I had no idea what Star Wars was, so at one point they showed the 3 movies made out the old Battlestar Galactica series.
Thought "hey thats o.k. but whats all the fuss about it???".
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Peculiar Childhood Thoughts or Misconceptions
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I had no idea what Star Wars was, so at one point they showed the 3 movies made out the old Battlestar Galactica series.
Thought "hey thats o.k. but whats all the fuss about it???".
Children have interesting ways of hearing words.Man, you guys were dumb kids.Jk.
When i was little i thought "firefighter" was pronounced "fire-fire!"
When my grandson was about 5, he started getting interested in Legos. The first actual project set we bought him was, naturally, a simple one.
Another eye-related one. I used to stare into the mirror, trying to move my eyes back and forth. It never occurred to me that the second my eyes were no longer aimed at the mirror, I wouldn't actually be able to see them. I'd move my jaw side-to-side, thinking that had something to do with it.
I thought that rabbits were all like the characters (and their illustrations) in The Tale of Peter Rabbit. My grandparents kept rabbits during WWII.. fortunately I did not realize they were for meat, just figured they were pets, and was never actually disabused of this notion... figured it out much, much later. My granddad sold the rabbits or bartered them for vegetables if we ran short in winter, and so we did not butcher or eat them.
Anyway the rabbits were housed in sturdy wire-faced kennels which during winter were brought into a side room in a barn and piled up with straw for warmth. One of my chores then was to supplement their diet with vegetable scraps from our kitchen. I was always told "Just leave the food when they're not looking, don't mess about with them like they are kittens."
Remembering in the book how Peter Rabbit feared the gardener, of course I thought my grandparents just meant I shouldn't terrify the poor things when I went near them.
As a result one day I was enchanted at first when I forgot their admonitions and held a carrot end out to the large buck rabbit: he approached and nuzzled my hand before seizing one of the carrot stubs I was holding. We were friends! But then I was horribly shocked and disappointed when the damn critter actually bit me in its enthusiasm for that next scrap of carrot.
So much for fairy tales... from that date I became a serious skeptic of cute stories.
Anyway the rabbits were housed in sturdy wire-faced kennels which during winter were brought into a side room in a barn and piled up with straw for warmth. One of my chores then was to supplement their diet with vegetable scraps from our kitchen. I was always told "Just leave the food when they're not looking, don't mess about with them like they are kittens."
Remembering in the book how Peter Rabbit feared the gardener, of course I thought my grandparents just meant I shouldn't terrify the poor things when I went near them.
As a result one day I was enchanted at first when I forgot their admonitions and held a carrot end out to the large buck rabbit: he approached and nuzzled my hand before seizing one of the carrot stubs I was holding. We were friends! But then I was horribly shocked and disappointed when the damn critter actually bit me in its enthusiasm for that next scrap of carrot.
So much for fairy tales... from that date I became a serious skeptic of cute stories.
I used to think that all firefighters never smoked cigarettes.
When I was an adult, I saw an advertisement for Episode 4 and thought it was going to be a hokey film. Misimpression.
When I was an adult, I saw an advertisement for Episode 4 and thought it was going to be a hokey film. Misimpression.
I can see that. Especially with how bad many Sci Fi films were then. Not that there aren't a lot of lemons now. Special effects are just better.
I just looked up the original 1977 trailer. It looks pretty bad.
I used to think that street signs that said “no standing any time” literally meant you can’t stand in that area on your feet.
Somebody introduced the concept of square roots to me a bit too early, using the example of √9=3, so for whatever reason, I thought the square root of any number was three.
My grandfather never talked much about the war, but I have a distinct memory of him talking after dinner one time about what sized shells different tanks carried.
My relatively idyllic childhood associated shells with the beach and I remember thinking about that conversation years later when my experience and vocabulary had grown a bit and suddenly realizing how absurd my mental image of tanks armored with seashells was.
My relatively idyllic childhood associated shells with the beach and I remember thinking about that conversation years later when my experience and vocabulary had grown a bit and suddenly realizing how absurd my mental image of tanks armored with seashells was.
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I can think of a couple off the top of my head:
I used to think that if I swallowed a big black watermelon seed, a watermelon plant would start growing inside me.
I used to think the world really was black and white in the olden days, or at least, I could not envision it being any other way.
I used to think that if I swallowed a big black watermelon seed, a watermelon plant would start growing inside me.
I used to think the world really was black and white in the olden days, or at least, I could not envision it being any other way.
I just read "pet peeve" in the "French Red Apostrophe's" thread, which reminded me...
I was probably 8 or 9 the first time I saw this expression, and I had no idea what a "peeve" was.
Since I couldn't figure it out from the context, I wondered what kind of animal a peeve was: mammal, bird, fish, etc. Those were the kinds of things I knew were pets, and since the writer mentioned losing his pet peeve, I thought it might have died or escaped. The name sounded a bit like it might be a bird like a parakeet, or a small mammal like a pika, both of which also happened to start with "p".
So I went to the World Book Encyclopedia (yeah, it's what we used in Ye Olden Tymes), took out the "P" volume, and looked for "peeve". Nothing. Well, that's weird.
So next I went to the Webster's Unabridged Dictionary and looked up "peeve". Huh. Well that's nothing at all like I expected. More a metaphorical pet than an actual one.
Since then, I've thought that if I ever got a parakeet I'd have to name it "peeve". I'm not really a pet person, so that hasn't happened. If anyone else wants to use it, I won't complain. It'll be your pet, "Peeve", not my pet peeve.
I was probably 8 or 9 the first time I saw this expression, and I had no idea what a "peeve" was.
Since I couldn't figure it out from the context, I wondered what kind of animal a peeve was: mammal, bird, fish, etc. Those were the kinds of things I knew were pets, and since the writer mentioned losing his pet peeve, I thought it might have died or escaped. The name sounded a bit like it might be a bird like a parakeet, or a small mammal like a pika, both of which also happened to start with "p".
So I went to the World Book Encyclopedia (yeah, it's what we used in Ye Olden Tymes), took out the "P" volume, and looked for "peeve". Nothing. Well, that's weird.
So next I went to the Webster's Unabridged Dictionary and looked up "peeve". Huh. Well that's nothing at all like I expected. More a metaphorical pet than an actual one.
Since then, I've thought that if I ever got a parakeet I'd have to name it "peeve". I'm not really a pet person, so that hasn't happened. If anyone else wants to use it, I won't complain. It'll be your pet, "Peeve", not my pet peeve.