old wives tales

[Motokid]

The dream thread got me thinking about wives tales and which ones are true and which ones people here can prove wrong...and which ones you think are really funny.

In the dream thread I mentioned the "theory" that you can't survive dreaming about your own death. Sar states, through experience, that theory is wrong.

I've also heard it's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. I've tried to force myself to do that on occasion and the sneeze gets stiffled...

On sneezing again...I've heard that for that micro-second during a sneeze your entire body shut's off...no heart beat...nothing....the sneeze is kind of a short circuit of the entire system but only for a very small fraction of a second....


What are some of the funny things you've heard of and would like to question people about?

 

[sirmyk]

I heard there's this item on eBay that can win you publication of 500 words (laughs...)

 

[Jenem]

"red sky in the morning, sailors take warning. red sky at night, sailors delight"

i often try to pay attention to that one, but it's not always accurate. anyone know why?

also, Moto, i have died in my dreams on more than one occasion.
and one more tidbit, there is a guy in my office named Moto

 

[Motokid]

What about:

feed a cold starve a fever...or do I have that backwards....

You're way cool Jenem....how did you die? Did you wake up freakin' out or just kinda peaceful. Same questions for you Sar. I did not want to hijack that other thread.

That dude in your office is an imposter, and certainly nowhere near as cool, and manly as I.....

 

[Sar]

In the first dream I was just walking along when I had this strange sensation that everything was not right, I could sense that something was wrong. I then just was aware in the dream that all my system was slowly shutting down & just felt my breathing & pulse slowly stop. Was really peaceful at the time, but when I woke up I was seriously freaked out about it all.

Second time was odd too, I somehow got shot (can't remember how, just that I hadn't been in a dangerous situation leading up to it) & I was wondering around with this bullet in my head & no one dared tell me because they thought it would be rude to point out such a thing (I am english after all). I ended up dying because the bullet eventually got too far lodged into my brain (nice hey) & so they operated .. I died on the operating table.

On the subject of old wives tales, some of those are really funny because they're just amazing bizarre & surreal. The two you mentioned about sneezing are supposed to be true though, the first is a reflex because the pressure of a sneeze being over a 100mph & the 2nd is why people say "bless you" - they used to believe when your heart skipped a beat the devil could take your soul.

 

[Motokid]

Since we have TBF members form all over the world, and from many different cultures I was hoping to get some interesting tales that I've never heard before....even if they are silly things you heard as a child like:

"step on a crack, break your mothers back and give your father a heart attack..."

 

[jenn]

is that a wives tail or a children's rhyme? my gramma always layed us on our tummies so we wouldn't get flat heads and said that if you let babies stand for too long before 6 months they would go bowlegged.

 

[Jenem]

What about:

feed a cold starve a fever...or do I have that backwards....

You're way cool Jenem....how did you die? Did you wake up freakin' out or just kinda peaceful. Same questions for you Sar. I did not want to hijack that other thread.

That dude in your office is an imposter, and certainly nowhere near as cool, and manly as I.....

i always get confused on that one, too.
lol- thanks Moto, you are too. you always voice the reasons behind my conclusions- something i am never very good at. you probably don't want such an association, as my conclusions are pretty harsh sometimes- sorry about that. as for the dude i my office, his full name is Motoyuki- we call him Moto for short.

the first time i died in my dreams, i had been walking down a stone set of stairs towards what i thought was a dungeon. it turned out to be a fire pit at the bottom. when i reached the platform at the bottom i fell in by accident. i didn't wake up freaked out or anything. i was in awe because i was still alive. it occured to me almost instantaneosly that the old adage was inaccurate.

in the second dream, i was locked in a warehouse with vampires (i had watched The Lost Boys before i went to bed). they didn't know i was there. i tried to get out, the dream went on for quite some time. after a lengthy chase i was caught and swifty killed by a ravaging bite to the neck.

 

[jenn]

also when i was pregnant with michael everyone said it was a boy because i was carrying so high. and people say heart burn means the baby will have a lot of hair.

 

[Jenem]

when i as a kid, i never stepped on cracks because i was afraid i would break my moms back.

isn't the also a thing about your left hand being itchy meaning you get money, and your right hand being itchy meaning you are gonna give it away? or is it the other way around?

and having an itchy left foot meaning you will go somewhere you've never been

 

[jenn]

and burning ears: someone is talking about you. i think if you have an itchy head it's lice or dandruff though, no mystery there.

 

[Motokid]

"my conclusions are pretty harsh sometimes"

Jenem...you do remember who you're talking to here don't you? Motokid. I've had members cuss me out and leave the forum because of shit I've said. I don't recall you really pissing anybody off.

Jennashleajorhspamzilla....my wife was told she was having boys because of the carry high thing....I said it had to be a girl cause she was almost 3 weeks late before they c-sectioned her. I was right. The carry high thing is not right in both cases of my daughters, but you've pretty much got a 50/50 chance with that one so I'm sure many might argue..... wife never had too much heartburn and both had hair, but not tons of it....

 

[Sar]

The really weird ones regarding the sex of a child are when you dangle a wedding ring on a piece of string above the bump & the direction the string moves in alledgedly tells you which sex the child is.

My mum's side of the family have all sorts of weird old wives tales including if you look in the mirror too often, the devil will steal your soul for being vain & that if you pick your nose your hand turns into a trotter.

 

[Jenem]

my sister's mum-in-law said that if (when you're pregnant) you mix comet (the cleaner) with bleach (i think it's bleach) and pee on a stick, the color would determine the sex of the baby. it has to be done in a styrofoam cup. my sister claims that it works.

 

[Motokid]

what's a trotter

 

[Jenem]

"my conclusions are pretty harsh sometimes"

Jenem...you do remember who you're talking to here don't you? Motokid. I've had members cuss me out and leave the forum because of shit I've said. I don't recall you really pissing anybody off.

LOL ok, true enough!

 

[jenn]

my sister's mum-in-law said that if (when you're pregnant) you mix comet (the cleaner) with bleach (i think it's bleach) and pee on a stick, the color would determine the sex of the baby. it has to be done in a styrofoam cup. my sister claims that it works.

wont' inhaling that concoction almost kill you?

 

[Jenem]

wont' inhaling that concoction almost kill you?

quite possibly. but i think you would have to avoid huffing it. i am not sure if bleach is the second ingredient though. it might be something less harsh

 

[pwilson]

The whole time my wife was pregnant, my mother-in-law insisted that if she ate too much of something during the pregnancy(peanuts, milk, etc...) that that baby would be allergic to it after he was born.

 

[Sar]

what's a trotter

A pig's trotter ... for some unknown reason (probably because it's the mad welsh side of the family) picking your nose means you hand gets replaced by a pig's foot. The amount of times I had to test that theory as a child, merely in the name of research of course