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Xantippe
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Uncles seem to be very well-represented in the leg-pulling stories!
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pianistclare
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I told my class once that all chew gum is recycled. That people scrape it off of tables in restaurants and their desks, and they send it to a company that boils it and re-flavors it.
They didn’t bring gum to class for a whole week.
Then someone’s mom told them that it wasn’t true.
She never had to deal with them in class.
When I was little, my dad told me that his middle name was Aloysius.
It was years before my mom finally told me it was Alfred.
I liked Aloysius better.
They didn’t bring gum to class for a whole week.
Then someone’s mom told them that it wasn’t true.
She never had to deal with them in class.
When I was little, my dad told me that his middle name was Aloysius.
It was years before my mom finally told me it was Alfred.
I liked Aloysius better.
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DaveBj
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It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it
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Phemie
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Phemie
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Mom’s food tidbit was that eating the burnt cookies gave you lots of iron and was good for your blood.
My mother was more specific. It was tuberculosis and you’d die. A girl she knew had gone swimming on her period and died of TB so of course the TB was all because of the swimming.
My father freaked and scolded my mother when he heard me in the tub when he knew I’d started my period. “Haven’t you told her she couldn’t take a bath?!?!” Of course she had but I wasn’t having anything to do with those old wives’ tales.
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ShrodingersCat
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Me too!
My mom was a word smith; I was convinced that she had told me that babies came out of your bellybutton. When I learned the truth I indignantly told her so and she pointed out that she actually just explained it so vaguely that my four year old brain came to the only logical conclusion it could: they came out of bellybuttons.
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ShrodingersCat
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I lost a super cheap kid’s jewellery ring at the river once and I was very upset. My grandfather told me that the fish could use it to get married.
My cruel mother then tried in vain to prevent me from throwing another ring into the river next time we went, so that another fish couple could get married.
My cruel mother then tried in vain to prevent me from throwing another ring into the river next time we went, so that another fish couple could get married.
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Allegra
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A cousin once told me that the priest goes around spraying holy water on the congregation because he’s checking for vampires. Vampires are not allowed in church but they frequently try to sneak past the ushers.
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pensmama87
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I believed several of the things already mentioned. The sex ones are really funny. I remember when we learned the actual ahem mechanism in health class and pretty much all of us girls just stared at each other in recess wondering who on earth would ever want to do that. I had a vague idea, but I had no idea of the specifics until I was much older.
I too remember thinking “several” had to mean “seven of something.” It still bugs me that it’s such a vague descriptor.
My kids think there’s a lady who lives in my phone who tells me how to go places (the GPS voice.) I rarely use GPS, but the kids love it when I do use it. They asked me last week, “Does the lady not know how to go to the zoo? Is that why you’re not asking her?”)
I too remember thinking “several” had to mean “seven of something.” It still bugs me that it’s such a vague descriptor.
My kids think there’s a lady who lives in my phone who tells me how to go places (the GPS voice.) I rarely use GPS, but the kids love it when I do use it. They asked me last week, “Does the lady not know how to go to the zoo? Is that why you’re not asking her?”)
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Used2beSherryG
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I caught my daughter eating dog food. I felt her tailbone & said "uh oh!! You are starting to grow a tail. She quit eating dog food as she really believed me.
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seagal
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And mine was a great “josher” as he put it. He was so deadpan and dry you would believe anything he told you.
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AClaire11
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When I was very young, the only boys I’d seen naked were infants at the in-home daycare, and so I thought that everyone had manly parts and then they went away as you got older. Then I saw a baby girl’s diaper get changed…ruined the theory haha
As a child, I used to think there was a creepy ghost or attic dweller or something watching me through the ceiling vents. I was also convinced if there was a picture of someone in my room, that person could spy on me through its eyes.
Someone told me that my cats would steal the baby’s breath
Someone in high school told me that I wasn’t a virgin because I’d used a tampon all of one time.
Someone told me that when he had sex for the first time, he freaked out because he didn’t know about the hymen and thought she had some sort of disease when he saw the blood. He also thought his parents had only had sex once to conceive each child.
As a child, I used to think there was a creepy ghost or attic dweller or something watching me through the ceiling vents. I was also convinced if there was a picture of someone in my room, that person could spy on me through its eyes.
Someone told me that my cats would steal the baby’s breath
Someone in high school told me that I wasn’t a virgin because I’d used a tampon all of one time.
Someone told me that when he had sex for the first time, he freaked out because he didn’t know about the hymen and thought she had some sort of disease when he saw the blood. He also thought his parents had only had sex once to conceive each child.
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AClaire11
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Oh, one time when I was young, my much older sister tried to convince me that snow was really flakes of soap. I refused to believe her and got so angry when she wouldn’t admit it was a lie that I shoved her
LaughingBoy1503
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My Grandmother heard a televangelist or something say that Jesus was coming back very soon. In like less than 20 years. She told me. I believed that I was not going to die and that I might not even ever be a adult because of this. I am pretty sure it has been about 20 years since I was told that. Funny now, but not really funny in that my Grandma believe that guy and she was already a 50 year old woman
When I was 7 years old there was a rumor going around class (Further moved along by a kid in the class that claimed to be a devil worshiper) that if you looked up “Devil” in the school encyclopedia and copied down the writing in a certain sequence and buried the piece of paper with the words on it in your backyard that the devil will appear to you. I never tried it out.
A classmate (I must have been 6 or 7) told me that you can make yourself invisible by putting on a coat and covering it with baby powder but you have to cover every single inch or it wont work. I wanted to try it but never got around to it.
When I was 7 years old there was a rumor going around class (Further moved along by a kid in the class that claimed to be a devil worshiper) that if you looked up “Devil” in the school encyclopedia and copied down the writing in a certain sequence and buried the piece of paper with the words on it in your backyard that the devil will appear to you. I never tried it out.
A classmate (I must have been 6 or 7) told me that you can make yourself invisible by putting on a coat and covering it with baby powder but you have to cover every single inch or it wont work. I wanted to try it but never got around to it.
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DarkLight
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There’s always the old baptist one that wine in Bible times wasn’t really alcoholic.
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DaveBj
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She has a name in our household – Gabby Garmin. “Recalculating!”I believed several of the things already mentioned. The sex ones are really funny. I remember when we learned the actual ahem mechanism in health class and pretty much all of us girls just stared at each other in recess wondering who on earth would ever want to do that. I had a vague idea, but I had no idea of the specifics until I was much older.
I too remember thinking “several” had to mean “seven of something.” It still bugs me that it’s such a vague descriptor.
My kids think there’s a lady who lives in my phone who tells me how to go places (the GPS voice.) I rarely use GPS, but the kids love it when I do use it. They asked me last week, “Does the lady not know how to go to the zoo? Is that why you’re not asking her?”)
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Xantippe
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Funny!
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Xantippe
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I grew up in a Pentecostal church and the pastor said exactly the same thing well over 20 years ago.My Grandmother heard a televangelist or something say that Jesus was coming back very soon. In like less than 20 years. She told me. I believed that I was not going to die and that I might not even ever be a adult because of this. I am pretty sure it has been about 20 years since I was told that. Funny now, but not really funny in that my Grandma believe that guy and she was already a 50 year old woman
My dad thought it was so irresponsible of the pastor.
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DarkLight
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At one point I asked if wine in bible times wasn’t really alcoholic, how come there were so many passages in the Bible warning about drunkenness (quoting one passage in Proverbs that is very descriptive of a habitual drunk). I was rewarded with an answer that, since the passage says “do not look on wine when it is red in the cup,” it was only red wine that was alcoholic because it was fermented more. I was old enough at this point, at least, to realize this was a load of dung, and promptly found a reason to excuse myself.
LaughingBoy1503
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And my Grandmother is Pentecostal. I am sure you are not surprised to here that. I grew up with Pentecostal leanings because of it although I was non-denominational for the longest time as a protestant.
My poor Grandma was told by her mother (also Pentecostal) as a little girl that if Jesus came back and caught her in a movie theater he would leave her behind. Poor Grandma
Just “irresponsible”? He gave the pastor a lot of slack then.
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