Silly misconceptions you had as a kid...

[bluestreak]

Originally Posted by Falcon_Phill

When people mentioned the 'old days', I always thought things back then were in black and white. Seriously.

You mean they WEREN'T!?! :ticking:

If you eat watermelon seeds, a watermelon will grow in your stomach. These days I love watermelon seeds, but my daughters believe I'm slowly growing a watermelon in my stomach. :


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[Full Noise]

I also remember my old man telling me that when they grew bananas, they were straight, so they sent them to factories to bend them.

And that’s why they called Queenslanders banana benders.

[Dazza XLT]

Originally Posted by Falcon_Phill

When people mentioned the 'old days', I always thought things back then were in black and white. Seriously.

You're not alone on this one! I thought exactly the same thing.

[bingoTE50]

There was a special breed of cows that had shorter legs on one side so they could walk around on hills ..

[TUF_302]

Originally Posted by Dazza XL

You're not alone on this one! I thought exactly the same thing.

Me 2!! lol!

[ayeyew]

Originally Posted by Danny

if I put toast in the VCR player, it would show toast on the screen....

LMFAO

that is gold!

[PHATAL]

Well one day my sister and I had our neighbours over (nother boy and girl) and we were dancing around being stupid with the music blasting. When my mum came home she asked us what we were doing and I still remember yelling out "we are having a gang bang!". . . . . . . . . . . . it took me about 6 years to work out why I got in trouble for saying that. I thought that it was a cool saying about our gang of friends having a disco.

[ieatsports_cars]

when i was young i used to think that that the town was the only place on the world, and that there was no other places becasue i thought the whole world was flat untill we started mapping at school then things started to make sence

[SubJimbo]

I used to think that before the Introduction on Colour TV, That the whole world was black and white, And that somebody invented colour!

[blueoval]

I used to think money used to grow on trees....in some ways I still do.... :P

[CAT600]

I remember wondering how Dad got the car (351 XD with 4 speed) to reverse.

I never realised the gearstick was the cause, I thought it was mind control!

Daniel

[alecrain]

My mother in-law still thinks that when the ad says:
"...this car is available with 3 engines: diesel and two petrol..."
you can actually buy a car with three engines under the bonnet.

[Danny]

Originally Posted by outback_chick

DID YOU TRY IT

Absolutely

My Mum and Dad still tell me about how when they took our VCR player to be repaired that they found toast, carrot, celery and bananna peel : LOL

[bluestreak]

Originally Posted by blueoval

I used to think money used to grow on trees....in some ways I still do.... :P

MMMMMMMM.... I need a money tree... :


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[GORDZ]

i thought corn flakes were corn 'flags'.


who the hell knows what a flake is at 3 years of age?

[GORDZ]

and my dad was a sheep metal worker. again, a three yearold doesn't know metal comes in a sheet before something is made of it =)

[xr8 utey]

Originally Posted by SubJimbo

I used to think that before the Introduction on Colour TV, That the whole world was black and white, And that somebody invented colour!

i told the kids way back that a black'n'white tv was really a colour tv that had run out of paint except black'n'white

[bluestreak]

One of the guys at work told his kids the MR Whippy van plays the music when he's run out of ice cream!

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[blueoval]

Originally Posted by bluestreak

One of the guys at work told his kids the MR Whippy van plays the music when he's run out of ice cream!

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haha, thats cruel but funny.

[TC200six]

Originally Posted by Dazza XL

Seriously.You're not alone on this one! I thought exactly the same thing.

I still kind of think that now. If I think of some kind of event that happened between the 1920's to 1960's, I would imagine it as being black and white.

[FPV GT40]

Originally Posted by bluestreak

One of the guys at work told his kids the MR Whippy van plays the music when he's run out of ice cream!

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Ha thats funny I did the same and both my kids still believe it, now they are getting older I am dreading the day they work it out...has worked a treat so far...

[GT0132]

That going to work was much better than going to school as you actually got paid for attending !

[flappist]

Some of my favorite memories from some of the blondes I knew when I was younger:

1) When she spotted a power point behind the fridge, she asked why. I told her it was what the fridge was plugged into. She replied "Is it electric? Our one at home has a motor in it".
2) She believed that if you left the power point switched on with nothing plugged it, electricity leaked out and faded the carpet.
3) She believed that if you pressed buttons on a remote control with the video/tv unplugged the "remotes" just floated around the room and actived when the device was plugged back in.
4) She stated that waves rolling toward the shore implied the tide was coming in.
5) She believed us when we told he we used live rounds on training excercises and used to get fined if anyone in our section was killed.

N.B. "She" is several people.

[birdman941]

When I was a kid, the whole family went to the Ripley's Believe it or not Museum.
When we were leaving, there was a guy
in the parking lot handing out free bumper stickers.
He gave one to my sister (she was 6) and old her
it was a "special" one because it was printed upside down.
(He handed it to her upside down)
She was so excited about it, my brother and I laughed our rear ends off.

Me, I thought if a car parked in a fire lane, it burst into flames.

[LTDHO]

Wow, so many people thought the world was B&W before the 70's.

I was one..

[Burnout]

My brother & I had our little sister convinced that the dried flaky, cracked silt in the bottom of old pot holes in dirt roads was chocolate.

She would happily sit & eat it.

[Creampuff]

Hey Simon, I was talking to her and she still believes it!!!....haha

[TZENU]

the "Do not use lift in case of fire"... I thought I can't use a lift in case it caught fire and so i would always want to walk up stairs!

Convinced my younger sister that ants heads taste like licquorice.. she could even taste it!.

[Fev]

Originally Posted by Burnedout

My brother & I had our little sister convinced that the dried flaky, cracked silt in the bottom of old pot holes in dirt roads was chocolate.

She would happily sit & eat it.

you let your lil sis sit in the middle of the road?! lol

[Jeeepers]

Sigmund Freud would be intrigued by some of the posts in this thread....