It’s always prudent to assume there are monsters until proven otherwise.
That’s a cool story mmmiiikkkeee.
So, a budding young scientist, then.
When I was kid, many TV shows had a verbal announcement during the credits that …
The Beverly Hillbillies is brought to you by … Kelloggs Corn Flakes
I thought “isbroughttoyouby” was a single word and ask my Mother how it was spelled so I could look it up in the dictionary,
As a small child it came across to be as “brocktayouby”. I finally asked my mother what “brocktayouby” meant. She told me what a sponsor was and I was surprised it meant Brought to you by, since around where we lived the word brought was pronounced “Brawt” and not “Brot”.
Too bad they didn’t have Donna Douglass say it; she would have pronounced it correctly.
Heh, I thought it was “protuyou” and couldn’t parse it for the life of me (until I was a teen).
The corollary is people today who, while streaming TV leave the room and go do something else for an hour or two without pausing the TV. “What, we finished that series already?” Grrr!
Also, Transylvania/Pennsylvania. I was kind of disappointed the first time I visited Pennsylvania and it wasn’t spooky, like an old Dracula movie.
Nah, it’s spooky like an old “Living Dead” movie. 
I thought “Rocky” the flying squirrel lived in the Rocky Mountains. I mean, where else? Along with his side kick Bullwinkle. I was looking forward to meeting them.
First time I visited as a kid I was a little…
In a similar vein, my first time to Disneyland was in 1959, a few months after the monorail had opened. A photo in the visitor’s guide we got on entering showed Unca Walt in the driver’s bubble up top.
When the train glided into the station I was keenly disappointed to see some girl up there.
Building on that idea…how a gas, heated-up enough and charged…becomes a plasma?
And in your blood…centrifuge out the red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, etc…the straw colored fluid left over is…
…plasma?
Ahem…
…that is, building on Senegoid’s post about atoms.
When I was a kid a science museum in the nearby big city was heavily advertising their new dinosaur exhibit. As I recall the TV ads showed vicious looking t-rexes in cages roaring and biting at the bars, and that sort of thing. I believed scientists had found some real dinosaurs that were still alive somewhere, and they were on display at the museum like a zoo exhibit. When we actually went to see it, it was just some stupid animatronic dinosaurs. I was very disappointed.
Imagine my thrill when, at the tender age of 30, I learned my bride’s grandparents were both originally from…Transylvania!
Sadly, they were not vampires. Although the grandpa DID talk a bit like Count Chocula.
Was he at least a sweet transvestite?
Likes chocolate…from Transyvlania…maybe so!
Due to old movies, I guess, I thought New York was gray all the time. Not just overcast weather, but like a black and white film. Ditto England, though when I visited there it was.
That was only the case until sometime in the 1930s.