Ever had your mouth washed out with soap?

[trof]

I have.
Granny did it.
Can't remember what I said.
I can still taste it.
yuck

BTW-It didn't work.
;-)

[Skittles]

1. HELL F***ING YES

WITH PEARS SOAP (in England). Did it work? HA HA, HA HA HA HA

[peekaloo]

2. Yep.

Promptly told my mom it tasted like shit! }(

[trof]

3. And got another wash?

;-)

[peekaloo]

4. lol....nah I was fast on my feet in those days!

:D

[Bertha Venation]

5. yep

Once, and I still remember why, what I was wearing, the brand of soap (Safeguard), the season (fall), the hovel we lived in, etc., etc.

[trof]

6. So...what did you say?

[Bertha Venation]

11. I lied

I gave myself a hickey on the arm (why?), and told my mother the kid down the way burned me. Those freaks called my parents had to know that wasn't a burn on my arm but a hickey, but they dragged my ass down the way anyway to "confront" the kid and his parents.

I think they did that because they were just fucking poor-white-trash stupid. Then they made me chew soap because they had to punish me for embarrassing them, making me drag them down to a neighbor's like that.

But I'm not bitter. ;)

[booksenkatz]

8. Safeguard here, too

For saying "shit" at about age 9. The lesson I learned was to be more creative: I've now got a list of curse words a mile long that even truck drivers and sailors have yet to think up.

Thanks, Mom!:D

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[trof]

12. Oh my.

Granny would have ripped out my tongue by the roots just before she had the massive coronary.

[7th_Sephiroth]

13. *lol*

nah, mom laughed, dad got pissed

[ronnykmarshall]

26. That's some good cussin'!

I like a good cuss, how 'bout you mother fucker?

[Tikki]

7. Lucky, you alls....

....SOAP...
....Soap ain't nuthin'....
...my mom used to run after us screaming..."You better be good or I'll 'boil you in oil'"...

Well, she never did 'boil' us...but.....

"NOT to be continued....."

[trof]

9. Only sauteed?

hee
;-)

[ikojo]

14. Yes, when I was aroung 4 or 5. I said something

snotty to my little brother. I may have cussed too. I really cannot remember it. My mom did the deed and I seem to recall that it was Dial soap.

[trof]

15. Granny used Octagon soap.

Strong, vile, yellow bar.
I don't think they make it any more.

[Kahuna]

16. Once or twice.

:cry: My mommy did it to me.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

17. Oh Yeah!

So many times that I found out soap is an aquired taste, sort of like Caviar. Personally, I prefer Ivory, it floats!

[ScreamingMeemie]

18. My mother used to put ginger on our tongues...blech it burned.

And if you rubbed at it, it burned worse. Not a favorite childhood memory of mine.

[JVS]

19. I accidentally ate some liquid soap as a kid. It was not good.

[_NorCal_D_]

20. Yes

It wasn't all that bad, and I deserved it too! :evilgrin:

[ldf]

21. i don't remember that, but....

i do remember my maternal grandmother (little mama), who lived with us and helped very much to raise us, made me go get the switch (do you know what that is?) that she would use to punish me. and she said that if i didn't get a good one, she would make me reqret it.

i still love her dearly, long after she is gone. whatever we did, we usually deserved to get that spanking/switching. it was never done vindictively. we were subjected to discipline, and we turned out ok!

but i don't remember having my mouth washed out with soap. of course i never talked dirty. :-)

[trof]

31. My granny too!

We all lived in the same house and she was my "co-mother".
"Go get me a switch" is a phrase that still fills me with dread and foreboding.
We had a row of privet hedge down one side of the property. Enough switches for a million kids.
She wasn't cruel. She just believed in "Spare the rod and spoil the child. I did some pretty bad things as a kid.

[Nlighten1]

22. Yes

It worked for me for a while anyway. Mom caught me cussing one day and zapped my mouth with soap.

[latebloomer]

23. Child abuse

Pure and simple.

[ronnykmarshall]

24. Baking Soda

One night when we I was 5 or so, my brother and my cousins Kim and Teri were goofing off in my room. Kim came up with a new game called "Let's Cuss". Mike my brother started out with "SHIT!", we all just giggled! Teri boldly said "Son of a bitch"! More giggles! Kim proudly says "God-damn it!". We're rolling on the floor! I of course being the youngest said "ASSHOLE!". The look on my siblings faces froze as my mom walked into my room. OF COURSE, I took the punishment.

[jumptheshadow]

25. Yes, a couple of times

In fact, I had just told my partner about it this morning.

She said: "So that's why you never swear?"

(I do cuss, on sporadic occasions, and, I swear, I've seen jaws drop when I do it, it's so unexpected.)

[SOteric]

27. Oh. Well. I've shared this before...

People who know me well have, from time to time asked about the persistent, recurring pranks I exchange with my brothers.

An old Italian proverb tells us that "Vengeance is a dish best served cold."


My two oldest brothers, Tony and Al were born in Parma, Italy and spoke Italian, then learnt English. Joey, Mike and I all spoke English primarily, but picked up Italian in the home. I was 7 years old at the time and hadn't a clue about the birds and the bees.


My father used to smoke a pipe. Mom would usually have his pipe & tobacco and a glass of red wine, some cheese and some fruit waiting for him at the end of his day. Almost as a tender ritual between them, my father would greet these assembled nurtures by loudly announcing: "You see why I marry this woman! So good to me!"

Sometimes Mom would cut the fruit, gather the cheese and pour the wine and she'd let me put out the pipe. To which Papa would add an announcement, "'Bina, you make some lucky man a fine wife one day if you take some time from all your babies and make him a good pipe." Then he'd show me how to pack it and I'd poke my tiny finger into the top firmly and proudly.


One day at Sunday School, Lorenzo Alvraci, also 7, wondered out loud 'why Joseph wanted to marry the Virgin Mary, 'cause after all she was going to be busy being the mother of God and having people pray to her all the time.' In the flawless Italian precisely coached by my brother Al, I responded "Forse lei gli ha fatto una bella pipa." Literally, "Maybe she gave him a lovely pipe."


That would be literal, though. If you said that to an Italian in just that way, an Italian such as for instance, Sister Sophia the Sunday School teacher, the cultural meaning would be equivalent to: "Maybe she gave him a really great blow job."


The Roman Catholic penance for impuning the virtue of the Virgin Mary involves a shrieking nun, a bar of soap and an entire novena.


'Nuff said.

[latebloomer]

28. Oh, you poor child!

Those nuns were so loving and spiritual, weren't they?

[4323Lopez]

37. good story

:)

[catmandu57]

29. Soap ? Soap was nothing

Our sadistic stepfather would gather us around whenever someone did something and under the theory that to get the right one get them all. Out would come the bottle of Tabasco, and to make sure we got a good shot we would have to open our mouths, hands behind and clasped together while this fucker smiled and poured hotsauce into our waiting mouths. After that out came the strap, god I still hate that fuckhead, the beatings got harder as we got older, and they wonder why I don't come around. Fuck that son of a bitch eternally.

[latebloomer]

30. Oh my God, that is terrible!

There sure are a lot of sick sadistic fuckers in this world.

Not all of them work for the Federal government.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

32. Fuck yeah!

It was the ONLY time my father ever physically punished me. He did it when I was 4 because I had bitten my sister.

[Rashind]

33. Soap poisoning!

I'm blind now. I'm typing this with magic. As well as dishonesty.

[Spirochete]

34. Yes - a number of times

That was my method of determining which words were likely to increase my social status on the playground - to try them out on my mother. If she drug me in the bathroom and force-fed me a bar of Ivory soap, the word was a good one to use amongst my classmates, out of earshot of the teachers. But the punishment was unpleasant. The soap was usually sitting in a wet tray, all mushy on the bottom. She would scrape all the mushy soap off on my front teeth. I hate Ivory soap to this day.

On Edit: Am now washing my fingers out with soap for mistyping....

[Stone Cold]

35. Yes I did....

....and it made me blind and I made my parents cry. JK, that's from "A Christmas Story." :D :)

[4323Lopez]

36. Yup, it did work!

I'd probably do it to my kids too! Of course it would have to be non-toxic, non-poisonous etc...it'd be a bar special for that purpose!