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What were you wrong about for a long time? How did you realize you were wrong? (lemmy.world)
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[–] 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

As a kid I would hear “save big money” and would often show a person next to oversized money (like cartoon people next to giant dollars and coins).

I was absolutely under the impression it meant large scale money and found it confusing anyone would want that. It would be so inconvenient!

I’m not sure when I figured it out but it wasn’t an “a-ha!” moment, it just sort of gradually fell out of my brainmeat.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    As a very young kid, I called pizza cutters 'Steves' because of some commercials airing in the 90s for... pizza hut? little caesars? ... which featured a pizza cutter named Steve.

    Yep, here's an example:

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hSnISEnX2Xw&pp=ygUdcGl6emEgY3V0dGVyIHN0ZXZlIGNvbW1lcmNpYWw%3D

    I had literally never seen a pizza cutter in real life, never heard it called a pizza cutter, and when my family got one, I assumed it was just called 'a steve', rofl.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    I thought Menard’s slogan was “save big bunny at Menard’s”.

    The first time I went to one was around Easter, so they had bunny-themed stuff around. And the store’s speakers were shit, so it was hard to understand the ad spots playing over them.

    I wasn’t sure why Big Bunny was in trouble, or what it would take to save him, but I wasn’t too worried.

    Eventually, I saw a commercial for it and figured out I had misheard it. I still like my version better though.

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