101 white lies you tell your children or were told???

[the.fee.fairy]

eeek, thats quite scary!!

Do your nails do the same thing if you eat them too? They're made of the same stuff. or do you have to swalow the hair roots for them to attach to your insides and grow?

I thought stomach acid was supposed to break down everything (i remember my biology teacher teling us that a syringefull would burn through he 4" thick wooden desks )..

You learn something new every day...

[hedgewizard]

There are quite a few things you can't digest, and a piece of my poppy seed cake will prove it to you. (people who I don't like, I don't warn only to eat one piece)

I don't think nails could do it because they can't tangle up in, er, other stuff. The hair doesn't grow in there, it just doesn't pass easily and tends to get tangled up with other hairs, so if you eat hair frequently you'd get one of these. Ugh!

Interestingly, bezoars were on QI the other night, and one popped up in a graphic novel I was reading too. Just like buses, really.

[Chickpea]

You've been reading Sandman! (Checks quickly), nope I'm not wearing a Sandman tshirt today. Actually, that's quite unusual. Bezoars are in Harry Potter, too.

[ina]

Yep, but the goats' stomach variety... And very useful they are supposed to be, too!

(See, I've read them, too! )

[PurpleDragon]

There are quite a few things you can't digest, and a piece of my poppy seed cake will prove it to you. (people who I don't like, I don't warn only to eat one piece)

Two things that freaked me out on first becoming a mother was the results of my child eating raisins and not chewing properly, and bananas - which leave a nappy full of long, worm-like objects - the fibre from the banana.

[Chickpea]

Two things that freaked me out on first becoming a mother was the results of my child eating raisins and not chewing properly, and bananas - which leave a nappy full of long, worm-like objects - the fibre from the banana.

Sweetcorn has a similar effect.

[hedgewizard]

How in the hell did we get onto this? I spent the morning moving horseshit around, and now we have to talk about nappies? Oh, wait. It's my fault. Damn.

Yup, Sandman it is - and that one about Calliope is one of the best I think. I've been getting my library to get hold of them for me as I think graphic novels are an underrated form of literature. A shame they always get turned into such lousy movies tho. Did you see League of Extraordinary Gentlemen???

[Wormella]

If you swallow chewing gum it will grow into a tree in your tummy and out of your ears etc...

I never had chewing gum for ages because of this...

I was told swallowing chewing gum would wrap around your heart and kill you

also

going out with wet hair would give you rhumattism of the head

[chadspad]

Sitting on cold floors gives u piles!

Going out with wet hair u will catch a cold

[hedgewizard]

Inhaling the air out of an old balloon gives you warts

[Shirley]

When we were moaning and pulling grumpy faces... my gran used to tell us that if the wind changed we'd stay like that !!

[Chickpea]

Yup, Sandman it is - and that one about Calliope is one of the best I think. I've been getting my library to get hold of them for me as I think graphic novels are an underrated form of literature. A shame they always get turned into such lousy movies tho. Did you see League of Extraordinary Gentlemen???

Crappy movies! Also V For Vendetta, Constantine (both of which are based on quintessentially British books, but were transposed into America for the dreadful, dreadful movies). Fair makes you weep. They're supposed to be having a crack at Watchmen next. I daren't look. I'll end up arrested for setting fire to a multiplex cinema.

[Boots]

"Out you go now, go play with the traffic."

"Don't let the dog lick your face, you'll get dogs breath."

"An apple a day keeps the doctor away"

"When I was a kid I had to walk 15 miles to school... in the rain!"

[The Chili Monster]

"if you eat the pips a tree would grow out of your ears"

[Milims]

Chewing gum is made out of elephants ears

Thats not an icecream man - its the kiddy catcher

No those aren't chocolate chips in the cake - they are mushrooms and you hate mushrooms!! (My daughter didn't eat the cake for two weeks. The following week we told her that it was full of micro protien - a relative of the mushroom - another two cakeless weeks!!)

I was sick of nagging my kids in the mornings so one night I snuck into my daughters room and painted all my usual nags in large letters all over her walls. The next morning she thought the faires had been and did as she was told - before I even told her.

The tooth fairy gets lost in messy bedrooms