Comments on: So it’s not underground, right?

By: alison

alison — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 22:53:10 +0000

I have a story almost exactly like this. Have you heard of Naugahyde? The vinyl like product that old ladies used to have couches made out of? Well in my freshman year of high school we did a lineage project about “naugas.” No one even mentioned they were FICTIONAL animals! That summer my boyfriend at the time was describing his grandma’s naugahyde couch, and he asked me “you know what naugahyde is, right?” And I said “Yeah (duh!?). It’s the hide of a nauga!” I knew I was an idiot the second it came out of my mouth! He couldn’t stop telling people about it!

I can’t blame that one on public school, I went to private high school!!!

By: Audrey

Audrey — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 21:09:50 +0000

It took me a long time to figure out that the underground railroad wasn’t an actual train, too. And don’t even get me started on “underground newspapers.” for the longest time I envisioned a whole printing press and distribution center set up in underground tunnels. Why don’t teachers ever explain these things?

By: Christar

Christar — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:20:06 +0000

Sooo, wait… it wasn’t underground? Because I thought they had underground tunnels and routes that the slaves used.

I also thought it was a railroad system when I was younger. I don’t know when I came to the realization either.

I was just telling my mom the other day how when I was really little, I thought there was a little command center underground at every stop light, that a man sat at and controlled that intersection. When the light would change I would think, “Why isn’t he chaning it for us?”. Yea, talk about naive.

By: michelle

michelle — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 19:12:42 +0000

I remember being very sad about all the Central American Gorillas being killed during some insurgency or another.

I was intimidated by our Veteranarian, due to the marches in DC for Vietnam Veteranarians benefits.

The Norman invasion of England? In 1066? For some reason I thought the Normans were from Norway.

And the Berlin Wall? I thought it was along the border between East and West Germany.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:39:11 +0000

I knew that it wasn’t an acutal railroad, but I did think that it was tunnels. I, however, figured out the truth when I was like 9.