h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

And another one to go with the above.

That raw eggs and whatever you were drinking are a cure for hangover.

The best cure for hangover is water. (and maybe some asprin or suchlike) Most of the misery of hangovers (dry mouth, headache, etc...) are caused by dehydration. Alchohol is technically a toxin, and when your body cleans it out of your system, it takes a lot of your water with it.

I know this forum was kinda at the bottom of the pile ,but this occured to me and I thought this was the perfect place to say it:
That money does'nt grow on trees;It's paper,so it does

what about coins?

they don't count cos it doesn't fit into what I said!!

Haven't you heard of Copper Beech or Silver Birch trees?

thats what I meant.

2 years should be long enough for some of us to have come up with some more misconceptions - or does that count as one?

**Cold hands, warm heart**...nonsense, it`s just poor circulation!

Well, I tried

Rock music=Satanic

Another one I like is the "If you play the record bacwards iit got subliminal messages." If someone has managed to do this can they let me know if it's true.

And finally, that roleplay games
(a) Are Satanic
(b) Make you commit suicide
(c) Turn you into a raving lunatic

All false

Dragonlover

That the lion is the king of the jungle.

Lions don't live in the jungle at all - they live in the savanna.

Actually, the saying is that the lion is king of the beasts. I don't know where this idea comes from. There are animals out there that the lion won't take on - elephants, rhinos, hippos and crocodiles spring to mind.

It is sometimes said that he's king of the jungle as well.

But yeah - 2 popular misconceptions then!!

Cinderella. Slipper not glass. In the origional germanic, before it was collected and cleaned up, the slipper was fur. Ether it was a mistranslation or someone thought about the implications of a 'fur slipper'.

Actually, it was French, not German. The phrase was 'pantouffles en vair', which translates as 'ermine slippers' but sounds like 'pantouffles en verre' - glass slippers. Hence the confusion. Ermine slippers would be more comfortable, but glass slippers sound more magical.

Paper money isn't made from wood pulp; it's made from cotton fibres.

King Canute wasn't the nut that everybody seems to think he was. He ordered the sea back from the shoreline to demonstrate to his subjects that he was just a man, and that his authority was limited.

Space, by definition, isn't a vacuum; it's got planets in it

And another thing...knowledge is power? Tell that to a university graduate with a £20,000 tuition debt.

Also, when it comes down to it, knowledge is frustration. If you didn't know how crap your life was, you'd probably be a lot happier. I bet the incidence of depression amongst rainforest tribes is pretty damn low.
And you've heard the phrase/simile "grinning like a simpleton"? Seen it a thousand times; why does that guy look so happy? Oh, don't pay him any attention, he's retarded.

I'm tempted to get a lobotomy, maybe it'll cheer me up?

The Moon landings were faked.

I have trouble coping with the fact that *anybody* believes this, but it's something that refuses to lie down and die. There's a thread about it on Ask H2G2, and I recently had to straighten out a kid who was shown a film on this subject *at school*. No, the school is not in the UK (Canada, actually), but it makes me wonder what they're teaching kids over there.

How about the misconseption of the size of a guys feet, hands or nose will correlate to the size of his *****(can I use that word?)

How about the misconception of hormone therapy.
It's good then bad ,then good then bad....

There's both a popular and common misconception in my community that I'm a fat guy. Actually, I'm large boned and retain water...by the tubful.

Sigh...we live in world of misconstrued perceptions, only to choose between a wrenching mental experience or utter denial when shown the folly of our previous, but cherished, ideas. Think of it; to live is to perpetually have to unlearn the wisdom of prior days. It's a constant battle against new truths, new paradigms, new analysis. They're even thinking of adding more shades to the three primary colors!

I'M A THIN MAN ON THE INSIDE!!!

Let's leave it at that...