Originally Posted By DlandDug >>At one point, they talked about the spaghetti harvest in Italy.<< Ah yes, the infamous Spaghetti Harvest. The footage was aired on the BBC on April 1, 1957. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27ugSKW4-QQ" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...gSKW4-QQ</a> More here: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_tree_hoax" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...ree_hoax</a>
Originally Posted By LVBelle I thought babies came out (I had no idea how or where they came out nor did I want to know) fully clothed and gender was determined by what they were wearing. My older brother also convinced me at one point that I would not be able to get married if I didn't pass a test. So he and his friend administered a test one day while we were all playing. I must have passed since I did eventually get married!
Originally Posted By TiggerPooh1973 I thought islands floated on the water and thought it must be really hard to make maps when the moved all the time. I also thought if I put om my mother's glasses (which she never let me) upside down, that I would see upside down. Oh, and Schoolhouse Rock? I went around the house singing, "Mommy, mommy, mommy get your F-words here."
Originally Posted By Lisann22 I thought KFC stood for Kentucky F....y Chicken. Nice, real nice. My mom about had a heart attack.
Originally Posted By TiggerPooh1973 LOL I have to give you one from my oldest son. When he got to the age where the "Where do babies come from?" talk was needed, I had given him this book to read. I can't think of what it was called, but it explained it a kid-friendly way and then you could talk it over. He's sitting there reading it and I hear him say..... "Oh! That's where babies come out of. Not China. I thought all babies came out of China." (And just so you all get it, it was the proper word for va-jay-jay.)
Originally Posted By Ursula You mean all babies don't come from VaChina?!? Okay, mine is funny and shows you how dumb I was. (Is). We saw Jaws. It scared the hejeebies out of me so much. I wouldn't swim in ANY water, even a swimming pool. I also thought that a shark could come up the potty and eat me rear-end first.
Originally Posted By avimagine I was terrified of bubble baths around the time of Jaws, I had to let all the water out
Originally Posted By DlandDug I'm... older... so it was "The Birds" that did it for me. After seeing the film, I was terrified of birds for years. One morning I woke up early because there was an odd noise at the window. I looked over, and there was a BIRD sitting on the elbow of the downspout, tapping at my window! I dove under the covers, shaking!
Originally Posted By avimagine Not older, more mature, experienced and wise Duggie! When I was little alot of the stores here had the old "magic doors" (the ones with the black weight pad in front of them). When they introduced the current style, I for the life of me couldn't figure out how they activated...
Originally Posted By avimagine Not older, more mature, experienced and wise Duggie! When I was little alot of the stores here had the old "magic doors" (the ones with the black weight pad in front of them). When they introduced the current style, I for the life of me couldn't figure out how they activated...
Originally Posted By Lisann22 Not to derail but I had a similar experience Dug. It was only a couple years after the movie was out that our neighborhood had crows getting juiced up on a berries from vine that grew wild in the area. They were getting wasted and attacking kids and anyone else walking the streets in the morning. It was all over the news and I was petrified we'd all end up like the movie.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip The movie that scared the heck out of me when I was young was the original "Invaders From Mars". For a long time I used masking tape to tape the edges of the shade in my bedroom to the window sill to totally block out any light from outside. Guess I figured if I couldn't see it I would be OK.
Originally Posted By goodgirl When I was little I thought that children who didn't go to the catholic grade school that I went to didn't believe in Jesus. No one ever told me this. It was just one of those things I assumed to be true.
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost >>>Ah yes, the infamous Spaghetti Harvest. The footage was aired on the BBC on April 1, 1957.<<< OMG...now it has become even more embarrassing. That means that I was almost 9 years old when I first saw it and I still didn't know any better. In my defense spaghetti production didn't come up in conversations all that often and this was the 50's no one ever made anything like that from scratch in that decade of opulence.
Originally Posted By DlandDug >>That means that I was almost 9 years old when I first saw it and I still didn't know any better.<< Don't feel so bad-- millions of adults in Great Britain were taken in by this harmless hoax.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan I was sure that if I went to bed and left my leg hanging out of the covers, at some point in the night a cold, reptilian hand would reach up from under the bed and grasp it. Only being in a cocoon of blankets protected you from whatever horrible night creature lurked under the bed.
