Part of the reason I'm so rebellious in ways you can't imagine could be from this Sesame Street song called "It's Hip To Be A Square" that would play a lot back when I watched it. I took it to mean a square was considered a cool person.
A childhood belief about songs
others believed things like this
- Huey Lewis's "Hip to be square" - in 3rd grade I could have SWORN it was "hit the beef square". ????Anon
- i used to believe that i really would end up with square eyes if i watched too much tvAnon
- I used to be told that if you watched too much TV your eyes would turn square. — Amy
- I used to believe that if i watched TV for too long, my eyes would turn square. As told to me by my mother.— Alex
- If you look at a screen too long, your eyes will turn square.Anon
- My parents used to tell me watching television turns your eyes square.— Ruth