Author Topic: Lies Our Parents Told Us When We Were Kids (Read 1099 times)

BamBams · « **on:** February 18, 2005, 05:51:07 PM »

1) My mother told me, before a camping trip, about some kids who forgot to wipe ice cream off their mouth before they went to sleep. A big bear ate all of them.

2) If you play in the dandelions, you will pee your pants.

JPSaxMan · « **Reply #1 on:** February 18, 2005, 06:06:53 PM »

Oh I got a few of them too...

If I write the one that sticks out in my mind like a sore thumb, I can guarantee I will be deactivated :-D

But that aside, one I remember was that if I cracked my knuckles, or my back, that I would get arthritis. That has been proven wrong so many times it hurts.

If you make that face again, your face will freeze that way.

If you blow to the traffic light, it will turn green

Girls are bad :roll:

Santa Claus

The Tooth Fairy

The Easter Bunny

That's all I got.

FWiedner · « **Reply #2 on:** February 18, 2005, 06:16:43 PM »

1) I've got your nose

2) If you keep making that face, someday it will stay like that

3) The boogerman will get you

4) Developing expert skills in the use of live fishing lures will make you go blind or insane

Leftoverdj · « **Reply #3 on:** February 19, 2005, 09:06:06 AM »

"Policemen are your friends."

"You'll shoot your eye out with that thing, boy."

big medicine · « **Reply #4 on:** February 19, 2005, 05:44:30 PM »

You will go blind....maby they did know some thing...I cant see the computer screen with out glasses :lol:

JPSaxMan · « **Reply #5 on:** February 19, 2005, 06:09:52 PM »

Well, if that's the case, it certainly wasn't because of that

. Because I still got 20/20

:-D .

unspellable · « **Reply #6 on:** February 21, 2005, 01:30:45 PM »

Stories like the above are one thing. But what I resented was the lies they told me in high school.

unspellable · « **Reply #7 on:** February 21, 2005, 01:38:29 PM »

Now that I think of it they did torque me off when I was waist high. Went to the hospital to have the tonsils out. They came in and asked me who my favorite cowboy was. I said, "Gene Autry." (Giving away my age there.) So they took me in the operating room and put me on the table and then slapped a gas mask on me. Boy was I P'Oed as I went under. They would have done better if they had just said they were going to gas me.

I had my revenge. After the operation they gave me a tiny bowl of cream of wheat and a tiny glass of ginger ale. Those across from me had fried chicken with all the trimmings. Since they had starved me before the surgery I was hungry! After repeated demands for food got no results I left the bed and roamed the hospital until I found the kitchen and got some mashed potatoes and gravy out of the cook.

I've always wondered what the staff thought when I lit out from my bed and disappeared an hour after the surgery.

JBMauser · « **Reply #8 on:** February 24, 2005, 02:17:37 PM »

My sister had long hair and would chew on the ends sometimes, my Aunt told her if she continued to do so and swollowed some hair it would grow worms in her stomach. JB

JPSaxMan · « **Reply #9 on:** February 24, 2005, 03:39:47 PM »

Eeww, that's not cool. That's disgusting actually. Too bad there ain't an emoticon of a guy cringing.

ironglow · « **Reply #10 on:** February 28, 2005, 08:35:45 PM »

None more oputrageous than the lies the Liberals keep trying to tell us..

e.g. " Bush has us in a "quagmire" and the middle east doesn't want democracy anyway..".

earschplitinloudenboomer · « **Reply #11 on:** February 28, 2005, 08:39:35 PM »

JBMauser;
Tell your sister Jim Beam works for me. No worms.

deb · « **Reply #12 on:** March 01, 2005, 02:05:47 AM »

My best friend's Bubba (she was from the 'old country') told us if you sing at the dinner table you'd marry a crazy man!
Hmmm............ :shock:

Deb :-)

Ron T. · « **Reply #13 on:** March 01, 2005, 08:46:52 AM »

Hmmmmm... other than the "usual"... Santa, the Easter Bunny & the Tooth Fairy (the "Tooth Fairy" didn't last long 'cause "Tooth Fairy" money was hard to come by), no other lies were offered.

And, frankly, I didn't mind those "little white lies" since they made "my world" (at the beginning and during World War II) a lot more "livable" because it gave me something which to believe in that was above & beyond the "normal" struggles-of-life like the "war".

Compared to "now", children lived in a "make-believe world" back then. We never heard of any "drugs" other than aspirin... and if there were child molesters, we didn't know it or fear them... we only knew of "goblins & ghosts & witches".

Halloween was a REAL happening and a true "holiday" to us... and while we KNEW there WERE "goblins, ghosts & witches", we weren't afraid because, in our hearts, we knew we didn't really have to be afraid, but I never knew WHY I felt that way... and I still don't know why.

We also knew we could EAT all the home-made Halloween candy and popcorn balls that people gave us without putting them through an x-ray machine 'cause... back then... no one tried to poison innocent, little kids or put broken glass or steel needles in their Halloween candy.

And lots of people made their own Halloween "treats" since a candy bar cost a nickel... and that was a fair amount of money when lamb chops cost 39¢ a pound and a big loaf of good bread was all of 8¢ each. So "home-made" candy and popcorn balls were the "norm" in a lot of neighborhoods.

Yeah... the contrast was/is STARTLING...! :cry:

Oppppssss... I am digressing... sorry 'bout that. :roll:

Strength & Honor...

Ron T.

gino · « **Reply #14 on:** March 02, 2005, 04:38:46 AM »

They weren't all lies, I went to school with the boy who made a face & it stuck that way! He grew up & married the girl who went blind from sitting too close to the TV.
gino

Daveinthebush · « **Reply #15 on:** March 02, 2005, 05:30:49 AM »

In the Eskimo villages of the Bering Sea they tell the kids that throwing sand will bring in a storm.

Actually: Throwing sand gets into your hair and is very difficult to remove. And with no water most of the winter you can't wash it out. So the myth was created to keep the kids clean.