed-to-an-embarrassingly-advanced-age/408477/526 "2007-07-08T00:51:17Z")
No. Not a whoosh. My own most recently exposed mistaken belief, perhaps, but not a whoosh. (Seriously, I would have sworn in the media frenzy after JFK Jr.'s death, that some of the pics shown of his time living in the White House used the nickname Jack-Jack. But since I can’t find them, now… Oy.) ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2007, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/totally-wrong-stuff-you-believed-to-an-embarrassingly-advanced-age/408477/527 "2007-07-08T03:47:57Z")
In _The Incredibles_, the baby was named Jack-Jack as a nod to the Kennedy era. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/totally-wrong-stuff-you-believed-to-an-embarrassingly-advanced-age/408477.md?page=26)