Old Wives Tales.

[s.varty]

If you try hard enough you will be sectioned under the mental health act for stalking carol vorderman, ,,,,,so im told

[Mick Stockbridge]

My mum used to say if the wind suddenly changes direction while you're pulling a funny face you'll stay like it for the rest of your life.

 

It's true as well cos it happened to Plippy.

[Gary Prentice]

An elderly neighbour asked me if it was true that you can poison trees with milk!

 

Never heard that one before.

[s.varty]

My mum used to say if the wind suddenly changes direction while you're pulling a funny face you'll stay like it for the rest of your life.

 

It's true as well cos it happened to Plippy.

 

It is true mick, it happened to me , I was making my face to look like brad pitt when suddenly the wind changed direction and im left looking like him.

[skyhuck]

My grandmother often told my brother and I the one about the wind changing and your face sticking (as we often pulled faces) one day my brother responded in a rather witty fashion

 

His reply to my grandmother was "Clearly you did not heed yours mothers warning"

[openspaceman]

An elderly neighbour asked me if it was true that you can poison trees with milk!

 

Never heard that one before.

 

Anything with a high biological oxygen demand will kill roots, milk is just that. It will have the same effect if dumped in a stream, the bugs that try and digest it remove all the oxygen from the water and this kills the fish.

[Hobbsurf]

Anything with a high biological oxygen demand will kill roots, milk is just that. It will have the same effect if dumped in a stream, the bugs that try and digest it remove all the oxygen from the water and this kills the fish.

 

Geek :-)

 

Russ

[Spruce Pirate]

I collect a few bags of conkers each year for folks who believe it to work. They are repeat customers so can't complain.

 

I had a look into it for my own curiosity and the usual yes-no debate was the result. Sometimes old wives tales make people feel a bit better which can only be a good thing.

 

Are we to understand from this that people buy conkers????

 

Surely this is an old wives tale in itself?

[ArthurBottlesworth]

Are we to understand from this that people buy conkers????

 

Surely this is an old wives tale in itself?

 

Basis of my vast fortune

Cornered the market in three US states

We ship 500 tonnes of prime uk conkers which are packaged in bubble packs and sold at $5.00 each throughout those states under the registered tradename " a right royal conk" we tell customers the queen has conkers in every room at buckingham palace....works a treat

 

i'm open to offers if you'd like to buy the business ( cash only )

[farmer rod]

Basis of my vast fortune

Cornered the market in three US states

We ship 500 tonnes of prime uk conkers which are packaged in bubble packs and sold at $5.00 each throughout those states under the registered tradename " a right royal conk" we tell customers the queen has conkers in every room at buckingham palace....works a treat

 

i'm open to offers if you'd like to buy the business ( cash only )

 

Another thing you can do with conkers, if you get a bigish but flattish conker and you can wrinkle your eye round round it and hold it like a monocle , the get another for the other eye....

 

 

...you wont see any spiders