Here goes:
'A kid from_____would love to eat that food you wasted'...did it ever occur to the person who said that that the 'starving kid' might not be able to eat the same food we eat?

'Go to bed with a wet head,and you'll catch a cold' Colds are caused by viruses! Nothing to do with your just-washed hair!

Masturbation makes you go blind-LMFAOROFL....

ALL Superstitions are BS as well!!

If you make a face and get hit on the back of the head it will stay that way.

If you swallow a watermelon seed a watermelon will grow in your tummy.

As I run through the house with scissors I'm reminded of how I should not swim until 30 minutes after eating!

If you make a face and get hit on the back of the head it will stay that way.

If you swallow a watermelon seed a watermelon will grow in your tummy.

Nonsense I heard when I was a kid...
If you stick a legume seed up your nose, it will sprout.
If you swallow chewing gum it will stick to your lungs for seven years.
If you wear your winter coat indoors, you'll freeze when you go out.
If you draw on yourself with ball point pen, you'll DIE.
If you stop you don't step quickly off the escalator, you'll get sucked under.
Don't breath when walking past a cemetery, it disturbs the spirits.
Pigs are the cleanest animals in the world.
Little Johnny Smith (or whoever) rocked back in his chair, fell over and got paralysed.
It's bad luck to walk under a ladder.
It's bad luck to open an umbrella indoors.
It's bad luck to spill salt.
It's bad luck for seven years to break a mirror.
Some people are double-jointed.
Bees/dogs can smell fear.
...and too many more to recount.
I went to an Old Wives Tales site to see if any would jar my memory of ones I heard when I was  a kid.  Here's one regarding Birth:
BIRTH
Monday's child is fair of face;
Tuesday's child is full of grace;
Wednesday's child is full of woe;
Thursday's child has far to go;
Friday's child is loving and giving;
Saturday's child works hard for a living.
But the child that is born on the Sabbath day
is fair and wise, good and gay.


Find a penny, pick it up, and all the day you'll have good luck.
A cat will suck the air out of a baby.
A four leaf clover is good luck.
Step on a crack, break your mother's back.
If you die in your dream, you'll die for real.
It's bad luck to let a flag touch the ground.
Friday the 13th is an unlucky days.
A rabbit's foot brings good luck

Lets see, first off (maybe i'm wrong) but I always thought is was called old wise tales...heres are some:

1. Dr.Pepper is really prun juice with cane sugar.
2. Feeding birds rice will make thier stomachs explode.
3. Chain e-mails really work.
4. All men are lesbians in a males' body.

Max, the double jointed thing isn't total nonsense.  I am double jointed in my knees.

I had forgotten about the cat sucking babies breath.  There was a Twilight Zone episode (or whichever show, I forgot) about this.  It turned out to be a little troll and the cat saved the little girls life.  Creepy

Masturbation makes you go blind-LMFAOROFL....


(Gropes around for his white stick...!!)

Not an old wives' tale this one, but it was something that used to go around my school many years ago...

'If you eat a packet of 'Space Dust' (that awful stuff that used to fizz in your mouth) and then swig a cup of Coke straight after, your head will explode...!'

Incredibly, it must have petrified us kids, because no-one ever tried it!!

Cat Scratch fever.

It's bad luck to let a flag touch the ground.



I don't know where this comes from but as a guide I was taught not to let the flag touch the ground when lowering it at the end of the meeting.  May be it is considered disrespectful?





Friday the 13th is an unlucky days.



I have just read a factional story which explains where the Friday 13th unlucky day comes from.  A Pope organised the mass torture and murder of Knights Templar.  People (priests etc) were given sealed orders to be opened on Friday 13th October somethingother and then they started rounding up the knights.

Personally i'm surprised that no one has mentioned the lies your parents fill you with when you're young only to later find at are not true so you can feel like crap.  Examples are:

Easter Bunny
Tooth Fairy
Santa
New Year's baby
Cupid

Cat Scratch fever.


Actually Cat scratch fever is real. Cats have very dirty feet and mouths.  If they scratch or bite you, the infection that follows is pretty serious. I got bit last January and ended up in the hospital for IV antibiotics less than 12 hours later.

"If you put an aspirin in a can of Coke and drank it you would get high"  ::)

I saw many a perfectly good can of Coke ruined when I was at school because of that crapola.  What a travesty  :(

Personally i'm surprised that no one has mentioned the lies your parents fill you with when you're young only to later find at are not true so you can feel like crap.  Examples are:

Easter Bunny
Tooth Fairy
Santa
New Year's baby
Cupid

WHAT!? You are kidding, right :o

WHAT!? You are kidding, right :o
It's sad for me to observe that Christmas is losing it's true meaning with kids today,most kids are now 'gimmie gimme gimme'on holidays as well as the rest of the year!!

It's sad for me to observe that Christmas is losing it's true meaning with kids today,most kids are now 'gimmie gimme gimme'on holidays as well as the rest of the year!!


Yes family, friends, Jesus and all that good stuff.  Now its all about the material stuff.  So sad.

It's sad for me to observe that Christmas is losing it's true meaning with kids today,most kids are now 'gimmie gimme gimme'on holidays as well as the rest of the year!!
This is ONE among MANY things that have changed for the worse since I was little :-\\

(Gropes around for his white stick...!!)

Not an old wives' tale this one, but it was something that used to go around my school many years ago...

'If you eat a packet of 'Space Dust' (that awful stuff that used to fizz in your mouth) and then swig a cup of Coke straight after, your head will explode...!'

Incredibly, it must have petrified us kids, because no-one ever tried it!!



There's always the urban legend about the child actor who played "Mikey" in the famous Life Cereal commercials. Word was he ate 6 packs of pop rocks and then downed a six pack of Coke, and he DIED!  Snopes.com has the story:
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/freakish/poprocks.htm

GWBush Dr.Pepper is really prun juice with cane sugar.
2. Feeding birds rice will make thier stomachs explode.
3. Chain e-mails really work.
4. All men are lesbians in a males' body.

The rumor was Dr. Pepper contained prune juice.  If it was primarily prune juice, whoaho, look out!  Your intestines would let you know it!

Not rice, not pigeons, but Alka Seltzer will kill seagulls.  I know that.  Well, I heard reliable testimony to it!

Chain e-mails, like chain postal letters, really do work on suckers !!

I was disappointed to find out there is no eggshell or newspaper shreds in Orange Julius drink.

Tooth Fairy


I used to believe in The TF.everytime I lost a tooth,My Mother put a quarter under my pillow. :)



Howard

Tooth Fairy


I used to believe in The TF.everytime I lost a tooth,My Mother put a quarter under my pillow. :)



Howard
I must be a lot older than you are Howard, I used to get a dime!

I must be a lot older than you are Howard, I used to get a dime!



I think you are.I'm 30 years old. :D



Howard

I must be a lot older than you are Howard, I used to get a dime!



Yeah, me too.  :(




Cat

Little Johnny Smith (or whoever) rocked back in his chair, fell over and got paralysed.


Little Womberty rocked back in her chair, and she's still got the scar to prove it! (My arm went through a cabinet window; my mother thought it'd slashed the artery in my wrist and was afraid I would die!)



I must be a lot older than you are Howard, I used to get a dime!


I'm only 25, and I used to get a dime. :( I think my little sisters got more.  >:(


I think I remember being told that if you ate a penny and a pickle, you would die.

Here's a funny one from my foster mother-Listening to rock music,and you've bought yourself a one-way ticket to HELL! LMFAOROFL!!! Well then,I guess I'm going to Hades...NOT! She said other BS stuff too...like video games decrease your mind power! LMAO to that too! Think I believed her for one SECOND...NOPE!!

If your ears burn, someone is talking about you
If the palm of your hand itches, you are about to come into some money
If the bottom of your foot itches, you are about to walk on strange land
If your nose itches, some one is coming to see you

I think you are.I'm 30 years old. :D



Howard
I AM :-\\

Yeah, me too.  :(




Cat
Don't feel bad Cat, with age comes knowledge

I'm only 25, and I used to get a dime. :( I think my little sisters got more.  >:(


Seems sisters always get the breaks ::)

I used to believe in The TF.everytime I lost a tooth,My Mother put a quarter under my pillow. :)
Howard


I did too but my boys got $1!! :)

My daughter gets a dollar, too.

See a penny pick it up, all day long you'll have good luck.

Seems sisters always get the breaks ::)


Nah, it's little sisters. I was a big sister and got the bum deal.  :P



See a penny pick it up, all day long you'll have good luck.


Or how about, if the penny's face up, it'll give you good luck, but if it's face down, it'll be bad luck

Nah, it's little sisters. I was a big sister and got the bum deal.  :P





I was the little sister and I NEVER had a break. By the time I came around, there wasn't any $$$ left. All my sibs got to go to camp but I never did.  :\'(  I was a deprived child.

(Don't you all feel sorry for me?  ;))



Cat

I gave my boys $1 way back in the late 80's through the early 90's....had to cover the years of five of them, after all :)

I used to hear that if you put a cockroach in a bucket of bleach that it would catch fire.

There is also a superstition that says if you cut your nails on a Friday, you will have bad luck. I've also heard Sunday on this one.

Why do some 'Born Again'Christians hold on to the misguided belief that ALL rock music is sinful or Satanic!?!Well if that's true(and it's NOT)then I,a P.O.D. fanatic,have bought myself a one way ticket to tarnation...JK,Just kidding!

Why do some 'Born Again'Christians hold on to the misguided belief that ALL rock music is sinful or Satanic!?!Well if that's true(and it's NOT)then I,a P.O.D. fanatic,have bought myself a one way ticket to tarnation...JK,Just kidding!

Because it's based on mania-inducing drumbeats African cannibal heathens use to whip themselves into a frenzy before going head-hunting.

Actually the cat sucking the babies breath is based on an element of truth in it.Basically there have been tragic cases over the years where cats have smothered babies by jumping in their cots and curling up on top of them.Basically the cat just sees it as a warm snug place to sleep that is how the sucking of the breath wives tale evolved.

In the U.K we have black and white birds called Magpie's which are concidered to be omens of good and bad luck.
One for sorrow,Two for joy,
three for a girl and four for a boy
Five for silver,six for gold
Seven for a secret never to be told.
When I moved to the Oxfordshire area I found they have a tradition of waving at or saluting the Magpie to show it respect and 'Wave away your sorrows'  and yes I do wave at them now..............

How about throwing spilt salt over you shoulder to blind the Devil?

Because it's based on mania-inducing drumbeats African cannibal heathens use to whip themselves into a frenzy before going head-hunting.
LMFAOROFL.....LMFAOROFL....LMFAOROFL......!!

Because it's based on mania-inducing drumbeats African cannibal heathens use to whip themselves into a frenzy before going head-hunting.
Obviously some muzak like AIR SUPPLY would put those heathens to sleep....and so would most contemporary Christian music...

How about certain activities will give you hairy palms?  A guy I used to work with talked about it all the time and someone jokingly said that to him and he replied "Nah, instead of baby oil, I use Neet" ;D

Same activities were also alleged to make you go blind, to which the rejoinder was, "Can I just do it untill I need glasses?"  Arf arf arf!

Gis wrote
Actually the cat sucking the babies breath is based on an element of truth in it.Basically there have been tragic cases over the years where cats have smothered babies by jumping in their cots and curling up on top of them.Basically the cat just sees it as a warm snug place to sleep that is how the sucking of the breath wives tale evolved.
This is true.  The cat "sucking the breath" from the infant harkens back to superstitions about cats being in league with th devil.  Some parents bring the baby into their bed.  More than one infant has been smothered this way.

Wonder if that's why so many men wear glasses ;D ;)

Heck, I woulda needed a cane and a guide-dog by the time I was 13!
:-[

When I was pregnant I heard tons of them...(I have a daughter and a son)

If you're carrying high it's a boy and low, it's a girl...complete opposite for me.

If your belly gets hairy, you'll have a boy...never had a hairy belly, thank goodness!!

If you have morning sickness early in pregnancy, it's sure to be a girl...never sick one time with my daughter, sick the entire time with son.

You can use Drano (product used on clogged drains) to predict the gender of the baby, mix it with urine and the color change indicates the gender of the baby.

If you have heartburn it means your baby will have a lot of hair.

The only one that may hold some truth, for me anyway...To induce labor, eat spicy foods, I ate spicy Mexican food for dinner, and had my son the next morning.  I really don't think it's true, just worked out that way.

If you have morning sickness early in pregnancy, it's sure to be a girl...never sick one time with my daughter, sick the entire time with son.





I have a girl and a boy too and I wasn't sick with either of them (lucky me!)

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If you have heartburn it means your baby will have a lot of hair.




Well I suffered lots with my son and he did have a full head of hair at birth so there may be some truth in this.


The only one that may hold some truth, for me anyway...To induce labor, eat spicy foods, I ate spicy Mexican food for dinner, and had my son the next morning.  I really don't think it's true, just worked out that way.




When I had my son I went into hospital in the morning with contractions every 4 minutes.  They stopped by the time I arrived so I was sent home again.  I really had a really spicy curry for lunch and went back into labour soon after.  My son was born at 6.00 that evening.  So maybe this works for some people too.

I heard (have no idea if it is true or not) morning sickness determands your baby's teeth. If you have a lot of morning sickness, your baby's teeth will not be so good. If you don't have much, your baby will have good teeth. Again, I can't vouch for this.



Cat

When I was pregnant I heard tons of them...(I have a daughter and a son)

You can use Drano (product used on clogged drains) to predict the gender of the baby, mix it with urine and the color change indicates the gender of the baby.


:D ;D

DO you have to eat them or just see them? ;D

Just see them thankfully they are members of the crow family so they are kind of big to eat !!

How about throwing spilt salt over you shoulder to blind the Devil?

I think this, and other salt myths, come from the fact that salt was highly valued for domestic & magical purposes in the past, obviously not good to spill such a valuable commodity.
I've read that people say "Bless you" after someone sneezes because it used to be thought that when you sneezed, your soul momentarily left your body & could be seized by the Devil.
My grandmother always said that if a pregnant women touched a teapot at the same time as one of her relatives, she would have ginger twins.

Same activities were also alleged to make you go blind, to which the rejoinder was, "Can I just do it untill I need glasses?"  Arf arf arf!

Gis wrote

This is true.  The cat "sucking the breath" from the infant harkens back to superstitions about cats being in league with th devil.  Some parents bring the baby into their bed.  More than one infant has been smothered this way.

I actually heard that a cat sucks the air from a baby because of the lingering smell of milk on their breath.  It's all so silly.

I've read that people say "Bless you" after someone sneezes because it used to be thought that when you sneezed, your soul momentarily left your body & could be seized by the Devil.


Well,I sneezed and I didn't see ANY Devil beside me. :D


Howard

Well,I sneezed and I didn't see ANY Devil beside me. :D


That's because your eyes are closed when you sneeze.  ;)

That's because your eyes are closed when you sneeze


Is It true that you can't sneeze with your eyes open?


Howard

You can get pregnant by sitting on a public toilet.  :D




Cat

This thing about saluting magpies. Stupid.

Also the old phrase . . .

One for sorrow
Two for joy
Three for a girl
Four for a boy

I saw four the other day and since then I've been using contraceptives.  ;D

I actually heard that a cat sucks the air from a baby because of the lingering smell of milk on their breath.  It's all so silly.
The superstition about black cats being bad luck is stupid too. Black cats are kind,for the most part,just like any pet feline! Besides,black cats usually have a gorgeous shiny coat. Sadly they are victims of that foolish superstition...especially around Halloween....!

This thing about saluting magpies. Stupid.

Also the old phrase . . .

One for sorrow
Two for joy
Three for a girl
Four for a boy

I saw four the other day and since then I've been using contraceptives.  ;D


That is scary.  There is a whole flock of magpies living in my neighborhood. :o

I actually heard that a cat sucks the air from a baby because of the lingering smell of milk on their breath.  It's all so silly.
Quote from my Calico friend,Tika:"That superstition about we cats sucking a baby's breath is totally untrue! Besides,we learn to like kids,and would never harm them intentionally!"She then adds"Parents need to really supervise us cats around babies and never let us in the crib with them."

That is scary.  There is a whole flock of magpies living in my neighborhood. :o


Lol. Be prepared to have a football team, Dagwood.  ;D

"That superstition about we cats sucking a baby's breath is totally untrue! Besides,we learn to like kids,and would never harm them intentionally!"

Well, I've had cats flop down to sleep right on my face. So, it may be unintentional, but it would definitely be possible for them to suffocate someone.

Well, I've had cats flop down to sleep right on my face. So, it may be unintentional, but it would definitely be possible for them to suffocate someone.


True.  My cat sleeps on my chest...I can see where that could hurt a little baby.

You can get pregnant by sitting on a public toilet.  :D




Cat
Hey, that's how it happened to me!  ;)

You can get pregnant by sitting on a public toilet.  :D




Cat

Depends on whether you are alone or not....
:-X
Anyway, they used to say the same thing about public swimming pools.

Speaking of remote pregnancy transmission, here is a legend that's been going around for over a century: During the American Civil War, a woman was impregnated by sperm carried on a bullet that passed through the scrotum of a soldier and penetrated her ovaries.  I actually read it in The Book of Lists when I was a kid.  There it was reported to have occurred in WWI Austria.  It seemed nutso then, and the more I learned about biology, the more I wondered how the story kept going for all those decades.  It is, of course, stone b*llsh*t.
More at Snopes:
http://snopes.com/pregnant/bulletbl.htm

Depends on whether you are alone or not....
:-X



ROFL

Max has a good point. ;D

Getting up on the 'wrong' side of the bed ruins your whole day.....See a spider on the ceiling,you're getting money...itchy palm,you're getting money...ALL B.S.!

if you eat carrots then you will have good eyesight

if you eat the crust off of bread, you will have curly hair.



Erin :)

Black cats are bad luck.

All Rock N' Roll and Heavy Metal music has satanic subliminal messages.

Break a window and you get seven years of bad luck.

::)

Black cats are bad luck.

All Rock N' Roll and Heavy Metal music has satanic subliminal messages.

Break a window and you get seven years of bad luck.

::)


I always thought black cats meant good luck and breaking a mirror was seven years bad luck ???

I always thought black cats meant good luck and breaking a mirror was seven years bad luck ???


Nope.... it's what lead to the spreading of the plague, people thought the cats were "the messengers of Satan" had them killed...

::)

Nope.... it's what lead to the spreading of the plague, people thought the cats were "the messengers of Satan" had them killed...

::)



Very true-cats were not around to keep down the rat population which carried the fleas that carried the plague. Cats are good.  ;D




Cat

I must be a lot older than you are Howard, I used to get a dime!


hey I'm 35 and I used to get 50 cents.
My kids get a dollar.

Nonsense I heard when I was a kid...
If you draw on yourself with ball point pen, you'll DIE.
Little Johnny Smith (or whoever) rocked back in his chair, fell over and got paralysed.

Some people are double-jointed.
Bees/dogs can smell fear.



Drawing on yourself can cause blood poisoning if it gets into a break of the skin.

You can fall over by rocking back on a chair and with any accident anything could happen.

some people are double jointed

I don't know about bees, but dogs can tell when you are scared.

Drawing on yourself can cause blood poisoning if it gets into a break of the skin.

You can fall over by rocking back on a chair and with any accident anything could happen.

some people are double jointed

I don't know about bees, but dogs can tell when you are scared.
You usually DO NOT break your neck from falling backward while rocking in a chair...unless you have brittle bones....

You usually DO NOT break your neck from falling backward while rocking in a chair...unless you have brittle bones....


all depends on what you fall back onto. If its just the floor you probably only get a bad lump, but if something is in the way, it would wack you in the back of the neck pretty good.

The story of a guy picking up a hitchhiker that's been dead  and returns them to their house (or an article of their clothing)...WHERE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO WERE AT THE HOUSE WHEN THE GUY TELLS THEM...IT'S usually just the side of the guy who said he did it and what THEY told him...give us an address so we may confirm it!

Step on a crack,break your Mother's Back

Throwing salt over your shoulder will bring good luck

I might have mentioned some of these last time this thread came around:

If you wear your jacket indoors, you'll feel cold when you go outside.
If you make that face, it'll stay that way forever.
If you swallow chewing gum, it sticks to your lungs for seven years.
(My friend's mother told us that one, and we were clueless about anatomy, so we believed it!)
If you touch a frog/toad you'll get warts.
If you castrate a grown man, his voice will become high pitched.
(not really an "old wives tale," just a common misconception)
If your left breast is bigger than the right during pregnancy, you're having a girl. If the right is bigger, it'll be a boy. If they are the same size...well the old wives didn't have an answer here, I guess you have to go for amniocentesis after all!
If a bird flies into your house, it's bad luck--maybe even an omen of death.
If don't wait an hour after eating before you go in swimming, you'll get cramps and drown.
If you shave unwanted hair, it grows back darker and thicker.
Hair and nails continue to grow after you die.
A bar of soap between the bedsheets will prevent leg cramps.
(A bar of soap held between the knees might prevent pregnancy, though!)
Dog mucus is antiseptic.  Don't count on it pal!


If drawing on your skin with a ball-point pen could be deadly, wouldn't doing it just a llittle only make you feel sick?

Then there was always the question:
"Can I just do it until I need glasses?"

Hair and nails continue to grow after you die.



This is because the skin shrinks after death giving the appearance of growth to the hair and nails

Black cats are bad luck.

All Rock N' Roll and Heavy Metal music has satanic subliminal messages.

Break a window and you get seven years of bad luck.

::)
And oh yeah, Led Zeppelin's STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN played backwards is MY SWEET SATAN....  :PLMAOROFLLMAOROFLOLOLLOLOLOL! :D ;D :D ;D

We have WATER MOCCASINS here in Southern NJ....NOT!!! Proof that there some uneducated-about-reptiles people in my area.....the COTTONMOUTH aka Water Moccasin is DOWN SOUTH...not here in the Garden State...

We DO have some TIMBER RATTLERS here in the Pine Barrens..but due to man's fear of them(rather than RESPECTING them and taking precautions..and teaching kids to do the same)as well as greedy developers(oh yeah here in NJ $$$$$$$$ talks,bigtime!)...they are endangered here. Same for Copperheads here.

Hey I admit to being biased for snakes....I think snakes are cool.

The preservative sodium-erythobate is actually earthworms.
Cats cover babies' mouth, causing asphyxiation, because they smell the milk on their breath.
My dad use to say that you give someone more than a dollar tip, they have enought to quit their jobs. He even said it after inflation. So he never left more than a dollar anywhere, regardless of how much he paid of the meal/service. No wonder he hardly ever goes out anymore. :( 

Going outside with your hair wet will make you catch a cold...same for going to bed with your hair wet... :D

Just how the older generation dreamed up these things I will never fathom.

Wonder if that's why so many men wear glasses ;D ;)
Hey..does the same hold true for women who use 'toys' for personal pleasure?LOLLOLOL

Never eat food in bed ;D