Top ten fibs

**InsaneApache** · 11-23-2006, 10:40

The Top Ten white lies are:

1. Father Christmas *

2. The Tooth Fairy *

3. Crusts give you curly hair *

4. Carrots help night vision *

5. If the wind changes, your face will stay like that *

6. The Easter Bunny *

7. Babies are found under gooseberry bushes (or similar)

8. If you eat apple pips, they will grow in your tummy *

9. Picking your nose causes your head to cave in or your nose to fall off *

10. Lying does something unpleasant to your tongue.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article...466665,00.html

* denotes ones I've told my kids and grandkids

I also told my eldest grand-daughter that eating brown bread will put hairs on her chest!

and that if she sticks her tongue out, a Magpie will swoop out of the sky and peck it off.....

Any others?

**Andres** · 11-23-2006, 10:44

Originally Posted by InsaneApache

I also told my eldest grand-daughter that eating brown bread will put hairs on her chest!

That is so evil

Btw, did you know that eating mustard will make your beard grow faster? Did you hear about that guy who's finger got stuck in his nose forever because he repeatedly picked his nose? And people who lie, have a black cross on their forehead.

**macsen rufus** · 11-23-2006, 11:35

A young chap can grow his beard faster by putting rabbit droppings in his shoes

(Although I never met anyone who believed it enough to actually try.)

**Beirut** · 11-23-2006, 12:36

When my kid was eight, I told her that when she turned nine her neck muscles would get all soft for about a year and cause her head to hang to one side. Happens to all nine year-olds I said.

She didn't believe me, so I told her to look at the kids in the grade above her at school and she'd notice that they all hung their heads to one side. That's because they're nine and they're neck muscles go through changes but they get strong again when they hit ten.

Mrs. Beirut would nearly choke on her food at dinner whenever me and the kid had this discussion. Kid's looking at me with eyes big as silver dollars, "Is that really true?"

"Sure it is sweetie."

**Sardo** · 11-23-2006, 12:47

Originally Posted by macsen rufus

A young chap can grow his beard faster by putting rabbit droppings in his shoes

(Although I never met anyone who believed it enough to actually try.)

Or by applying chicken droppings to his face... Don't ask me how people come up with this stuff.

**macsen rufus** · 11-23-2006, 13:09

Don't ask me how people come up with this stuff.

Me neither, but I think it starts with someone gullible who you really need to humiliate for whatever reason

**Lucjan** · 11-23-2006, 13:38

If your nose itches you're going to get in a fight.

If your ears are ringing someone is talking about you.

Eating pizza gives you pimples.

**IrishArmenian** · 11-23-2006, 16:41

Originally Posted by InsaneApache

and that if she sticks her tongue out, a Magpie will swoop out of the sky and peck it off.....

Any others?

Filthy Gordies...
Funny lies, though.

**Marshal Murat** · 11-23-2006, 18:06

A thought the vitamins in carrots were able to improve night vision.
In Vietnam, during the American war there, the Vietnamese would be easy to ambush, 'cause they couldn't see well in the dark.

**InsaneApache** · 11-23-2006, 18:59

Originally Posted by Marshal Murat

A thought the vitamins in carrots were able to improve night vision.

Just to go off topic a bit. This was propaganda put out by the RAF in WWII to disguise the fact that the reason the German raiders were consistently intercepted was because of RDF. They must have had gut ache from laughing at all the Luftwaffe pilots turning orange with all that carotin in their system.

**KukriKhan** · 11-23-2006, 19:30

Well, that's added to my list of "Things I Never Knew Before".

...But this story was a myth invented by the RAF to hide their use of radar, which was what really located the Luftwaffe bombers at night - not human carrot-assisted super-vision...

From here.

**InsaneApache** · 11-23-2006, 20:03

Well my grandad was too old to re-enlist at the outbreak of WWII, (he had been in the Indian Army), so he joined the RAF who weren't as fussy. I think he was about 38 when the 'balloon went up'.

It was a tale he told me when I was a nipper. Nice to see it's true though, unlike a lot of the stuff he said.

I once asked him what a particular item was on his mantlepiece....it looked like an animal..with four legs but two tails, both standing upwards...

"Whats that grandad?"

"It's a rary"

"A rary?"

"Yes"

"Where's it come from?"

"It comes from tipper"

"Where's tipper grandad?"

*a smirk spreads across his face*

"It's a long way to Tipperary"

*me blank*

I loved that man.