[Crimson Dynamo]

Like take your coat off indoors or you wont feel the benefit

if you dont take the dog out a walk when it rains it could explode

the rumble strips on the motorways were for blind drivers

pears were apples from outer space.


and some that are true


Whenever you see a small spider there is always a big one close behind

The sun’s core is so hot that a piece of it the size of a pinhead would give off enough heat to kill a person 160 kilometres away.



What lies and truths did your parents tell you?

[rubymoo]

Lies:
When the music plays on the ice cream van they've sold out of ice cream.
If you pull a face and the wind changes it'll stay that way.
Thunder is 2 clouds banging together.

Truths:
Cats always land on their feet (i tested this theory when i was 6)
Cats need their whiskers to gauge a gap (also tested this theory aged 11)
It's more fun to give than to receive.
Youth is wasted on the young.
If you had to save a thief or a liar, always save the thief as a liar can get an innocent man hung.

[Creggle]

Originally Posted by rubymoo

Lies:
When the music plays on the ice cream van they've sold out of ice cream.

That's so troll

[Niamh.]

I don't remember any lies my parents told me but I remember my granny telling me that If i sat with my back to the fire I'd get lumbago, I don't even know what that is so I don't know whether its true or not

My aunt used to tell her kids that thunder was God moving the furniture round - Pretty sure that ones true

[LukeB]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I don't remember any lies my parents told me but I remember my granny telling me that If i sat with my back to the fire I'd get lumbago, I don't even know what that is so I don't know whether its true or not

My aunt used to tell her kids that thunder was God moving the furniture round - Pretty sure that ones true

I thought you would know about parent lies

[LukeB]

Lies that my parents told me

- Santa is real
- Stories about Tooth fairy
- if you don'r eat your carrots, you won't be able to see in the dark
- Go to bed or the boogy man will come out at night

[Josy]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I don't remember any lies my parents told me but I remember my granny telling me that If i sat with my back to the fire I'd get lumbago, I don't even know what that is so I don't know whether its true or not

My aunt used to tell her kids that thunder was God moving the furniture round - Pretty sure that ones true

My mum told me this, definitely true that.

Umm I can't really think of any apart from eat your bread crusts it makes your hair go curly and don't make faces if the wind changes your face will stay like that.

[Daniel-X]

Don't pull a face if the wind changes it will stay like that
If I was lying about being ill then the doctor would make me drink disgusting medicine for the whole day

[Marsh.]

I was only giving that strange lady a hug.

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Marsh.

I was only giving that strange lady a hug.

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

When a bug goes in your nose it turns to boggy/

[Livia]

My Dad used to say if I didn't turn the light out and go to sleep he'd turn the lights off at the mains. Didn't occur to me it would mean he wouldn't be able to watch the telly.

He also told me too much tomato ketchup would give me boils.

The truest thing my parents ever told me was, no on in the world is important enough to get away with treating you with disrespect... and that things inevitably get worse before they get better.

[AnnieK]

If you swallow chewing gum it wraps round your heart
If you swallow an apple pip an apple tree would grow in your tummy

[kirklancaster]

When it was raining it was my deceased Granddad in heaven taking a shower.
When it was thundering it was 'God's' house-keeper beating his carpets.
If you looked at 'cheeky' pictures of girls you'd go blind.

And the same two old chestnuts Anniek pointed out:

If you swallow chewing gum it would 'stick around your heart' and;
If you swallowed fruit a tree would grow inside your stomach.

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

Originally Posted by AnnieK

If you swallow chewing gum it wraps round your heart

What? That's not true?