What silly thing did you once believe in?

[Zulu Romeo]

A thing called love.

 

[Trekker4747]

What silly thing did you once believe in?

The good that is in humanity.

 

[ITL]

John Lennon's got a song about money too you should hear.

That was actually Berry Gordy and Janie Bradford.



ZR, flying lizard

I once believed I shared a birthday with Berry Gordy.

And I still believe that. Because it's true.

ITL, subverting

 

[Omnius]

I once believed that every december a white elderly male would sail on his steamboat all the way from Spain to the Netherlands with his black henchmen. He would celebrate his birthday here on the fifth and that night he would visit (on his white horse) every kid and give them a present if they had been nice. If they had been naughty the black henchmen would capture you in their sack and take you with them back to Spain.
Coincidentally this white male wore a costume closely resembling that of a roman catholic bishop...

 

[Finn]

I believed the owner of my favorite NFL football team actually knew what he was doing.

The Lions?

 

[Nardpuncher]

I'm completely full now of posts that say "true love" or The good of humanity whatever. No more thanks.

 

[Colonel Green]

When I was a kid I used to sit on the lawn, at night, with a flashlight. I'd shine it into the sky and wonder what was happening to the beam of light as it made its way through the universe.

I believed this too!

Also:

Music from the 90s was good.

I'd never find a girl.

The US Army were the good guys, primarily deployed to spread democracy and help people. Good song though.

 

[Aragorn]

I believed the owner of my favorite NFL football team actually knew what he was doing.

The Lions?

Uhhh... no one thinks the Lions are a well-run team.

 

[greenguy]

Age limits for any and all sports.

Sugar.

Butter.

The flexibility potential of my shoulders, back, and hamstrings.

 

[Mary Ann]

I once believed that every december a white elderly male would sail on his steamboat all the way from Spain to the Netherlands with his black henchmen. He would celebrate his birthday here on the fifth and that night he would visit (on his white horse) every kid and give them a present if they had been nice. If they had been naughty the black henchmen would capture you in their sack and take you with them back to Spain.
Coincidentally this white male wore a costume closely resembling that of a roman catholic bishop...

Yep, been there, done the shoe-by-the-fireplace thing. My belief in this bishop guy came to an abrupt halt when I was 5 and my family moved to Canada, as there is simply no way to believably turn Sinter Klaas into Santa Claus.

"Black henchmen"...love it!

 

[Omnius]

I once believed that every december a white elderly male would sail on his steamboat all the way from Spain to the Netherlands with his black henchmen. He would celebrate his birthday here on the fifth and that night he would visit (on his white horse) every kid and give them a present if they had been nice. If they had been naughty the black henchmen would capture you in their sack and take you with them back to Spain.
Coincidentally this white male wore a costume closely resembling that of a roman catholic bishop...

Yep, been there, done the shoe-by-the-fireplace thing. My belief in this bishop guy came to an abrupt halt when I was 5 and my family moved to Canada, as there is simply no way to believably turn Sinter Klaas into Santa Claus.

"Black henchmen"...love it!

When I was young I remember my father would go out on Sinterklaas eve, pretending to take out the trash or something. Then we'd hear loud knocking on the window or front door and the sound of candy being thrown into the front hall (Pepernoten!). On inspection we'd discover a big sack of presents.

Oh and the weeks before Sinterklaas we'd too put our shoes at the front door (we didnt have a fireplace) with a poem for Sinterklaas and a carrot for his horse.

 

[Amaris]

I once believed that every december a white elderly male would sail on his steamboat all the way from Spain to the Netherlands with his black henchmen. He would celebrate his birthday here on the fifth and that night he would visit (on his white horse) every kid and give them a present if they had been nice. If they had been naughty the black henchmen would capture you in their sack and take you with them back to Spain.
Coincidentally this white male wore a costume closely resembling that of a roman catholic bishop...

Yep, been there, done the shoe-by-the-fireplace thing. My belief in this bishop guy came to an abrupt halt when I was 5 and my family moved to Canada, as there is simply no way to believably turn Sinter Klaas into Santa Claus.

"Black henchmen"...love it!

When I was young I remember my father would go out on Sinterklaas eve, pretending to take out the trash or something. Then we'd hear loud knocking on the window or front door and the sound of candy being thrown into the front hall (Pepernoten!). On inspection we'd discover a big sack of presents.

Oh and the weeks before Sinterklaas we'd too put our shoes at the front door (we didnt have a fireplace) with a poem for Sinterklaas and a carrot for his horse.

That is neat.

 

[pork3]

For much of my life I was convinced I had a large penis.
Much to my regret, during my year long stay at a Federal penitentiary, I was forcibly exposed to the truth....

-Jamman

 

[Holdfast]

Good thread.

Or that (and I really don't know why) Skeletor would come through the toilet whenever I'm on it and, again, get me.

Freud would have a field day with that one.

Back in the 1960s, some color TV sets had a switch on the back labeled "COLOR KILLER." A friend convinced me that if you pressed that switch, the set would only show black-and-white and you'd NEVER be able to get the color back.

(Come to think of it, I still don't know what that switch was for.)

Gives a clearer picture on B&W transmissions, apparently (I got curious, and googled).

That I saw somebody playing Galaga and get a 'triple' ship. (You actually could only do that in Galaga '88, not the original Galaga)

Oh, that explains that! I thought the same thing and didn't know that was only available in a particular release.

Damn, I thought I was the only one who thought they'd seen this!

 

[Goliath]

When I was a boy, I would never fill a glass of water from the tap if I could hear a toilet flushing, for fear that those pipes were all somehow connected.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

- That they made a Back to the Future, Part IV where they travelled back in time to see dinosaurs, but you could only find it at one video store in California. (When I was a kid, California seemed like some sort of magical other-realm.)

There was actually a Back to the Future The Ride in which they traveled back to the dinosaurs. I wouldn't be surprised if some video store had the (relatively brief) material on bootleg video somewhere.

Or, if you're a kid and see a part of that ride on TV somewhere, you later think you saw the movie or got confused and thought they'd at least made the movie.

No. At that age, I was savvy enough to know about The Ride. My friend honestly had me believing that there had been another movie. (I don't know if he really believed it, honestly wanted to believe it, or just enjoyed telling me lies that I was credulous enough to believe.) Of course, back in the days before the internet, it was tough to gather information about this kind of thing.

Back in the 1960s, some color TV sets had a switch on the back labeled "COLOR KILLER."

A "color killer" switch back in the 1960s? This wasn't by chance a feature that was only available in the South, was it?

 

[scotpens]

I once believed that every december a white elderly male would sail on his steamboat all the way from Spain to the Netherlands with his black henchmen. He would celebrate his birthday here on the fifth and that night he would visit (on his white horse) every kid and give them a present if they had been nice. If they had been naughty the black henchmen would capture you in their sack and take you with them back to Spain.

Coincidentally this white male wore a costume closely resembling that of a roman catholic bishop...

Is that the original Saint Nicholas myth? I never heard it before. Interesting how he was Americanized into Santa Claus, starting with Clement Clarke Moore's famous 1823 poem.

When I was a boy, I would never fill a glass of water from the tap if I could hear a toilet flushing, for fear that those pipes were all somehow connected.

Young children have a lot of fears involving toilets. I used to be afraid to walk or crawl under any large pipe because I was afraid it was a sewer pipe and might burst and dump shit all over me.

Back in the 1960s, some color TV sets had a switch on the back labeled “COLOR KILLER.”

A “color killer” switch back in the 1960s? This wasn't by chance a feature that was only available in the South, was it?

Yes, it was a regional feature -- it turned black people white! It was called “DE-colorization.”

 

[Capn Flukie]

I swear to God, I believed turkeys could fly.

 

[sojourner]

^"As god is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!"

 

[RJDiogenes]

Turkeys still think they can fly.