What silly thing did you once believe in?

[Nardpuncher]

That toilets flush counter-clockwise in the southern hemisphere.

That kids can get a sugar rush.

That the hole in the ozone layer is caused by CFCs.

That astronauts on the space shuttle float due to lack of gravity.

 

[Nardpuncher]

Oh, for the funny kid ones: I'd heard from friends that anything metallic and blue would shrink in the sun..so I had a blue bike I kept under a tree and my Thunderbirds toy (number 5 I think...the chubby one with short wings that carried a module inside) never went outside.

 

[xortex]

Whenever I wear black and blue, I think I'd bean beat up. I still believe that. and red that I'm bleeding.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

That kids can get a sugar rush.

Why is that silly?

 

[Nardpuncher]

That kids can get a sugar rush.

Why is that silly?

I know, this one dies hard...I was surprised too, but there's no such thing as a sugar rush.
No matter what, people will still tell me this is true. So i don't even bother linking to the articles and the studies and I don't even bother explaining what's really happening when kids get silly at a Chuck E Cheese.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ Don't you DARE tell me that there's no caffeine rush though.

And there are still some silly things that I DO believe in:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZjhjvLO4f4[/yt]

 

[Nardpuncher]

Sure, caffeine is a stimulant. it'll work. Don't give it to kids. They can get their own!

 

[LitmusDragon]

I somehow got the idea the pedestrians were small, flightless birds.

So whenever I'd see a sign that said "pedestrian crossing" I thought it meant little birds might be crossing the road.

 

[greenguy]

I used to think all furnaces were alive after watching Home Alone since I was only 4 when it came out. Basements were terrifying for a little while after that.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

I once believed in Zion Ravescene. But that was a long time ago.

 

[Nociod]

When I was younger I believed that I had to wait one hour after having eating before I could go swimming, or else suffer the consequences of cramps and possibly drown

I'm pretty sure that this is the case for a lot of other board members as well.

 

[Jetfire]

I once believed that "putting out" got you love.

 

[StarryEyed]

When I was a teen, I believed UFOs were alien craft and that aliens built the pyramids.

 

[LitmusDragon]

When I was a teen, I believed UFOs were alien craft and that aliens built the pyramids.

Ah that reminds me, when I was about 15 I came across the "MJ-12" documents on some BBS and read the entire thing page to page and it really freaked me out.

Long story short, this supposedly true document details that the aliens crash landed at Roswell, our government signed a deal with them shortly thereafter, and has been covering up their involvement in our affairs (including biological experimentation and alien-human hybrid programs) in exchange for alien technology which turns out to be several massive underground facilities built and operated by joint US military and alien forces.

Oh and the reason they mutilate cows? Because they feed through the skin. They distill the cow blood into a liquid protein and soak it up through their mucous membranes.

Some entertaining stuff which I was certain had to be true at the time.

 

[ALF]

Callbacks for acting gigs.

 

[AstroSmurf]

When I was younger I actually thought that "quantum singularity" was an actual scientific term for a black hole and not something they made up on Star Trek. I think I even used it in a couple of papers in high school. (What is even more scary is the fact my physics teacher didn't catch it.)

I also once believed that my mom picked me out of a catalog, like you would a Cabbage Patch Doll, but they had sent the wrong one. (My uncle is an idiot and should never have told me that story.) I didn't find out later that I was really an accident and my mother had been given explicit instructions by her doctor not to get pregnant. I am not sure which version is worse. But either way, here I am and it is to late to stuff me back in and ask for a refund.

 

[scotpens]

I somehow got the idea the pedestrians were small, flightless birds.

Only this one.

Back in the 1960s, some color TV sets had a switch on the back labeled "COLOR KILLER." A friend convinced me that if you pressed that switch, the set would only show black-and-white and you'd NEVER be able to get the color back.

(Come to think of it, I still don't know what that switch was for.)

 

[mari]

Wouldn't exactly say I believed it, but I kept hoping I could find a magic spell or something to make me fall into my books and live with the Ingallses or Anne of Green Gables or the Boxcar Children... it all just seemed more interesting than real life. In retrospect, "interesting" generally translated to "dangerous and life-threatening", and I probably wouldn't have liked it at all.

 

[scotpens]

Wouldn't exactly say I believed it, but I kept hoping I could find a magic spell or something to make me fall into my books and live with the Ingallses or Anne of Green Gables or the Boxcar Children... it all just seemed more interesting than real life.

It's a very common fantasy for children and adults alike. Have you read Woody Allen's short story "The Kugelmass Episode"?

 

[RJDiogenes]

I used to believe that Trekkies were progressive, open-minded idealists who believed in a Utopian future. Then came the Internet....