You know sometimes when adverts are cut short, well, when i was little, i used to think that it was because th people who made the adverts were away for the day, and the advert man would play out as much as he could remeber then leave it! how stupid i must have been....
A childhood belief about adverts

others believed things like this
- my friend thought that the film 'the hulk' was about the jolly green giant from the sweetcorn adverts.— patticus
- i used to beleive that all familys on TV and adverts were real familys.— Lisa-Marie
- That everyone had the same amount of skin and that short people were fat and tall people were skinny.Anon
- Since the girls name Jackie is short for Jacqueline, I thought the boys name Jack was short for JackalAnon
- When there was an advert for a "3 peice suite" i thought it was a shop selling 3 P Sweet's!!!— Kate Parker
- I used to believe that if i swallowed some Play-Doh and made a wish, my wish would come true.— Nadia