When I was younger, I used to think that.....

....when DJ's said "(musical artist's name) will be here" to announce an upcoming song, that they were actually going to be live, in the studio.

.....the members of the Four Seasons were named Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter. And the one with the hideous voice? Yeah, that's Winter, all right. (Later in life, I was to find out that it was Frankie Valli singing in falsetto.)

.....people disappeared in the sewers, never to come out alive.

.....chewing gum, if swallowed, stayed in the stomach for years.

.....the "boogie man" was a ceramic ash tray in my parent's basement, and I was afraid of it. (It was pretty scary looking -- it looked like a man's head, stretched out, with his lower lip extended to hold the cigarette. There were holes in the ears, so the smoke would go out of the ears. It was captioned, "Wanna see smoke come outta my ears?")

.....S&M stood for "Sales & Marketing". (Yes, I was quite naive back then, too.)

......if you dialed your own phone number from home, your telephone would blow up. (Nope. You'd just get a busy signal.)

......I wanted to be a member of the Jackson 5. (This is back when they had their Saturday morning cartoon show; waay before Michael went off the deep end and jumped the shark.)

......my neighbor and I could dig a hole to China. (We only got as far as two feet deep.)

......one of my friends from school had a pet Doberman named "Vicious" that he kept in a closet in his basement.

.....the people on TV could see you at home. Especially the lady from Romper Room, with her magic mirror.

....12th grade math was the end of the line, that there were no math courses after that. (Then my 7th grade math teacher mentioned something about calculus.)

How about you?

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