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The World Beyond BetterMost => Anything Goes => Topic started by: injest on May 18, 2007, 10:11:55 pm
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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?
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My mom used to call my penis a "pee-tail" when I was a little kid... :-\
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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.
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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!
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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!" ) ::) ::)
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If you don't eat you vegetables you'll never grow up!
I tell that one to my sons now! :laugh: And I think it's true that if you don't eat nutritious food as you're growing, your body won't develop to its full capacity.
And BTW, the warning that "if you make those faces, your face will freeze that way" is kind of true also. The moms who say this just don't add that it will take 40 years, and the "freezing" will be in the form of wrinkles! :-\
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If you kill a snake you have to take the head and throw it far away from the body or it will grow back together and be alive again...
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My mother used to tell us if we swallowed watermelon seeds, a plant would grow in our stomach.
She also said if you poke around in a campfire before you go to sleep, you'll wet the bed during the night.
I also remember her placing acorns on the window sills during a storm. She said it would prevent lightening from striking the house.
Weird, huh?
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if it rains while the sun shines....they say 'the devil is beating his wife'
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if it rains while the sun shines....they say 'the devil is beating his wife'
I remember mom hanging a knotted rope on the porch. She said it would keep the snakes away.
She always said "if a child sings before age seven, they will cry before eleven" ???
"Stepping on Daddy Long Legs will make it rain"
"If you cut your hair during the full moon it will grow back faster"
"If you tickle an infant's feet, it will grow up to stutter"
"Always plant your garden on Good Friday for a plentiful harvest in the Fall"
"If the cat sneezes it means you will be receiving money soon"
Mom never let cats near a new born baby either. She said the cat might suck the breath out of the infant and kill it.
Great thread Jess! I'm remembering all kinds of things! :D
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your mom sounds great!
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This was an e-mail I got just before Mother's Day but you know what...My Mom used most of these ;D
My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE...
"If you're going kill each other, do it outside - I just finished cleaning!"
My mother taught me RELIGION...
"You better pray that will come out of the carpet."
My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL...
"If you don't straighten up, I'm going to knock you into the middle of next week!"
My mother taught me LOGIC...
"Because I said so, that's why."
My mother taught me LOGIC... #2
"If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you're not going to the store with me."
My mother taught me FORESIGHT...
"Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you're in an accident."
My mother taught me IRONY...
"Keep crying and I'll give you something to cry about."
My mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS...
"Shut your mouth and eat your supper!"
My mother taught me about CONTORTIONISM...
"Will you LOOK at the dirt on the back of your neck!"
My mother taught me about STAMINA...
"You'll sit there 'till all that spinach is finished."
My mother taught me about WEATHER...
"It looks as if a tornado swept through your room."
My mother taught me how to solve PHYSICS PROBLEMS...
"If I yelled because I saw a meteor coming toward you, would you listen THEN?"
My mother taught me about HYPOCRISY...
"If I've told you once, I've told you a million times: Don't exaggerate!"
My mother taught me about ANTICIPATION...
"Just wait until we get home."
My mother taught me about RECEIVING...
"You are going to get it when we get home!"
My mother taught me MEDICAL SCIENCE...
"If you don't stop crossing your eyes, they are going to freeze that way."
My mother taught me to THINK AHEAD...
"If you don't pass your spelling test, you'll never get a good job."
My mother taught me ESP...
"Put your sweater on; don't you think I know when you're cold?"
My mother taught me HUMOR...
"When that lawn mower cuts off your toes, don't come running to me."
My mother taught me how to BECOME AN ADULT...
"If you don't eat your vegetables, you'll never grow up."
My mother taught me about SEX...
"How do you think you got here?"
My mother taught me about GENETICS...
"You're just like your father."
My mother taught me about WISDOM OF AGE...
"When you get to be my age, you will understand."
"One day you'll have kids ...and I hope they turn out just like you!"
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Yeah, my mother used a lot of those too Dottie. I guess most mothers are probably very much alike.
Thanks for posting those Dottie! :)
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the one I hated the MOST
My mother would use this anytime you got mad or the least bit upset...
"You got the same drawers to get happy in!"