Old Wives' Tales... Can you think of any good ones?

[arwalden]

To this day, it still makes me mad that my mother wouldn't let me go swimming for one full hour after eating. To hear her tell it, I would sink like a stone to the bottom of the pool.

Okay... well, I'm not really mad... but to this day, I still vividly recall the total frustration of having to sit there at the edge of the pool, or having to sit on the beach blanket until one hour had passed.

-- Allen

[maxanne]

1. the best one of all:

Touch it and you'll go blind!!

[arwalden]

3. But... Can I Do It Until I Need Glasses?

[maxanne]

4. you'll be risking

the dreaded HAIRY PALMS if you do.

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. Step on a crack,

and you'll break your mother's back.

[Tripper11]

5. W was a great president and leader!

Perhaps not an old one yet, but after he's voted out of office next year this will come up regualrly by the RW. :silly:

[eyesroll]

6. Don't make that face or it'll freeze that way!

It's better for your health to be too hot than too cold (so take that heavy sweater to camp, "just in case.")

[put out]

7. I have a few

and hear them from people all the time.

If you get cold, you will get a cold (No, staying inside in dry, nostril cracking warm air, circulating who knows what, in close proximity with ill people is actually great for you). Sarcasm.

Swimming on a full stomach will give you cramps and make you drown (No, but you might not swim as fast).

If you scratch yourself with a pencil, you will get lead poisoning.

Coffee stunts your growth (No, and neither does Ritalin).

Flouride gives you cancer. So does antiperspirant. So does sunscreen. Oh, wait, that makes you go blind. So now, is that full circle?

[polmaven]

9. Not quite the full circle...

Don't forget that cats should never be left alone with a baby because the cat will suck the baby's breath away.

[Rowdyboy]

10. LMAO

My grandma caught a cat on the bed when my mom was a baby. Till theyt day she died, mom STRONGLY disliked cats because she thought one of them might try to finish the job!

[Spirochete]

8. I hated that swimming thing too.

and I also was constantly hearing how playing with frogs caused warts.
And eating before bed caused nightmares.

[Bombero1956]

11. eating seeds

from apples,grapes oranges etc. would cause them to grow inside you. Swallowing gum would plug up your intestines and kill you.