To My Beloved Royalty...

        

Guest post by "Chergel"
I was thoroughly convinced that the song that goes "everybody dance now" was actually singing "everybody pants down". I got detention for talking about this at my private school.

Submitted March 9, 2015 at 12:53AM

        

More things than I can count! For instance, my dad had a '65 Chevy with a  big gaping burn hole in the back seat from a poorly-aimed cigarette. I was not only afraid to sit where that burn hole was, I would scream in terror if forced to sit there. I assumed spiders would crawl out of that hole and all over me.

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Submitted March 9, 2015 at 1:11AM

        

Guest post by "Nestor Notabilis"
The funniest/weirdest one I can remember is thinking that if I wanted it enough I could be a werewolf and spend my nights running around the desert and having fun.

Submitted March 9, 2015 at 1:54AM

        

Guest post by "Being Useful"
My parents talked about how my uncle was in the navy and he was really cool and high rank and I was like "that would be awesome" and I liked that all the way up until I saw a movie about the navy... and the people were weird... and then there was shooting and explosions and they all died.

I then decided I wanted to be an engineer(a train one... my parents never quite got that part when I would say "engineer").

That being said, if they *weren't* space rangers, what on earth were they doing there?

Submitted March 9, 2015 at 2:38AM

        

Guest post by "Niceguy Eddie"
How much trouble do I get in if I say "religion?"

Submitted March 9, 2015 at 7:40AM

        

Guest post by "Rainey"
I had a mischievous grandpa that told me that the long black grains of rice in mixed rice were really spider legs. XD

Submitted March 9, 2015 at 12:49PM

        

Guest post by "Allie"
What Eddie said. And some specific things about religion... somehow I think I took at face value that eternal torment and genocide and telling your groupie to kill his son through a burning bush were okay if it was God doing it :/

I was also convinced that everyone's sex automatically changed every few years, kinda like Hutts in Star Wars or Gethenians in the Hainish Cycle (neither of which I was aware of at the time btw, so I didn't get the idea from either of those places ). But that's no sillier than the things cis people take for granted about sex and gender well into adulthood, so meh

Submitted March 9, 2015 at 6:53PM

        

Guest post by "Allie"
I also took for granted that everyone automatically had enough income to survive on and that anything they got by working was extra. But that's not silly, that's a perfectly reasonable assumption coming from a kid who'd never been hungry or homeless and knew nothing about power/domination/oppression 

Submitted March 9, 2015 at 7:00PM

        

Guys: I'm going to ask you to to be tolerant of all beliefs here. Not everyone believes the same thing. If you have a problem with someone else's beliefs, please find a different forum for that discussion. We're not gonna be making fun of different belief systems or lacks thereof, even if we feel it's deserved. Okay? That's a price of entry for this comment section, and something I'm gonna enforce.

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Submitted March 9, 2015 at 9:32PM

        

Guest post by "Allie"
If that's about my comments on religion, I'd like to point out that I was talking about my *own* beliefs when I was a kid. But fair enough, some people might not like my self-criticism and you shouldn't have to deal with the fallout

Submitted March 10, 2015 at 8:28AM

        

I getcha. But you know.... these things escalate. It's like they used to say in a more sexist era: "Three things you don't talk about in good company..... religion, politics, and other men's wives". ;') In other words, with loaded topics, I prefer to tread carefully in these comments.

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Submitted March 10, 2015 at 12:03PM

        

Guest post by "Whirlwitch"
I believed that cork trees grew exactly like they're drawn in The Story of Ferdinand - trees with little wine corks growing as fruit.  It took a long time before I learned what cork was, and realized that that illustration was a joke.

I also believed that boys and men had short hair because they couldn't grow it long - the first time I saw a man with a long ponytail I was amazed at seeing an impossible thing.  Then I wondered why, if boys could grow their hair long, did at least some of them not do it?

Submitted March 10, 2015 at 3:31PM

        

Guest post by "Gellibean"
There's a song where the chorus goes "Here comes the Silverton up from Durango, here comes the Silverton shovelin' coal."  It's pretty obvious (now) from the rest of the lyrics that it's about a train, but when I was little those two lines were the only part I paid attention to and I got:

"Here comes the silverton up from the rainbow, here comes the silverton covered in gold."

Submitted March 11, 2015 at 6:23AM

        

Guest post by "sleepyrobin"
OK, I don't get it.  Why do they (both?) believe that "Grease" has something to do with space rangers?

Submitted March 11, 2015 at 10:01PM

        

Guest post by "Rachel P"
A production of Grease in the 1940s? Obviously, Irma is not that good at maths (don't attack me for pluralising the word - we say it that way in the UK), or people in the 40's had a good idea of the future. It would also mean her parents are really old!

Submitted March 13, 2015 at 3:11AM

        

Guest post by "Niceguy Eddie"
Sincere apologies. Poor judgement on my part to start than stone rollin.

Submitted March 13, 2015 at 5:44AM

        

Submitted March 13, 2015 at 1:07PM