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top belief!
not only did i think a hypotenuse was an animal, but i also thought that a hyperbole (pronounced "hyper-bowl") was a cousin of a hypotenuse or something. they were all in the hippopotamus family.
molly pelavin
I grew up in Minnesota and almost every year my dad would travel to a mysterious place to go hunting. It was called Wyoming and he would send me postcards. One year, I got one of the statue of a Jackalope that is in the middle of Gillette, I think. When he brought a mounted one home and hung it on the wall, I was convinced that they truly existed. I argued the point for years with my friends, pointing to the furry critter on the wall that in Wyoming ONLY you could see these little jackrabbits hopping around with oversized antlers. After all, my dad wouldn't lie! smiles....
st.paul police officer daughter
My brother and I were once in the supermarket. My mom asked if we wanted cantillope. My brother responded, brightly "Lions eat Cantillope!"
It took a while to explain to my mom that he had misheard The Lion King: Lions eat Antillope, not Cantillope!
When I was 8 I liked the show Courage the Cowardly Dog and in one episode there was an evil monster mole and in one episode there was an evil talking monster gerbil. Watching those episodes made me fear gerbils and moles. Back then when I was afraid of something even the mention of it would scare me, and the other second graders were very amused by my fear of two animals just because of a cartoon. So they would try to scare me by saying "mole" all the time and one of the books in the classroom had a huge picture of a gerbil in it and they would shove the picture in my face and they would talk about moles and gerbils all the time. Then that summer I became obsessed with a video game that had a mole in it. I thought the mole was cool and it became my favorite character in the video game, and that stopped my fear of moles, and my fear of gerbils stopped at the same time my fear of moles stopped. Of course when school started again I had to go tell all of the mean kids who tortured me with moles and gerbils last year that I wasn't afraid of them anymore so they could SHUT UP.
No longer afraid of any animals.
I used to think that ponies were young horses. I was embarrasingly old when I discovered the truth.
Al's view of the world
top belief!
When I was little, a whale sadly died somewhere along the Delaware River (between Pennsylvania and New Jersey). Well, they buried the whale in the local landfill in Deptford, NJ. Since the landfill is shaped sort of like a whale, I thought the ENTIRE landfill was the whale. I couldn't fathom how the ocean could hold so many HUGE whales. To this day, I get teased everytime we ride by the landfill.
~Lauralee
I once asked my Dad why there weren't any unicorns in the world. He told me that Noah had forgotten to put them on his Ark. I believed him until the age of about 12-he doesn't even remember saying it!
jedimia
when i was 6 we went past 2 cows having sex well.......i thought they were giving piggy bak rides!
true story and i never live it down thanks 4 reading! kandina
kandna
Cats said "moo" and cows said "meow."
When I was little and it was christmas, my aunties christmas tree used to be huge. She told me a squirrel lived in there I was terrified it would bite ne so hid behind the sofa for housrs untill we could go home!!
Adele Rutherford
top belief!
i used to think that a hypotenuse was some kind of animal related to a hippopotamus, until we learned about them in math in 8th grade.
Molly Pelavin
i used to think that farmers kept animals because they were annimal lovers.......... UNTILL I WAS 16
jeni hall
I used to think that the tags on cows ears were actually earings.
Kelly
top belief!
I wanted a horse when I was a little girl of 4 or 5. There were a lot of westerns on television in the mid to late 1950's and after every big battle there were always horses walking around with bridles and saddles...and they didn't have owners anymore. I decided that I would go out west, when I got a little older, and get me one of these "free" horses. Little did I realize that since I lived on the west coast of Washington state I was already "out west" and the wars I saw on television had occured in the previous century. There were no horses free for the taking.
Vanessa
Until I was about 13 I thought chipmunks were baby squirrels.
Gina
My dad used to tell us all kinds of silly little fibs, which my sisters and I believed for a very long time. Here is one of my favourites.
He told us that female elephants were called Elephants and males were called Ollyphants.
Skye
When I was younger, I had a fascination with all things farm, particularly chickens. I pestered a family member for one of her chickens, but she wouldn't give me a live one (much to Mom and Dad's relief). Instead, she gave me an egg and told me that if I took really good care of it, it would hatch. Well, I set it up on my bedside table, in a nice padded box and waited. Even after a few weeks had passed, I was still waiting for *MY* chicken to appear. The egg disappeared a few days later (My mom said she threw it out eventually.) If only I had known about the heat needed aspect of hatching eggs!!! I had really wanted a pet chicken. At least the egg never broke!
Silly bird
My mom used to tell us there was a mouse living in her housecoat pocket. I believed her.
M
My friend was told when she was a child (and still believes this) that butterflies are called 'butterflies' because they were originally called 'flutterbies' (because, of course, they flutter by) and that people got confused somewhere along the way.
top belief!
I used to think that orangutans were monkeys who ate alot of oranges.
Lina
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