One time when I was a kid (like, in the 5-7 range), my friend and I were trying to convince his younger sister to repeat words we found funny. I don't really remember most of the words we were trying to get her to say, but I think at least a few of them were Toilet Humor-related, and my grandma (since we were at her house at the time) was not happy, and threatened to make us repeatedly write down those particular words.
We tried compromising by asking my friend's younger sister to say "person" (which, for some reason, was also a funny word to us). My grandma didn't really like that one either.
Cold turkey's getting stale. Tonight I'm eating crow.![]()
I'd play with worms.
Reminded me of when I was a kid and I thought "purple" was an Inherently Funny Word.
Since YouTube wasn't invented yet, I liked to start up 3D Dinosaur Adventure so I could have some of its great music playing in the background for whatever occasion I thought would best suit it.
Come on! Let's bless them all until we get fershnickered!I chewed on stuff. Not just pens, literally stuff. I don't even remember what I've chewed, only that I've chewed things like bottlecaps I think.
I used to do that too. I would chew on one of the rings from a ring toss game I had and my cardinal Beanie Baby's head.
"COCONUTS HAVE WATER IN THEM!"I chewed on a stick when I was little. Like... one I found outside.
Edit: I might add that I also walked on all fours like a dog while holding the stick. I don't know why, either.
Edited by punkcrow on Dec 24th 2023 at 2:54:00 PM
Cold turkey's getting stale. Tonight I'm eating crow.I peeled the bark off sticks using my teeth, and some kids made fun of me because they thought I ate sticks.
Stop playing rimshots this isn't funnyWhile we're talking about playing with bugs, I used to like to play with ladybugs in kindergarten.
Oh, I believe in yesterdayI just remembered another thing I did. When I was watching a cartoon that had no dialogue, I would just make up my own dialogue. I even did this for the Fairly Oddparents episode "Pipe Down!" (which defeats the purpose of the episode, Timmy wished for a world without sound.)
"COCONUTS HAVE WATER IN THEM!"
Back in my Grade 6 days, I did the same thing in my mind while watching Pingu.
That time when I was about 10 where I thought that saying "me and X" (instead of "X and me") was the most awful thing anyone could say. I remember a teacher telling us that saying "me and X" is incorrect grammar because it's "talking rude" (since it puts yourself first), and I was a bit Literal-Minded.
I remember having a few grammatical errors that I was a bit of a stickler for pointing out, but that was one of the major ones. I don't wanna "talk rude", do I?! It got to the point where I told my mom that my friend was "talking rude"... because my friend kept saying "me and X", even when I corrected her.
Of course, this leaves aside the fact that "talking rude" is improper grammar - it'd be "talking rudely" - and correcting someone's grammar in casual conversation is typically seen as rude to begin with.
Cold turkey's getting stale. Tonight I'm eating crow.id put glue stick on my fingers and rub them together until it formed a little glue ball. it's a good fidget toy but id lose it like 2 days after it was made, and it would use up a lot of glue.
nowadays i just make kneaded erasers instead. now i get to sacrifice my erasers instead of glue. yippee
Edited by riptideRuptur on Jan 2nd 2024 at 12:11:24 AM
Red Oni, Blue Oni, look who's playing guitar-oni (they/them)Since I saw the 2004 Nelvana logo on my VHS of Max and Ruby: Max's Valentine, I thought up lyrics to the logo's music: "Top of Greenland, Denmark." This was obviously inspired by the atlas books I read.
I apparently once asked my mom where my flashcards were because "I want to teach some to Bananas, my monkey".
I'm guessing I was referring to a toy or an Imaginary Friend.
Cold turkey's getting stale. Tonight I'm eating crow.![]()
Similar to that, when I was a little kid watching Disney movies and the Walt Disney Pictures blue castle came on, I made up words to the last part of the music "Woody is joy!", because the Disney movie I watched the most when I was little was Cinderella and that has the Toy Story trailer on it, hence why I thought of Woody while seeing the logo.
Back when I was in daycare, I remember that it was a fairly regular occurrence for someone to spill milk during snack time - and when that happened, all of us would point at the spill and chant "Milk attack, milk attack!" until the daycare workers came in to clean it up (and subsequently, asked us to stop).
It's no use crying over spilled milk, but to us, it was worth chanting over.
Cold turkey's getting stale. Tonight I'm eating crow.I ate a bunch of post-it notes once.
No, I don't know why. I didn't have pica or anything (at least, I don't think I did). I just kinda did it on autopilot while playing on the computer one day.
Reminds me that I also chewed on my toys a lot when I was really young. I bit the tail tip off of a plastic lizard, and bit the nose off of my mom's old Raggedy Anne doll.
Edited by WarJay77 on Jan 9th 2024 at 3:12:45 PM
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallOne time when I was at my cousins' house, Rubbadubbers came on Treehouse TV. Before then, I had only seen a promo for that show on the channel. However, for some reason, I didn't pay much attention to the show while it was on. So, when the end credits appeared on TV, I had a "What have I done?!" moment and cried.
Later on, on the day that we were going to colour Easter eggs at my grandparents' house, I saw the promo saying, "Rubbadubbers. Today on Treehouse." This made me want to watch the show, since I still hadn't watched an episode yet, but I coudn't check to see when it would air, since my grandparents only had analogue cable TV. Because of this, my mom made an audiocassette recording that started with her saying, "Tell me about Rubbadubbers." No matter what she said to me about how we needed to spend time preparing for the egg-colouring, I kept saying the show's name in a sad tone of voice. Eventually, I said, "Maybe Rubbadubbers will come on while we're colouring Easter eggs?" My mom replied, "I doubt it! And that's all for this report!"
Later, the first part of that recording got taped over by accident. Because of this, we made a remake … with the roles reversed! At one point, my mom said, "Maybe we can colour eggs while Rubbadubbers is on," too early, which made me say the closing line in a rushed tone of voice. Since it was too early, I kept going, and she eventually said, "Maybe we can watch Rubbadubbers while we colour eggs." By that time, it was actually time for the end, so I said the closing line in the proper tone of voice.
One time when my friend and I were around 5, we found a camera and started taking pictures with it, which included a picture of a toilet flushing.
Cold turkey's getting stale. Tonight I'm eating crow.Like many kids, I would often pee in pools (whenever me and my family stay at a hotel) since I thought it would be clean. It's until I'm an adult that not only is that a bad idea, it's also just gross.
She/Her | Currently cleaning: N/A
On a similar note, I used to drink pool water because I thought it tasted good. It probably doesn't make it much better, but I'm pretty sure I only drank the water in my grandparents' pool instead of random public pools...
Chlorine poisoning might be what's wrong with me now.
Cold turkey's getting stale. Tonight I'm eating crow.I hope you two didn't swim in the same pool! :P
I don't remember ever peeing in pools since I was fully toilet trained, but I did sometimes pee in the garden when I was too lazy to go inside. In my defense, it was my friend's idea. My dad told me off when he caught me, but I think my friend got away with it.
For every low there is a high.Apparently when my mom was a kid, one of the songs that she was supposed to sing at church had the line "When I was naked, you gave me your coat"... except, she thought that she wouldn't be allowed to say the word "naked" in church (even if it was part of one of the songs), so she'd intentionally skip over the word.
Cold turkey's getting stale. Tonight I'm eating crow.

@WarJay: I did the same thing with caterpillars.
Edited by Demetrios on Dec 22nd 2023 at 9:33:48 AM
Come on! Let's bless them all until we get fershnickered!