What is your favourite old wife tale or urban myth ?

Answer 1

Careful--the one I'm going to tell is true, because my husband witnessed it himself. He works at the Indiana State Department of Health, and years ago he worked in the food labs. One day, a specimen came in from Kentucky Fried Chicken. Someone had bitten into a piece of chicken and hit fur. My husband has actually had classes to tell what contaminants are what, and how they've been processed (He prides himself on the fact that he's proven many people wrong when they say they got a hair cooked into their food). He realized that Mickey had been deep fried. The suits from Pepsi (which owns KFC) had accompanied the specimen. They told the person who had bit into it that he had 2 options: either he could sue, in which case Pepsi's lawyers could beat up his lawyers, and at most he'd get about $10,000.00, or he could accept a $30,000.00 settlement on the spot and keep his mouth shut. Guess which he chose?

Answer 2

greatest myth is 'a honest circulate' and 'equivalent get entry to' in spite of Race, intercourse, type interior the Canberra Magistrates courtroom the place Judges are approved to abuse the well-known public. yet another myth is Drink driving is a criminal offense as Ministers are supported to Drink and stress for the sturdy they do the community - by no potential suggestions the comparable minister voted to do away with any duty to that of being re-elected. the only myth i think of stands the try of time, is that the wealthy get richer mutually as killing everyone else for a political perfect. (5000 assults each 365 days with donations to ones fav political social gathering - any compo?)

Answer 3

My mother has many an old wife's tale...

* Pull a face and it will stick when the wind blows
* Eating crusts gives you curly hair
* Reading too much ruins your eyes

A rather classic (unusual one) was when my mother thought she should go on a Chinese food diet on the basis that "you never see a fat china man."! She was not jesting....!

Answer 4

If you kill a snake and you dont bury the head and rest of the body in seperate places, then after sundown the head and body will find each other and be fused back together.

When I was alitle girl, I saw a black snake and threw a fit till the old man down the road came with a hoe and chopped the head off. He told me we had to bury the head in one corner of the property and the body in the diagonal corner or they would find each other and fuse back together and come after me......I believed him and was scared to death...I watched out my bedroom window for hours before and right after it got dark to see if the ground moved.

Answer 5

Never split a pole with someone, you will have bad luck for seven years, and til this day I do not split poles. If a stranger does it by a mistake, I have to walk backwards around the pole to the side that he/she walked on. Sick? Yes, and I blame whoever told me this when I was five!

Answer 6

If you hand a clear jar of water or a clear plastic bag full of water over your door(not where it will get hit opening the door) it will keep flies out of your house. Something about the reflection of water freaks em out.

Answer 7

The man that was in hospital with severe constipation. Whilst being treated he was sick and puked up a jobby! Shocking and believed by me for years.

Answer 8

The Coke and Pop Rocks is a really funny one.

Answer 9

when a celebrity dies...aka Jaleel White "Urkel", or Zack Morris from saved by the Bell.

Answer 10

I have to say my favored and most adhered to myth is:
DON'T SLEEP WITH OLD MEN 50+ BECAUSE THEY WILL GIVE YOU WORMS.