There was a cartoon sketch on Sesame Street where a comical guy wearing a barrel talked in rhyme about where all his clothes went. "These are the flies that made off with my ties... these are the moths that ate up my cloth... this is the glutton who ate my last button!" That last had a visual of a squirrel-type critter picking up a button and swallowing it. I thought for a while after that that a glutton was some kind of rodent.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- I used to believe a mouse lemur was a type of a rodent.Anon
- My visual representation of GOD was Mr Clean wearing a white robe... but his skin was a green/yellowish color.— Ryan Williams
- I used to think people were made of dirt and mayonnaise. I kind of rememeber picking this up at church.— julia
- My Nana told me that moths lay eggs in your hair. I still hate moths to this day.— Paula
- I used to think that babies were made when you press your mums belly button.
Then a baby would fall out— Chris Hyndman - I used to believe that “Emo” was related to Elmo from Sesame Street.Anon