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@ 2008-01-21 14:07:00
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Entry tags:fears, kids, poll, scary things, sjo

What were you scared of when you were a kid?
Poll #1125013 What were you afraid of when you were a kid?
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

What were you afraid of when you were a kid?

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fuzz
0 (0.0%)

yip yips
3 (7.7%)

clowns
9 (23.1%)

bugs
11 (28.2%)

Howard Cosell's eyebrows
5 (12.8%)

dark
17 (43.6%)

closet
4 (10.3%)

pencil shavings
1 (2.6%)

Santa Claus
3 (7.7%)

[info]sjo
1 (2.6%)

mom's cooking
3 (7.7%)

dogs
9 (23.1%)

the Grinch
2 (5.1%)

Margaret Hamilton
3 (7.7%)

loud noises
11 (28.2%)

What else?

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monsters under the bed
20 (50.0%)

[info]badmagic under the bed
4 (10.0%)

test pattern
4 (10.0%)

thunderstorms
10 (25.0%)

flying
0 (0.0%)

falling
13 (32.5%)

sex
2 (5.0%)

fear itself
7 (17.5%)

doctor/dentist/shots
18 (45.0%)

curling
0 (0.0%)

mushrooms
2 (5.0%)

anglerfish
2 (5.0%)

figure skating
1 (2.5%)

grandpa Simpson
1 (2.5%)

school
2 (5.0%)

And?

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television
1 (3.2%)

lettuce
0 (0.0%)

mice
1 (3.2%)

the sun
0 (0.0%)

the moon
0 (0.0%)

other*
15 (48.4%)

all of the above
1 (3.2%)

none of the above
2 (6.5%)

shiny!
8 (25.8%)

clicky thing!
14 (45.2%)

* other:

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[info]merseine0613
2008-01-21 07:13 pm UTC (link)
Yip yips? In my husband's family, that's their word(s) for sloppy joes. What is it in your world?

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[info]madbodger
2008-01-21 07:37 pm UTC (link)
Yip yips, from Sesame Street. The YouTube links at the bottom of the page will let you see the original skits. [info]fizzygeek noted that the comments on some of the yip yips YouTube videos indicated more than one person was frightened by them as children.

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[info]bikergeek
2008-01-21 07:19 pm UTC (link)
(X) This poll is a thinly-veiled attack on [info]sjo

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[info]madbodger
2008-01-21 07:39 pm UTC (link)
Think she'll notice?

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[info]chickgonebad.insanejournal.com
2008-01-21 07:51 pm UTC (link)
Nah...

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[info]sharrainchains
2008-01-21 09:15 pm UTC (link)
Of course not - the veil was too thin!

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[info]chickgonebad.insanejournal.com
2008-01-21 09:18 pm UTC (link)
Don't cross the streams!

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[info]madbodger
2008-01-21 09:29 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, you'll end up peeing on your shoes!

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[info]fuzzface00
2008-01-21 10:56 pm UTC (link)
It is spelled [info]fuzzface00, not "fuzz"

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[info]madbodger
2008-01-22 02:03 am UTC (link)
*giggle*


I wonder if more people would have been scared if I had spelled it right!

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[info]kytynpet
2008-01-22 04:58 pm UTC (link)
Fuzz? As in the Fuzzface I remember from way back?????

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[info]kolraashgadol
2008-01-22 02:52 am UTC (link)
I LOVED the yip yips as a child. Hmm. Come to think of it, that might explain a lot.

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[info]smashingstars
2008-01-22 03:32 am UTC (link)
I love the yip yip guys!

Alas, Grampa Simpson arrived in '89, and I no longer could be considered a kid.

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[info]selki
2008-01-23 05:43 pm UTC (link)
... and what's so scary about curling, btw?


;-)

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[info]madbodger
2008-01-23 06:42 pm UTC (link)
Nothing I know of. Nice fine-grained imported granite stones. This grew out of a conversation [info]fizzygeek and I were having about the oddball things people are scared of as kids. It started with the yip yips (which people had mentioned in comments on the YouTube videos that they scared them as kids), and went to all sorts of odd stuff (I was scared of pencil shavings when I was a kid).

Unfortunately, we got distracted when we got home, and forgot to write down all the wonderful things we'd thought of (we know two people who are scared of butterflies, for instance). I also forgot "the big bad wolf". So, to increase the length and humour value of the post, I put in some random things like "curling", "lettuce", and "the sun".

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[info]cereselle
2008-01-26 06:57 pm UTC (link)
For various reasons, I feared the letter Q, the letter Y, and strings. Also Thus Sprach Zarathustra.

(Hey you, I've tried to email you a couple places, but no luck. Drop me a line at andlorr atte warpmail dotte net?)

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