It's amazing how words and sayings traveled before the internet.
Dumbest Thing You Believed
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It's amazing how words and sayings traveled before the internet.
I heard at one point as a young kid that "college was like a job" and was convinced that people got paid an income to go to college.
There used to be a big red helmet in the Jack Trice parking lot in like B5 or C5 to put cans in, probably for some student org or the Cyclone Club or something, but I thought it was to help raise funds to pay for the Iowa State football players salaries as college students. So my friends and I would go around the lots and pick up cans to put in that helmet thing so the football players could make a living.
There used to be a big red helmet in the Jack Trice parking lot in like B5 or C5 to put cans in, probably for some student org or the Cyclone Club or something, but I thought it was to help raise funds to pay for the Iowa State football players salaries as college students. So my friends and I would go around the lots and pick up cans to put in that helmet thing so the football players could make a living.
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This one, and also was told that if I went in the street, "a car would come out of nowhere and turn me into a pancake."
Lucky for most of us we have ****** PEX pipes now (hits close to my ass - wallet as we just had to have our entire 10 year old house repiped due to PEX failure).
That marriage was this magical thing that made everyone happy
I was shocked to learn that the word "onion" didn't have a "g" in it. I think I heard the backwoods pronunciation "ung-yun" and made a pretty good assumption!
Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy.
Marilyn Manson had some ribs removed...so ummm....
That if you ate Watermelon Seeds that it would grow in your stomach...
Thanks, Mom and Dad.
Thanks, Mom and Dad.
Same here, my brother and I still laugh at how long he got us to believe that one.
Similar category: If you swallow a watermelon seed, a melon will grow in your stomach.
My sisters try to pass that one off on me. After a few years, I stopped believing them.
Update: @DesertClone1 beat me to it.
On the other side, I learned how to talk to cops because I was with my dad twice when pulled over for speeding. Really simple, be polite, crack a stupid joke, 2 of 4 I drove away with a verbal warning, 1 they dropped the speed down from 13 to 5 over, 4th motorcycle cop was having a bad day.
I’ll have to think about for myself a bit, but it sounds like this guy believed in the cybertruck a bit too much:
https://www.news8000.com/lifestyle/...cle_834800f1-2940-5f31-8317-0ca02fea66e8.html
https://www.news8000.com/lifestyle/...cle_834800f1-2940-5f31-8317-0ca02fea66e8.html
When my dad insisted I try some kind of food, and I was resistant, he'd say, "Try this, it'll put hair on your chest."
He didn't say it might be 5 decades before evidence of chest hair appeared.
He didn't say it might be 5 decades before evidence of chest hair appeared.
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When I worked at KIOW radio in Forest City, I interviewed someone who had that happen to them.
