Whenever I heard stories about contortionists who could fit their whole body through a tennis racket, I always wondered how they managed to squeeze through all the little holes between the strings.
A childhood belief about special powers
others believed things like this
- I used to think that planes were held up by stringsAnon
- I used to believe planes flew by being attached by strings like a kite.Anon
- I forgot the expression "not cricket", so I said, "not tennis" instead.Anon
- When I was a kid I heard that the Beatles did acid and I wondered if they melted from it.Anon
- My nephew, at around age three, used to say that airplanes trailing white exhaust were "airplanes on strings".— Mojo!
- I used to think that "extra body" shampoo meant you could use the runoff suds to clean your body.— Christy