IgirisujinSILVER Member
Carpal \'Tunnel
2,666 posts
Location: Preston, United Kingdom


Posted:
I love these, my favoruites are...

Eat an apple pip and a tree will grow in your tummy

Eating bredcrusts makes your hair curly

whats everyone elses?

Chief adviser to the Pharaoh, in one very snazzy mutli-coloured coat

'Time goes by so slowly for those who wait...' - Whatever Happend To Baby Madonna?


Fine_Rabid_DogInternet Hate Machine
10,530 posts
Location: They seek him here, they seek him there...


Posted:
Eating carrots will help you see in the dark rolleyes

The existance of flamethrowers says that someone, somewhere, at sometime said "I need to set that thing on fire, but it's too far away."


dromepixieveteran
1,463 posts
Location: Florida


Posted:
funny that I used to discard bread crusts but I've got very curly hair... weird

I spose my childhood fav is "dont make that face, if you get hit in the back of the head you will stay that way forever'

yeah i had a somewhat weird childhood...

drome biggrin

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IgirisujinSILVER Member
Carpal \'Tunnel
2,666 posts
Location: Preston, United Kingdom


Posted:
haha thats good, round here its...

Dont pull a face, if the wind changes itle stay like that

Chief adviser to the Pharaoh, in one very snazzy mutli-coloured coat

'Time goes by so slowly for those who wait...' - Whatever Happend To Baby Madonna?


Rouge DragonBRONZE Member
Insert Champagne Here
13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia


Posted:
i read a book about that. characters who pulled faces and the wind blew...

i HATE the one where if you go outside from a warm house into the cold you will get a cold. because ive had "old wives" complain about me leaving the house. I mean, its not as if i can stay indoors all day just cos the temperature difference will kill me! cos then they'd say

"if you watch too much tv your eyes will turn square"



*waits for a guy to comment about things that turn you blind...*

i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey

Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...


=Flashpoint=SILVER Member
Pasta of Muppets
2,722 posts
Location: in the interwebs..., United Kingdom


Posted:
I could but i'm not going to...

However:

"You wont feel the benefit" of a coat if you wear it indoors... I'm wearing it because i currently need to feel the benefit cos your pension wont cover the heating bills...

ohmygodlaserbeamspewpewpew!
ubbrollsmileubbrollsmileubbrollsmileubbrollsmile


VampyricAcidSILVER Member
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1,286 posts
Location: My House, United Kingdom


Posted:
actually FRD that is true, its not gonna give you Nightvision, but the Vitamin A (i think its vitamin A) improves your vision, esp in the dark.

"Opening an umbrella is bad luck" no its not, you just dont want me to knock all your stuff off the walls

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bing!BRONZE Member
i beat my inner child
184 posts
Location: manchester UK


Posted:
hmm ... do *something* too often then a case of hairy palms besets you ... anyone here prove this theory?

--the spark what lit the flame which started the fire that burned forever--


[noodles]*Property of Pigeon Wigeon*
893 posts
Location: Locked In Pigeons Chimney


Posted:
Written by: bing!


hmm ... do *something* too often then a case of hairy palms besets you ... anyone here prove this theory?




If that was true we'd have no bald people but they'd all have crazy hair. (think 'something about mary')

Could somebody stop the room please... I'd like to get off


MikeGinnyGOLD Member
HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA


Posted:
Written by: bing!


hmm ... do *something* too often then a case of hairy palms besets you ... anyone here prove this theory?




When Dr. Ruth came to Stanford she brought up this theory.

Then she looked at us and said "And I'm very proud of you because when I said this to a group of Harvard students last week they all looked at their palms and you didn't." biggrin ubblol

-Mike

Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella



A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura


LMSPBRONZE Member
veteran
1,588 posts
Location: United Kingdom


Posted:
Rubbing a gold ring over a stie will make it heal faster. (There is some truth to it as the medicated creams you get for them do contain gold)
A cobweb over a cut/letting a dog clean your cut will help it heal faster. APPARENTLY

TinklePantsGOLD Member
Clique Infiltrator, Cunning Linguist and Master Debator
4,219 posts
Location: Edinburgh burgh burrrrrr, United Kingdom


Posted:
great now there's two similar threads going.
argh! spank

Always use "so's your face" and "only on Tuesdays" in as many conversations possible


MynciBRONZE Member
Macaque of all trades
8,738 posts
Location: wombling free..., United Kingdom


Posted:
Written by: Fine_Rabid_Dog


Eating carrots will help you see in the dark rolleyes




Added to what vampyricAcid said. the beta-carotene(sp) that IS in carrots is used to synthesize retinol which is used in the part of th eye (rods) that sees black and white and in low light levels

A couple of balls short of a full cascade... or maybe a few cards short of a deck... we'll see how this all fans out.


Fine_Rabid_DogInternet Hate Machine
10,530 posts
Location: They seek him here, they seek him there...


Posted:
But it *is* an old wives tale though... I mean, just about every single grandparent says it...

The existance of flamethrowers says that someone, somewhere, at sometime said "I need to set that thing on fire, but it's too far away."


SkulduggeryGOLD Member
Pirate Pixie Crew Captain
8,428 posts
Location: Wales


Posted:
Some old wives tales hold hidden truths.

Feed me Chocolate!!! Feed me NOW!


MynciBRONZE Member
Macaque of all trades
8,738 posts
Location: wombling free..., United Kingdom


Posted:
Written by: Skulduggery


Some old wives tales hold hidden truths.




I agree, many are simplified ways for people in the past to pss on knowledge without complication, they found something worked and stuck with it. It's only today with our complicated science stuff we know WHY it works... smile

A couple of balls short of a full cascade... or maybe a few cards short of a deck... we'll see how this all fans out.


ZeeBooBRONZE Member
member
167 posts
Location: Melbourne, Australia


Posted:
Written by: LilMissSmartyPants


Rubbing a gold ring over a stie will make it heal faster. APPARENTLY




It has worked for me loads of times but maybe thats just the placebo effect... dunno.

Rub warts with bacon and then bury the bacon at the end of the garden on a full moon.

Walking under laders is bad luck. No it's just common sense unless you want you hair painted.

Just because I'm an adult doesn't make me responsible.


DominoSILVER Member
UnNatural Scientist - Currently working on a Breville-legged monkey
757 posts
Location: Bath Uni or Shrewsbury, UK


Posted:
Ladders are meant to symbolise gallows, walking under them is like walking into your own death

Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand and I can beat the world into submission.


Rouge DragonBRONZE Member
Insert Champagne Here
13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia


Posted:
i saw a cartoon once when i was little where someone walked under a ladder and put their foot in a tin of paint. and for years i thought that was why you werent supposed to walk under ladders.

but then again, "is that a rabbit in your pocket are are you just glad to see me" from 'who framed rodger rabbit' was the first variation of that i ever heard. therefore, when i heard :"is that a gun in your pocket..." i thought it was a take-off of 'rodger rabbit'

oh the innocence of youth!

i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey

Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...


JauntyJamesSILVER Member
Carpal \'Tunnel
3,533 posts
Location: Hampshire College, MA, USA


Posted:
If you keep making that face it'll stay like that one of these days.

-James

"How do you know if you're happy or sad without a mask? Or angry? Or ready for dessert?"


Hanzveteran
1,328 posts
Location: Bendigo, Vic, Australia


Posted:
"pick your nose and your face will cave in"

"go outside with wet hair and you will catch your death of cold" or whatever it was

"swallow gum and it will be inside you for 7 years"

Skittishmember
64 posts
Location: Near to Yeovil, In Somerset


Posted:
"Cows lie down when it's going to rain."
well, you wouldn't want to get your udder-neath wet would you *groan*

So what your saying is, if I take just ONE more pill...


QuadDamagemember
130 posts
Location: Norwich


Posted:
"If your hand is larger than your face you're at risk of cancer."

*slaps your hand into your face*


Heh, heh... Still funny.

But, seriously, the length from your elbow to your fingertip is the same as the length of your foot, plus a handspan?

*shoves you so you fall over*


Oh man. I can't believe these actually work!

pineapple peteSILVER Member
water based
5,125 posts
Location: melbourne, Australia


Posted:
"staring at the sun will send you blind"

"you know there are no trophys for doing silly things in real life yeah pete?" said ant "you wont get a 'listened to ride of the valkyries all the way to vietnam' trophy"

*proud owner of the very cute fire_spinning_angel, birgit and neon shaolin*


siren1987newbie
22 posts
Location: Nottingham, England


Posted:
Written by: Fine_Rabid_Dog


Eating carrots will help you see in the dark rolleyes




this may have already been said in the conversation, but... eating carrots does improve night vision tongue if any one whats some scientific talky proof then just ask.( i wouldn't if i were you, it'd only bore)
jo xxx ubbrollsmile

ummm.... i'll edit this when i think of something witty to say


SpiralOolering Man
729 posts
Location: Farnborough, Hampshire


Posted:
What you acctually find with old wives tales, is that they do acctually contain a whole host of information, be it herbal remedy, common sense, or any other subject. Some of these old wives tales date back thousands of years too. Same goes for nursery rhymes. They form a massive storehouse of 'forgotten wisdom'. That doesn't stop some of them being wrong, after all, no-ones perfect.

there's a rather intresting site here that has info on a few different old wives tales, and folklore to predict the weather. And cows lying down before it rains..... its not to keep them dry, but the grass they're lying on (that's why they're always huddled together in a circle)... and they do it so they don't have to lay down in the wet mud wink
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