Sorry I dropped the “Norwegian Wood” bomb and disappeared.
I went to look into this and found 4 explanations:
[ul]
[li]Firewood (mine, I’m weird)[/li][li]Cheap furniture (McCartney’s explanation)[/li][li]An affair (Lennon’s explanation)[/li][li]Marijuana[/li][/ul]
Since there’s only 8 lines to the lyrics, posting even one line to the board could be against TOS 
so I posted them and my analysis in my journal over here
Burning the house down was part of Lennon’s explanation, I think. And it makes a lot of sense given the last lyric: “this bird had flown, so I lit a fire”. Bird is British for “girl”; the girl left in the morning without even acknowledging his presence, after teasing him all night, so he burned down her house.
Here’s one I learned just minutes ago.
Some penguins are tropical.
I thought the natural “habitat” of a pineapple was in trees but not as a fruit from a tree. That is to say, they’re basically an air-fern kind-of thing, right, like spanish moss? Growing on a tree but not as part of it.
The growing on the ground thing is just a trick, I thought, of the professional growers.
Another explanation I first read in a Playboy article, and which is repeated in this discussion: “Norwegian wood” is a pun on “knowing she would (have sex)”, and was substituted for the intended lyric in order to avoid censorship squabbles. However, the poster who mentions that hypothesis agrees with your “analogous to Acapulco Gold” interpretation.
I (randomly) happen to know some decendents of the inventor. It was indeed created in the thousand islands area of NY state. The family still has property there.
This is one I just learned, as well. I commented to my daughter that penguins lived at the south pole (to correct a wrong impression she may have gotten from a book where a polar bear & a penguin are friends), and my husband told me that there is one type of penguin that lives just above the equator! Of course, they still aren’t likely to be friends with any polar bears.
I excpet someone to come in and tell us about the Galapagos polar bear any time now.
That flea collars for pets work.
I also truly believed for a good two to three years, that WallyM7 really died.
I’ll answer my own post. Per Yahoo Answers, pineapples are bromeliads (I knew that) as are many other tropical plants including spanish moss.
Bromeliads have both tree and ground dwelling species. Pineapple Annas comosus is a south-american ground-dwelling type.
Er, excuse me? Is this another thing I get totally wrong?
Yeah. My dad used to play with mercury all the time, and my husband’s grandfather kept a jar of it in his shed and would let the kids play around with it.
It is still used extensively in mining tailings, IIRC.
Until I was 22 I thought Aloysius was pronounced Alloy-seeus and that Alloo-ish-us was a different name entirely. When I was a kid I thought Indonesia was a United State but was pronounced In-doneh-seeya. I knew there was a country called Indoneezya too though. 
Until I was 17 I thought Roo bars in Australia were padded and built to protect the kangaroos, that they’d just bounce off unharmed.
Up to the age of 14 I thought you could shave off grey hair and it would grow back the original colour.
Until about three weeks ago I thought Sheffield was in the far north-east of England.
Up until about the age of 8 or 9 I thought the moon was a reflection of the earth(!).
Wait, I always assumed it was pronounced, Aloy-shuss.
Guess it’s a good thing I’ve never met anyone with that name.
“Alloy-seeus” is the logical pronunciation. How the bleep do they get “alloo-ish-us” out of it? That doesn’t even make sense in a “really weird but at least it’s internally consistent” way!
Is this a whoosh or am I completely and totally out of the loop? 
Just the other week, my girlfriend suggested that she thought that it was light reflected from the earth which made the moon visible. I suppose that since the shadow of the earth can cause a lunar eclipse, the idea isn’t too counterintuitive…