In northern California, there's a car dealership owner named Cal Worthington. The jingle for his commercials (set to the tune of "If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands"), was something along the lines of,
"If you want a car or truck, go see Cal!
If you want to save a buck, go see Cal!
If you want a brand new truck, if you want to change your luck, if you want to save a buck, go see Call!"
I, like the majority of kids my age, though he was saying "Pussy Cow".
I thought it was some sort of expression that meant "tough luck", as in, "you want a car? Well, tough, because you can't have one".
A childhood belief about adverts

others believed things like this
- My mum used to tell me when the ice-cream truck turned on his jingle, it meant they had run out of ice-cream!Anon
- I wanted to grow up and be a truck. Not a truck driver, a truck. Anon
- In old west lore, Billy the Kid was called 'buck toothed'. I thought this was because he sucked his thumb. — Monty
- I thought Kaa's name from The Jungle Book was spelled "Car" and that he had a brother named Truck.Anon
- i thought the for sale sign buy owner things meant that u could also buy the owner — brandi
- I used to belive that if you didn't keep a promise you would have bad luck for the rest of your life— Rebbecca