If you pulled a face, and the clock struck on the hour, your face would stay in that position.
A childhood belief about appearance

others believed things like this
- My mom always told me if I made an ugly face it would stay that way forever.Anon
- i thought the line "saving my face" from the KT Tunstall song of the same name was "shaving my face"Anon
- I used to believe that if you put cow poo on your face, it would get rid of my freckles. — Col x
- I thought god looked like the face on the play-doh can!— Jonathan Franz
- As a child I always wondered why I could see everyone else's face and not mine.— Amit
- if you have freckles it is because you didnt wash your face well enoughAnon