Crazy things you were told by your parents

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[, and lamb is meat from an adult sheep.

but thats true really... certainly in the uk we dont tend to eat what we think of as 'lambs' .. they are at least old enough to get pregnant themselves

[Masco&Bongo]

I remember being told...

Apple pips would grow into a tree in your tummy if you swallowed them

Chewing gum, if swallowed, would block up your 'insides' and you would die (I remember accidentally swallowing a piece of Cola-flavoured Hubba Bubba and being hysterical about dying)

Crusts make your hair curl

Picking your nose made your head cave in

If you were pulling a face, when the wind changed, your face would stick like that

[hamster]

My dad always used to say that potatoes would grow in your ears if you had lots of earwax. Truly, the mind boggles....

[JulieSherris]

.......when you hear the "chimes" of the ice-cream van - it means he has run out of ice-cream !
.......cruel...v.cruel

No no - everyone knows that the chimes come from the van that takes the grannies off to bingo - what's an 'ice cream van'???????

[Cligereen]

On the chewing gum one... when I was about six i used to go into a baker's shop with my mum. The lady behind the counter was ENORMOUS (probably quality assurance on the cream cakes). My mum told me that she got that fat from swallowing chewing gum that got wrapped around her insides cuasing a blockage.

It worked on me anyway! - I never swallowed it.

[Clara]

I'm not totally sure I can put the full blame on my mum for this one; just an inarticulate explanation and a fertile imagination.

We were on holiday in the early eighties and there was a bunch of punks hanging around with the most outlandishly dyed and sculpted hair, I remember being like "oh wow" and pointing out to my mum. We had a conversation about it but the only thing i remember her saying was that doing that sort of thing to your hair makes it go strange when you are older I guess she meant that it damaged it but I took it to mean that Phyllis Pearce (Corrie) and any other old ladies I saw with a purple rinse had once been punks and their hair had stayed like that Took me years before i worked it out

[MuddyWitch]

Clara,

My brother was a punk in the 80's & dyed his hair all sorts of out-landish colours...now he's bald...yer Mam was right!!!

MW

[Millymollymandy]

Clara that is really funny!

[invisiblepiper]

My Mother's ultimate threat when she thought I might do anything untoward - was to say that I would become a 'shop soiled woman' - hmm - wonder where the slightly feminist tendencies came from?

[prison break fan]

My Dad and Errol Flynn won the war! pbf

[Sally Jane]

My Dad and Errol Flynn won the war! pbf

My Dad helped them out a bit!

My Mum's claim to fame was that Clark Gable walked past her in Leiston. He was in the US Air Force apparently, and according to her was at that time based in Suffolk, but I've never researched it to see if it was true!

PS I shall be saving all these quotes for future use, as I will become a first-time Granny in January!

[sleepyowl]

that if you don't put a hole through the bottom of an empty eggshell (after eating a boiled egg), a witch will use it to sail away in

It would have to be a bloody big egg to fit me into it

My dad told me if you picked up a guinea pig by it's tail it's eyes would fall out, it wasn't until i picked up my guinea pig did I realise they don't have tails

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oh I have just remembered

when I asked what a tummy button was for, my Dad sais if you put a screwdriver in there, and undid it, your bottom fell off.....

[StripyPixieSocks]

oh I have just remembered

when I asked what a tummy button was for, my Dad sais if you put a screwdriver in there, and undid it, your bottom fell off.....

I forgot that one too...

[Millymollymandy]

Guffaw! I've never heard that one before but it is brilliant.