Dumb things you used to believe as a kid

I used to think that when people died, they went to the hospital to get resurrected.

And not exactly a belief but: When I was younger, when I watched Dexter's Laboratory, I remember wishing that the writers would go into more detail on the science that Dexter did.

You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!

Me Too!!

I spread my wings and I learn how to fly....

Used to think that the abbreviation "fl oz" stood, not for "fluid ounces", but for "floric ounces". Don't ask me what "floric" was supposed to mean; I didn't know. In fact, I was puzzled by it even at the time, which makes me wonder why I didn't realize it couldn't be right.

Always, somewhere, someone is fighting for you. As long as you remember them, you are not alone.

Floric...hm.

Relating to Fluoride?

I spread my wings and I learn how to fly....

This thread is full of things I would actually think were good ideas today. Thread binge:

This is a good idea for an extraterrestrial reproductive system.

This is another.

This is a good idea for a futuristic vending machine—one that sucks, of course. Don't they always?

I thought it automatically happened only once someone was married.

This is a good idea for the brain of some kind of artificial being.

Seeds that grow one location over the top of an existing one are a great idea, and full of fridge horror—what happens to the street underneath?

Awesome.

I similarly had a generic mental image for every word. I still do; it's involuntary.

I still make associations that way, though not the same ones, some even having originated at such a young age.

edited 19th Nov '10 9:29:11 PM by SPACETRAVEL

whoever wrote this shit needs to step on a rake in a comedic fashion

Uh... I can't top that.

I did used to think that Utah was a country seperate from the U.S., after a classmate made a big stink about going on vacation there.

Also: I always got Barbara Streisand and Martha Stewart mixed up. Somehow.

They assed first. I am only retaliating in an ass way. -The Dead Man's Life

@Spain Sun: My sister was similar. She didn't believe we lived in a dome, just inside the round earth, and wondered why spaceships never left holes.

Read my stories!

I thought prostitutes and protestants were the same thing.

Wait, they're not?

The best I can come up with is that I had an imaginary friend once because I thought I was supposed to.

But soft! What rock through yonder window breaks? It is a brick! And Juliet is out cold.

They aren't, apparently.

AHR has a sister?

Huh, yeah my perception of the Earth has always been odd.

For example, I thought that dinosaurs were still around because I thought "extinct" meant "very hard to find". I also thought they all lived on an island, incidentally, I had never (and still have never) seen or read anything Jurassic Park related.

I also used to think that if you stared at a place in the distance long enough, you'd teleport there. So I was always careful to look around a lot in the car. This got me diagnosed with ADD at one point.

I also also used to think that real skateboarding was exactly like the Tony Hawk games (the good ones, namely, 2X).

And of course, I had an imaginary friend. His name was Edy (I didn't know how to spell "Eddie" at the time) and he was a green robot ball that came out of a jack-in-the-box. He only had one eye.

edited 20th Nov '10 7:03:10 AM by SpainSun

I spread my wings and I learn how to fly....

Yep. 16 months apart. Brother too. 6 years apart.

Read my stories!

Interesting.

I always find it weird when I discover friends of mine have siblings.

I spread my wings and I learn how to fly....

You got any?

Read my stories!

Four, three of whom I live with.

The oldest is seven.

I spread my wings and I learn how to fly....

Technically, I was already engaging in fanfic-based world building in first grade, and it coincided with basically the only imaginary friend I had. Remember those books "The Littles"? Well yeah, my imaginary friend was one of those tiny people, his name was Oliver and he was a photographer and a pilot, his plane was big enough (by their standards anyway) to basically live in, and was propelled by steam-powered prop engines that were fueled by some advanced and very small form of coal. He divided his time between a living space in the older hangers of LaGuardia Airport in NYC and the thriving tiny-people community that was my elementary school's playground. Yeah, I was a weird kid...

I met my first real best friend that year when we essentially bonded over this and it became a shared universe. And I've been altering existing fictional worlds in my own writing ever since! (Is that grammatically correct? Am I derailing this thread?)

edited 20th Nov '10 7:26:30 AM by frog753

Flora Segunda | World Made By Hand | Monster Blood Tattoo ^You should read these series.

I remember learning about how babies were born a bit ahead of schedule, and then trying to reconcile it with what I already knew about the stork. What I came to was that after a baby is born, the stork takes it away to "prep" it, so to speak, for becoming a person, and then brings it back once it's all ready.

Likewise, the realization that Santa should have grown old and died a long time ago stumped me until it occured to me that one of the elves probably becomes Santa when Santa dies.

My Tumblr. Currently liveblogging Haruhi Suzumiya and revisiting Danganronpa V3.

I thought that sonic was in melee.

I also feel for this dumb cheat for Paper Mario that said that if I fixed all the leaks in Daniel's house I would get the mega hammer.

Speaking of dumb cheats, I printed out a huge list of over 100 ways to unlock Luigi in Mario 64, then went down the list trying everything to see if there was one that worked.

My Tumblr. Currently liveblogging Haruhi Suzumiya and revisiting Danganronpa V3.

When I was younger, I believed that people were always nice, and would turn into paintings/pictures/statues if they weren't. I believed that all those things were once people who had done something mean.

Never be without a Hat! Hot means heat. I don't care if your usage dates to 1300, it's my word, not yours. My Pm box is open.

Gee, maybe I should be meaner then, so I turn into a statue.

Stupid doomed timeline...

Used to think Blockbuster's was only open at night.

I wrote about a fish turning into the moon.

@Aliroz: Awesome idea, actually, and I apologize in advance for turning it even darker.

I'm imagining some sort of curse that causes someone's skin to turn to stone in patches when they are angry—if they're not angry, the process stops, but the more angry they get, the faster it develops. Skin previously turned to stone can never revert back, so they are at risk of becoming a statue if they do not eliminate their anger. It would be a good curse to put on a villain—perhaps one wealthy enough to hire henchmen, so that they can do that when they discover that chasing after foes themselves and exposing themselves to the sight of blood would be too emotional. He begins to work from underground, never exposing himself to the deeds of his mooks. Or the light of day at all, in fact—too risky. There are all kinds of annoying and maddening things out there.

So he succeeds at stalling his condition and is soon hailed as an emotionless, calculating Spock of the villain world—the Man With the Stone Jaw—until some protagonist comes along and presses an old berserk button at a plot-appropriate moment. The dude at last turns to pure, immobile stone right as he is about to smash the protagonist over the head with some blunt office supply.

Yeah, I might use that idea sometime. This thread is a goldmine; I should've read it ages ago.

edited 20th Nov '10 4:54:07 PM by SPACETRAVEL

whoever wrote this shit needs to step on a rake in a comedic fashion

@SPACETRAVEL: It's Excellent! One request: You should really make it even darker by combining it with the "don't make that face or it'll get stuck that way" myth.

Also, you should have a reverse Medusa that turns to stone when other people look at it angrily, thus sucking away the hatred and turning-into-stoneness. And an inverse Medusa that turns other people to stone when she looks at them angrily. And maybe combine those two.

edited 20th Nov '10 5:16:42 PM by AlirozTheConfused

Never be without a Hat! Hot means heat. I don't care if your usage dates to 1300, it's my word, not yours. My Pm box is open.

I want to read that.

Stupid doomed timeline...