I was watching the news with my father one day, and the newscaster announced "Ravaging Guerrilas are invading the middle East." I thought he meant gorrilas and kept wondering "wow where did they all come from, how will they get them back in the zoo?
A childhood belief about speaking

others believed things like this
- For along time I thought the Middle East and Eastern Europe were just different names for the same place!— Helllowerer
- I used to believe that god was the newscaster.— belle
- German tiger tanks shot out tigers, the invading army would get mauled to death by all the tigers— Bob
- a sitcom meant that you sat while you were watching the comedyAnon
- I used to believe that "Our Father, who art in heaven" meant that God was also a painter on the side. — Amanda
- 'To Be Announced' in the TV guide was a film that was on all the time!— Clare