I'd say 5% is about in line with the number of people I know who've seen The Boogeyman. That %age of ghosts? Easy peasey.
NSM w/ me, though.
Damn it! You know what? I'm sick of this crap. I'm sick of being the guy who eats insects and gets the funny syphilis. As of this moment, it's over. I'm finished being everybody's butt monkey!
Xander ,'Lessons'
Natter 58: Let's call Venezuela!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - May 27, 2008 7:37:48 pm PDT #9284 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Lee - May 27, 2008 7:49:49 pm PDT #9285 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
5% of USAians claim to have personally seen the monster in the closet.
Did they seem them as adults though?
When I was 5, my bedroom furniture would get up and move around the bedroom because the clown heads in the freakass painting my mother insisted on hanging (5 or 6 clowns' heads floating on a black background) told it to.
Just because it wasn't real doesn't mean I didn't see it.
Burrell - May 27, 2008 7:51:11 pm PDT #9286 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Does the monster have to be in the closet? Or does any monster count?
Frances asked me the other day if fairies are real. I thought of Pan's Labyrinth and couldn't bring myself to say "no" so instead I told her most children would say yes and most adults would say no.
Allyson - May 27, 2008 7:53:27 pm PDT #9287 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Thanks for the suggestions all!
He did like the Pigeon book. I'm suspicious of people who don't love the Pigeon.
Burrell - May 27, 2008 7:55:21 pm PDT #9288 of 10001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Oh dear, Perkins. Your bedroom creatures were a bit more diabolical than mine were. My biggest problem as a child was that my dolls all came to life while I wasn't there, and that really was mostly a matter of making sure they were all facing forward before I left for school.
Well, on second thought, there were some nasty creatures in my room. The sharks that swam across my floor at night were pretty evil, as were the skeletons under my bed.
Lee - May 27, 2008 8:02:32 pm PDT #9289 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
They were totally evil!
Freakass clowns.
P.M. Marc - May 27, 2008 8:09:19 pm PDT #9290 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
When I was 5, my bedroom furniture would get up and move around the bedroom because the clown heads in the freakass painting my mother insisted on hanging (5 or 6 clowns' heads floating on a black background) told it to.
Dude, you're so totally Sam. You do NOT get to deny it after this.
Lee - May 27, 2008 8:17:19 pm PDT #9291 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
THERE WAS NO GUN!
aurelia - May 27, 2008 8:28:33 pm PDT #9292 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I didn't have monsters in the closet, but bigfoot was totally in the woods behind my house.
beth b - May 27, 2008 8:35:06 pm PDT #9293 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I spent a lot of time as a kid looking for various creatures , but never found any. I didn't exactly believe in them, but not seeing them wasn't a good reason to disbelieve either...