I used to think that too.
If only that were true.
It is true. You don't need money to write a check. All you need is to run away fast, and probably leave the country and assume a new identity and stuff....
--Eric
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It is true. You don't need money to write a check. All you need is to run away fast, and probably leave the country and assume a new identity and stuff....
--Eric
Hmm... Lets see.
That a little "fix it man" lived inside the computer and fixed it when it was broken.
Everything used to be black and white. Like in old movies.
That babies were made when a mommy and a daddy hugged each other for a whole night.
Mickey Mouse lived in my woods and was an evil wizard.
That a little "fix it man" lived inside the computer and fixed it when it was broken.
Everything used to be black and white. Like in old movies.
That babies were made when a mommy and a daddy hugged each other for a whole night.
Mickey Mouse lived in my woods and was an evil wizard.
So screwed up.
Here we go:
1. "Our father who art in Heaven, Hell would be thy name." Until high school.
2. The world actually used to be black and white (I always wondered how they named the colors before they could see them.)
3. I saw a documentary that I remembered as saying that prison officials invented the color pink a few years earlier to calm the prisoners. I was really impressed that they created a whole other color.
4. I had a moron teacher who taught me that if the world stopped spinning, we'd all fly off of it, because that was what caused gravity. I spent countless hours trying to make sense of this, as experience shows just the opposite - that spinning causes things to fly away, not pull them in.
5. That you had to pay to get your first job (save up that birthday money so you can get a good one!)
6. That the only people who could go to college were the children of doctors or lawyers who wanted to become doctors or lawyers (until my junior year of high school).
I know there are more.
Here we go:
1. "Our father who art in Heaven, Hell would be thy name." Until high school.
2. The world actually used to be black and white (I always wondered how they named the colors before they could see them.)
3. I saw a documentary that I remembered as saying that prison officials invented the color pink a few years earlier to calm the prisoners. I was really impressed that they created a whole other color.
4. I had a moron teacher who taught me that if the world stopped spinning, we'd all fly off of it, because that was what caused gravity. I spent countless hours trying to make sense of this, as experience shows just the opposite - that spinning causes things to fly away, not pull them in.
5. That you had to pay to get your first job (save up that birthday money so you can get a good one!)
6. That the only people who could go to college were the children of doctors or lawyers who wanted to become doctors or lawyers (until my junior year of high school).
I know there are more.
If you swallowed chewing gum, it would get stuck inside your stomach.
That's the weirdest one, I think. I'll have to see if I can come up with any more.
That's the weirdest one, I think. I'll have to see if I can come up with any more.
The world was flat.
Actually this is so horrible:
We were little kids back then and very immature. Our friends sister was cold so my one friend suggested she hug a tree to keep warm. This poor kid goes to the tree and starts hugging it, and she kept doing it. She exclaimed "Hey guys, its working."
Looking back that was a very wrong thing to do.
Actually this is so horrible:
We were little kids back then and very immature. Our friends sister was cold so my one friend suggested she hug a tree to keep warm. This poor kid goes to the tree and starts hugging it, and she kept doing it. She exclaimed "Hey guys, its working."
Looking back that was a very wrong thing to do.
1) People were buried in aluminum foil when they died
2) Cemeteries were where people got married
3) Mail trucks had their own lanes to drive in
4) Dogs and cats lived under my house
5) I once tried to make a hot air balloon out of a garbage bag and a small cup of hot tap water
2) Cemeteries were where people got married
3) Mail trucks had their own lanes to drive in
4) Dogs and cats lived under my house
5) I once tried to make a hot air balloon out of a garbage bag and a small cup of hot tap water
That is actually true in many corrupt Asian countries.
Due to population explosion, for every one job opening there are thousands of qualified people. So you bribe (there are even standard rates) your interviewer/selection committee and get a job (mostly government), then try to recover money by asking for bribe from your customers/clients to do their work (which your are supposed to do even otherwise). If you don't get money, delay their work and cause hardship eventually making them to pay you up.
Don't believe me, ask your Asian Indian friends and you'll be amazed at the state of things in their country.
So, what happens if guys laugh to hard? There's nothing to protect them from embarrassment.
Oh I forgot another one:
I once believed Macs sucked.
i used to think that 2
i even argued with people about how macs actually did suck and how the fact that they didnt' get viruses was a load of BSIn a math class (grade 10) i told a guy that long hair actually block the flow of oxygen to the brain, and for a sec he believed me.
He said something like "really? r u serious?"
1. I always seemed to know that Santa Clause was fake but I believed Superman was real. Go figure.
2. Engines in cars had small Indians inside pulling levers and cranks to make it run. This was because "Engine" and "Injun" (the way I pronounced Indian as a child) sounded the same to me.
3. The moon had a giant rabbit inside. Not sure why but I would stare at the moon and could swear it would shake sometimes. I thought the rabbit was moving around in it.
2. Engines in cars had small Indians inside pulling levers and cranks to make it run. This was because "Engine" and "Injun" (the way I pronounced Indian as a child) sounded the same to me.
3. The moon had a giant rabbit inside. Not sure why but I would stare at the moon and could swear it would shake sometimes. I thought the rabbit was moving around in it.
on occasion, i still do.
a couple months ago, i got a fortune that read, "you will take a chance on something new." i took it as a sign.
a while ago i was on a date and i said "oh i'll pay for dinner" and then we get the fortune cookies right then and my fortune was somthing like "small acts of kindness will go a long way"
When I was young I was told life gets better when you get older. So far that hasn't proven true at all... quite the opposite.
When I was four or five, I remember I used to get really mad at my mom when she wouldn't buy me something. I'd ask her why, and she said she didn't have any money with her.
"So write a check, you don't need money to write a check!" I said.
When I was around 6, I told my mom to buy me a Porsche when I get my license, she said she dont have that kinda of money. I responded "Get it from the bank."
I think you will find all of the following mildly to moderately humorous:
- I used to think "And to the republic for which it stands" was actually "And to the republic for Richard Stands." One of my mother's friends's name was Richard Stands. I thought, "So that's who that guy is!"
- I used to think that girls and women urinated out of their butts until the sixth grade. (Sex education really is important.)
- I thought that all women just became pregnant automatically once they became an adult, but if a woman didn't want their baby, they just took pills that killed the fetus. The woman would then defecate the corpse (rather disturbing).
- They were four stages of development throughout life, baby; kid; big kid; grown-up; old person.
- When my parents asked me if I had to poop before we left to go somewhere, they would use the euphemism, "bowel movement." Up until the seventh grade, I thought they were saying "bound movement."
Seems to be a few of these "Chewing Gum Stuck in the Body" scenarios. Four or five so far.
OK When I was about 8 I thought that I'd try to invent a new colour and I realised that water was colourless so I could try to name it. The name I came up with was... (this is so embarrassing)... (maybe it's not that bad)...(you be the judge)... SilverSeethrough. Anyway I believed that I had come up with an excellent new name for the colour of water.
I remember thinking that if the world stopped spinning that we all fly off it too. But what is strange about that was that I understood the science but I just never bothered to apply it. I think it all began with the science fiction film "When the Earth Stopped".
So then you had a lucky night.
erickkoch said:
That'd be big bunny
I used to believe night came because the moon eclipsed the sun every night... until I was about 8
That's when everyone was talking about the aug. '99 solar eclipse. Once, there was a discussion between some adults about that, and I was like "What's the big deal about the moon eclipsing the sun? It happens all the time!". I was pretty when they explained the whole thing.
That's when everyone was talking about the aug. '99 solar eclipse. Once, there was a discussion between some adults about that, and I was like "What's the big deal about the moon eclipsing the sun? It happens all the time!". I was pretty
when they explained the whole thing.
I used to believe that a healthy male could get a young woman pregnant just by kissing her. The sperm would be in the guy's saliva glands and transfer to the woman via saliva. Of course that was before I found out about vaginas and I thought that babies would pop out of the woman's stomach and tear through her flesh. Sort of like puncturing the foil seal on a bottle of antifreeze with ball point pen.