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I used to believe…

In Czech Rep. there is a cartoon every day at seven. It has the same tune since it has been started X years ago.A voice there says "Good night" in the end. As a little girl I used to believe that the boy who is saying this, had to go to TV-studio, wait till the cartoon is over and then say "Goog Night". "Poor boy" i thought.

I used to believe…

Several years ago my brother's friend bought a handheld Tetris game. For some reason he was utterly convinced that if you'd put the batteries in the wrong way around the direction of movement of the falling blocks would be reversed.

For some reason he never got the blocks to "fall" from the bottom part to the top of the screen.

I used to watch "The Gary Gnu Show" religiously. They had a character on there named Speed Reader. I thought he actually was reading as fast as it looked like he was.

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From watching commercials on tv when I was a kid, I thought that charcoal briquettes only were hot if they were white.

When I was about 8 years old, dad thought that I was old enough to get the grill going. After a couple minutes I noticed that one of the briquettes got loose - thought it would be cool - picked it up to move it - got one hell of a burn blister on my thumb.

I learned at a young age not to believe everything you see on tv commercials.

Tv programs, (e.g. Dukes of Hazzard) were another story. :-)

I used to believe…

When I was about 6, I used to think that Lorne Greene from Bonanza could see me through the television, and I refused to change into my pajamas without hiding behind a chair. Interestingly enough, he was the only one I thought could see.

I used to believe…

when i was young, i had never seen A Nighmare on Elm Street and i didn't know that Freddy Krueger was the villain from that movie, i always just assumed that when people talked about Freddy Krueger they were talking about a keebler elf. i guess i thought this because Krueger and Keebler sound a bit alike, and i think there's a keebler elf named fred or something. anyway, so whenever someone talked about being scared to death of Freddy Krueger, i would laugh at them hysterically because i would always picture them being scared of a keebler elf. i believed this until i was 14 years old, when i went to a wax museum, and there was a wax figure of Freddy Krueger, and it said that he was the nighmare on elm st. villain and all, and then i understood why the other kids would look at me funny or run away whimpering when i laughed at them for being scared of him.

I used to believe…

When I was about 7 years old, our television set broke. My Mother decided that she would drive over and borrow my Grandmother's set, since said Grandmother was on vacation and obviously wouldn't be using it. I didn't see the point in this, since my Grandma's set was very old and subsequently we could only watch old shows on it, not the new ones I wanted to see.

I used to believe really strongly that the posters of people in my room could see me. I used to hide under my bed when I changed my clothes so they couldn't see me.

I was also convience that there was just always someone watching me (other than God) no matter where I was up until I was like 12. I actually still sometimes think it in my head. But I'm a dumbass anyway.

I used to believe…

As a child, I went to a Montessori school, and I thought that the Flintstones were a "Montessori Family", not a "Modern Stone-Age Family" Whenever I see a field-trip from a Montessori school, I tell them this, and they have a good laugh about it.

I used to believe that Orson Welles (the filmmaker) had also written the famous books "1984" and "Animal Farm", which recently I found out were in fact written by George Orwell (the actual author). And "by found out" I mean just ten minutes ago.

I used to believe…

When I was a child, I believed that the people on TV could look back into the camera and see everyone that was watching. During the children's learning activities (ie. Sesame Street, Polka Dot Door), I would go out of my way thinking that they would tell my parents if I didn't

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One time when mom had dinner ready and she said to turn the TV off and come to the table, I remember thinking the TV would pause and I could come back to it later. (Way before Tivo!)

I used to think that when you watched the TV the person on the other side had a TV that they could see me through it!

I used to pull faces at the TV and if someone laughed I thought it was because I was pulling faces at them.

I used to believe that when I heard a song on the radio, the band that was on was actually there live! I would imaging a stage where they were performing, with somebody behind the curtain, recording.

I used to believe…

When I was little, watching the movie Look Who's Talking, I decided that Kirstie Alley and John Travolta were married, and the parts where they filmed them "having sex" (rolling around in underwear) was really them in their home. I assumd the camera men just went there and filmed them doing the deed and then used it in the movie.

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When I was little, I used to love watching horror movies. However, they scared me so much that I would never watch the "scary" parts.

Despite that, I loved The Nightmare on Elm Street series.

I tried to watch the scary parts, and they gave me nightmares.

I tried to not go to sleep for quite a while after that, because I was scared that Freddy was going to come get me again, although I had lived through the first one. He had killed all the survivors from the movie so naturally there was only me left to kill...

I used to believe…

After watching "Child's Play" I held the belief that all of my dolls would come alive. I had my Jessie-doll that was approximately the same size as Chucky, that my grandma had given me when I was really young. She sat on a shelf above my bed near my feet. I turned the doll around to face the wall so I couldn't see her face, and covered her as much as I could with my other stuffed animals. I managed to ignore it until quite a few years later when I was 13 and watched "The Exorcist". Again, I turned that doll around and hid it. Today, it sits in a box where I can't see it, and that doll and other porcelain ones still creep me out..