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AdventurousYak9234 A silly sausage from Great White North Since: Feb, 2023
A silly sausage
#826: Jun 18th 2023 at 9:36:39 AM

Reminds me of a Junie B. Jones book where she did that because she was trying to make her own breakfast but the milk was too heavy.

"COCONUTS HAVE WATER IN THEM!"
punkcrow The horrors persist, but so do I (He/Him) from Northwest Indiana Since: Dec, 2020 Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
The horrors persist, but so do I (He/Him)
#827: Jun 18th 2023 at 1:21:29 PM

When I was younger, I got into an argument with a classmate over... something. Can't remember what. Anyway, I decided the next course of logic was to start angrily Shaking the Rump at him, for some reason. He said it was inappropriate and went to go tell on me. I ran after him trying to insist that I didn't do it, just to get out of trouble.

I kinda wonder if that teacher thought "Why did I get a job in teaching?" that day. On the plus side, I don't remember getting in trouble for this...

Cold turkey's getting stale. Tonight I'm eating crow.
Hqami from the catacombs full of catazombs Since: Feb, 2019 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#828: Jun 19th 2023 at 3:16:55 AM

In kindergarten I tried to cast a spell to teleport myself to Land of Oz because I wanted Jack Pumpkinhead to adopt me.

Also one time me and my sister played pretend, and I was a pair of conjoined horse twins with two bodies connected to one head and she was our owner. One of my horse bodies was evil and went around committing crimes while the other slept, somehow.

Edited by Hqami on Jun 19th 2023 at 1:21:08 PM

Stop playing rimshots this isn't funny
Unicorndance Logic Girl from Thames, N.Z. Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Logic Girl
#829: Jul 14th 2023 at 11:05:16 PM

There's a particular type of musical rest that looks like a sleeping cat. So, in music class, I once wrote a piece that had lots of them because I loved (and still do love) cats.

For every low there is a high.
Demetrios Lucky Seven from Des Plaines, Illinois (unfortunately) Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Lucky Seven
#830: Jul 16th 2023 at 8:07:00 PM

Watching CGP Grey's newest video made me remember this one. Sometimes when I was a kid, I would play board games against myself.

Come on! Let's bless them all until we get fershnickered!
punkcrow The horrors persist, but so do I (He/Him) from Northwest Indiana Since: Dec, 2020 Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
The horrors persist, but so do I (He/Him)
#831: Jul 17th 2023 at 2:52:54 PM

For some reason when doing things, I'd often talk to an imaginary audience like I was the host of a TV show.

Cold turkey's getting stale. Tonight I'm eating crow.
AdventurousYak9234 A silly sausage from Great White North Since: Feb, 2023
A silly sausage
#832: Jul 19th 2023 at 3:28:27 PM

My obsession with Cyberchase as a little kid made me do some odd things:

  • I made up one of those educational computer games for the show like the ones Arthur and Magic School Bus had. In one level of the game you could click on Hacker's ship and he would sing the alphabet (which would be weird since the show is about teaching math skills to elementary schoolers, not basic AB Cs and 123s) And now I want a recording of Christopher Lloyd singing the AB Cs.

  • I made up several imaginary episodes of the show. One involved the kids fighting a giant robotic parrot.

  • I imagined a preview for VHS releases of the show in the style of this Nick Jr. promo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmeXbQunYXo

  • I made up that the show had a theatrical movie, and the antagonists of said movie were these villians called the Triple Turtles, with Hacker, Buzz, and Delete being side characters in it (kind of like how the Pokemon movies usually had an antagonist that isn't Team Rocket) I even went as far as asking a classmate if they've seen this nonexistent movie (and they assumed I was talking about Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase.)

Edited by AdventurousYak9234 on Jul 19th 2023 at 3:28:53 AM

"COCONUTS HAVE WATER IN THEM!"
StarlightGirl30 Quiet and lonely person (they/them) from dreamworld of magical girls and boys (Experienced Trainee) Relationship Status: We finish each other's sandwiches
Quiet and lonely person (they/them)
#833: Jul 20th 2023 at 2:03:21 AM

One in particular comes in mind… Pouring glue on my arms, using it like lotion, and then peeling it off…

Life is not easy, but that’s why we stick together.
punkcrow The horrors persist, but so do I (He/Him) from Northwest Indiana Since: Dec, 2020 Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
The horrors persist, but so do I (He/Him)
#834: Jul 20th 2023 at 11:30:55 AM

I don't really remember this, but when I was pretty young (about 8, maybe), one of my mom's friends and I went to the Spencer's at our local mall to pick up a gift for someone. I apparently saw something that scared me so bad that I ran out of the store and wouldn't even walk on that side of the mall for a while. (Something that I do remember is that the next time I went into Spencer's, I covered my eyes the entire time.)

I still don't actually know what it is I saw, but sometimes I joke that maybe I wandered into the back of the store by mistake.

Cold turkey's getting stale. Tonight I'm eating crow.
plakythebirb The Unwilling Cycle from The Deep South (Handed A Sword) Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
The Unwilling Cycle
#835: Jul 20th 2023 at 5:53:56 PM

On a similar topic, Hot Topics scared me as a kid.

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punkcrow The horrors persist, but so do I (He/Him) from Northwest Indiana Since: Dec, 2020 Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
The horrors persist, but so do I (He/Him)
#836: Jul 20th 2023 at 6:08:50 PM

[up] I vaguely remember being scared of Hot Topic until I was about 11-12. Now they're one of my favorite stores... go figure.

Cold turkey's getting stale. Tonight I'm eating crow.
coemedypink hello vro from down in the deep blue sea (Series 2) Relationship Status: The vvillage twwo-wwheeled devvice
hello vro
#837: Jul 20th 2023 at 8:50:34 PM

Whenever I get new crayons, I always end up destroying them. I don't know what was up with me and crayons.

[down] Sid Toy Story.

Edited by coemedypink on Jul 23rd 2023 at 10:31:26 PM

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Hqami from the catacombs full of catazombs Since: Feb, 2019 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#838: Jul 23rd 2023 at 6:14:47 AM

I had a toy mutilating phase because I thought my toys would be cooler if they had scars and stuff

Stop playing rimshots this isn't funny
punkcrow The horrors persist, but so do I (He/Him) from Northwest Indiana Since: Dec, 2020 Relationship Status: I made a point to burn all of the photographs
The horrors persist, but so do I (He/Him)
#839: Jul 23rd 2023 at 8:38:23 PM

Given that I've been an artist ever since I was really young, I apparently had a phase where I'd draw a picture and would ask my mom to guess what it was. Only... I'd get really mad if she couldn't guess it correctly.

One day I watched the Wallace & Gromit cartoon The Wrong Trousers and was inspired by several of its plot points: I drew a penguin wearing robotic pants that make hamburgers. Only, I was really upset that my mom couldn't figure out that the pants were making the burgers - and allegedly I also claimed it was actually a monster in a penguin costume, not actually a penguin. (I was pretty good at drawing for that age, but still, how are you supposed to get all of that?)

There was another time in which I drew a picture of a baby penguin eating ice cream. A friend of my family said it looked like "a heart lizard licking an ice cream cone, and a fish jumped out". I got mad and asked my mom "Does this look like a heart lizard licking an ice cream cone and a fish jumped out?", and she said yes, so I silently left. (Apparently, she thought "Well, that's so specific, it has to be the right answer!")

Cold turkey's getting stale. Tonight I'm eating crow.
AdventurousYak9234 A silly sausage from Great White North Since: Feb, 2023
A silly sausage
#840: Jul 25th 2023 at 3:49:55 AM

I would do the same! Except with my dad instead of my mom.

"COCONUTS HAVE WATER IN THEM!"
MisterToodleoo Since: Jul, 2018 Relationship Status: Waiting for you *wink*
#841: Jul 28th 2023 at 1:23:35 PM

My mom wrote down that in my preschool days, when the people at a library program sang "Down on Grandpa's Farm", I walked and waved like the animals from Barney in Concert.

I had forgotten about this by the time I was in second grade, and when the song was sung in music class at school one day, I refused to sing it due to mistaking my own feelings of excitement for fear.

Demetrios Lucky Seven from Des Plaines, Illinois (unfortunately) Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
MisterToodleoo Since: Jul, 2018 Relationship Status: Waiting for you *wink*
#843: Aug 2nd 2023 at 1:52:43 AM

In the part of the book Cranium Silly Stories that has a funny answering machine message, one part requires you to write down the name of a movie or TV show that you don't like.

Back in my elementary school days, I didn't want to write down 101 Dalmatians or any other Disney movie that I was scared to watch, partially because I wanted to face my fears someday (I think). And I couldn't think of any show that I outright didn't like. So, I made up a show called The Adventures of Books and Gloves.

Also, for the haunted house story, I wrote down "Columbia" for something under my bed (in addition to writing that I wanted to be a "TriStar" for Halloween), but for another story, I remembered something that was actually under my bed: "school stuff" (kept in boxes).

cheesythegreat Your Fournor from the silly dimension :] (Apprentice) Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Your Fournor
#844: Aug 4th 2023 at 3:29:05 PM

I used to feel like I had to hide the fact that I like Hey Arnold!.

We used to have pet rats in the basement, but then they moved them to my bedroom (most likely because we also have cats in the basement). One of my older siblings told me I could tell them my secrets, and I briefly considered whispering to them "I like Hey Arnold". (I don't remember if I ever did, though)

I don't even remember why I felt like I had to hide it.

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Unicorndance Logic Girl from Thames, N.Z. Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
Logic Girl
#845: Aug 4th 2023 at 5:33:26 PM

When I first saw Ratatouille as a kid, I went through a phase of doing what Remy did, tasting foods one at a time and then trying them together.

For every low there is a high.
futuremoviewriter Since: Jun, 2014
#846: Aug 10th 2023 at 8:26:58 AM

Plenty of weird thoughts as a child. For example, I thought the screen at a movie theater was a giant TV and there was a VCR hidden underneath—or something like that. Another would be imagining the phone call I made to someone traveling across the telephone wires too.

I definitely tried to use my toys to imitate the stuff I saw in Toy Story at the time that the first one came out, that's for sure. The Burger King Buzz Lightyear toy from the 1995 theatrical promotion—where you press the button and the wings pop up? I brought with me when my family saw the movie.

Tried dropping him over the railing at home like in the movie after that. You can guess what happened next...

Edited by futuremoviewriter on Aug 10th 2023 at 8:27:52 AM

kablammin45 art lizer from Cleese's Battle Circuit (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
art lizer
#847: Aug 10th 2023 at 8:53:38 AM

Clearly I will go sailing…no more…

"Hey, least I didn't lose all my artistic talent when I crash landed in the arena here."
StewieGriffin34 from Sea ice (Season 2) Relationship Status: Buried in snow, waiting for spring
#848: Aug 10th 2023 at 6:47:15 PM

At one point when I was in elementary school, I had a habit of taking my sandwiches apart and eating the ingredients individually.

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futuremoviewriter Since: Jun, 2014
#849: Aug 10th 2023 at 7:35:39 PM

[up]Makes me think of either eating the crusts on sandwiches first or with pizza, eating everything but the crusts. Haha.

[up][up][lol][lol][lol]Well put. Wasn't just his arm though, but rather a million pieces instead. In 2011, I got a new one over EBay. Older fast food toys on that site back then definitely cost less than they do now.tongue

Edited by futuremoviewriter on Aug 10th 2023 at 7:36:05 AM

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