Question of the Day - Tuesday, June 24th, 2025

[CombNWattles]

Not exactly an old wive’s tale, but a funny story:
Once, I brought my Jersey Giant roo to the county fair-

One of the old timers, being friendly to the new kid, came up and admired my rooster and said that back in HIS day, they would take a big white rooster like mine and dye him PINK, put pink food coloring in his water, and tell fairgoers that the water turned him pink! After that I was a little worried I would be bringing home ‘Pink Falcon’ instead of ‘White Falcon’!

 

[5Australorpasaures]

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When we were kids we were told if we said curse words these Dragon Flys would sew our lips shut, They were called sewing needle dragon flys so it made an impression on some kids I guess.

 

[Finchbreeder]

Wearing thongs (footwear in Australia folks) will make your feet get wider. I am still trying to get it through my mothers head that my wide feet were inherited from her. (She does not wear thongs so you would think she would know this.)

 

[BDutch]

I've always been a fan of the Don't swallow your gum or it will sit in your gut for 7 years"

Me and my family actually stopped eating gum since we know it’s made from plastic. Chewing it leaves microplastics in your body for 7 years or even longer.

 

[5Australorpasaures]

Wearing thongs (footwear in Australia folks) will make your feet get wider. I am still trying to get it through my mothers head that my wide feet were inherited from her. (She does not wear thongs so you would think she would know this.)

Mom knows, but Mom is never wrong!

 

[Bsmac]

Then there`s the one about if your ear is ringing someone is talking about you! It depended on which ear if it was good or bad! I can`t remember which ear for good or bad. Even if this were true both of mine ring 24/7 from tinnitus!

 

[5Australorpasaures]

That if your nose is itching then you have visitors coming to see you, or company coming as it was said. That is probably not the craziest I have ever heard but what I could think of right now.


I can remember a piece on the world news just a few years ago about a guy that was having problems and it turned out he had a bean that had sprouted in his lungs. They figured it must have went down the wrong way. It made you wonder what he was doing eating raw beans since a cooked one should not of sprouted.

Drum roll

I had a friend when I was growing up whose mother told the story of him getting into a lot of bubble gum when he was a toddler, swallowing all of it, and she spent hours picking it out of his vent hole.

The itching nose for us meant that you were going to kiss a fool. Itchy palm, you were coming into some money, itching ear, someone was talking about you. Funny thing, none of them ever panned out.

 

[Sally PB]

If you cross your eyes, they could stay that way.

 

[5Australorpasaures]

If you cross your eyes, they could stay that way.

Yep

 

[R2elk]

Even if this were true both of mine ring 24/7 from tinnitus!

I also have constant tinnitus which only the sound of running water masks.