Thread: Strange ideas you had as a small child.

As a small kid, I used to love watching Westerns on the telly on a Sunday afternoon.
You would always see one of these windmills on a ranch in the movie at some time.



As a small kid, I thought that a very large Indian had shot a very large arrow into the back of the windmill.
This Indian got about a bit as well as he seemed to have shot every windmill in every Western I ever saw.


Another weird thought (yes, I was a weird kid).

On the way to school, I would pass several office blocks and there would always be a huge TO LET sign.
I thought there was some guy who couldn't spell toilet correctly and I was puzzled as to why he would want to tell everyone that there was a toilet on the 5th floor.
This guy also got around as he always miss-spelled the word no matter which block of offices I saw the sign on.

Anybody else hold some strange ideas when they were very young?

I had a lot of strange ideas as a child. Or, perhaps they weren't that strange, but normal ideas that kiddies have.

I've forgotten most of them.

Except for the wanting to be a pro baseball player and banging Farah Fawcett in her prime, when she starred in Charlie's Angels.

Rummaging around in my parent's bedroom when they were out and finding what I thought were packets of chewing gum.
Opened them up and found that they were greasy balloons and wondering why I wasn't given any.

I thought pussy would taste like strawberries, not naam pla.

Originally Posted by Attilla the Hen

Rummaging around in my parent's bedroom when they were out and finding what I thought were packets of chewing gum.
Opened them up and found that they were greasy balloons and wondering why I wasn't given any.

I remember when young sissy grabbed some condoms in a store, and said "Cool. Look at these balloons. Let's get them."

When I was about 6 I had to go to Sunday School and always say the Lords Prayer, the bit about Forgive us our Trespasses I always thought it was about straying onto private land, ( there was a sign nearby on some land saying NO TRESPASSING by order)

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

I thought pussy would taste like strawberries, not naam pla.

And the smell, too.

Originally Posted by TSR2

When I was about 6 I had to go to Sunday School and always say the Lords Prayer, the bit about Forgive us our Trespasses I always thought it was about straying onto private land, ( there was a sign nearby on some land saying NO TRESPASSING by order)

Yes, we had to recite the Lord's Prayer every morning at Assembly.
I always thought that Hello was a funny name for God to choose as in "Hello be thy name".

I was a strange child. Had it's moments, to be sure.

Just about dusk when the moon is visible while the sun is still out . . . I thought it was the sun's bum. I now know this to not be the case as the sun is Asian and has no bum.

True story . . . well, the first part

When the Door's song "light My Fire" was a hit I thought the line "Try to set the night of fire" was "Try to set the night on my girl". I was too young to know much about that, but even then it sounded like a rather good idea.

I wanted to be Anna Pavlova. Closest I got was her legs and small boobies.

I thought Mr. T possessed superhuman strength. It was a sad day when my father told me that Mr. T was a mere mortal, no more capable of throwing our station wagon over the house than I was.

I though it would be fun to be a grown-up

Originally Posted by rotator

I though it would be fun to be a grown-up

it ain't??

Originally Posted by killerbees

It was a sad day when my father told me that Mr. T was a mere mortal, no more capable of throwing our station wagon over the house than I was.

Zionist Lies!

Originally Posted by Attilla the Hen

Yes, we had to recite the Lord's Prayer every morning at Assembly. I always thought that Hello was a funny name for God to choose as in "Hello be thy name".

There was some hymn or song that went "...and I am the lord of the dance, said he" and I always wondered what a "dance settee" was

I thought All grown ups were nice honest people who told the truth!

I thought the entire world/planet consisted of the neighborhood I lived in.

I thought that if I closed my eyes and concentrated hard enough that I'd be able to levitate. Even had myself convinced that it was working.

I wanted to join a circus. Not any old circus, mind you. But a crumblimg, crooked, broken-down 10-member New Zealand family circus with animals and everything.

I thought money really did grow on trees, as mommy said they didn't.
Santa claus and the tooth fairy were real.

I hated Rambo as well....

I thought that God looked like Uncle Ben off the rice packets.

And he may well do. I cannot prove or disprove this one.