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Post by grandpalovegood on Mar 12, 2011 9:37:21 GMT -6
Tragic things happen in threes. I kind of believe that one too... That means I have one more thing to dread coming before I can rest. *cries* Yep and that one was a doozy. ..... Here is another one... Waiting for the other shoe to drop. Remember when something happens and people have the feeling like it's not quite over with... that things are too good to be true? Well, they often say they are just waiting for the other shoe to drop and that be the case most of the time even for me.
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Post by Duddahs on Mar 14, 2011 11:04:08 GMT -6
Always get up out of bed on the same side or you will have a bad day...
I get up on what ever side is closest to me.. Depending upon if I am alone or if C.J. is taking up the majority of the bed...
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Post by grandpalovegood on Mar 22, 2011 16:43:44 GMT -6
Always get up out of bed on the same side or you will have a bad day... I get up on what ever side is closest to me.. Depending upon if I am alone or if C.J. is taking up the majority of the bed... And I have gotten to where I like sleeping across the bed where my feet dangle... I hate them dangling like that but for some reason I like the perspective better. ================== That there is a pot of gold at the end of ever rain bow. Hey... that's a hoot. See I have gone chasing rainbows many times in my life and yet to find that pot. ;D I always wondered what the gold coins would look like. Now a days, I imagine a Harry Potter Galleon.
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Post by Duddahs on Mar 23, 2011 11:31:13 GMT -6
Old Wives Tale,,,, To hold your breath will get rid of the Hiccups!
Personally I use a Tea Spoon of Sugar.. Does the trick every time... and I had the hiccups for 7 straight days about 12 years ago and was hospitalized from it... It turned out because I had picked up a huge TV by myself that I damage my Thoracic Nerve and the flap would not stay closed and kept opening and closing.... That was not fun trust me!
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Post by grandpalovegood on Mar 24, 2011 1:17:45 GMT -6
Teaspoon of sugar ah? I'll have to try that the next time. I know when I was a kid I'd always have fun with mine. I remember deliberatly standing up top of the winding stairs in my home, holding my mouth open as far as I could then wait for that hiccup to happen. My brother and I would have a ball laughing and doing this. Yep... I was just as strange a person back then as I am now. But then when my son was born he would get the the hiccups very hard. I mean back when he was little he was this little scrawney thing, the hiccups would near cave in his entire ribcage to the point I was afraid his bones would break. It was scarey... We tried giving him water to drink... scaring the daylights outta him... Nothing worked. ---- OK... along these same lines... I"m not sure if this really works or not, but it sounds much like a wives tale to me. If you ever get a brainfreeze from eating or drinking anything cold... take your thumb and puch hard in the roof of your mouth. That should stop it.
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Post by grandpalovegood on Mar 26, 2011 8:22:37 GMT -6
Here is one I heard a lady tell us just the other day... She said that if you were to go outside and nail nails on all sides of the trunk of gumball trees then they won't produce gumballs anymore. She even said that she thought it must be an old wives tale, yet her hubby went out there and did it. I guess she will tell us in time if they produce any or not.
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Post by rin68nyr on Mar 27, 2011 7:57:32 GMT -6
Here is one I heard a lady tell us just the other day... She said that if you were to go outside and nail nails on all sides of the trunk of gumball trees then they won't produce gumballs anymore. She even said that she thought it must be an old wives tale, yet her hubby went out there and did it. I guess she will tell us in time if they produce any or not. LOL! What's a gumball tree? Erin
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Post by Duddahs on Mar 27, 2011 9:38:02 GMT -6
Old Wives Tale.
You can not teach an old dog new tricks..
Oh, yes you can!
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Post by grandpalovegood on Mar 28, 2011 1:20:49 GMT -6
Here is one I heard a lady tell us just the other day... She said that if you were to go outside and nail nails on all sides of the trunk of gumball trees then they won't produce gumballs anymore. She even said that she thought it must be an old wives tale, yet her hubby went out there and did it. I guess she will tell us in time if they produce any or not. LOL! What's a gumball tree? Erin ;D Ahhh.... You probably know it by another name.. Really, these trees are a menace everywhere. check out this link... www.ehow.com/list_7359606_problems-gumball-trees.html
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Post by Duddahs on Mar 29, 2011 7:09:08 GMT -6
Wives tale;
A penny saved is a penny earned... No it is not. It is a penny saved.
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Post by grandpalovegood on Apr 29, 2011 8:58:18 GMT -6
Well... I just debunked an old wives tale TWICE this week alone. The one where they say if you dream of your death, you will die in your sleep... that you won't wake from that dream. I had a doozy the night before last.
I've GOT to stop watching the news.
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Post by Duddahs on Apr 29, 2011 9:39:24 GMT -6
Oh an old wives tale.
Do not speak ill of the dead.
What if they were nasty, rotten, no good?
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Post by fangsfan1 on Apr 29, 2011 21:39:13 GMT -6
From the movie It's A Wonderful Life. "Every time a bell rings, an angel gets it's wings." I hope this one really is true.
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Post by grandpalovegood on May 1, 2011 17:25:09 GMT -6
I'd like to know how the color yellow became associated with being a coward. I mean... I know I see colors when I think of people but I love yellow and I think of sun and fun... not coward. So could this be an old wives tale?
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Post by fangsfan1 on May 2, 2011 19:47:24 GMT -6
Miss Charlotte I got so interested in this I did some research. One answer was that there is a yellow bellied lizard in the West. It is so timid it runs away from everyone, even it's own shadow-they thought that was how they started calling people yellow bellied in the old westerns. I'm amazed at how I'm always learning something new from these threads!
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Post by grandpalovegood on May 5, 2011 4:50:26 GMT -6
Hey Cool! I too learn much from our convresations here. I never knew that either about the lizard. Thanks for posting it. What gets me most is that there normally is some sort of background or life root that starts these sorts of tales.
Oh here is one I told my daughter just last night. See our moon looked like a teensy little sliver. I was once told that whenever the moon looks like the letter U, that this means the moon is filling up with water... like a cup... This means rain is coming. That the moon will need to empty soon.
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Post by Duddahs on May 5, 2011 9:08:50 GMT -6
Ah that reminds me;
Red Sky's at night, Sailors delight. Red Sky's in the morning, Sailors warning
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Post by fangsfan1 on May 21, 2011 17:53:26 GMT -6
Rain on your wedding day is good luck. I hope it's true as my neighbors got married today and we are still having rain-although the sun did come through a couple of times.
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Post by Duddahs on May 23, 2011 8:53:59 GMT -6
Always wear clean underwear, just in case you are in an accident...
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Post by grandpalovegood on Jun 20, 2011 2:05:26 GMT -6
I"m not sure if I have already posted this one yet... but this one my mother told me years ago.
Never allow anyone to try on your engagement ring or wedding ring. It's bad luck and the marriage won't last.
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