redhawk23
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While all of life is a learning experience, the earliest years of our lives are intensely so. So often as a kid you are encountering something for the first time. Many other things you only hear about second hand in your limited experience. Other things of course are just outright myths that continue to be passed along. Kids and, lets face it, people in general often fill in the gaps the best they can in odd ways or latch on to complete misunderstandings.
I was reminded of a few odd things I used to believe that at the time seemed like perfectly logical explanations. I figured I'd share a few of them and see what kind of crazy things other people came up with as kids.
1. As a kid, I always assumed that Orangutans were from Ireland. My mother comes from a large Irish family and there are many gingers among my relatives. They tend to take the whole Irish descent thing pretty seriously. At some point as a kid I guess I just connected the dots and assumed that everyone with red hair was Irish and that therefore apes with red/orange hair were also Irish. I didn't figure out how completely wrong I was until I was about 10 or so.
2. I used to be obsessed with dinosaurs and I watched a lot of Discovery channel specials about them. At some point at a very young age I guess I heard some mention of plate tectonics and Pangea breaking up and all that because when I was little I thought that the States were part of other countries that broke off and floated across the ocean and became the United States.
3. I thought that black and white photographs and movies were just so old that the color had faded out of them.
4. For the longest time I thought Kevin Bacon (whom I saw in countless times I watched Tremors) and Jon Bon Jovi were the same person. I'm not sure why.
I was reminded of a few odd things I used to believe that at the time seemed like perfectly logical explanations. I figured I'd share a few of them and see what kind of crazy things other people came up with as kids.
1. As a kid, I always assumed that Orangutans were from Ireland. My mother comes from a large Irish family and there are many gingers among my relatives. They tend to take the whole Irish descent thing pretty seriously. At some point as a kid I guess I just connected the dots and assumed that everyone with red hair was Irish and that therefore apes with red/orange hair were also Irish. I didn't figure out how completely wrong I was until I was about 10 or so.
2. I used to be obsessed with dinosaurs and I watched a lot of Discovery channel specials about them. At some point at a very young age I guess I heard some mention of plate tectonics and Pangea breaking up and all that because when I was little I thought that the States were part of other countries that broke off and floated across the ocean and became the United States.
3. I thought that black and white photographs and movies were just so old that the color had faded out of them.
4. For the longest time I thought Kevin Bacon (whom I saw in countless times I watched Tremors) and Jon Bon Jovi were the same person. I'm not sure why.
