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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.
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As a young child, learning the United States map....I believed each state had the lines around them, there were times in travelling I looked for those lines
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I used to believe that Scotland was actually London, because all important things are at the top aren't they?
When my sister was 4 she got into an argument with my Dad that Marineland was at Ontario Place and not at Niagara Falls. She explained this by singing the Marineland commercial song, "at Niagara falls ONTARIO, it's always a fun PLACE to go"
When I was a kid, I can remember the teacher explaining about the equator and I was certain she said it was an invisible lion that went around the middle of the Earth...
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when I was young, I thought Denmark was a state, just like Deleware and North Dakota.
I thought Oakland was in Oklahoma. I was a big Oakland Raiders fan, and when I was six I was really sad to hear we were moving to California from Pennsylvania, which was so far away from my favorite football team!
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k this is really bad cos i believed this until like a week ago - I've always thought that the Falkland Islands were in england. And this is REALLY stupid of me cos a.Im from scotland which is pretty near england b. Theres the word ISLAND in it, which i obviously forgot and c. I'm 17. Enough said.
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I used to believe South Africa was a general term for the southern area of the continent of Africa. I never realized it was a country.
When I was 6 or so, my mom told me she was going on a business trip to Seattle. I thought she meant she was going to see a friend named Attle (i.e., "see Attle"). She came back and was telling me about her hotel room. When she mentioned there was only one bed, I asked, "so where did Attle sleep?" She laughed at me.
I believed that the coliseum where basketball games were played was full of water and it was where people would go to fish from up in the rafters. I was kinda disappointed to find out what it really was.
As a child I enjoyed watching a tape of an educational special on dinosaurs. One line in the show went, "Dinosaur bones have been discovered in every continent except Antarctica." I asked my parents what "Antarctica" meant, and they (who must have misunderstood me, since I can't imagine them telling me this on purpose) said that it meant a place where there were many houses and buildings. Even years later, when I knew what the continent of Antarctica was, I still had this image of houses and buildings whenever I watched the tape and heard that line.
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I was convinced that Indians had dug the Grand Canyon.
I was told that on the exact opposite side of the world was someone who looked and acted just like me. In fact, my family, my house, and the whole town were replicated and maybe doing the exact same things as we were. It made me wonder quite a bit.
When I was little my grandpa would always call me "Joshy-Washy from Megatoshi." In high school I remember going through my Freshman year Geography text looking in the Mediterranean Sea for the island of Megatoshi.
I grew up in Washington State, and used to love to sit with my parents' atlas and look at maps of the world. Every different country was colored a different color, and I thought this reflected the dramatic differences one would find in other countries.
When I was about seven, we drove ``across the line'' to British Columbia, in Canada. I was so disappointed to discover that the grass and trees and flowers were exactly the same colors they are on the US side of the border.
Once, when my we were driving across the country, my parents were talking about visiting Wisconsin. I thought they were talking about visiting a woman named Miss Consin. And I wondered if she was a friend of Mrs. Sippi.
My home town in New Zealand was right at the base of 8260ft Mt Egmont; we looked straight out our window at it, and in a straight line the summit was probably only about 15 miles away. I remember always thinking that the whole world was just over the other side of the mountain.
My Dad was a traveling salesman and as a boy he would take me on business trips during summer vacation. In the 1950's freeway system was expanding throughout California and they had markings for the roads that ran along side the freeways. They were marked as "Frontage Rd.". I remember getting on the interstate in L.A. and seeing "Frontage Rd." and then all the way to San Franciso seeing "Frontage Rd.". I thouht "Frontage Rd." was the longest street in California.
When I was nine we travelled to Germany from California. I knew that Germany was on the other side of the world. Somehow I imagined that everything would be upside down, and that we'd be hanging upside down. Needless to say, I was quite disappointed when we landed in Germany and everything was right-side-up!!
When I was a little kid, my family used to go to a river in Maryland (a state in the USA). Somehow I got it in my head that the river divided the United States from England. I used to squint to see the English people on the other side of the river and thought one day maybe I would swim across and visit Elton John.