Things you thought were true when you were a kid

[PaulB]

I coulnd't fathom out how, when President Kennedy was hovering at death's door after being shot that another bullet in on him later was going to do any good at all.

 

[Mr Pig]

When I was a kid they told me that all life evolved out of nothing. Man, kids'll swallow anything ;0)

 

[numbnuts]

just before you got the cane
teacher -"this is going to hurt me more than it is going to hurt you"

 

[Chrisz]

If you could put salt on a pigeons/pheasants tail you could catch it. I always though that it would then not be able to move. Spent many a day in the woods with my brother and a bag of salt concocting many ingenious catapults and traps for getting salt onto said fowls tails

 

[longers]

That Teachers knew everything.

That my dad knew everything.

He does know quite a bit but now I know how much he was winging it

 

[karen.488walker]

I believed that my aunt really as wonder woman. gutted.

 

[Dayvo]

If my grandad hadn't stopped me from digging that huge hole in his garden, I'd have fallen into the sky in Australia!

That the only way to get better from being drunk was if you messed yourself, wet your pants and were sick over yourself! (wise words from my Mum; but I only did one of those three, when I was a bit older! )

 

[got-to-get-fit]

that if i swallowed my chewing gum it would stick to my insides and never come out.



Oh and that i would have somebodies eyes out with that....in 37 years i have never 'had somebodies eyes out'

 

[sheddy]

That cars would get even smaller by y2000

 

[Renard]

That the animals on 'Animal Magic' really could talk!

 

[TheDoctor]

That we'd all have hovercars, jetpacks and silver jumpsuits.
Oh, and we could live on the Moon.
I'm still waiting.
*drums fingers*

 

[Fnaar]

That we'd all have hovercars, jetpacks and silver jumpsuits.
Oh, and we could live on the Moon.
I'm still waiting.
*drums fingers*

I don't know their music, but there's a band called "We were promised jetpacks"

 

[colly]

If you could put salt on a pigeons/pheasants tail you could catch it. I always though that it would then not be able to move. Spent many a day in the woods with my brother and a bag of salt concocting many ingenious catapults and traps for getting salt onto said fowls tails

Didn't a drum of Saxa salt have a drawing on it of a boy chasing a chicken trying to pour salt onto it's tail?

IT MUST BE TRUE THEN!!

Not something I was told, but I used to wonder how on Earth they managed to play football in Switzerland.

 

[Fnaar]

I was always puzzled by seeing cows in fields near the sea. It didn't seem right, somehow.

 

[Yellow Fang]

I used to think posh accents were Yorkshire accents, after watching an American cartoon where the alien said he picked up his accent from a Yorkshire radio station.