My friend, James, use to belive that if you bought a new telly it would show programmes from the very start of television history. His theory fell apart when I asked him how both out tellies had the same program on at the same time. "Our mums must have bought them at the same time!"
tehe.
A childhood belief about tv

others believed things like this
- i beleived that when someone bought a new house, they would swap with the person they bought it from— c
- I used to belief that if you bought a car you needed to put it togetter yourself— Bugs
- I used to believe that you could keep a chicken egg (that you bought) warm, and it would hatch!Anon
- I used to believe that commercials would only go away when you bought the product that was being advertised.— Hayabusa
- I thought second-hand smoke was bought off eBayAnon
- I used to believe that comercials are evil beings that would keep appearing until you bought the product.Anon