I used to believe that Popeye the Sailor lived inside the power transformer up on the telephone pole. This idea arose from hearing the made-up lyrics that the neighborhood kids sang to the musical theme of Popeye cartoons: "I'm Popeye the sailor man, I live in a GARBAGE CAN, I eat all the worms and I spit out the germs..." Not knowing what the power transformer was, but simply that it resembled the shape of a garbage can, it was obvious to me that Popeye lived inside of it.
A childhood belief about cartoons
others believed things like this
- I used to think that if you ate spinach that eventually, you would be as big as popeye the sailor man.— Corrine
- I believed Popeye when he said spinach made him strong. Yuk Yuk Yuk— johnboy
- I used to think that if I ate spinach I would have a lot of strength (Popeye)— Fernando
- i used to believe that a monster lived in the garbage disposal. i would never go near the sink— Whitney
- when i was young i thought the if i would dress up as a transformer i could fly to school on haloween— ben
- i used to think, when i was about 4 that i lived inside a whale because i live ion the country Wales— mike