Chops!
I used to work with a laddie who was convinced that lamb chops (the meat product) came from the sides of sheeps’ faces - cos they're the same shape as 'mutton chops' – as you would describe a gentleman’s semi-beard sideburns. Presumably he thought the facial furniture came before the cut of lamb. "There must be a lot of faceless sheep about" he once said.
I also once knew someone who – admittedly when he was younger – thought that the whole world was in black and white prior to the 1970s – because all the old TV programmes and films from that period are in black and white. And presumably that colour was invented around the same time as decimalisation.
(Quercus Bundle, Tue 8 Mar 2011, 13:21, 8 replies)

I think the black and white thing is fairly common.
My mum says I once asked her what it was like when everything was black and white.
(AyeMe, Tue 8 Mar 2011, 13:39, closed)

and me
I'd not even considered what happens in The Wizard of Oz.

I also thought that at a level crossing, the tracks stopped at one side of the road and began at the other which meant the train had to just coast across the tarmac and somehow line up with the tracks at the other side.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 8 Mar 2011, 14:29, closed)

Is it really that common?
I asked my mother that question when I was about 4, but even then I meant it as an achingly-clever joke. (I know: it wasn't all that clever - but I was only 4, damnit.) I never actually believed that the wold was ever black-and-white. Did anyone?
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 8 Mar 2011, 14:46, closed)

what you are doing here
is underestimating just how stupid a lot of people are.

I have no doubt that at the age of 4 you were cleverer than most adults, and that is not just because you are really rather clever.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 8 Mar 2011, 15:57, closed)

Yeah...
The black and white one is very common in kids...
(Slacker, Tue 8 Mar 2011, 14:57, closed)

Actually there's a grain of truth in that
Thanks to rationing, the only colours available through the 40s and 50s were beige, brown and various shades of grey

It was only in the 60s, when rationing was lifted, that the ordinary people of Britain were allowed to have colours, and indeed, sex
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 8 Mar 2011, 15:14, closed)

It's true.
The baby boomers were all conceived by women sitting on cold Tube benches during the blitz.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Tue 8 Mar 2011, 15:45, closed)

Are you having us on?
Decimalisation isn't real!
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Tue 8 Mar 2011, 16:08, closed)