When I was in a scout group, one of the scout leaders said "shit" accidentally, and I asked her what she'd said, so she covered by saying she'd said "seventy-two". We were having fun with this and going around saying "Oh, seventy-two!" like it was a bad word.
A childhood belief about swearing

others believed things like this
- My sister used to think that "spit" was a bad word. She meant "shit".— "Spit!"
- I used to believe that your arse cheeks were actually full of shit!Anon
- i used to think that the word "stupid" was a curse word, ranging in scale right beside the "f" word.Anon
- i believed that michelle gayle's sweetness song contained the lyrics shade in sheep shit!— andrew
- In first grade, I thought that if I've never heard of a word before, then it wasn't a word.— Destiny
- I used to believe that virgins were an organized reliougous group who chose not to have sex.— Pamela