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PrintableZombieKitten said: JDINTERACTIVE said: My folks made up this character called Strudel Peter. A German boy who never cut his nails and just allowed them to grow. It was a bit of a strange thing to make up. I think it was some morality tale to make me cut my nails. I remember taking it very seriously indeed. Personally, I think people should be allowed to grow their nails to any length they like. Not that I would because I would look like a girl or just weird.
he was not made up 
.jpg) I've still got this book - I fucking love it. Tom Suck-a-Thumb is the best.  | |
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My mom used to tell me about the ghost of some headless woman who would push a baby carriage with her head in it. Supposedly she would appear on this silver bridge at our local park. So when she was driving me home in the evenings, she would cut through the park and go over the bridge real slow to scare the shit out of me.
She also used to joke about some bum that would walk up and down the main streets in our area, dressed like Batman. Lo and behold, we were in Big Lots one time shopping and in came some guy dressed as Batman... | |
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ZombieKitten said: JDINTERACTIVE said: My folks made up this character called Strudel Peter. A German boy who never cut his nails and just allowed them to grow. It was a bit of a strange thing to make up. I think it was some morality tale to make me cut my nails. I remember taking it very seriously indeed. Personally, I think people should be allowed to grow their nails to any length they like. Not that I would because I would look like a girl or just weird.
he was not made up
Oh, sorry. I was very young at the time. Of cause, I should have known better and read German back when I was 7. | |
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whenever my mom wanted to go somewhere without us coming she would say i'm about to see a man about a horse.
imagine how we felt when we discovered she was just to go pick up a dimebag.  | |
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ZombieKitten said: JDINTERACTIVE said: My folks made up this character called Strudel Peter. A German boy who never cut his nails and just allowed them to grow. It was a bit of a strange thing to make up. I think it was some morality tale to make me cut my nails. I remember taking it very seriously indeed. Personally, I think people should be allowed to grow their nails to any length they like. Not that I would because I would look like a girl or just weird.
he was not made up
he's not german. your parents were really talking about habibe from the corner store.  | |
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Sinisterpentatonic is my second, third and fourth personality people...he's not real. I am just  | |
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notoriousj said: Sinisterpentatonic is my second, third and fourth personality people...he's not real. I am just
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sinisterpentatonic said: notoriousj said: Sinisterpentatonic is my second, third and fourth personality people...he's not real. I am just
Biggie Biggie Biggie can't you see...sometimes you words just hypnotize me.... | |
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JDINTERACTIVE said: ZombieKitten said: he was not made up
Oh, sorry. I was very young at the time. Of cause, I should have known better and read German back when I was 7.  my parents MADE me read german when I was 7  | |
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I don't remember any ficticious people (other than Santa & the Tooth Fairy) but when I was maybe 5 or 6 my grandfather told me that if I swallowed watermelon seeds a watermelon would grow in my stomach. One day I accidently swallowed a seed and I was terrified for days that a watermelon was going to start growing and my stomach would become so distended it would explode...
 The check. The string he dropped. The Mona Lisa. The musical notes taken out of a hat. The glass. The toy shotgun painting. The things he found. Therefore, everything seen–every object, that is, plus the process of looking at it–is a Duchamp. | |
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Growing up in a pop tv obsessed household in the 70's & 80's, my mom referred to half the people on televison like they were friends of the family:
Issac from "The Love Boat" Ms. Garrett from "Facts of Life" Nell from "Gimme a Break" Louise from "The Jeffersons" Carol from "Maude" Flip Wilson Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters The casts of Dallas, Dynasty, Falcon Crest, and Knots Landing every cast member of the NBC daytime soap operas Days of Our Lives, The Doctors, Another World, and later, Santa Barbara. She would tape these shows on the VCR, and after work each day actually give running commentary on their actions and behaviors like Gene Siskel. And gawd forbid a show was having a season finale, or an important event like a wedding or planned escape from "pick-a-danger"...those shows were saved on tape for weekend viewing with snacks and post show gossip with her co-worker girlfriends . I remember when flagship character Mac Cory died on the soap ANOTHER WORLD my mother and her girlfriends had a viewing party that was so somber it practically resembled a wake. It was disturbing and morbid and hilarious all at the same time. I'm almost sure I saw my Godmother pull out a linen hankerchief 
...now, Mom's older, retired and has satalite tv, and still has fun with the tv people as 'people she knows'. At 6o something, watching Shakira videos has inspired her take a senior citizens dance class, but she laments that she didn't have a Shakira to watch 3o years ago as now she's too old to learn bellydance now.....oh, and lastly, she saw MOS DEF in a cable movie last year about a pioneering doctor in the black community...and the woman was so enamoured of his performance, SHE THINKS I NEED TO SEEK MOS DEF OUT THROUGH FRIENDS AND MARRY HIM,  She only saw him in that one movie and read some reviews of some shows he did on Broadway. But she sees his acting as "substantial" and thinks he would be suitable husband material. She's not aware of his music career, and the fact that the man has 97 kids with 55 other women (although my lord, we both do agree that he is fine...his skin is so caramel brown  )...
 I am the descendent of truly crazy people. | |
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"The Prince that went out shopping"
When I was 4, we visited an old castle in France. I asked my father if there was still a prince living there. My father said there was, but the prince was out shopping... That prince stayed in my heart for a long time... the handsome prince I missed because he went out shopping. | |
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MarieLouise said: "The Prince that went out shopping"
When I was 4, we visited an old castle in France. I asked my father if there was still a prince living there. My father said there was, but the prince was out shopping... That prince stayed in my heart for a long time... the handsome prince I missed because he went out shopping. I'm sorry, but that is one of the CUTEST things I've EVER heard! I need to use that for the little kids in my family!  | |
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