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I actually believed that if I dug far enough down I would reach China.
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I used to believe that when you ran out of money, all you had to do is go to an ATM to get some more! I've never proven my theory.
During the '88 presidential elections, when I was 4 years old, I was convinced that the winner was determined through a series of ballroom dancing contests. I had vivid fantasies of Bush dancing awkwardly, and I thought that adults were very strange to choose their leader based on these performances.
Not my wrong belief, but at least two Exchange Students we had were shocked seeing Australians had world maps without the Americas at the centre, which was the way they had always seen maps in the US, and obviously thought that was the proper way. One at least got the joke when I gave him one with Australia at the top of the world and Greenland at the bottom. Why not? - there is no real "up" or "down" in space.
I belived tx was a country
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As a kid, I learned of the city of Birmingham (the one in Alabama), and thought it was named for someone overcooking ham (I thought it was Burningham).
When I was little, I used to believe that the clouds in the sky was the North Pole, and that was where Santa Claus lived. I also believed that the nearby industrial area was Sydney (I live in Melbourne). I was a bit disorientated when my parents announced we were actually going to Sydney!
I live in Kansas, and I have all my life. I always was a fairly logical kid (although my behavior apeared to contradict this!) and I always tried to make sense of complex things. When I was a little kid, I heard people talking about the Governer. Well, one time we went to the capital of the state, Topeka, Kansas. And we saw the Capitol building and iI remember Mom pointing out its ts big, green copper dome, etc. I remember Mom saying thats where the governer was. I thought that the governer headed the government and the president headed the country. I thought they were separate organizations that ruled the country. I always thought it was neat that they had the government based in Topeka. I always asked people things like, "Hey, why did they put the govermmnt in Kansas?" I always wondered why they would choose such a half-a**, redneck place like Kansas to put such an important thing. I was kind of stupid but smarter than other kids my age. at least I knew who the governor was.
In my geography class, we went to the library to research our country projects. My friend and I did not have the same country, but we sat next to each other anyway. My country was Australia. We were talking about it and she mentioned how our governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger,came from their. I had to explain to her that Austria is in Europe and Australia was on the opposite side of the Earth. The funny part is that we are 9th graders and it was the highest level geography class.
I didn't know what it meant to be "filthy rich", so I decided that the difference between the rich people and us is that they don't have to eat their apples to the end, and would throw them away after the first bite.
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When I was young, I lived in a place with lots of mountains. I used to think that those mountains were different countries, like Australia and Canada.
When I was maybe 4 or 5 the family would be watching the Jackie Gleason show on tv. I remember him saying during the intro "Here we are in Beauuutiful Miami" I kept thinking, well where is his beautiful MAMMY he keeps talking about??
I tried to dig to China in my backyard, but after a while I realized that was impossible. So I thought it would be a more realistic goal to dig to Canada instead...
I got confused as a kid about Neverland. I knew Peter Pan came from there, and therefore it didnt exist, but then I was shown a spot-the-mistake map, with Netherlands on it, and I was convinced they'd just made a typo and that was the mistake ...
I used to think there were two Canadas and two Russias because on the map it shows Canada and Russia twice because they couldn't fit it all in one place on the map.
i used to beleive that the city "amseterdam" in denmark i think, was really called "hamsterdam" and it was infested with hamsters, running all over the streets, and in peoples houses and stuff. When my dad came back from a bussness trip from there i was really mad at him for a week, because he hadnt brought me back a hamster, it wasnt untill he asked me what was wrong, that he told me i was wrong lol.
well this is kind of embarassing. i live in texas and i have heard that that everythings bigger in texas and texas woman have big hair (i used alot of hair spray at age four)
i thought women in texas,especially cow girls,were sopposed to have big hair.well one time i was at the grocery store with my mom. we were geting our film back and i was siting on the counter while my mom was talking to the lady.i asked the lady if she was from texas and when she said yes i got mad. she didn't have big hair.well....i stood up on the counter yelled "but you dont have BIG hair!!! you have to!!!" an i smaked the lady on the head. my mom turned bright red yanked me of of the counter an left the store with out our film and groceries
i would always confuse canada with canberra (an australian city) and poland with portugal
As a child, I once had a conversation with a friend of mine who told me that he and his family were moving to LA. I nodded and pretended to know what he was talking about. It wasn't until years later that I came to realize that LA and Los Angeles were the same thing. I used to think LA was spelled Ellay, a different city and not an acronym for Los Angeles.
i used to think arkansas was pronounced 'ar-kansas'.....just like the state kansas but having the 'ar-' infront of it...