I used to believe Indecent Proposal was about a man proposing to his girlfriend while naked. My mom used to ask "Are you decent?" when I took too long to get dressed, and I knew what a proposal was, so...
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I used to believe that when a commercial came on for a sweepstakes, when it said at the end, "Many will enter, few will win," I misheard it and thought that it was actually saying, "Many will enter, YOU will win." I'm still waiting to win something like they promised I would.
I used to believe that when you played nintendo games against a CPU character, that it was being controlled by someone who worked at nintendo.
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An advert used to come up that said, "To Let". For the LONGEST time I thought that it mean 'Toilet' and they always left out the 'i'. I'd think why they didn't notice their mistake and fix it and sometimes I even thought about calling them or something and letting them know myself!
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My parents used to have an old radio. I thought it could only play old songs, like from when they were young.
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My brother told his fiance that we had a kerosene powered television that we used before we had electricity and continued to use it whenever our power went out. This was in 1976. She was around 23 years old and believed him until we told her he was teasing.
I used to believe that everything on tv was fake, even the news
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I used to believe that Winnie pooh lived near my grandparents hacienda, but for more that I looked for him and yield calling him, I had never found him.
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I used to believe that, when I would listen to the Backstreet Boys on my boombox, they were having their own little private concert for just me.
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When i was a wee lad we would watch american cowboy westerns and they would state " that varmint has a price on his head" so i was always expecting a price ticket or spike to be stuck in his head like we would see in the butchers shop Weird huh
I used to think that there were little people in the television who acted out whatever I was watching, and I would always watch to see if I could find any flaws or differences in things I had seen before.
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When I was little, I thought that all the people that was killed in films were prisoners from death row being executed while making the film.
I used to believe movies were shot from beginning to end in chronological order. I still think that makes sense.
I used to believe that when someone died in a movie or tv show, they died in real life. Such an arbitrary belief, and i was equally shocked when i saw that person in another production.
I used to believe that all the movie stars actually enacted the whole movie behind the big white screen!
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I used to beleive the "Please Stand By..." TV's show when they can't find a signal actually meant for you to get up and go stand by them, so I did.
I used to believe that whenever there were comics in a newspaper it was Sunday because I always heard people talking about the Sunday comics. Since we always got a newspaper, I thought everyday was Sunday!
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A girlfriend of mine believed all the way up until high school that Piglet from Winnie the Pooh was a girl. She was heartbroken when she found out the truth because everything she thought she knew about Piglet was wrong.
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When I was little, before I knew about TV schedules, I believed my brother had powers that controlled when the Simpsons came on.
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When I was really young, my family would watch world news tonight with Peter Jennings. There was always an image of the earth behind him, and that plus the fact that he always knew what was happening convinced me that he was in fact God.