When i was little my brother told me when we were eating tea that every bobble on a piece of brocolli takes a minute of your life. I wouldn’t eat brocolli for weeks after that.
anyone else been told somehing and been gulliable or just freaked by it?
blivit hunting
No, but that reminds me of one episode of Arthur when someone, Francine, I think, told Buster that if you eat a potato chip with green on it then you’ll die. And he ate one, and so he thought he was gonna die…but then he didn’t.
Oh, that reminds me, one time there was a unicycle on Arthur!!
Man, I miss Arthur…
I used to watch that show all the time, maybe ill download some episodes form the internet.
The main thing I remember though, was snipe hunting, stupid little snipes…
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I never actually went snipe hunting, but that reminds me of an episode of Doug where Doug was the new kid in town, and Roger Klotz told him that to be cool, he had to find a Nematoad…so Doug went and tried to find a Nematoad, but he couldn’t of course, because they don’t exist. But then Porkchop, his dog, fell in the mud and got all muddy and covered in grass, and jumped out and scared Roger because Roger thought he was a nematoad.
Doug was an even better show than Arthur…
You watched that too? That was my favorite tv show when I was littler. And it was actually Buster and Arthur that tricked D.W. into thinking she would die after she ate the green potato chip out of their collection.
EDIT: Oh yeah, when I was really little I believed that there were toilet monsters.
That episode of doug was a good one, I remember the one where skeeter was gonna move, and dough and him though he was moving to a different town but he just moved downstairs, then there was that one song “banging on a trashcan, something something” lol
I remember, as a little kid, if I concentrated my energy below my feet, I could fly, like on dragonball, dragonball Z, and dragonball GT.
I used to think the crust on bread would make my hair turn curly and would make me mean… never ate crust til age 10.
If you don’t eat your crust, there’ll be an earthquake or something.
I learned that on Bill Nye.
The was a really popular rumour circulating when I was a kid that insulation from construction sites kills you within a day if you touch it.
They took gullible out of the dictionary
I’ve been calling frogs nematoads ever since I saw that show…
My Gramma used to tell me that if I ate my bread crust I would get curly hair, too. I wanted nothing of it, so I never ate my crust either. Except from Mr. A’s Deli becaue it was the best bread in the world!
She also told me I’d get worms from eating raw dough or batter.
Nematodes are actually quite common, they are just very small. I did a sculpture of one for a science center. They are a type of worm, in just about all soil (even antarctic) and some can be parasitic.
My mum told us to eat all our greens so we would grow up big and strong - I’m still waiting ;0
When I was in grade 2, some of the big kids (grade 8, fresh frm health class I presume) asked me if I was an ovary or a fallopian tube. Because fallopian sounded like such a dumb word, the answer was obvious. With a smug look I said, I’m an ovary. Turns out there was a scheme here, they guffawed mercilessly chanting ‘Ha ha, he’s an ovary!’
I only had a few seconds to react and keep my cool. ‘No, I’m a fallopian tube!’
Turns out that was an answer worth laughing at as well.
My dad had his unergraduate degree in invertebrate zoology. When I was a kid and began to develop a potty mouth, he taught me just what words to call the kids who were bullying me:
Diphyllabothrium latum (which is the scientific latin for an intestinal tape worm).
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Mmm…Pasta. May I have more please Sir?
When we were kids my dad would look in our ears to tell us whether we were full yet. Never really believed him.
Kaycee got me to believe he had X-ray vision when I was about 5 years old. I believed him until I was 8.
I was told that if I sneezed and coughed at the same time, my head would explode.
And If I unscrewed my bellybutton my bum would fall off.
I’m 36, and only now I’m finding out these things aren’t true.