I used to believe that when people died their eyes turned into X's, like on the cartoons. Oh and I thought your tongue hung out when you died so every time I played dead I had my tongue out... lol
A childhood belief about people
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- I used to believe that when you died no matter what your tongue hung out the side of your mouth. Anon
- I used to think that all people closed their eyes and stuck their tongue out when they died.Anon
- i always thought that people always died with their tongue hanging out— Ernesto Shredder
- I used to believe that you had to have your eyes closed and your tongue sticking out for you to be dead! — pinkgreencrazy
- that if you stuck out your tongue at your mother, your hand would stick up out of the grave when you died.— Elaine. London
- I used to think that "cross-eyed" meant that people had X's for eyes, like dead people in cartoons.— Tim