Is it true?

Tony_Brewski
Tony_Brewski Posts: 1,376 Member
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Remember being a kid and hearing things like "If you eat watermellon seeds one will grow in your stomach!"

What are some of the more memorable sayings you remember from your childhood?
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  • BillyC96
    BillyC96 Posts: 7,560 Member
    Stop that! Someone's going to lose an eye!
  • Sockimobi
    Sockimobi Posts: 541
    I thought it was apple seeds!

    Does anyone know anyone who had their eye poked out? I'm sure we all got told that A LOT when playing with erm, long, pointy & shapr objects!
  • Sockimobi
    Sockimobi Posts: 541
    Damn. Pipped to it!
  • kimmie185
    kimmie185 Posts: 550 Member
    "Behave or the Boogie Man will come out from the closet and get you."
  • mama2beau
    mama2beau Posts: 21
    If you cross your eyes they will stay that way.
    also
    If you sit too close to the TV you may go blind.
  • AHatFullOfSky
    AHatFullOfSky Posts: 83 Member
    Cross our eyes, and if the wind turns, they'll stay crossed!

    If ou eat gum, it'll make knots on your intestines.

    If you eat whole pebber corn you'll die!!!
  • Sasssy69
    Sasssy69 Posts: 547 Member
    "If you keep making that face it's going to stay like that." I WISH!
  • MoveTheMountain
    MoveTheMountain Posts: 764
    Remember being a kid and hearing things like "If you eat watermellon seeds one will grow in your stomach!"

    What are some of the more memorable sayings you remember from your childhood?

    Weird as it might seem, there have been a few cases of peas (and probably other seeds) being accidentally being inhaled and taking root in a person's lung. Fer real.

    http://voices.yahoo.com/a-pea-plant-lung-grows-massachusetts-man-6594880.html

    And might I add, ewwww...
  • anabell31
    anabell31 Posts: 268
    If everybody in the world faced the same direction and sneezed at the same time, you could make the Earth spin the other way
  • PBsMommy
    PBsMommy Posts: 1,166 Member
    My parents loved it when they saw cops. They always liked to tell me if I didn't act right I was going to jail. I had a fear of getting locked up until the age of 12. :laugh:
  • Squidgeypaws007
    Squidgeypaws007 Posts: 1,012 Member
    I find it worrying that sometimes I find myself saying things my parents said...like "keep it up and it'll end in tears!"


    One I don't say is: "Staring at that TV will give you square eyes!" 0_o
  • jenypri
    jenypri Posts: 46
    If you drink too much pop you will grow a third eye ball.....................Yea very traumatizing!
  • BigBrewski
    BigBrewski Posts: 922 Member
    Well I can still see and my palms aren't hairy so cleary that was a Myth!!!!!
  • CallieM15
    CallieM15 Posts: 910 Member
    Wear socks to bed and your feet will turn black and fall off.
    You could hear the sun sizzling when it fell past the horizon (lived in hawaii).
    You have to brush your hair everyday because after the third day it all falls out...



    I had weird parents.
  • kittyhasclaws
    kittyhasclaws Posts: 446 Member
    Put "want" in one hand and "*kitten*" in the other, and see which fills first.
  • AHatFullOfSky
    AHatFullOfSky Posts: 83 Member
    If you play with fire, you'll pee in your bed..
  • Sbehlmer
    Sbehlmer Posts: 464 Member
    "Don't go outside with wet hair or you'll get pneumonia"
  • RitaMarie88
    RitaMarie88 Posts: 43 Member
    Well I can still see and my palms aren't hairy so cleary that was a Myth!!!!!

    lmfao
  • _the_feniks_
    _the_feniks_ Posts: 3,412 Member
    Stickers make it go faster.
  • anabell31
    anabell31 Posts: 268
    "Don't go outside with wet hair or you'll get pneumonia"

    I still get this all the time
  • CajunNino
    CajunNino Posts: 269
    Well I can still see and my palms aren't hairy so cleary that was a Myth!!!!!
    LMAO!! :laugh:
  • Tony_Brewski
    Tony_Brewski Posts: 1,376 Member
    Oh these are just rich! Keep them coming! I just about lol'd off my chair here!

    I liked the "If sit that close to the TV your eyes will melt!"
  • CajunNino
    CajunNino Posts: 269
    "Wait 30 minutes after eating before going swimming or you'll cramp up." - this is a myth. I wonder how many adults still believe this?
  • LonLB
    LonLB Posts: 1,126 Member
    If you pee outside you will get pink eye.
  • LonLB
    LonLB Posts: 1,126 Member
    when I saw the title all I could think of is "if you don't use it you lose it"
  • MoveTheMountain
    MoveTheMountain Posts: 764
    My parents loved it when they saw cops. They always liked to tell me if I didn't act right I was going to jail. I had a fear of getting locked up until the age of 12. :laugh:

    I still have that fear... how did you get over it?
  • gogospice
    gogospice Posts: 185 Member
    If you look into the sun you can take your teeth out.

    I was so envious that my grandpa could take his teeth out. I tried very very hard for a very very long time (with no luck, might I add)! I still chuckle at the memory!
  • spells1977
    spells1977 Posts: 146 Member
    If you don't eat all your carrots you won't be able to see in the dark!!!
  • CajunNino
    CajunNino Posts: 269
    If you pee outside you will get pink eye.
    I routinely pee off my porch. LOL - country living has it's perks.
  • Tony_Brewski
    Tony_Brewski Posts: 1,376 Member
    If you look into the sun you can take your teeth out.

    I was so envious that my grandpa could take his teeth out. I tried very very hard for a very very long time (with no luck, might I add)! I still chuckle at the memory!

    This made me chuckle lol.

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