When i was a child, i believed autopilot really worked like in the movie Airplane, that it was an inflatable dummy.
That kissing is how you become pregnant. No, really.
That the Empire State Building is a restaurant named Empire Steak Building.
That a bon fire was a “bomb” fire and therefore, very loud and very dangerous.
For anyone wondering
bonfire (n.)
https://www.etymonline.com/word/bonfire#etymonline_v_15587
late 14c., bonfir, banefire, “a fire in which bones are burned;” see bone (n.) + fire (n.). The original specific sense became obsolete and was forgotten by 18c. The general sense of “large open-air fire from any material for public amusement or celebration” is by mid-16c. and that of “large fire for any purpose” from 17c. also from late 14c.
We live inside the earth. Dogs say barf.
I grew up with a family that didn’t have a lot of luxuries when I was young. We had three channels on TV, so we didn’t spend a lot of time watching TV. So I didn’t get to watch a lot of pop culture content for about the first 7 or 8 years of my life.
So one of the first memories I have as a kid is in hearing music on the radio, record player, cassette player or any sound system … I understood that it was previously recorded and performed by other people somewhere else.
What I thought was that all the sounds were generated by human voices. Guitars? Pianos? Trumpets? Brass sounds? Violins? even Drums or percussion. I thought all of it was people just making sounds with their voices.
I’m Indigenous Canadian so my parents didn’t have musical instruments, a couple of uncles played the guitar and fiddle … but by the time I was young, they no longer played these instruments and had them. I never knew or understood musical instruments really until I was about 8, 9 or ten. Up until then, I just thought all music was just people with amazing and unusual human voices.
I remember thinking radio stations had bands constantly coming in and playing songs and leaving
