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JoshuaJSlone said:
You know my cousin never lied to me except for this so i guess it was a faux pas. He probably believed it too HAHAHA
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What are wierd things that you used to believe when you were little?
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You know my cousin never lied to me except for this so i guess it was a faux pas. He probably believed it too HAHAHA
I think this will only make sense to the members that live in Southern California but when
I was a kid I thought the Cal Worthington commercials (Go See Cal, Go See Cal, Go See
Cal) were saying "Pussy Cow-Pussy Cow-Pussy Cow" didn't understand why people would
laugh hysterically when I would sing this classic jingle.
Oh...
I thought women pee'd out of their butts too.
I was a kid I thought the Cal Worthington commercials (Go See Cal, Go See Cal, Go See
Cal) were saying "Pussy Cow-Pussy Cow-Pussy Cow" didn't understand why people would
laugh hysterically when I would sing this classic jingle.
Oh...
I thought women pee'd out of their butts too.
thom said:
LOL, I remember those commerciasl. Old Cowboy dude usually dress in white riding cows right?
I got a good one, remember when Fox did a special on Independence Day about an alien invasion? My 7-9 year old newphew, niece, and little sister saw it with me and I had to spend the next couple of days trying to calm them. "There is no alien invasion, there is no alien invasion."
YES. i totally remember those cal worthington commercials, and i heard the song as "pussy cow" too. "if you wanna buy a car, pussy cow!" the running gimmick was that he'd have different animals in each commercial, and i thought he was calling them pussy cows, as in some fictional animal that was part cat and part cow. i didn't get it at all. "that's not a pussy cow; that's an ocelot."
and no one knows what the hell i'm talking about when i mention it now. :/
"pussy" as the female genitals never occured to me. i guess i was a sheltered kid.
in a similar vein, as a child i only knew the word "breast" as a high-toned literary cliché, as in "he felt a stirring in his breast." i couldn't understand why schoolmates found the word amusing, or why they thought men didn't have breasts. they'd titter at mentions of "breastplate" or male breast cancer, and then they'd laugh harder at me when i objected. it was some time before i made the connection between "breast" and "boob."
and no one knows what the hell i'm talking about when i mention it now. :/
"pussy" as the female genitals never occured to me. i guess i was a sheltered kid.
in a similar vein, as a child i only knew the word "breast" as a high-toned literary cliché, as in "he felt a stirring in his breast." i couldn't understand why schoolmates found the word amusing, or why they thought men didn't have breasts. they'd titter at mentions of "breastplate" or male breast cancer, and then they'd laugh harder at me when i objected. it was some time before i made the connection between "breast" and "boob."
Oh I could have a field day with this.
The usuals:
- The existence of Santa Clause
- Woman urinating out their asses
- Japan and China were THE EXACT SAME "THING" (geez there was a Japanese student in my class and I always thought she was Chinese even though her name was Nayomi)
- Girls sucked
- Languages like Arabic and Russian were "Spanish"
- Likewise, Japanese and Korean were "Chinese"
Weirder things...
- Gushers could really make your face go all whacky
The usuals:
- The existence of Santa Clause
- Woman urinating out their asses
- Japan and China were THE EXACT SAME "THING" (geez there was a Japanese student in my class and I always thought she was Chinese even though her name was Nayomi)
- Girls sucked
- Languages like Arabic and Russian were "Spanish"
- Likewise, Japanese and Korean were "Chinese"
Weirder things...
- Gushers could really make your face go all whacky
The Bookerman
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Ghostbusters really existed
Christoff Yurievich
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I had a friend who was a little overweight, and he thought that if he poked himself in the stomach hard enough with a needle, it would let all of the "air" out that was making him fat. It didn't work.
I mentioned this thread to the GF, and she told this horrendous story: as a kid, she believed in Santa and the Easter Bunny until one Easter when she received a candy basket, her mom kept asking her for a bite of candy but she stubbornly refused to give her anything, so the mom flips out. Mom explains to her that the bunny is fake...then tops it off by telling her the truth about Santa too!
Ninja Scooter
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thom said:
:lol were those "Federated" store commercials a SoCal exclusive too? Where the guy smashes TVs with a mallet. "FEDERATED FEDERATED FEDERATED!"
drohne said:
I feel for you, drohne. I do.
As for myself, well, I never really had any odd beliefs as a child that I can recall. There was the Santa Claus thing, obviously-- though that was debunked at a young age when I awoke late one night to find my mother feverishly scribbling out Christmas cards and placing them on wrapped presents. When she realized she had a peeping tom, she told me to "go back to bed, or else I'll tell Santa to take all these gifts back" (this was more than a week before Christmas, mind you
); needless to say, her charade didn't fool me for much longer after that incident. And I had one weird "belief", too. If anyone remembers the old TV series "War of the Worlds" (the 80's version), well, they used to have these nasty looking alien hands that would pop out of people's bellies and assume control of others; I was an avid viewer, of course, being heavily into sci-fi of all sorts. Anyway, one day my neighbor down the block chased these two kids who were trying to break into his car in broad daylight. They rounded the corner onto this court that's adjacent to my house and that was the last I saw of them. Now, what happened was that I had a dream that contained that exact same scenario, except in the dream, he chased them into a neighbor's yard across the street and then an alien hand proceeded to emerge from his gut and enter into the perpetrator. In my dream, I watched from my room's window in pure horror, and all of a sudden he looks up and sees me spying on him. So I run from the window only to hear a loud knock at my front door; I then curled up into a fetal position on my downstairs couch, because I was home alone. All I remember is him breaking the door down before I awoke.
The thing is, it took me a good year or so before I fully accepted that that was merely a dream which conflated actual with imagined events. That fact made it difficult for my mind to separate the waking events from the dream, for some reason (I was around 7 or 8, iirc). For the next year, I avoided that neighbor like the plague, believing him to be some evil alien entity housed in a human host.
I eventually came to terms with it and realized the truth of what had happened, thankfully.
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I remember watching a documentary on 16mm film in grade 1 or 2 or something. The Doc was about nature and one segment had to do with Snakes. It described how every 7 months or whatever a snake had to shed it's skin.
Something got me thinking that people had to shed their skin too and I was terrified of the day I'd wake up wrapped in my dead skin struggling to get out.
Something got me thinking that people had to shed their skin too and I was terrified of the day I'd wake up wrapped in my dead skin struggling to get out.
Those "pussy cow" commercials were hilarious... I think I only actually learned what he was saying 2 years ago... when we saw one of his commercials we were singing the song in the car an hour later, my friend looked at me like "WTF are you singing?"
mmm... future subliminal messaging or nintendo stole my idea? ::scratches chin::
Miguel said:
mmm... future subliminal messaging or nintendo stole my idea? ::scratches chin::
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