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dolo amber
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Sun Feb-22-04 03:14 PM Original message |
Weird things you believed as a child |
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ikojo
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Sun Feb-22-04 03:17 PM Original message |
I thought that when I heard a song on the radio |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag
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Sun Feb-22-04 03:38 PM Response to Original message |
15. Radio WAS that way at the beginning (nt) |
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arwalden
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Sun Feb-22-04 05:34 PM Response to Original message |
46. My Dad Was A DJ For A Local Country Music Station |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag
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Sun Feb-22-04 10:03 PM Response to Reply #46 |
78. Tubes rock! |
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southerngirlwriter
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Sun Feb-22-04 05:36 PM Response to Original message |
47. me too! :-) |
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Dookus
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Sun Feb-22-04 03:17 PM Response to Original message |
1. I remember when my parents bought an above-ground pool |
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dolo amber
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Sun Feb-22-04 03:20 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Actually, truly |
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Goldberg
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Sun Feb-22-04 03:19 PM Response to Original message |
2. My grandpa convinced me that chocolate milk came from brown cows. |
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neebob
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Sun Feb-22-04 03:29 PM Response to Reply #2 |
10. My dad told me that one |
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MidwestMomma
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Sun Feb-22-04 03:20 PM Response to Original message |
3. My dad died when I was five |
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Roon
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Sun Feb-22-04 03:25 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. or when your feet does dangle.. |
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Roon
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Sun Feb-22-04 03:20 PM Response to Original message |
5. I went to an aquarium in cape cod while on family vacation. |
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GregorStocks
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Sun Feb-22-04 03:22 PM Response to Original message |
6. For some reason, I thought there |
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dolo amber
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Sun Feb-22-04 11:29 PM Response to Reply #6 |
87. Ok, see... |
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SheWhoMustBeObeyed
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Sun Feb-22-04 03:23 PM Response to Original message |
7. There were a couple |
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Nay
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Sun Feb-22-04 03:26 PM Response to Original message |
9. I believed that if you could get yourself into the middle of a hedge, |
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Kamika
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Sun Feb-22-04 03:29 PM Response to Original message |
11. The witch beneath my bed |
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cedahlia
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Sun Feb-22-04 04:43 PM Response to Reply #11 |
37. Witches |
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twistedliberal
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Sun Feb-22-04 03:33 PM Response to Original message |
12. When we drove by cemeteries... |
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RoeBear
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Sun Feb-22-04 03:34 PM Response to Original message |
13. I have this memory of living next to this goofy kid... |
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dolo amber
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Sun Feb-22-04 03:47 PM Response to Reply #13 |
16. Hey! There's a perfectly |
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RoeBear
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Sun Feb-22-04 04:10 PM Response to Reply #16 |
21. Those sponges were cool! |
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neebob
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Sun Feb-22-04 04:14 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. A girl told me that in the 5th grade |
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RoeBear
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Sun Feb-22-04 04:23 PM Response to Reply #23 |
27. Based on the info you have given me... |
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neebob
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Sun Feb-22-04 04:32 PM Response to Reply #27 |
32. Nope, Salt Lake City. nt |
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proud patriot
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Sun Feb-22-04 03:36 PM Response to Original message |
14. I thought dogs were boys and cats were girls |
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twistedliberal
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Sun Feb-22-04 03:48 PM Response to Reply #14 |
17. Me too! |
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The empressof all
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Sun Feb-22-04 11:37 PM Response to Reply #14 |
89. omygod |
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Alenne
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Sun Feb-22-04 03:59 PM Response to Original message |
18. My uncle told me stirring your ice cream can cause cancer |
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FeelinGarfunkelly
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Mon Feb-23-04 12:58 AM Response to Reply #18 |
100. My cousin told me the same thing! |
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porkrind
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Sun Feb-22-04 04:00 PM Response to Original message |
19. I was raised a Mormon. |
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frylock
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Sun Feb-22-04 04:40 PM Response to Reply #19 |
35. yep.. south park did an episode about this.. |
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neebob
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Sun Feb-22-04 04:42 PM Response to Reply #19 |
36. Ex-mo here, too |
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MidwestMomma
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Sun Feb-22-04 04:47 PM Response to Reply #19 |
39. Don't feel bad, I was raised Catholic |
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Kamika
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Sun Feb-22-04 04:59 PM Response to Reply #39 |
44. that's true |
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Sun Feb-22-04 08:33 PM Response to Reply #39 |
63. the eardrum chopsticks thing |
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Dogmudgeon
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Mon Feb-23-04 12:53 AM Response to Reply #39 |
97. Oh, God ... the Communist Chopsticks story! |
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Kamika
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Sun Feb-22-04 04:57 PM Response to Reply #19 |
43. question |
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porkrind
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Sun Feb-22-04 05:11 PM Response to Reply #43 |
45. Who knows? |
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neebob
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Sun Feb-22-04 05:42 PM Response to Reply #45 |
48. The Krakauer book is not anti-Mormon |
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porkrind
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Sun Feb-22-04 09:40 PM Response to Reply #48 |
72. Right, but the Mormon church does consider it "Anti-Mormon" |
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camero
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Sun Feb-22-04 04:03 PM Response to Original message |
20. The only one I fell for was Santa Claus |
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CanuckAmok
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Sun Feb-22-04 06:29 PM Response to Reply #20 |
53. Um...what do you mean? |
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camero
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Sun Feb-22-04 07:23 PM Response to Reply #53 |
57. You know ....that Santa |
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NightTrain
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Sun Feb-22-04 04:13 PM Response to Original message |
22. That America is a free country. |
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camero
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Sun Feb-22-04 04:15 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. I admit it |
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JohnLocke
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Sun Feb-22-04 09:28 PM Response to Reply #24 |
70. That one's true... |
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Sun Feb-22-04 04:16 PM Response to Original message |
25. For many years... |
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Burma Jones
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Sun Feb-22-04 04:19 PM Response to Original message |
26. That Babies came from Oral Sex |
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Shananigans
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Sun Feb-22-04 04:25 PM Response to Original message |
28. They cover the powerlines when it rains... |
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cryfordawn
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Sun Feb-22-04 04:26 PM Response to Original message |
29. That my Grandmother was a witch.... |
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Shananigans
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Sun Feb-22-04 04:27 PM Response to Original message |
30. That radio stations played the same song at the same time every day... |
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MountainLaurel
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Sun Feb-22-04 04:28 PM Response to Original message |
31. That Iranians were hiding in the hills |
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cedahlia
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Sun Feb-22-04 04:32 PM Response to Original message |
33. I was weird |
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bubba_fett
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Tue Feb-24-04 12:15 AM Response to Reply #33 |
125. Kind of the same thing |
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Spirochete
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Sun Feb-22-04 04:34 PM Response to Original message |
34. I remember |
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frylock
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Sun Feb-22-04 04:48 PM Response to Reply #34 |
40. too funny!! when I was little, my grandparents lived around the corner.. |
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SheWhoMustBeObeyed
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Sun Feb-22-04 06:32 PM Response to Reply #34 |
54. There was a candy shop called Reuland's Nut House... |
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sweetheart
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Sun Feb-22-04 04:47 PM Response to Original message |
38. That people change sex every few years |
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silverlib
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Sun Feb-22-04 04:55 PM Response to Original message |
41. When I was a little girl |
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Breezy du Nord
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Sun Feb-22-04 04:57 PM Response to Original message |
42. I used to think the weatherman lived in the sky w/ God |
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foreigncorrespondent
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Sun Feb-22-04 05:49 PM Response to Original message |
49. A couple here... |
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Melsky
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Sun Feb-22-04 06:19 PM Response to Original message |
50. Regarding sex |
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Mon Feb-23-04 12:58 AM Response to Reply #50 |
101. I thought people could only have sex at right angles |
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SmileyBoy
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Sun Feb-22-04 06:23 PM Response to Original message |
51. I couldn't tell the difference between... |
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CanuckAmok
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Sun Feb-22-04 06:28 PM Response to Original message |
52. That girls couldn't fart. |
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zanana
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Sun Feb-22-04 06:35 PM Response to Original message |
55. That when you got the "calling" from God... |
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Panda1
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Sun Feb-22-04 06:49 PM Response to Original message |
56. That life would be fair...... |
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progressivebydesign
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Sun Feb-22-04 07:27 PM Response to Original message |
58. That if you held my wrist tight enuff, my hand would fall off.. |
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populistmom
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Sun Feb-22-04 07:41 PM Response to Original message |
59. I remember in my late teens thinking the Green Party was... |
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NightTrain
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Sun Feb-22-04 08:00 PM Response to Reply #59 |
60. Why are you raising your blood pressure by going to GD? |
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populistmom
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Sun Feb-22-04 09:11 PM Response to Reply #60 |
66. I go to GD a lot |
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NightTrain
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Sun Feb-22-04 09:28 PM Response to Reply #66 |
69. Sarah, I fully understand where you're coming from. |
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jonnyblitz
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Sun Feb-22-04 09:45 PM Response to Reply #66 |
73. thanks for the "CT is a blue state" info. I was wondering |
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NC_Nurse
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Sun Feb-22-04 08:20 PM Response to Original message |
61. I used to think |
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Kamika
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Sun Feb-22-04 08:24 PM Response to Original message |
62. another.. Hospitals were free |
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Djinn
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Sun Feb-22-04 11:38 PM Response to Reply #62 |
90. I had the opposite |
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Sun Feb-22-04 08:37 PM Response to Original message |
64. I used to think that all cats were female and all dogs were male. |
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Bertha Venation
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Sun Feb-22-04 08:40 PM Response to Original message |
65. tho't all cats were girls and all dogs were boys |
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dolo amber
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Sun Feb-22-04 09:18 PM Response to Reply #65 |
67. Why thank ya, ma'am |
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CO Liberal
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Sun Feb-22-04 09:27 PM Response to Original message |
68. I Thought The Holland Tunnel Went to Holland |
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Sun Feb-22-04 09:38 PM Response to Original message |
71. Where I live, we are surrounded by mountains |
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Tue Feb-24-04 01:08 AM Response to Reply #71 |
128. Us hill folk get some strange ideas... |
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Fight_n_back
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Sun Feb-22-04 09:49 PM Response to Original message |
74. I believed the President |
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dolo amber
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Sun Feb-22-04 10:58 PM Response to Reply #74 |
84. Omg, with the birthday thing... |
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NoPasaran
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Sun Feb-22-04 09:50 PM Response to Original message |
75. I believed that the roads and sidewalks |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag
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Sun Feb-22-04 09:51 PM Response to Original message |
76. That Scotland was another island, north of Britain |
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Djinn
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Sun Feb-22-04 11:44 PM Response to Reply #76 |
91. plenty of adults STILL think that |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag
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Mon Feb-23-04 09:56 AM Response to Reply #91 |
112. The ghost of William Wallace... |
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Sun Feb-22-04 10:02 PM Response to Original message |
77. I thought Chicago was on the east coast |
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solinvictus
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Sun Feb-22-04 10:04 PM Response to Original message |
79. The world was black and white before I was born. |
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Sun Feb-22-04 10:08 PM Response to Reply #79 |
80. I thught that too! |
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Sun Feb-22-04 10:56 PM Response to Reply #79 |
83. I thought the same thing. I thought that it went into color in the 70s. |
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FeelinGarfunkelly
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Mon Feb-23-04 12:56 AM Response to Reply #79 |
99. Those crazy cameras..tricking little kids like us |
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Sun Feb-22-04 10:20 PM Response to Original message |
81. I remember thinking the little people on TV |
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Sun Feb-22-04 10:23 PM Response to Original message |
82. An older girl who lived next door convinced me... |
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Sun Feb-22-04 11:02 PM Response to Original message |
85. When I was really young... |
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Zomby Woof
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Sun Feb-22-04 11:09 PM Response to Original message |
86. you mean none of that is true?? |
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Sun Feb-22-04 11:36 PM Response to Original message |
88. When I was 4, I was convinced that I could fly... |
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Mon Feb-23-04 01:08 AM Response to Reply #88 |
103. Me too! |
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Sun Feb-22-04 11:45 PM Response to Original message |
92. I was afraid... |
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Sun Feb-22-04 11:48 PM Response to Original message |
93. I used to think Alaska was an island in the Pacific Southwest |
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Mon Feb-23-04 08:01 PM Response to Reply #93 |
118. I had an Alaska one, too. |
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Mon Feb-23-04 12:05 AM Response to Original message |
94. I believed that in heaven everyone stayed in appliance |
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Mon Feb-23-04 12:34 AM Response to Original message |
95. When I was very young |
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Mon Feb-23-04 12:50 AM Response to Original message |
96. I believed that there was an imaginary man in our basement |
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FeelinGarfunkelly
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Mon Feb-23-04 12:54 AM Response to Original message |
98. Skeletons! |
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ButterflyBlood
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Mon Feb-23-04 01:03 AM Response to Original message |
102. That the Soviet Union bordered the US |
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Mon Feb-23-04 01:10 AM Response to Original message |
104. I believed ... |
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Mon Feb-23-04 01:11 AM Response to Original message |
105. I thought the lines on the road were for motorcycles to drive on |
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Mon Feb-23-04 01:19 AM Response to Original message |
106. A weird thing my brother thought |
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Mon Feb-23-04 01:30 AM Response to Original message |
107. Bands Played Live in Radio Stations' Tower Antenna Shacks |
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Mon Feb-23-04 01:38 AM Response to Original message |
108. I was afraid to submerge my navel... |
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MidwestMomma
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Mon Feb-23-04 06:22 AM Response to Reply #108 |
109. No, but daughter thought she would go down the drain with the water |
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IronLionZion
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Mon Feb-23-04 11:13 PM Response to Reply #108 |
122. I was very sure that water would go in my ears |
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Mon Feb-23-04 06:27 AM Response to Original message |
110. cant tell you |
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Mon Feb-23-04 07:45 AM Response to Original message |
111. That a forecast for "Fair" weather |
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Mon Feb-23-04 10:56 AM Response to Original message |
113. I Thought "Colored" People Had |
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Mon Feb-23-04 11:26 AM Response to Reply #113 |
114. I used to call |
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Mon Feb-23-04 07:46 PM Response to Original message |
115. If I fell off my (top) bunk bed, I'd be a grease spot when I landed |
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Mon Feb-23-04 07:51 PM Response to Original message |
116. i used to believe |
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Mon Feb-23-04 07:55 PM Response to Original message |
117. Eating lilac buds would give magical powers |
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Mon Feb-23-04 08:10 PM Response to Original message |
119. the lightening during thunderstorms |
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Mon Feb-23-04 08:12 PM Response to Original message |
120. me and my sis were wierd |
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Mon Feb-23-04 08:16 PM Response to Original message |
121. You can avoid raindrops. |
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Mon Feb-23-04 11:18 PM Response to Original message |
123. I used to look inside my TV through the vents |
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Mon Feb-23-04 11:28 PM Response to Original message |
124. I thought everyone that was famous was from New York City. |
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Tue Feb-24-04 12:19 AM Response to Original message |
126. I used to believe that statues had real dead people inside of them |
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Tue Feb-24-04 12:23 AM Response to Original message |
127. That there was a God |
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Tue Feb-24-04 01:12 AM Response to Original message |
129. I didn't think people that worked in stores were actually real people.. |
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Tue Feb-24-04 01:37 AM Response to Original message |
130. We were at war with the "Michigans" |
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