[Vivienne]

During a recent brilliant tedious link Comedy Dave has suggested that if you eat honey produced in the region in which you live, you won't become ill (!!). Hmmm.

I LOVE tedious link, not just because I'm interested in what the "Song of The Day" will be, but also because I just love the random "facts" that Dave can come up with!

Anyhow, the afore-mentioned got me thinking of "myths" in general. What are the most fantastic stories you have ever been told, whether as a child, or as an adult?

Personally, I think the most bizarre "myth" I have ever heard came from an evil Auntie, who, upon seeing me chomping on apple pips (aged approx 7), told me an apple tree would grow in my tummy!!

[lima eel]

I to remember evil 'myths' that is was told as a child:

1. Stop biting my nails, otherwise they will turn into worms in my tummy!!
2. If i was grumpy i was told if the wind changed direction my face would stay like that!!

there are others, but i think that 2 is ample contribution to this thread!

[foot-loose]

The crusts on the bread are good for you.

How can they be any better for you than the rest of the bread. And i'm talking plastic manufactored white bread here, before any of you start on seeded babs or anything daft.

[Mcqueen_]

The crusts are good for you, the crust has eight times the amount of antioxidants as the rest of the bread. That's science!

The myth is that crusts make your hair go curly.

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

They do if you heat them up and wrap your hair around them.

[Vivienne]

The crusts on the bread are good for you.

How can they be any better for you than the rest of the bread. And i'm talking plastic manufactored white bread here, before any of you start on seeded babs or anything daft.

Footloose... what is your dog doing in the pic? Is he putting petrol into the car?

[MK Chris]

He's, um, sitting behind the wing mirror.

[Vivienne]

God, Topher, so he flaming is!!

[Nicola_Red]

The honey thing is a well known anecdotal remedy for hayfever. Lots of people have suggested it to me. My local health food shop also advertises local honey in its window as a possible remedy. Dave didn't make it up.

here's a bbc article that mentions it:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3021052.stm

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

When someone said there was a "local honey in the window" I was expecting the nurse that lives near me. booo

[DemonHorse]

They do if you heat them up and wrap your hair around them.

I wouldn't have thought you'd be the one to try it though

[Quincy]

hes bald

[DemonHorse]

thats WHY i didnt think he'd be trying it.

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

I'm bald?

*pulls at wig*

[kendra k]

i thought i was bald.

[Johnny Karate]

I was told that the crow-man came round at night to check that children had gone to bed when they were told.......to be fair it only really happened in Butlins.

[Dead-metal]

There is a train of thought going that if you eat honey produced in the area that you live then it will lessen the effects of hayfever.

[Yudster]

No really? Who told you that?

[Vivienne]

I have done something with honey that I wouldn't post on here, ya know!!

[MK Chris]

So why post that on here?

[Vivienne]

just purely to see the reaction I would get ! and... it worked!!

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

Did you smear it round your window and eat the flies that were attracted?

[ladbroke]

Well two very embarassing ones from me............ that I'm still reminded of now, nearly 25 years later!!

1. That treacle was mined from the ground, and treacle miners would come back to the top of the mine with buckets of treacle!

2. On a trip to Scotland circa 1983. Haggis were animals pretty much like sheep, that they lived up mountains, and their legs on one side of their bodies were shorter than the others-meaning they could only walk one way around the mountain, otherwise they'd fall over!! My dad even gave me some haggis (sheep!) fur he found on the grass. When I told my primary school teacher she pissed herself laughing and I didn't know why!!! Made for a very funny parents evening apparently............

[foot-loose]

2. On a trip to Scotland circa 1983. Haggis were animals pretty much like sheep, that they lived up mountains, and their legs on one side of their bodies were shorter than the others-meaning they could only walk one way around the mountain, otherwise they'd fall over!! My dad even gave me some haggis (sheep!) fur he found on the grass. When I told my primary school teacher she pissed herself laughing and I didn't know why!!! Made for a very funny parents evening apparently............

.... and? Whats funny about that!?

The quickest way to catch them is to chase them onto flat ground cos then they can only run round in circles.

[Gaspode_The_Wonder_Dog]

Treacle isn't mined?