When I was a child, I thought . . .

[Rath Darkblade]

I thought Chuck Norris was too.

To be honest, Chuck Norris often seemed like a cartoon character to me. I mean, he never even works up a sweat beating up bad guys.

In real life, he'd have been a rissole long ago.

When I was really young, I learned to speak a language that I later forgot and had a bit of identity crisis. And I thought the characters from the Snoopy cartoon were real.

At least adults in real life don't sound like a trombone playing a "wah-wah" sound.

 

[GrahamLewis]

When I was a child, I believed that earth itself had feelings, and thought it cruel when nature had been displaced for buildings and streets. Now, 60 or 70 years later, I have realized that the child was right.

 

[GrahamLewis]

In my late uncle's memoirs he talks about the first time he was in a house with a flush toilet, and he and his brothers kept flushing it until the house owner told them that each flush would cost them cash.

 

[Catrin Lewis]

When i was a child, i thought the song/nursery rhyme "Don Gato" was sad and to this day, i wonder why they had us sing this in 2nd grade music class

Well, it is pretty sad, in the middle anyway. Poor kitty flunked his always-landing-on-his-feet class, I guess.

As for why they had you sing it--- well, it was about a furry animal. And kids like furry animals. As a rule.

That's how grownups think.

 

[GrahamLewis]

When we got our first TV, many of the staple shows were I Love Lucy and similar sitcoms. I thought they were real people living real lives, and that there were cameras in our house and people were watching us.

 

[Catrin Lewis]

When we got our first TV, many of the staple shows were I Love Lucy and similar sitcoms. I thought they were real people living real lives, and that there were cameras in our house and people were watching us.

I thought all the songs on the radio station my mother listened to in the kitchen were sung live. And the ones belted out by female singers were all performed by this one woman with wild, red hair, standing in a spotlight before a microphone.

This was when I was like 5 or 6. I was years older before I discovered that music on the radio did, indeed, used to be performed live in studio.

 

[GrahamLewis]

I thought all the songs on the radio station my mother listened to in the kitchen were sung live. And the ones belted out by female singers were all performed by this one woman with wild, red hair, standing in a spotlight before a microphone.

This was when I was like 5 or 6. I was years older before I discovered that music on the radio did, indeed, used to be performed live in studio.

I was at the age of 8 or so when I "discovered" that our local radio station, out in the boonies of central Nebraska, did not play live music. Our Cub Scout troop made a visit to the station, and I watched the DJ put on a record. I told my parents about it, thinking I had uncovered a massive scam, and was surprised and a bit disappointed to learn that the practice was well-known and accepted.

 

[JT Woody]

When I was a child, i thought the picture book, The Rainbow Fish, was a great book (my mom read it to us a lot, and i had the Rainbow Fish stuffed animal, and a Rainbow Fish shirt). This week I learned from the Children's Department that the book is really negative and doesnt have the best message (they all hate the book and told me why they never read it during story time)

 

[Also]

When I was a pre-schooler, I thought it was bad to split an infinitive.

 

[Rath Darkblade]

When I was about 8 years old or so, Madonna's "Like a Virgin" came out for the first time, and it was huge.

Except that thanks to mondegreens, for the longest time, I thought she was singing about how she likes a version, which confused me, because why would she like a version? A version of what? (Well, I was 8).

Maybe 10 or 11 years later, I finally had access to the internet, and quite by chance I found the Yahoo! search engine, and asked it what Madonna was singing about.

And now I feel old. ^_^