Lies your parents told you...

13 Jul 2007

Quote by Kiss
When I was young I lived with my grandparents for a while, whenever I was being impatient and asking about what was for dinner, his standard reply was:
"Hair balls and duck under the table."
:lol2:

The corresponding answer from my Mum was always: "bread and pullet". lol

13 Jul 2007

And the one from my mum was 'bread and scratchit, run 'round the table' dunno

13 Jul 2007

Quote by MikeNorth
When I was young I lived with my grandparents for a while, whenever I was being impatient and asking about what was for dinner, his standard reply was:
"Hair balls and duck under the table."
:lol2:

The corresponding answer from my Mum was always: "bread and pullet". lol

bread and spit, I was told.
Also, you'd never get away with this today but whenever i asked "where's mum" i'd always get the reply "she's run away with a black man". :shock: I never really "got it" when I was little.

13 Jul 2007

Quote by Dave__Notts
Someone told me something similar to the ice-cream van story you told..
He told me that his parents used to tell his brothers and sisters that when the ice-cream van chimed the bell......
........it had run out of ice-cream :shock:
Dave_Notts

My mum told me that one too confused

13 Jul 2007

Quote by poshkate
Now we all know the normal ones that parents tell, like the Tooth Fairy and Father Christmas, but do you have any more unusual ones?
So what fibs were you told.......or have you told your kids? Own up all you parents

"Honest...things get better as you get older"

13 Jul 2007

When my son was small (now a strapping 19 yo) we did the Father Christmas thing. When he was about 8 my Mum was over for Christmas. We had been reminding him that he must go to bed early or Father Christmas won't bring presents.
Apparently he went into the kitchen and told my Mum: "Don't tell Mum and Dad but I KNOW about Father Christmas."
I still don't know if he thought we believed it or just didn't want to spoil the fun for us. Bless him!!!
Worst thing I did was teach him to tell the time - that was the last time I could fool him into going to bed early. He would just look at me scornfully and remind what time bedtime was.

13 Jul 2007

Quote by Mr-Powers
"Honest...things get better as you get older"

Also - "you never have to do anything you don't want to do"
And - "When you get a house of your own I'm going to come round a make a load of mess" - I'm still waiting ! :shock:

13 Jul 2007

They used to tell me if I ate all my vegetables and studied hard I could do anythingI wanted when I grew up. rolleyes

Actually it was my grandmother who used to tell me weird stories - she told me our family was normal but I forgive her, she was sweet smile

13 Jul 2007

Quote by awol
They used to tell me if I ate all my vegetables and studied hard I could do anything I wanted when I grew up.

My mom said that now do i look like a bloody astronaught lol

13 Jul 2007

Quote by Kiss
When I was young I lived with my grandparents for a while, whenever I was being impatient and asking about what was for dinner, his standard reply was:
"Hair balls and duck under the table."
:lol2:

Ours was fried onion pips and pickled eels feet. Didnt actually get that til I was much older then realised that means nothing :shock:

13 Jul 2007

Quote by goose35
They used to tell me if I ate all my vegetables and studied hard I could do anything I wanted when I grew up.

My mom said that now do i look like a bloody astronaught lol

Did'nt they send a chimpanze in to space :giggle: bolt

13 Jul 2007

Quote by Ukwineman
They used to tell me if I ate all my vegetables and studied hard I could do anything I wanted when I grew up.

My mom said that now do i look like a bloody astronaught lol

Did'nt they send a chimpanze in to space :giggle: bolt

:smackbottom: :smackbottom: naughty winey!

13 Jul 2007

Quote by Cherrytree
They used to tell me if I ate all my vegetables and studied hard I could do anything I wanted when I grew up.

My mom said that now do i look like a bloody astronaught lol

Did'nt they send a chimpanze in to space :giggle: bolt

:smackbottom: :smackbottom: naughty but nice winey!

13 Jul 2007

Quote by Marya_Northeast
When I was young I lived with my grandparents for a while, whenever I was being impatient and asking about what was for dinner, his standard reply was:
"Hair balls and duck under the table."
:lol2:

The corresponding answer from my Mum was always: "bread and pullet". lol

bread and spit, I was told.
Also, you'd never get away with this today but whenever i asked "where's mum" i'd always get the reply "she's run away with a black man". :shock: I never really "got it" when I was little.
we were told 'a rasher of wind and a fried snowball', or '3 jumps to the cupboard door' :lol:
and my family always said that.... he/she's run off with a balck man
and if I asked mum where she was going she always said 'there and back, to see how far it is' but my dad always said 'to see a man about a dog'
i was laways excited about the 'dog' but it never materialised LOL

14 Jul 2007

Quote by
........ or if I ate apple pips an apple tree would grow in my stomach. :shock:

I was told that too...
:shock: Me too when I was a sprog!
I was told by an uncle if your kept playing with your wee-willy-winkie you will end up wearing glasses but the word on the street from kids at school was you will get hairy palms!
Pah! what do kids know - today I wear glasses! :shock:

14 Jul 2007

my mum always said a tornado had swept through my room............. rolleyes

15 Jul 2007

My parents always told me they got so tired through the week that they needed to go to bed for a nap on Sunday afternoon. It took me years to work out that they weren't "napping"! :shock:

15 Jul 2007

Quote by cu3b4ll
My parents always told me they got so tired through the week that they needed to go to bed for a nap on Sunday afternoon. It took me years to work out that they weren't "napping"! :shock:

where they watching TV in bed then? lol

15 Jul 2007

I was told that the school rule was you were only allowed fruit for your snack at break time (which wasn't true back in those days - probably is now!) so I was the only one sitting eating my apple when everyone else was tucking into their crisps- i always thought they would get into trouble!
We also got the 'eat your crusts so your hair goes curly!'
m xx

15 Jul 2007

Quote by mazandden
We also got the 'eat your crusts so your hair goes curly!'

I got that one too.....mostly from my Grandma......think I might need to have words with her as that must be the reason that I have to straighten my bloody hair every day lol

think it should be 'don't eat your crusts and avoid a lifetime of being dependent on hair straighteners :lol2:

16 Jul 2007

When always wanting money as kids do, I told my daughter there was a money tree at the bottom of the garden and when it grew fivers she could pick as many as she wanted.
Same daughter also thought for many years, I had eyes in my bum after I caught her out of the corner of my eye sticking 2 fingers up at me!
My Mum told me childbirth didnt hurt one bit :shock: She also told me thunder was just potatoes rolling down the Co-op steps

16 Jul 2007

Quote by redpantherman
........ or if I ate apple pips an apple tree would grow in my stomach. :shock:

I was told that too...
:shock: Me too when I was a sprog!
I was told by an uncle if your kept playing with your wee-willy-winkie you will end up wearing glasses but the word on the street from kids at school was you will get hairy palms!
Pah! what do kids know - today I wear glasses! :shock:
Glasses, so do I.

16 Jul 2007

Quote by jaymar
I was horribly duped when I was about 10 yrs old.. I was eating what my mother had said was chicken but looking back it was dark in colour and quite salty.
It was rabbit :cry: :cry:

Rabbit, I have a hat made from felt, who told you it was rabbit.

16 Jul 2007

rabbit?? lol...yuk!

16 Jul 2007

Quote by
I was horribly duped when I was about 10 yrs old.. I was eating what my mother had said was chicken but looking back it was dark in colour and quite salty.
It was rabbit :cry: :cry:

Rabbit, I have a hat made from felt, who told you it was rabbit.
who told you it was felt?? :grin:

16 Jul 2007

seriously - my mum, bless her, used to tell me that if I didn't wash my belly button, the knot would come undone and my insides would fall out.
Ever since, I've had a terrible phobia and cannot stand anyone or anything touching my belly button!
D

17 Jul 2007

Quote by jaymar
I was horribly duped when I was about 10 yrs old.. I was eating what my mother had said was chicken but looking back it was dark in colour and quite salty.
It was rabbit :cry: :cry:

Rabbit, I have a hat made from felt, who told you it was rabbit.
who told you it was felt?? :grin:
feels that way.

17 Jul 2007

my gran used to put butter on my head if i banged :D

17 Jul 2007

Quote by Woody61161
my gran used to put butter on my head if i banged :D

LOL my mum did that in the 70's too.....never could work out why
and i remember my dad telling me when I was little that if your house didnt have a chimney, father christmas used a magic key to open the door......still use that one to this day with my kids.

17 Jul 2007

Quote by Marya_Northeast
When I was young I lived with my grandparents for a while, whenever I was being impatient and asking about what was for dinner, his standard reply was:
"Hair balls and duck under the table."
:lol2:

The corresponding answer from my Mum was always: "bread and pullet". lol

bread and spit, I was told.
Also, you'd never get away with this today but whenever i asked "where's mum" i'd always get the reply "she's run away with a black man". :shock: I never really "got it" when I was little.
I remember being told that too! :shock:
Although I hope Mr W never says it to our kids..... confused