What silly thing did you once believe in?

[Udat]

When I was young I believed Margret Thatcher and the Queen were the same people.

Apple pips were poisonous,

You never died, you lived forever

My mother told me she got me from the monkeys and when ever I was naughty she would tell me Mommy monkey is comming to get me.

 

[captcalhoun]

that the Conservatives were the good guys and Labour was evil.

thank fuck i woke up from that one.

i also had this kinda twisted notion that i shouldn't have bad guy toys like Decepticons or Cobra, and i should only have the good guys.

i still have way more Autobots than Decepticons, but since i got into collecting vintage Joes, i've got 45 Joes to 37 Cobras...

 

[Miss Chicken]

When I was young I thought one of the lines of "God Save the Queen" was 'send her to Victoria' and I couldn't understand why that Australian state should get to keep her.

 

[Deranged Nasat]

When I was young I believed Margret Thatcher and the Queen were the same people.

Now I'm reminded of that "Spitting Image" sketch...

 

[Kirby]

My parents used to tell us that they would call the Gypsies to come take us away when we were misbehaving. One time my mom actually picked up the phone and started dialing and it freaked the shit out of me.

 

[Thespeckledkiwi]

The theory of evolution...

 

[kustirider2]

I used to have a high bed, which had a storage space underneith, and I used to think there were creatures under there. I remember when I was about 7 years old, I'd have night after night of nightmares because of it. Eventually my parents had to buy me a new bed because it scared me too much

I also used to believe I had an imaginary friend, when I was really young. Not really too odd.. but a few years ago my Uncle went to a seance and they talked to a spirit that had the same name and characteristics of my imaginary friend.

 

[Me-Ike]

Is the piping network Skeletor's usual means of travel? Or was he just so desperate to get you he'd try anything?

I didn't care how Skeletor traveled! Crouching through the sewers, clicking the heels of his red pumps together, Eternia Airlines ... I wasn't going to investigate that. But I could diminish the threat he posed by carefully reducing the ratio of the time my butt spent on the toilet seat.
It's what heroes do.

 

[Showdown]

I used to believe dial up was pretty good. I even defended it on a internet forum.

 

[mari]

I also used to believe I had an imaginary friend, when I was really young. Not really too odd.. but a few years ago my Uncle went to a seance and they talked to a spirit that had the same name and characteristics of my imaginary friend.

I had an imaginary friend too! His name was Jim. My mother swears to this day he was some kind of evil spirit, because he made me bratty.

 

[Deranged Nasat]

Is the piping network Skeletor's usual means of travel? Or was he just so desperate to get you he'd try anything?

I didn't care how Skeletor traveled! Crouching through the sewers, clicking the heels of his red pumps together, Eternia Airlines ... I wasn't going to investigate that. But I could diminish the threat he posed by carefully reducing the ratio of the time my butt spent on the toilet seat.
It's what heroes do.

 

[MetalPants]

Fun childhood myths...

If you went under a railroad bridge, you had to duck your head if a train was going over or else your head would be flattened like a pancake.

Also, the food you ate would totally reform itself in your stomach, and be completely whole and recognizable, like in the cartoons.
Another stupid myth that I believed was that when you went to college, instantly zits would disappear, and that everyone was just super social, and partied all the time, and you made friends that would last you the rest of your life. Boy, I busted that myth!

 

[think]

I used to believe the people who got high cared for more then just getting high?
strange how wrong I was.

 

[Yeoman Randi]

My parents used to tell us that they would call the Gypsies to come take us away when we were misbehaving. One time my mom actually picked up the phone and started dialing and it freaked the shit out of me.

OMG!

If you swallowed gum it would all ball up in your stomach and eventually kill you, Santa, Easter Bunny and if you had your hands or feet hanging over the bed at night some horrible evil thing would cut them off at the bed line.

 

[Captain Ice]

I also told her that there were monsters in the closet and if her closet door wasn't fully closed, it would come out and get her in the night. 30 years later, she says she still can't sleep with a closet door open.

One night when he was babysitting my youngest brother, my middle brother told him that he didn't have to worry about the monsters living in the closet because they were afraid of the monsters living under his bed.

I used to believe that the large AC vents in Kmart stores would suck me up into them.

 

[RandyS]

The theory of evolution...

That one.

Most people are still monkeys.

Myself excluded of course.

 

[think]

banana time in the monkey cage is always a round of laughs

 

[TerokNor]

Some of my cousins and I used to camp in the garden on warm summer days/nights. One time, when we were around hm..7 years old I believe, we had just finsihed a midnight water fight and lay exausted in the grass looking up at all the stars in the wide sky and one of my cousins told us, that there was a black hole nearby, that grew bigger and bigger every second and soon would be so big that it would just shallow up us all. I believed that and was terrified dying that way.

TerokNor

 

[RJDiogenes]

I'm reminded of a time when I was about six that I decided I wanted to get out of school, and so feigned illness. My Mother asked me if I wanted Milk of Magnesia to feel better. In order to perpetuate the verisimilitude of my illness, I agreed. As she hove the spoonful of horrible chalky liquid toward my mouth, she advised me that taking Milk of Magnesia when not sick would result in a scary ride to the hospital in an ambulance. I cracked and confessed to everything.

 

[StarryEyed]

The theory of evolution...

I used to think that the FACT (not belief) of evolution would be obvious to anyone born since 1950. Obviously, my faith in education was quite misplaced.

I was VERY silly.