Would you believe....they put a man on the moon!!

Tar.Aldarion · 20-10-2006 02:59PM

My brothers used to believe I was a vampire with a magic stick in my pants.

tallus · 20-10-2006 03:07PM

My mother used to tell us that if you ate an apple core that an apple tree would grow out of your ears !

WhiteWashMan · 20-10-2006 03:38PM

petes wrote:

After I had eaten damsons and the pip inside someone told me that the pip was actually a seed and a tree would start to grow inside me. Now thats gullible.

ahahahah. i had the same with apple trees.

except we used to eat the pips on purpose, coz pparently when youre 5 years old, having an orchard growing out of your belly is a really cool thing

Feral Mutant · 20-10-2006 03:40PM

Ah, I remember the lolipop tree song.

cujimmy wrote:

Interesting comments, but did you all know that the word "gullible" is NOT in the Oxford English Dictionary

A few months ago, someone in my class said that to the french teacher. She believed it, till everyone started laughing.

im_invisible · 20-10-2006 04:31PM

Dan133269 wrote:

Binomate wrote:

I used to believe in God!

Biggest delusion of them all! Some people take their whole lives to realize what nonsense it is

i cant believe some people still think there isn't a God

...NEway

Celticfire · 20-10-2006 04:39PM

EWheelChair wrote:

My older sister told me once (when i was about five) that if i bit the top off a cola bottle sweet and sucked, the cola would come out. I sucked for quite awhile

Ditto.

Binomate · 20-10-2006 04:44PM

im_invisible wrote:

i cant believe some people still think there isn't a God

...NEway

Yep, same with Santa Clause.

looksee · 20-10-2006 06:48PM

When I was about 5 two young boys I was playing football with convinced me that you were supposed to kick the football with both feet together! Like a fool I tried it and of course went flat on my back. I got the last laugh though as their mother came to investigate the howls and I got the chocolate cake mixing bowl to lick, and they didn't.

Karoma · 20-10-2006 07:49PM

circuit wrote:

Oh Looksee thats so funny!! Oh my god!!!!!

Banned.
12 posts - each as unamusing as the next. Goodbye.

afatbollix · 20-10-2006 07:57PM

i used to live in a estate.. and we had the local ice cream man with his van and siern.. but because my mother dident want us getting any she said that during the winter he dident sell ice cream but coal... never even said a word about it then for a while till my narbour got a ice cream about a year latter and then the penny droped....

bluto63 · 20-10-2006 10:59PM

My babysitter once told me that the walls spoke to my parents when I wasn't around, telling them all the things I had done to the babysitter that night. Didn't even think about the fact that the babysitter could tell my parents

Tried making a fanta tree by pouring out an entire can onto the ground

trout · 20-10-2006 11:42PM

my dad convinced me that every joint in a giraffe's body is an elbow joint ... which is why they are so gangly ... i believed that until quite recently

that's nearly as cruel as an ex-girlfriend who, as a well endowed 12 yr old, convinced her flat chested best mate that rubbing butter on her chest would make her boobs grow ahead of schedule ... poor girl must have smelled like a goat

johnp · 21-10-2006 12:26AM

Used to believe the world used to be in black and white too. Damned TV :mad:

Also used to believe in Superman. I only found out he wasn't real when one day I was looking up into the sky and my older brother asked me what I was doing.
"Waiting for Superman to fly by" I said, nonchalantly.

He cracked up laughing, and a dream was shattered

AbusesToilets · 21-10-2006 12:28AM

When i was younger i watched that Malteezers ad where the person would bite one in half and walk up a wall.So many wasted afternoons...:rolleyes:

the_syco · 21-10-2006 01:12AM

I used to believe some dude died 2000 ears ago for sins which I've yet to do... go figure:rolleyes:

Suaimhneach · 21-10-2006 01:16AM

Carrotts = see in the dark.
I had two people living in my ears.
Never played Easter... it never made sense to be fair.
Love the lollipop tree one, and the upside down penny one. Might use them on my kids when I have some...!

Den_M · 21-10-2006 02:11AM

NeiloMac wrote:

I swollowed a penny i was really worried about it, So my dad turned me upside down, then dropped a penny making me think it came out my mouth,

Well you did swallow a penny, it could have happened.

generalmiaow · 21-10-2006 02:13AM

I'm not sure who originally told me this but I used to believe (up till about 5) that girls peed out of their belly buttons. Also a sort of runner-up is that a friend had me convinced that you could make honey by mixing gutter water with old paintm but not convinced enough that I'd actually drink it.

generalmiaow · 21-10-2006 02:17AM

What am I thinking, I forgot the stuff my granny gulled me into thinking. She used to lie all the time to get me to behave. She told me that she would spit blue feathers if she got angry enough, that Jesus would magically turn my tongue black if I told a lie and also before I could read that what later turned out to be the best before date on "Snack" chocolate bars actually said "for adults only".

imeddyhobbs · 21-10-2006 02:19AM

I read the headline and i started on page 3 and i have to say that ye are all mad!
And why did they put that man on the moon?Did he survive the electric chair?
Is the moon the next step of US torture techniques?

Time Magazine · 21-10-2006 02:34AM

My dad never did play GAA for Leitrim

.

Nor was there a large selection of videos for rental available in his local shop in the 1950s.

Nor is there a large oil-well under his old house.

Nor was it my brother's homework to watch Formula 1 grand prickses because the Jordan team had shamrocks on the car.

There was the time I ran home after swallowing chewing gum because I thought I would suffocate.

When my parents returned from Argos the day before my tenth birthday with a big box, it wasn't actually an ironing-board (the MOST boring thing ever).

Still, I was better than the aforementioned brother, who wore a t-shirt sporting 'Nessa' because he was told that's how you spell 'Kevin' in America.

madhitchhiker · 21-10-2006 10:54AM

i used to believe you can't learn to ride a bike unless you'd first get an accident. i'd even prayed for it to come soon.

...i learned to ride it though without it lest a scar.:D

Dooom · 21-10-2006 11:18AM

I managed to convince someone that cats layed eggs.

junkyard · 21-10-2006 11:23AM

I used to believe in politicians....how wrong I was, they had me fooled for a long time.:(

blahhh · 21-10-2006 04:32PM

My sister told me if I planted skittles in the back garden, a rainbow you come up from the ground (like in the ad) and it would rain skittles.....I wasted so many skittles

When I was about 6 and playing in a friends garden, they had grass seeds down and planks of wood to walk across the mud, and I accidently stood on the mud, my friend told me I would turn into a blade of grass. I bawled my eyes out ran home and told my mum.....I was terrified

I used to make up words for things and tell my younger brother, he used to call flowers "tinky winky" for ages.....I also told him custard was bird poo...and when he was 11 and someone offered him custard, he freaked.....he still believed custard was bird poo...

If you say "gullible" slowly it sounds like bubblegum.....yup

Pigman II · 21-10-2006 04:54PM

This is the he-man toy
http://www.vam.ac.uk/images/image/24462-large.jpg

This is his alter ego Prince Adam.
http://www.thecafewha.com/princeadam.jpg

Note how similar the two are in shape (even have the same shape sword).

When I was a kid I had the He-man one. One day a friend of mine came into school with Prince Adam (without the purple jacket you see there). When I asked him where he got it he told me he didn't buy it and that it was actually just a bog-standard He-man but that he had learnt a trick that it changed colour if it came in contact with hot water!

Anyway, when I got home I was really excited to try this out. I spent about 10 minutes running my He-Man under the hot tap in the vain hope he would change colour before giving up.

Stench Blossoms · 21-10-2006 06:16PM

blahhh wrote:

My sister told me if I planted skittles in the back garden, a rainbow you come up from the ground (like in the ad) and it would rain skittles.....I wasted so many skittles

I did this aswell.

I was also told that chewing gum was made out of dead rats.

junkyard · 21-10-2006 06:50PM

orla wrote:

I did this aswell.

I was also told that chewing gum was made out of dead rats.

Mmmm, so thats where spearmint comes from.

AdMMM · 21-10-2006 07:09PM

Anyone remember the "boogeyman"? I don't remember him personally, but I do remember the sleepless nights with blunt object in hand, convinced that he was going to come out. I would have been ready though! Oh yes!

Abstract · 22-10-2006 02:48AM

Mrs_Doyle wrote:

My dad used to bring me, my brother and my sister, to the park, by DCU, every weekend.
At the time, the park was like a forest to us, and seemed a million miles form home, and the biggest place, ever.
Before DCU was as built up as it is now there used to be some sort of farm land over there - well, actually, tbh, I am not sure what it was, but I do remember having to climb over one of those big iron gates that you find on farms, and that there was lost of mud, and what sounded like cows mooing!

Anyhow, we would climb (or be lifted) over the fence, and would duck under branches, and jump over little bushes, until eventually we came to.....

THE LOLLIPOP TREE!!!!!!!!!!!

We would all stand under the lolly pop tree, and shake it like crazy, until eventually, 3 little lolly pops would drop from it's branches. One for each of us!
Sometimes, if the tree was feeling particularly generous, it would drop a bar of chocolate, that we would bring home to my mam, and she would have it with a cup of tea as we told her all about the amazing lollipop tree, hidden deep within the Forest Farm!

I really hope that LolliPop Tree is still around when I have kids, because it was THE coolest thing EVER!

Thats brilliant.My parents used to take me and my little brother on long hill and mountain walks(you know the sort)To stop our incessant whining they'd tell us there was a mc donalds over the next hill.We'd belive them then was there was none they'd tell us again and we'd still belive them...:o

Would you believe....they put a man on the moon!!

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