I had the same thought or gorillas fighting humans. Of course this was at the same time Planet of the Apes and its sequels frequently played on TV after school.
I’m so happy that I knew exactly what was linked, before I clicked.
The coloring on that panel (years after the fact) is fantastic. Dig the eyes on the werewolf!
Water gate, London, after they filled in the the edge of the river:
York Watergate, Thames Embankment Gardens, The Strand, London, January 2007 (urban75.org)
watergate london embankment - Bing images
And what it looked like before:
York Watergate - Part of the Secret London series by Historic UK (historic-uk.com)
My sister (as a child) thought music was synthesized. Somehow. (This was long before synthesizers!) She was absolutely astonished when she first saw an orchestra. What? Music is made by people? Wow!
When I was quite young, I thought that “vision” meant rays of some sort coming from the eyes. I couldn’t make sense of it. (Hey, the Ancient Greeks thought something similar! I’m in good company!)
If I didn’t already have trouble telling TriPolar and Trinopus apart…
I thought demented leprechauns under the street must have been controlling them (yes even at a young age {preschool} I was already noticing how capricious they seemed). Fast-forward 50 years, and frankly not much has changed-still have my suspicions…
Several people upthread said they believed the same thing.
Where I grew up as a child, we’d heard of Catholics and knew they still existed but I had never met one. Jewish people… they were like the American Indians, we only heard about them as part of the historical past. I wasn’t sure they still existed. Mostly we only heard about them in the Bible.
Everyone I’d ever met in real life was Protestant. There were four religions: Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, and snake-handling apostolic pentocostal born-agains.
Pretty sure you left out Lutherans.
I remember being surprised to learn that some people worked at night, unlike my father, who had a day job.
On Christmas morning, I looked outside expecting snow, and was disappointed to see dry pavement. For some reason I thought snow on Christmas Day was a requirement.
I also had the notion that Christmas couldn’t fall on a Saturday, which was a “fun” day when we watched cartoons all morning, Soupy Sales at noontime, and then went to see a movie at our local theater in the afternoon.
I thought that all the great songs we listened to on our local rock & roll station were all the songs that were released. I didn’t realize they were only playing the 40 top hits and not playing the dozens of stiffs they received.
That’s exactly what I thought but I also believed a woman could get another woman pregnant by peeing when she was top.
I also believed there was a skinny man inside the pole of a stoplight who changed the lights.
Sometimes I even confuse myself for that @Tripler guy.
Maybe the same guy peed on both your mothers…
My sister and I apparently believed that cars had a variety of tail light colors. We had observed that our uncle Dominic’s car had red tail lights, so when we were out on the road at night we would look for such cars and point them out to each other, saying “there’s a Dominic car”. I don’t understand why we failed to observe that every car was a Dominic car.
When I heard people talk about how much a job paid with a yearly salary, I thought workers literally were paid that amount once a year. If your job paid “$20,000 a year, you were given $20,000 up front and it had to last one year.
We are both suave, handsome, witty, sophisticated gentlemen. . . I can see the confusion.
Tripler
“Smooth.” Did I mention ‘smooth’ too? Add that to the list.
And I am a hairy man…
When I was a kid, I thought Trinopus and Tripler were the same person.
Most successful sock puppeting in SDMB history!