There was a book called Great Lies to Tell Small Kids... with some seriously funny suggestions for lying to kids. Here are a few I liked:
~It takes the brains and beaks of four real penguins to make one Penguin Biscuit.
~Put a slice of ham in the DVD player. It will play a short film about pigs. (A slice of cheese will play a short film about cows.)
~Strictly speaking, the tomato is not a vegetable. It's really a kind of dolphin.
~One in ten fish are afraid of water.
~Scatter drawing pins next to an ants nest, then wait till it rains. They'll pick them up and use them as umbrellas
~There's no such thing as kangaroos, they're just mice standing very near.
~The can opener was invented 98 years before the can.
~This square has a secret 5th side which you will only see if you stare at it for a very very very long time.
My Mum pretended that there was this evil woman called Mrs Black who would come and take me away if I was bad. She often 'phoned' her and made me pack my suitcase with only underwear. God that's cruel!
I put it down on paper and then the ghost does not ache so much.
Don't try to calm the storm, calm yourself, the storm will pass.
My dad told me once on a trip to london when I was about 8 that the wire on the tunnel of the underground was so that the driver can grab it when he wanted to stop.. I actually believed that for a loonng looonng time.
Life can be beautiful if you let it.
Step back, breathe and take it in
My mum told my little sister that we picked her from a cabage field and that she was actually a real life cabbage patch kid doll...
She believed us until she was about 8...bit mean really
The time lost being sad, Is a moment ofhappiness you'll never get back.
hehe.. When my niece was younger I glued a ton of coins onto a tree and told her that it was the money tree. :P She believed me for a good three years. ^__^
Oh and if you don't wash behind you're ears you'll grow colliflowers/potatos there.
I love the book "Great Lies To Tell Small Kids". Its by the same author as "The Book Of Bunny Suicides". Both Great Books. And lets not forget "The Return Of The Buuny Suicides"
"If you sneeze with your eyes open they'll come out of their sockets!"
I haven't yet had the balls to try it out. :P
And I think it's true... :/
And Bunny Suicides FTW! :D :D
And I just thought of two my Mom used to tell me. "If you eat your hair you'll get a big tummy fill of hair and you'll be ill." And "If you keep sucking your thumb your thumb will shrink!"
I believed the hair one but not the thumb one. I used to just put my thumbs next to each other and say how they were the same size.
I stopped sucking my thumb when I was 14 or 15 years old. :$
I stopped sucking my thumb when I was 14 or 15 years old. :$
I love you. There is still some hope for me.
My mum said if I kept sucking my thumb it would fall off.
And she said that a bookworm was a worm that lived in books, and if you read for too long, it would come out and eat the book/your fingers.
Cuz, I used to read for far too long and never went out or anything.
when i was like 6 or seven i said "whatever" all of the time. it annoyed my mom so much that she told me that it wasn't actually a word. i fell for that for a while.
oh well. whatever. *does hand thing*
come and join me. then world domination.
mmmwuhahahahahahaha.
i like to commit raoh's (random acts of hugging)
HazardxToxMyselfx3 = sister
hahaugotpunked87 = fairy-god half step sister
Katiebean = pet moose
morbida = third cousin once removed
I'm pretty sure that eating carrots does help you see in the dark.
There's something in them that enables your eyesight to adapt to the darkened condition a lot easier so that you can see better.
Eating cheese before bed gives you nightmares...I believe that until I started secondary school and I was extremely embarrassed when I said it in front of my class and they all laughed at me =[
I'm so sure that's true...Isn't it something about the way it's digested? =/
I got told this story about motorways. You know the railing things on the motorways [can't think what they're called] that are usually rusty? I got told that once there was this guy who lived in a hole in the middle of the motorway and one day he was digging and he reached theses electric wires, and when he touched them he got electrecuted and exploded and his blood went everywhere and the rsut was actually his blood.
I was a naive child. And pretty dumb too.
Believed it for ages and it never occured to me that there was one than one motorway and that they all had his 'blood' on them.
The only time you will find real light is when you're searching in the dark..
I'm pretty sure that eating carrots does help you see in the dark.
There's something in them that enables your eyesight to adapt to the darkened condition a lot easier so that you can see better.
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That's true, but there's only a minute about of that substance in carrots and so it's pretty much impossible to eat any amount of carrots that would enable you to see in the dark - or even improve your eyesight in the darkness.
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Originally Posted by Doesnt_matter
To the taking blood story: I was afraid that I didnīt know the right expression for it. How do you say in English what I mean? (I guess that you know what I wanted to say.) Getting blood taken by a doctor?
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Of course I know what you mean. And, yeah - getting blood taken by a doctor would be the right way to put it. :)
I'm sure there was some other ones I was told, can't remember them at the moment though.
I was told that I was bought from the supermarket too! (sorry, can't remember who else said that). I always used to look for the baby aisle whenever we went to the shops.
And about carrots, they have vitamin A in which improves your vision. Vit A deficiencey can cause nightblindness.
