When I was about six or seven one of those big black ants bit me...and I started screaming, my mom and one of my older brothers came running in to see what was wrong. When they found the ant and got it off they said it was a "Pouting ant", it would only bite you if you were pouting....needless to say I WAS pouting about something at the time...but I was much more careful from then on...those pouting ants can hurt!
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i used to think bugs could sting you through closed glass windows.
This all began when I was 13 (embarrassingly old, I know!). On school camps my friends told me to watch out for 'drop bears'. They said they were a kind of small bear that dropped down onto you from overhanging branches. I was sure this was a lie, but nobody would tell me any different, so I assumed 'drop bear' was a euphemism for something disgusting. It was only this year (I am now 25) that I pestered my friends into admitting that 'drop bear' is actually totally meaningless.
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My mom used to always tell me, "You are what you eat." So I thought that if I ever ate a bug, or something still alive, I would turn into it.
When I was little, I asked my dad why buffalo wings were called that, because I didn't know that buffalos in fact did have wings, and not only did they have wings, but they flew over our house at night and made sure we were safe. This whole lie was told to me by my father, and to this day, even though I know buffalos do not fly, I look out my window at night and look for flying buffalos.
1-I used to belive that naugahyde (vinyl) came from the hides of cute little tan animals named Naugas and I wanted one as a pet and that they looked like naked cats.
2-I also thought that Mouton (fake fur) was a type of extinct rabbit-llama creature.
3-I thought that a hyena was the result of a dog and cat mating.
4. I also believed that an elephant could suck you up his nose like a vaccum cleaner or blow you across the street if it sneezed
I had a very active imagination as a kid.
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I used to believe that mosquito larvae were baby hammerhead sharks. Made the ditch a very dangerous place!
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I used to believe that if you stared into a cat's eyes, my eyes would turn that color too.
i always used to call ants 'lumps' and that slugs were homeless snails. also one time,me and my mum were walking in the park when a bee flew up her skirt,she yelled 'b*****d' at it so i copied-it was so funny.
When I was little, I was playing outside and something got under my shirt and I ran in the house crying. My mom located the bug, which turned out to be a grasshopper......I didn't want to go outside again as I thought the same thing might happen.....in fact, I told my mom that I wouldn't even go out in the winter time. When she asked why, I told her that there would be "snowhoppers"!! Mom laughed, I didn't think it was so funny!
Once I was playing at my friend Corey's house and his dog was following us around the yard. I wanted the dog to play fetch like on cartoons, but he was only interested in the stick if I held it, so I let him chew on it.
Corey looked over and screamed, "Stop feeding sticks to my dog! He's a robot dog and you'll jam up his gears!"
When I said I didn't believe him he said, "Oh yeah? Well if he's not a robot dog, then why do I have to feed him battery acid?"
I believed him, and when the dog was hit by a car a few months later, I knew my sticks were the REAL reason he died.
My aunt's dog once pooped silver poop and she said it was because he ate a silver crayon. I thought that if you fed a dog a certain color crayon, it would automatically poop that color.
when we were young my sister, brother and I were watching a documentary on laughing hienas with my Dad and he convinced us they lived in the woods behind our house. At night to scare us he would say "Can laughing hienas open doors?"
My dad used to tell me elaborate tales about a pet mouse he'd had as a boy. He made airplanes for it and all kinds of stuff. It would talk to him, etc. In first grade we had a test on "fact or fiction". Something like, "Which is fact, a talking squirrel or Abraham Lincoln was a president?" I totally failed the test and never could comprehend why my dad would lie to me about such an incredible thing.
I used to believe there were calves' heads in those cans of Pet Milk.
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When I was a child, I told my parents that I wanted a French poodle because I believed that it would bark in French.
When me and my sisters were little we believed that dragon flys would sew your mouth shut so when ever we saw them we made sure that we covered our mouths
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that sheep had legs longer on one side then other thats why they could stand on mountain sides without falling down
When I was 12 I saw the old version of the Dr.Dolittle movie. Because there was a 2 headed llama in it, I thought that all llamas had 2 heads!
I used to believe you got warts if you touched a toad.