When I was laughing hysterically at something, my mom would ask me "What's so funny that's making you laugh so much like Hanina". I had no idea who "Hanina" really was, but I thought it was the name of some girl that my parents knew who liked laughing a lot. Later, I found out that she meant "laugh like a hyena", not "Hanina", and a hyena was an animal that laughs.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- I used to think that the laugh track on sitcoms were the camera men, directors, other actors, ect. laughing.Anon
- I thought the expression "so funny I forgot to laugh" was literal instead of sarcastic— Not so funny after all
- When i was little i thought that people could laugh in different languages— Lauren
- We would drive by UNION BANK here in California and I would say "Onion bank!" My Mom would bust up laughing.— BINGO
- I used to believe that a vitamin was a small animal
only recently I have found out that it is not true... :)— Sylwia - Looking back at it, the belief that dogs eat cats is a pretty funny idea. I used to believe it myself.Anon