the past

Wen I was 4 or 5, I kept on hearing on the radio about World War III, so I assumed for some time thereafter that there had been three world wars, and the third one ended a few years before I was born.

My dad told me that in the Battle of Hastings when King Harold was shot in the eye with an arrow, the archer who fired it said he didn't know his bow was loaded.

When the Apollo missions were going on. I just could not believe how foolish the astronauts were, going out of their spaceships without their Ray gun's. What would happen if a space monster jumped them from behind a rock?
Also, I refused to believe my older brother when he told me that the Astronauts lived in only the very top bit of the massive Saturn V rockets & only the very tip of the rocket return to earth after the mission.

I though the world used to be black and white

Im Irish and had never heard of Martin Luther. When I moved to the USA I assumed Martin Luther King was his son.

Im also 35 and only found out last weekend that the 3 musketeers werent real...... I was flabergasted.

I believed many a strange thing really. After last week end Im beginning to wonder if half the things I believe are fairy tales

A family member (I don't remember who- not me, I swear) was once told to write a story in school. He began:
"Once upon a time when diosaurs ruled the earth and Grandad was a little boy..."!!!

Up until the age of seven or thereabouts, I believed that world war two was still on, but I had no idea who Germans were or what the war had been about. I did think though, when playing war games in the playground, that they did have better uniforms than we (the British) had.

I used to believe that the world during the war was all black and white with no colour, this is because of the history shows on TV which only showed it in black and white.

I used to believe that the world was black and white and that films/photographs in black and white were actually colour photos of how it was back then. I'm glad I wasn't the only one - some of my childhood demons have finally been laid to rest. I am NORMAL!! WAYHAY!!!!!!!!

I too used to think the world used to be black and white, as both the TV and cameras took black and white pictures. I never questioned this, so it was a few years before I realised I was wrong!

I am a teacher at a primary school and was very surprised when one of my pupils asked me whether I used to be a monkey apparently he had seen Darwins picture of the evolution of man and presumed thats where men came from.

this kid also thought that I was 48 when i was 25 and that the world used to be black and white

bless

In the late sixties and early seventies, the Vietnam was was always in the news. I knew that Vietnam had a lot of jungles. And when they talked about geurilla (gorilla) warfare, I always pictured big black apes in army uniforms, wearing helmets and carrying machine guns and jumping out of trees, attacking American soldiers.

I too believed that guerrilla warfare involved gorillas. When the newsreaders were reporting the latest guerrilla activity I used to watch the screen very intently, hoping to see the gorillas. I thought it was amazing, but none of the grown-ups were surprised so I assumed it must be normal. I thought I would be less amazed when I was a grown-up myself.

When I first read about Martin Luther (the Protestant founder), I thought the book was wrong and that they really meant Martin Luther King. I was so sure of this for weeks, and I pointed out to everyone how wrong the book was and they left the "King" off his name.

When I was about 9 or 10 years old I read a fiction novel about a little Jewish girl growing up in the US in the years after WW2. In the book, she would play act with her friends about the war, and specifically, about concentration camps. I had no idea what they were talking about it. But, I assumed that it was something that the author of the story had just made up, and had nothing to do with real events.

When I was wee and watching television programmes in Black and White (on a colour television) I used to think that the world was once colourless and only 'black and white'. My mum put me straight once I'd posed this as a question to her!