Weird stuff you thought when you were a kid

In My Humble Opinion
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I haven’t had a chance to read all the responses (the ones I’ve seen are pretty cool!) – but here’s one of my memories: As a kid I always thought music played on the radio was live. I didn’t have (much) exposure to recorded music back in those dark pre-technology days, so that concept never occured to me. And I guess my folks never channel-hopped that much, so I never had to figure out how musicians could be playing, live, on more than one station at the same time.

Ah, youth!

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When people would talk about alcoholics, drinking alcohol, etc, I was so confused, because to me, alcohol was rubbing alcohol. I didn’t know that booze was alcohol. I wondered how people could drink alcohol, because wouldn’t they die?

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I thought they shrank musicians into tapes etc so they could record their songs

I thought they knew dogs had 7 years to 1 human year by asking some sort of ‘head dog’ who could speak. I also believed dogs had different barks in different countries woof woof, le bark le bark, die bark die bark, - I really through they had accents and everthing

My parents told me the Ice cream jingle was the sound of the dog catcher and whenever i heard it i would hide are dog, - MAN They were CRUEL!!! Just wanted to save 70p!!!

Yeah being a kid was weird!!!

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I believe it was robert schimmel who said “sometimes, but that’s $35 extra”

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I believe it was robert schimmel who said “sometimes, but that’s $35 extra”

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I can’t believe no one else has posted this, 'cause I think it’s pretty common: When I was little, I thought clowns were a separate race, and that their faces looked like that. The first time I saw a movie with a clown taking off his makeup, I was astounded. I thought he was a fake clown!

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A couple more: My older sister said that the black seeds in bananas were tarantula eggs, which would hatch in your stomach if you ate them. (I really didn’t fall for this one, but my younger brother still won’t eat bananas!)

I thought people only had sex when they wanted to conceive a child, (why else would they do something so nasty?), and I thought that conception occurred EVERY time a couple had sex! (Actually, this turned out to be almost true in my case! :slight_smile: )

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I thought the equator was an invisible lion that ran around the earth. Really, that’s an easy mistake to make.