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When I was a young'un, I used to belive that when you got on T.V., even local T.V., you were instantly famous.

katalina
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I thought that the news anchors on tv were actors, even though the news was real. It made sense, since people on tv and in the movies had real names and screen names.

What a funny kid!
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I always thought there was a magic way to step into the television from behind, but could never account for the shrinkage in size I noticed with most of the characters. It puzzled me for so long where that entrance was too, seing as how after looking behind the tv i could see no remote openings.

Lana
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I used to think that the man and woman that presented Playschool were married to each other.

Jo (UK)
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My mother had my sister and I *convinced* that there were only 7 child actors in Hollywood. No matter how much we protested that they all looked different, she still insisted that they were all the same actors. Let's just say that we were really confused us when we watched the Cosby Show.

To this day, I have no idea why she lied to us like that.

Dave
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I used to think that the only things they were allowed to show on television on Sundays were golf and the news, because that's what my dad was always watching. I thought it was some religious thing and they weren't allowed to show anything that kids might enjoy watching.

Athazagoraphobia
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I used to think when you turned the telly off the program just stopped. Therefore you could continue watching it later on by turning it back on!

Anon
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I always thought that when you turned the tv off it would "pause" whatever program you were watching until you turned it bac on again.

Ben
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As a southern kid in the sixties I was walking through a J.C.Pennies with my Grandmother and I saw a color television for the first time. The colors weren't as sharp as today, it was more like one dull shade each of green or blue or red. Anyway, as we passed I asked "Grandma, what kind of TV is that? She said "a color TV" which I interpreted as a "colored" TV. Walking on behind her I kept wondering why Black Folks had different TV's than Whites.

M.Dowd, San Francisco
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When I was about 5 or 6 I used to think that poeple who appeared on TV used to live in the TV ariel.

Anon
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As a child of around 4, my father was a TV repairman, and one day he brought home a new TV manufactured by Marconi. Soon after, a relative commented on the Marconi, and I indignantly retorted "It's not your Coney, it's Dad's Coney!"

Anon
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oneday, somebody showed me how people make cartoons when i was little. pages of drawing and when u fan the pages, it creates a motion picture/cartoon. so i thereon thought that thats how TV works, you have bundles of papers with picture and it moves then quickly to make motion picture. and thats why TV looking like a big box (then the TV we had was huge) made sense. but news and live program didnt make sense to me.

naive
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I use to believe that when commercials came on the actors had to always go on and do it over and over again never knew it was recorded =) And i always asked myself how come they never mess up.

Anon
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When I was younger I used to think that where ever you turned off the television is where it would pick up when you turned it back on. I couldn't grasp the idea of the programs continuing after it was turned off.

jogo
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I thought If you hit the T.V. with a hammer and the screen broke then what ever you were watching would come out of the t.v.

BrownSugar778
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top belief!

I used to believe that inside the television were thousands of little people who at the end of the night when the tv was switched off would come out of a little door on the side and sleep in our cutlery drawer.

Ian
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This one isn't my own...
About a year ago, my younger borther said he likes when we stay at our grandma's place, because her TV is bigger than ours. Nothing wrong with that, but his reason for wanting a bigger TV was that grandma's TV fits the whole picture on it. He didn't realise, despite growing up in a house with TV's of varying sizes, that the picture shrinks to fit on the screen.

Anon
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I grew up in western Canada we got the Spokane affiliates of all the American networks. For most of my childhood I believed that while movies were made in Hollywood, all TV programs were made in Spokane, Washington.

Sandra
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When I was three or four years old, I had seen an aerial view of New York City. I asked my father, a left-brained engineer, what would happen if I would "bust" into the tv. He answered that, of course, I would die. I assumed that I would be killed as a result of falling from the sky onto the concrete of New York!

Cheri M
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For some reason, when I was very little, I thought that TV shows "stayed inside the TV" until it was turned on. When we watched TV, the shows were "leaking out." When I started going to school, I would come home in the afternoon, try to watch "Sesame Street" and find that it wasn't on. I then asked Mom not to watch TV while I was at school, as it "wasted" "Sesame Street."

Nicholas Dollak
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