When I was little and listened to "Puff the Magic Dragon," I thought when they said, "brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff," that they were saying "ceiling wax." I thought it was like floor wax but for the ceiling. I used to wonder what the point of waxing the ceiling was!
A childhood belief about misheard lyrics
others believed things like this
- My brother used to believe that ceiling fans were helicopters flipped upsidedown and stuck in the ceiling.— Seven
- I got the 1990s and 1900s mixed up, so I thought people wore that fancy old-fashioned garb in the 1990's.Anon
- 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
- When i was a kid, i thought that the tv changed channels by dark magic.— Anna
- whenever the tv announcer said "brought to you", I thought it was one word - "brotue".Anon