# What's the most obvious lie you've ever believed past childhood? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 8, 2020, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-obvious-lie-youve-ever-believed-past-childhood/847616 "2020-02-08T05:57:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![storyteller0910](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@storyteller0910](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/storyteller0910)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-obvious-lie-youve-ever-believed-past-childhood/847616/101 "2020-02-13T18:44:23Z")
Mine is sad on multiple levels. When I was around eight years old, we had a little black terrier mix named “Bear” and he was my buddy. He was sweet and gentle, but also very protective of our house and family. One night a neighbor came in the door without knocking and Bear bit her in a place that nobody wants to be bitten; she was ultimately hospitalized. Even at 8, I knew this was a Very Bad Situation, but there was hope! My uncle was a police lieutenant and while he couldn’t ensure that Bear would get to stay with us, he did know of a police department in another state that needed a police dog and Bear had proven himself to be so brave that they would take him! I am now 42 years old. Not too terribly many years ago, we were at a family function and sharing stories of our past pets, and I - a 40-year-old man - shared the story of Bear, who had left home to become a police dog. It took a good minute of my family staring at me before I realized, for the first time in three plus decades, what had actually happened to Bear. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2020, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-obvious-lie-youve-ever-believed-past-childhood/847616/102 "2020-02-13T20:00:14Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > It’s a little hard to parse, but you think you can’t be prosecuted for being drunk on a bike? Or in driving a boat? Prosecuted may not be the right word but you can indeed be cited, at least in my state (Colorado). > > I don’t know what you mean by saying your driving license could be endorsed but if it means points off your auto driver’s license for the above infractions, well, I once had a cop tell me they COULD take points off. Of course cops can lie to you, and it hardly seems fair as you don’t need a driver’s license to ride a bike. But even if it wasn’t true then, it’s true now, you can get a DUI or drunk biking. I don’t know if anyone has gotten one though. I assume “endorsed” is a Britishism, but does it mean limited? Suspended? Revoked? I know someone who got a DUI for drunk biking. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2020, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-obvious-lie-youve-ever-believed-past-childhood/847616/103 "2020-02-14T22:41:20Z")
If you go to a bad part of town in a big city you will get mugged with high (say 33%) probability. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2020, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-obvious-lie-youve-ever-believed-past-childhood/847616/104 "2020-02-14T23:29:59Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > There are an astonishing number of people who believe(d) that KFC changed it’s name from Kentucky Fried Chicken because they stopped using chicken. I read somewhere that they changed it because “some people” associate Kentucky with racism. A pretty pointless move by a company whose mascot is a stereotypical southern colonel. ---
**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2020, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-obvious-lie-youve-ever-believed-past-childhood/847616/105 "2020-02-15T00:54:11Z")
There’s been a giant list of reasons I heard KFC been renamed for in the past -They thought the word fried had too many negative connotations - What they served could no longer legally be called chicken (genetically modified chickens that were made to be fatter) - The state of Kentucky filed a lawsuit for royalties for using their name - When expanding overseas didn’t think foreigners would understand Kentucky was a place and not a style of food. I don’t think they ever gave an official reason but the fact that Kentucky Fried chicken is such a long name and everyone was shortening it to KFC anyway makes it seem like it was purely for brand awareness reasons. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-obvious-lie-youve-ever-believed-past-childhood/847616.md?page=5)