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I used to believe that the Sony Playstation games could be played in the computer. So I placed the disk into the CPU and crashed the entire computer... I got a scolding for doing something stupid. ( I was only 5 then, how was I suppose to know?)

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The TV show "I Dream of Jeannie" featured Larry Hagman in the lead role of "Major Nelson," an astronaut. The show made such an impression upon me that I thought Major Nelson was a real astronaut that the show was based on. When I asked my father how many times Major Nelson went to the moon, he explained to me that he was just an imaginary character and didn't really exist. But to me "Nelson" sounded so much like a real astronaut's name, that I found it hard to believe. I later got a book out of the library about astronauts and searched all throughout it for any sign of a Nelson. Of course, I never found one. But I wonder--if one of those Apollo astronauts had the last name Nelson, would I have been convinced for a good while longer that Major Nelson was indeed a real astronaut? Hmmmm...

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When I was about 8 years old, I used to watch a few TV programs from time to time. One of them was "Please Don't Eat The Daisies", which was a short lived sitcom about a family with four boys (two of them twins), similar in style to the Brady Bunch that came out a few years later. In "Daisies", the mother was a bit "bubble headed", a little wacky/silly. Somehow I had the idea that when a mother had a lot of kids, it kind of drained her, to the point where if she had too many she'd become really stupid. So I warned my mother not to have any more children (I was the oldest of 2). She asked me why and I said "because I wouldn't want you to become stupid." Needless to say, I went to bed without any dinner that night. I still believed it was true until I was a few years older and I asked a few "careful" questions of my school science teacher, to later learn how silly the idea was. ;-)

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When my mother was young, she used to watch American musicals like Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and South Pacific etc and believed that in America people broke out into song and dance in the street whenever the mood took them.

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When i was younger i seen the movie "IT" and i would take very short showers and not very often at that, because i thought a verrry scary clown would come out and eat me.

I used to think hte commercials for "male enhancement" were for "mail" enhancemetn.

i htought that they would send you mail so it seemed like you were popular and more people would like you.

boy was i far off....

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When I was 5 or 6 I thought Matt Dillon (Gunsmoke)shot a new guy every week. I decided I didn't want to be an actor if I might get shot by Matt Dillon.
It just seemed a high price to pay for fame.

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At the end of Disney movies, they would always show the "And" symbol, &. Like "in assosioation with Disney & Lupin the Third", or whatever....Well, When the & came up, I thought that if I didn't rewind the tape or turn off the TV, that movie would never play again.

I used to be afraid of the little disney movie called "Donald in Mathmagic Land" Not the hole movie, just when they showed the universe. I used to climb up on the back of the couch and sit Cuz I thought I'd be Safe there. I was an idiot...

I always felt really akward eating while I watched a movie. I thought that only my favorite actors could see me and that would be rude to eat while they talked. ie- Don't eat while Davy Jones is talking on Pirates of the Caribbean, he can see me.

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As a child our TV stayed on one channel. We had a TV
anntena and got only a few channels. For some reason I thought the neighbors were watching us on their TV. We had a fire and ran to the neighbors. I was
stunned to see they were watching the evening news
instead of us. I remmeber my mom telling my brothers to behave because the neighbors were watching us.
Maby thats why I thought this... wierd I know lol

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When my mom would take me to the movies she would let us go to the front row but I hated sitting there because I thought there was a giant hole for the movie people to put in a giant cassette tape, and i would fall in.

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When I was little and knew nothing about the Simpsons except that they were a TV show, and that there was one called Homer, one called Bart etc. I mixed up Lisa and Maggie's names.

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When I was little, I used to believe that Jerry from Tom and Jerry was a girl because of his eyelashes, and that Jerry was a girl name. I realised what it was really like when I was 9 years...

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When I was a kid, I was terrified of scary movies and new nothing about the differences between Freddy Kruger and Jason. To me, they were all the same thing. After realizing, that I was born on the 13th and that I lived on Elm Street, I was horrified at the thought that Freddy Kruger could potentially be my father.

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remember the series that used to play on SABC2 on tuesdays-THE X-FILE?When I was eight I used to belief that if i watch it,I will also become one on the people being murdered or those creatures that used to be shown there. Scary stuff

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When I was eight, commercials for the Coloriffic brand of coloring impliments were all over the place. And I desperately wanted a Coloriffic brand thing, because it showed the kids drawing wild stuff that came to life. Unfortunately the school supply shopping trip passed and we just got normal Crayola (I didn't bother telling my parents why it had to be Coloriffic and nothing else so I just went with Crayola). It wasn't until about fourth, fifth, or sixth grade and I got a set of Coloriffic colored pencils that I realized I had been done in by a clever marketing ploy.