Everyone knows The Princess Bride, right?

[Netbattler11]

Oh! Yes! Stargatestargatestargatestargate.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

heck yeah Star Trek.

[Ithillian Turambar]

ooooh stargate.

 

And yes Star Trek

 

 

James Kirk is my Uncle afterall

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

:) Clark gable was my grandpa

 

or do you mean truly?

[Ithillian Turambar]

Well ... when one is young, one believes EVERYTHING that one's dad tells them.

 

And so - my surname was Kirk. And I was told that Jim Kirk was thus my Uncle.

 

And I went to school and told my friends and they looked at me like I was MENTAL - but I totally continued to insist that he absolutely was - and completely believed it to.

 

 

 

But then I also believed my dad when he said that a Great White would come up through the toilet and eat me. I hovered for weeks.

 

 

I'm very trusting and gullible.

[ineedfourberfs]

HOVERED.

 

That was the word that propelled that last post to Greatness. Not greatness, Greatness.

[Ithillian Turambar]

We girls cant see if a giant shark has managed to squeeze its way round the u-bend when we are using the facilities.

 

I had to be ready to move at a moment's notice.

[ineedfourberfs]

A fair point, and I commend your dedication to situational awareness and practicality!

[Ithillian Turambar]

My Dad also once stayed awake one night upstairs - after saying he was going to bed - just so he could jump out at the top of the stairs and scare my sister and me, who had decided to stay up late and watch Alien.

[ineedfourberfs]

Fathering 101. 

 

I remember being scared to travel the house alone at night after watching Jurassic park, as a lad. Because a raptor is what is going to grab me from the dark. Totally plausible.

[Ithillian Turambar]

I was scared of them for ages.

 

 

And giant marshmallow Sailor Men also.

[ineedfourberfs]

Old empty library at night.

 

Mirrors, any time. (What if the reflection moved differently?)

 

The old laneway down the side of my grandparents house from decades ago. Was all dark, and I'd picture Evil Thomas the Tank Engine chugging over the crest of the hill opposite and running me over.

[Ithillian Turambar]

There was an Evil Thomas the Tank Engine?

 

 

I used to be freaked out about trees, because I once watched a horror film where a tree came alive at night and broke in through the window. It was near a windmill.

 

 

So it's not just me who turns every squeak creak and noise at night into an axe murderer creeping up the stairs?

[ineedfourberfs]

No that's everyone. I think though, after years of being the one who has to confront said demons of the night, you tend to have a more practical assessment of these noises.

 

And then you figure you are probably going to die anyway, might as well stay warm under the sheets.

 

 

 

 

Evil Thomas was a region only exclusive, that existed only in the very localized region of My Brain. But could you imagine?

[Ithillian Turambar]

Oh ... go onto youtube and look up Trainsformers

 

 

just brilliant

[Gudrean]

Well ... when one is young, one believes EVERYTHING that one's dad tells them.

 

And so - my surname was Kirk. And I was told that Jim Kirk was thus my Uncle.

 

And I went to school and told my friends and they looked at me like I was MENTAL - but I totally continued to insist that he absolutely was - and completely believed it to.

 

 

 

But then I also believed my dad when he said that a Great White would come up through the toilet and eat me. I hovered for weeks.

 

 

I'm very trusting and gullible.

this is totally awesome!!!

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

and strengthening as well.

 

the first scared I remember that might not have made sense was being in a snipers crosshairs. when I was five I'd drop and crawl to pass a window. must ave seen something in a Hitchcock movie or summat... never really shook that feeling. when we have snipers in the news now it all comes back.

[Ithillian Turambar]

That is worrying.

 

Mt first scared I remember was being in my pushchair at Blackpool Pleasure Beach and being taken into the Dr Who exhibition that had flashing lights and loud sounds and daleks and SCREAMING the place down.

 

Pretty much set the tone I think

[lolguy26]

maybe someone should just send me a list of all the movies i have to watch 

[Ithillian Turambar]

First we need to create the Hall of Fame of Movies

 

and then we can give you the list

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

That is worrying.

Mt first scared I remember was being in my pushchair at Blackpool Pleasure Beach and being taken into the Dr Who exhibition that had flashing lights and loud sounds and daleks and SCREAMING the place down.

Pretty much set the tone I think

oh, but what a delightful scary tone.

 

I'll save the rest of my scares, they're not that much fun.

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

maybe someone should just send me a list of all the movies i have to watch

 

start with the princess bride and the original Star Wars trilogy.

 

then every other movie that's been mentioned in this thread.

 

let us know when you run out of movies.

[ineedfourberfs]

Literally every movie.

 

That should be a task.

[Ithillian Turambar]

I've always been quite pleased that my very first memory is of Doctor Who

 

[Mrs. Cindy Gill]

I wish mine was, it sounds awesome.