When I was about 6 or 7, durring the Grenada conflict, I was shocked to learn about guerilla warfare from the TV news. I didnt think that gorillas could even use guns, and I cried for hours thinking that we were shooting at the defenseless apes.
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I used to think that when my parents were younger the world was in black and white. I got this idea from looking at pictures of my parents that was all in black and white. So I thought previously it was all black and white and only now is the world in color.
When I was little (about 6) I liked to look at the pictures of my parents that were in black and white. One day I asked my dad, "When you were little, was the world in black and white?" Obviously he told me the truth, but before then,(for about a year) that's what I thought.
one time i asked my mom is the world was black and white when she was a kid. She just smiled at me and said, "No." I didn't believe her.
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I was convinced that Gorilla soldiers in Vietnam in the 70's were real Gorillas attacking other Soldiers.
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I used to believe that people didn't see in color because all old TV shows were in black and white.
I used to think that the year zero was when God created the earth, and that everything, (dinosaurs becoming extinct, kings and queens, photographs becomeing colour) had happened in the roughly 2000 years since then. I remember trying to tell my Dad, there was once a year zero, and being really surprised not only that he already knew, but that it wasn't what I thought it was.
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I used to think the world wars were called gold wars and that the civil was was the silver war. this was until i was about 7
When I was little I used to look at the black and white pictures, which somehow gave me the idea that the world used to black and white.
When I was young I belived that color was invented. I never saw pictures in color they were always in black and white so I thought someone came along and invented color.
I used to think that in the 1950s, when my parents were little, the whole world was in "black & white." I guess I believed this because of black & white images I saw on old TV shows from that era.
When I was little I watched a lot of reruns of classic sitcom television. I Love Lucy, Andy Griffith, Leave It To Beaver, and Dennis The Menace were some of my favorites. Now, I knew that some things on TV were in black and white, and others in color. So, one day I asked my mom what it was like to live when there was no color. I thought there was a time in the world, when real life was in black and white. This in addition to trying to peek down below the TV screen to see the rest of the showering woman in the shampoo commercial.
I used to think that there was no color AT ALL in the workd before color T.V.
i used to believe that when my Mom was a kid, everything was black and white.
Then, one day, everything changed and then there was color.
This explains why there was Black and White TV shows.
When I was a kid and I heard on the news about geurilla action is some countries I used to think those countries were being overrun by gorillas. I used to have nightmares about them coming to my country.
When I was child I was very interested in history of ancient town in Biskupin (Poland), which in 600's BC was surrouned by earth-wooden wall. One day when I was reading magazine with photos of modern reconstruction of Biskupin, I got very astonished seeing entrance gate - there was only short section of wall surrounding huts and streets (they didn't want to rebuilt entire wall), and I thought there had been really only one piece of wall in ancient Biskupin. How could they, I thought, defend themselves with over 90% percents of border not protected?
when i was little, i thought people who lived in the 1920's, 1930's, and 1940's were the best and prettiest looking people i had ever seen. i thought they had some makeup thing that made them look pretty but stopped selling it in the 60's when people turned ugly.
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I used to think that world wars's were called war wars. So then World War II became War War II.
My dad used to say that my grandparents lived in the stone age when they were kids. i used to think that they lived in stone houses and they had dinosaures and that they played with the dinosaurs, like the flinstones.
When I was younger and would watch old reruns of black and white shows like "I Love Lucy" I really thought everything was black and white in real life. I thought if I was living in a time of the "Adamms Family" then all my clothes and skin and furniture would be black and white.