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I used to believe…

When I were little I used to believe that there used to be a camera in every room in my house and people used to spie on me with them.

I used to believe…

Before I was old enough to go to school, I used to believe that TV sets had little tiny actors inside the box and that every show or movie was a play they were putting on live, complete with props and scenery. I used to peek behind the TV between shows thinking I would see the tiny actors come out because their work was done for the day. When I didn't see them, I thought they must have some secret passageway in and out of the TV so that "big" people like me couldn't see them coming and going.

I used to believe…

When I was young (5-6), I used to believe that I was being watched through my TV by the actors, so I always hesitated to do anything like adjusting my shirt or harassing my older sister.

I felt that they knew what were watching because they watching us, and that's how they got the ratings of shows.

I used to believe…

My parents used to love "Lonesome Dove," so naturally I always watched it too. At one point there is a prostitute playing the piano, and Robert Duvall yells from upstairs "Tell that whore to stop playing and get up here" or something along those lines. So naturally my siblings and I asked what a whore was. My parents decided between them that a prostitute was a woman who played the piano.

The very next Sunday my mom told the pianist at our church the story, just in case we were to tell her what a good whore she was.

I used to believe there actually exists real-life equivalent of Cruella DeVil from "101 dalmatians", only she's called Lustylla DeBet (debet means debit in Polish) and she is accountant, she drives old-fashioned car like the one from movie, only the front of it is divided in half by T account and it has "Fa VAT 146" on its plate ("Fa Vat" is invoice in Polish) and there are accouncy documents stuck behind the wipers!

I used to believe…

When you were younger, there was never a "skin-colored" crayon, right? Well, I thought Matt Groening was having the same problem when he created The Simpsons. I contemplated finding one to send to him, but as long as Homer was yellow, someone famous had the same problem I did.

I didn't like being alone :P

I loved the movie Lion King. When the lions would kiss, they licked their heads. (I know it sounds weird) So I figured it was just a form of kissing. I was wrong. I figured it out when I licked my dad on the cheek. You can imagine the rest.

I used to believe (when i was 4 or 5) that there was only 1 radio station. Radio Disney

I used to believe…

When my parents took me to see my godfather I got really scared because I thought he would be a gangster and he would kill me. I think I overdosed on Hollywood.

I used to believe…

when i was young, i used to watch Popeye. There was one scene where popeye was beaten to a pulp by bruno or bluto or whatever his name was, and was in dire need of spinach.

So when there was this voice bubble above popeye saying "SOS", i immediately thought it was "spinach!...oh spinach!"...

it wasnt until many years later till my cousin corrected me.

I used to believe…

When I was little, I didn't know the difference between "cash" and "change". So I used to wonder, when people won money on game shows, how the contestants got thousands of dollars in quarters home.

I used to believe…

When i was 5, i thought there were people in the TV
lost the remote i would yell at the people to do something else, because i couldnt change the channel. My parents then opened up the TV and showed me there were no people, and i screamed "YOU KILLED THEM"and i cried all day in my room.

i used to believe that to be able to watch tv or listen to the radio u had to have ppl live in there also one day when i changed the channel and it was a whole dif person i thought i killed the other ppls...LOL

I used to believe…

You know how sometimes adverts are cut short to make them fir into the alloted time spot, but they are sometimes shown in full?
Well when i was little, i thought that the shortened versions where there because the long version actors were sick - so new actors had to come in and do the advert.
Now, the reason the adverts were shorter... becuase the new actors couldnt remember the words...

I used to believe…

cartoons could come out of the tv and do what you wanted

I used to think that it was impossible for a cartoon movie to be rated PG-13 (British equivelent: 12 or 15), or certainly not R (British: 18) So when I heard about a cartoon movie rated PG-13 I got really confused. It just didn't make sense to me.