I was puzzled by the "sealing wax" that Jackie Paper brought Puff the Magic Dragon. I thought it was "ceiling wax" - wax that collected on the ceiling, a bit like earwax.
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
- My mum's aunt gave her daughter a copy of Jackie magazine. She refused to read it as her name was not Jackie.— Helen
- I used to believe that my dad use to find magic balls behind my ears and catch them in a paper bag.— Netty
- I used to believe that earwigs lived on earwax, and that they would crawl into my ear canal and eat my brain.— dodyskin
- Since the girls name Jackie is short for Jacqueline, I thought the boys name Jack was short for JackalAnon
- I thought planes collected clouds to make cotton balls.— Eddie