Myths From The Past (15 pics )
"I took my son to a dinosaur exhibit; literally everything I learned about dinosaurs is now wrong, including names of dinosaurs."
"I still remember reading books that the dinosaurs evolved into modern-day reptiles, only to be taught again many years later that dinosaurs are actually modern-day birds."
"The food pyramid is a healthy way to eat."
"Before that was just the four food groups."
"I thought we were going to be offered drugs by strangers a whole lot more."
"I've never once found a free eddie in my halloween candy, and I'm greatly disappointed."
"You won’t always walk around with a calculator in your pocket."
"Yes! Eighth-grade math teacher! In the future, we all walk around with a calculator!!!"
"The safest place to be during a nuclear strike is under your desk."
"Eggs are bad for you. No, wait, they are good for you…hang on, are they bad again?"
"Your child is hyperactive solely because of sugar."
"I wasn't allowed to have orange juice as a kid because of this."
"If I swallow gum, it will take seven years to digest."
"Don't sit too close to the TV or you'll go blind! Then computers came and we would have to spend eight-plus hours at work with a screen 5 inches from our eyes."
"Acid rain wasn’t an actual threat to the extent it was touted. Oh, and killer bees!!!"
"Japanese cars are poor quality and unreliable."
"You will have to write in cursive for the rest of your life."
"Plastic bags will save the Earth because we won't have to kill as many trees to make brown paper bags to carry groceries."
"OMG, I think about this every time I go shopping."
"The United States will be using the metric system by 1983."
"Technology would give us so much free time in the future that we'd only have to work 5–10 hours a week. And we'd be able to do it from home, and employers would be on board with it. That one still hurts."
And last: "Mikey didn't die after eating Pop Rocks while drinking a Coca-Cola."
