When I was younger and somehow the subject of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima came up, my father explained that the bombs "vaporized" the residents of the cities they were dropped on. It took some years for it to sink in that "vaporized" meant "killed." Somehow I had made these folks out to be living clouds of vapor somewhere in Japan...
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When I used to hear about guerilla warfare on the news I always assumed that in some parts of the world the gorillas were having a fight.
When I was little I used to watch a lot of old black and white movies on t.v,and i used to think that the world was black and white then (No colours AT ALL) , until around the 70s when colour came into the world and everything turned that way, thats why the movies are colour now! haha
When I heard that gorillas were fighting in some other country I always imagined real gorillas and wondered why it was so difficult to stop them and why it was on the main news. Surely all animals fight from time to time.
i believed that the world was actually in black and white before the 60s or whenever it was that color tv came out.
I don't seem to do a good job explaining things in an understandable fashion to small children. When my first child at the age of 4, watched Jerrassic Park with his father (while I was not present, obviously) and was quite shaken up by it, I tried to explain "extinct," while silently cursing my ex-husband for having been such a nimrod to let him watch it and leave me to deal with the trauma. After many failed attempts, I broke out the paleoentology book showing a Mammoth skeleton and explained that scientists dug up the bones from the ground and put them back together and from there they GUESS how the animal looked. This discussion led into how movie makers created animatronic dinosaurs for the movie and they didn't use real dinosaurs.
At bed time every night my son would run down his usual list of fears, seeking reassurance from me about each by stating, for example, "No thunder?" I would assure him who slept like a log, "no thunder." But I noticed, his list now included, "No dinosaurs in our yard?" I wasn't sure what he was afraid of but assumed none of my explanations had made any sense to him what-so-ever and just assured him, "No dinosaurs in our yard."
Years later, my son found a drawing I had done of a window with a gigantic dinosaur eye looking in at you, the viewer. He asked me what it was about. I told him about his "no dinosaurs in our yard," fear. He laughed and said that my attempts to explain paleoentology and animatronics to him, had him believing that dinosaurs were buried all over, everywhere, including our yard and could come up out of the ground at any moment in that T-Rex skeleton pose and materialize into the kind of dinosaurs Steven Spielburg caught and trained for his movie.
Go figure...
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When I was young, whenever I heard of a "ceasefire" on the news, I always thought they meant a huge bonfire. I waited for them to show it, but they never did!
when i was around 7 i was curious and wondered what it felt like to go from black and white to colour. i asked mum. ''mum, back when you were black and white in the olden days''. i am now 16.
I used to believe that before colour tv's were around, everything was black and white. When I looked in the tv guide and next to an old movie it would say "B&W" I would look outside and imagine that the trees were black and white. I asked mum if she liked it when colour was invented. She gave me a funny look, so I said "By the way, who invented colour?"
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My daughter told me when she was small she always thought that "Before colour television the world was black & white"
When my dad told me TV was in black and white when he was young, he said, "Everything was black and white." I used to believe that the whole world was in black and white. Everything.
When I learned about the American Revolutionary War, I came upon the French and Americans using Gurilla Warfare. Until I learned about it, I wondered why the French and Americans employed Gorillas into combat. :D
i used to think che guevera was a venazualen vegitarian.dunno why becuse of the name
When I was about 10, colour tv was just being introduced in Australia. I remember looking at old photos of my dad, (in black and white) and asking him if colour hadn't been invented when he was my age. Of course, he let me believe the whole world was black and white
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I used to believe the Elgin marbles were actual huge round marbles ... as opposed to carvings from antiquity. This was until fairly recently.
When I was six or so I first learned the story of Robin Hood, only I misunderstood one vital point: I thought that King Richard had gone off not on the Crusades, but rather an actual cruise. I didn't understand why everyone thought Prince John was such a bad man because I'd be angry, too if my brother went off on holiday and left me home alone!
When I was small, I believed that Geurrilla warfare was apes running around with guns. Zoos terrified me!
i used to belive that my dad was in the veitnam war as a helicopter pilot.well thats what he told me,it wasnt until modern studies that i uncovered his filthy lie.
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When I was litle I thought Andrew Jackson was a famous historic black man, since his last name was Jackson, and Michael Jackson was black.
I thought I had found real dinosaur bones in my grandmothers backyard. I had 5 or 6 put away in a drawer that was only for dinosaur bones. I felt privilaged because I had things that museums would have.
Really I was just finding steak bones my grandmom put out there for me to find.