Myths from your childhood

[monkeyboy]

After eating wait an hour before swimming (or you'll get cramps)

 

[browneyes]

My brothers told me if I swallowed watermelon seeds I'd grow watermelons in my belly. I never believed that myth (much).

 

[Bob Slydell]

Stop making that face or it'll freeze that way!

 

[Doesney]

Sitting too close to the TV would make you cross eyed

 

[DMRick]

Sit back from the TV, or you'll go blind

 

[SC Minnie]

I never liked onions so to get me to eat them my mother would tell me they give you pretty skin--



Another one-- if the sun was shining and it was raining it meant the devil was beating his wife

 

[Bob Slydell]

Originally posted by DMRick
Sit back from the TV, or you'll go blind

That's not what I was told would make you go blind!

 

[BoulderCreek]

Don't step on cracks in sidewalks.

 

[Rippington'sFan]

" That's not what I was told would make you go blind! "


LMAO...I thought of that one but didn't have the nerve to post it.
Hahahahahaha

 

[Harley Chick]

My mother used to tell me not to put my finger in the electrical socket because there was a bug in there that would bite it off.

 

[tkd lisa]

Eat that (usually some green squishy veggie like lima beans or peas), cause it will put hair on your chest. Took me til about 8 to realize that girls wouldn't want hair on their chests!!!

 

[RachelEllen]

Chocolate milk comes from brown cows.

Rachel

 

[monkeyboy]

Originally posted by tkd lisa
[B. Took me til about 8 to realize that girls wouldn't want hair on their chests!!! [/B]

How about eat that!!! there are kids starving in China

 

[liznboys]

If you swallow gum it will stay in your stomach for 3 years.

 

[Roemama1]

Originally posted by Bob Slydell
That's not what I was told would make you go blind!

Bob, you naughty boy!!!

 

[Celluloidgal]

Originally posted by SC Minnie
Another one-- if the sun was shining and it was raining it meant the devil was beating his wife

We grew up saying that one too. I think it's a southern thing.

I had a friend, who when he was a sophomore in high school, still insisted you could get worms from eating raw cookie dough. We had the hardest time convincing him!!! And only a few years later he went off to school at Yale.

Gold at the end of a rainbow. Ooops. Did I let the cat out of the bag?

 

[antkim]

If you lie there will be a black line down your tongue!(I use that one on DS now!LOL)

KIm

 

[Roemama1]

What about not eating Pop rocks and soda because it would make you explode and die.

 

[monkeyboy]

Originally posted by Bob Slydell
That's not what I was told would make you go blind!

You don't shave your palms do you?

 

[Bob Slydell]

Originally posted by monkeyboy
You don't shave your palms do you?