the best of places
When I heard on the news that some on was shot at gunpoint, I thought "Gunpoint" was a place; I wondered why people kept going to Gunpoint.
the world: places
1,363 beliefs
everybody believed these
60 of the 1,363 are filed under these
42 of you
18 of you
the other 1,303
When I was in my college class somebody held up a picture of the Empire State Building. I was so shocked! "Who moved the Statue of Liberty?" I asked. Nobody knew what I was talking about. "Who moved it off of the top of the building?" Of course everyone laughed their heads off. I visited the Empire State Building when I was little and when we were going to the top my Dad said we had to hurry so we could see the Statue of Liberty. I somehow inferred that we were hurrying up there to see the Statue of Liberty up there. I believed my whole life that Lady Liberty was atop the Empire State Building.
Ok so I live in Ontario, Canada and i remember when there was all this talk that Quebec wanted to seperate from Canada I was so dumbfounded because I couldn't for the life of me figure out how they would drill through the earth and physically seperate fom the rest of the country.
I was babysitting this girl and her sister, they asked me about the places I have visited. Well I mentioned that I had been to Chicago. The girl looks at me in disgust, and says, "I will never go to Chicago! THEY EAT MONKEYS THERE!"
One of the most hilarious things I have heard from a kid, I really would love to know how she came upon that wonderful notion!
pick of the bunch
When I was little, I thought Saudi Arabia was 'Salty Arabia', and that all those sand dunes were made of salt. It made sense to me.
When I Was About 5 My Mum Got Me A Map Of The World For My Room. And Up Until I Started High School I Thourght That Ireland Was France & Germany !!
I used to believe…
...that each country was a different planet...that's why we had to fly to get there =]
pick of the bunch
i used to think that desert islands, pirates and kings with their castles don't or didn't exist at all
When I was young I used to believe that California was in the sky. I thought this because ever since I was a baby my family and traveled to California a couple times a year to visit my realatives and I thought we had to take a plane because there was simply no other way to get there. hahah.
I used to believe that china REALLY was underground and my dad always told me to watch out for the china man cuz if I dug to deep he would pull me down. I was scared to death to pull carrots, rubarb or dig potatoes when my mom or dad would ask me for fear that the china man would get me!
pick of the bunch
i used to think the state border was a big wall round the area that you had to climb over to get to the next place
I used to think that the states were on top of each other. I live in Kansas, so that meant that when I looked at the sky the sky would be Nebraska's ground and Kansas ground was Oklahoma's sky. Yeah I knew dirt is brown but it was a optical illusion to make it blue. I was very confused when i heard otherwise.
pick of the bunch
As a child I was told that America was "below" Canada. I believed that If I looked down the sewers, I would see America
My cruel older brother decided to tell me one day when I was four that Madagascar was uninhabited because it had a very active volcano and man-eating monkeys to boot.
I, of course, believed him and would tune out in elementary school when they tried to teach us world geography and mentioned Madagascar (because it obviously didn't matter). It wasn't until I was in 6th or 7th grade that I actually stopped to think about it and realized I was wrong!
My friend and I used to think we could dig to China when we were about 5 years old. We'd meet at the yard in between our houses, with sticks, and start digging in a hole.
i used to believe that the north pole was on the clouds!
I used to think that Africa was in South America, because I'd heard that S.A. was very hot and I knew for sure that Africa was.
I used to believe that England was on a cloud because I had been there several times before the age of four. I thought that airplanes just took you straight up!
I used to believe that Kansas (pronounced "kan-sas"), Arkansas (pronounced "ar-kan-sas") and Arkansas (pronounced "ar-kan-saw") were three different states in the U.S.
well, its not EXACTLY a belief, but close enough...and funny. onetime, i was in the car with my mom and asked why andrew, a close family friend, was not going to be at dinner with the rest of us and his family. she responded "well, he went to seatle." so i ... not thinking before asking, asked "mom, who's attle?" still have yet to live that down.
i used to believe that my country is actually the whole world and that other countries were all cities inside my country,so somehow geography was too easy for me as a child! it was after many years that i realized that there's more to the world than where i live,hehe....