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injest:
Or so we were told!

and everyone knows what will make you go blind and get hairy hands (If THAT one was true we would ALL be buying stock in Nair....)

"Don't scratch it or it won't get well!"

and then there were all those phrases that seemed to come from nowhere...

"Tighter than Tom's hat"....now I don't know who Tom was and why he wore such tight hats but my mom always said that...



What myths or catch phrases did you hear when YOU were growing up?

Br. Patrick:
My mom used to call my penis a "pee-tail" when I was a little kid...  :-\

serious crayons:
My neighbor Nina, who was two years older, told me that gnats can get in your eyes and suck all the juice out and then you'll die. Freaked me out for days, until I mentioned it to my parents and they informed me otherwise.

My best friend Julie and I wrote a fake letter supposedly from a girl being held captive and abused by her parents, and then left it out, somewhere in the city. A few days later, I asked my dad -- hypothetically -- what the police would do if they ever found a letter from someone being abused. He said the police would trace the handwriting and find the person. For weeks, I constantly expected to hear sirens screaming up to our house.

Speaking of penis names, I used to call my sons' their "peepeebobos." It was a combination of the two terms their day-care providers used: "peepee" and "bobo." My older son (when he was 1 or 2) thought it was funny to put the two together, so that's what I called them for a few years. The advantage was that, when they yelled the word out in the grocery store, other shoppers wouldn't necessarily know what they were talking about.

 :laugh:

opinionista:
If you pull one grey hair you'll grow five more at once.

If you touch that pimple, your whole face will be covered with pimples tomorrow!

If you don't eat you vegetables you'll never grow up!

injest:
our words were 'hineybo' and 'teetee'  :laugh: :laugh:

When I was a little girl; my cousin and I would take baths together. We would start sloshing the water back and forth to make 'waves'. She told me that she heard that a little girl got killed doing that....she drowned!

(yeah, you hear about that ALL the time! Headline: "Little girl dies in misguided attempt to create waves in the tub by sloshing the water!" )  ::) ::)

 :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

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