Childhood myths

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Originally Posted by Spiffing Cheese

When I was little my uncle told me that if you peeled an orange in one go, the peel would look like an elephant's head and I believed it for years. :(

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If I had an orange I would show you how it's done. :P Because that's very possible. (And very easy, if you think about it.)

EDIT: Thanks, Google!

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i2...1c5d29b7a5.jpg

def not an elephant XD

Elephants are phallic

• I believed that wishing on a star really truly worked.
  
• If two people really really loved each other and they kissed, they would make a baby.
  
• Eating watermelon seeds would cause fruit to grow in your belly.
  
• If you turned on a fan in a room and closed the door and fell asleep, you would DIE.
  
• When you're on your bed and sleeping and one of your limbs (arms, legs) fell off the side of the bed, it was cause ghosts under the bed were trying to pull you down. I don't believe this anymore, but I still always always keep my arms and legs from falling off the side of the bed.
  
• My Dad (who is a minister) would get paid for his work directly by God. God would come during the night and dump money on his bed for all his hard work for the past month or whatever.

lol i believed in the keeping the limbs on the bed thing and the watermelon thing lol.

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Originally Posted by Roto13

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Originally Posted by Spiffing Cheese

When I was little my uncle told me that if you peeled an orange in one go, the peel would look like an elephant's head and I believed it for years. :(

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If I had an orange I would show you how it's done. :P Because that's very possible. (And very easy, if you think about it.)

EDIT: Thanks, Google!

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i2...1c5d29b7a5.jpg

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Now that's just profane! Ban Ban Ban!

I see the elephant, but the other visual is funny xD

I used to figure there was -something- under my bed. Not necessarily monsters or anything. But just to be safe if I had to go to bed while it was dark, I'd jump in bed a few feet away instead of walking up and crawling in. That way nothing could grab me

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Originally Posted by Spiffing Cheese

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Originally Posted by Levian

I thought GUM got stuck in your stomach for seven years if you swallowed, but so did my mom. I think she still thinks that actually.

Anyway, one of the reasons why I almost never chewed gum in the first place.

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...I still thought that was true, like, a year ago. ;___;

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..what, that's not true?!

I know it's possible, but my uncle had me convinced that it was impossible to peel an orange WITHOUT it looking like that. xD

There was a mermaid in the bathtub.

For a short time I thought God existed, but then I came to my senses and grew up.

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Originally Posted by Jojee

Penises were as big as a stick of lipstick~ (this was as a teen for some time xD)

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lol no comment :D

I used to think letters got sent via a network of tubes that went under the streets, and ATMs printed cash!

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Originally Posted by Jojee

My ex and his mom (she still believes this xD) and a ton of people in Brazil apparently believed or believes that if you ate grapes and then drank milk together, you'd get some sort of bad reaction and then die. :p

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I've heard that eating cherries and drinking milk together on a hot day = death, and actually some president died from this, or so I've been told. :eek:

I thought we had a pool behind the pot-shelf in our kitchen. Mom had to yell at me to keep me from crawling behind there and trying to find a door ><

When I was very little I thought I'd fall through the tiny gaps between the boards on the balcony, or through the imaginary line between the patio and the grass :spin:

I used to believe that the stars were watching me.