media

I used to believe…

My aunty is a tv news presenter and when my cousin was about two he thought mum was behind the tv and he used to go and sit behind the tv for hours!

I used to believe…

Being a child of the 70's i used to thinks whilst watching The Bionic Woman on TV that i too could leap over fences etc. SO at the age of about 6 i went to the top of the stairs and made the dur dur dur dur noise that used to play when she jumped and leaped off the top of the stairs - how i didn't break my neck i will never know...... talk about tV influencing our young fragile little minds...

I used to believe…

My mom always listened to oldies' in the car. I didn't have my own radio until I was 11. This is when I found out there was more than one radio station!

I used to believe…

Growing up in Southern California there was an auto dealer named Cal Worthington and his dog spot. Now spot could be a bengal tiger, a monkey, whatever, so it's already confusing right? Well there was a song on the commercials advising you that, "If you want a car or truck GO SEE CAL" but since it was so fast and I was already confused, I thought the song was, "If you want a car or truck, PUSSY COW."
And it sort of made sense with a lion sitting on top of a car. I've talked to alot of friends who thought the exact same thing when they heard this commercial.

I could never figure out how people appeared on TV. Me and my sister used to always hide behind the TV trying to see if we could be seen on the TV. I believed that for so many years that when I saw an operation on TV, I was afraid they were actually doing it in our living room!

I used to believe around five years old that the records I heard on the radio were actually live bands performing at the radio station. I just couldn't figure out how they could change bands so quickly between songs.

I used to believe the Chucky doll from childsplay was behind my grandmothers toilet and never wanted to use her bathroom...

I used to believe…

Once when I was a kid I used to believe that there were little people in my TV that were always doing a skit or something, so I always asked my mom if they ever took breaks.

I used to think that when I was listening to the radio that the frequency was how much it costed, like per hour of use. So i would normally listen to 84.5, but not 107.5, cause I wanted to save my money.

I used to believe…

When I was little I often saw an odd commercial where a struck match was put out with a small circular pad (Tucks medicated pads). From this I believed that these were special pads for putting out matches, which seemed quite odd but then the adult world was foreign to me then.

I didn't know about radio stations - I always thought that radios knew who was listening to them, and played what that person liked.

I used to believe…

When I was younger (about 8), I used to get Alfred Hitchcock confused with Adolf Hitler, because of their names.

I used to believe…

when i was younger there used to be a cooking show that my mom and grandma used to watch called the froogle gourmet, and I thought that he was always called the 'google' gourmet, so whenever the show came on, i would always yell 'look it's the google gourmet!'

I used to believe…

When I was a child I was fascinated by Julia Child and her show "The French Chef". I believed Julia had magical powers. She would make a dish or desert and then put it in the oven or refrigerator. When she was finished putting everything together she would look at the audience, say a few "magic words" and, POOF! Out came the finished product!

I used to believed that there are tiny people living inside the radio and read those news broadcasts. I used to spend a lot of time standing behind the radio (which is quite big at that time) trying to catch someone when they are out shopping. I have never spotted one, but I figured out that they did so when I'm asleep.

I used to believe (and still believe, don't laugh) that there was this place that unpopular cartoon characters and everything that ever was made (toys, books, movies, etc.) lived in. It was called forever. DO NOT GIGGLE!