h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

When I was young I was told that eating the crusts of bread would make your hair curl (I have some of the curliest hair around). I knew it was silly and DID NOT believe it (but more 4O years on, I still don't eat crusts....)

I was told the same thing and my hair is still staight ...What's going on!!!

Adults were lying !!!!

What'd you hear about "getting hair on your chest" ?

Shoot, If I had a cheery hest, I'd be able to make a fortune instead of working ha ha

Ah ah ! Didn't eat porridge as a child ! a little effort in your youth could have made such a difference to your life now (just realise with that moralizing that somewhere along the line I must have become an adult.... never really noticed before, perhaps it just a once-off thing)

No It's not...unfortunately I love porrige The gluggyer the better but can"t eat it now as I now longer eat gluten, bummer

and nobody told you it would put hair on your chest !

Amazing, were you told it would stick to your ribs ? Something I kind of believed as a child because it's so easy to believe after a huge plate of porrige.

My neighbour told me that a pint of guiness a day would put hairs on my chest. She went senile.

Yeah it does last forever doesn't it

I was always told (bother didn't win lotto...again)Brush your teeth or you'll look like Nana, which I thought strange cos, Nana looked really cool with no teeth! ! !

Spinks:

Did your neighbour show her chest when she became senile ?
It would be so good to have some proof that one of these "hair on your chest" things actually worked.

I can just see the headlines "...Old lady with hairy chest promotes Guiness..."
I'm killing myself laughing... oooohhh.. stop! my ribs hurt...
I think I've been here too long

When the film Mary Poppins was released, I climbed onto our rather high verandah roof with an umbrella and jumped off thinking I could actually float to the ground. The crash landing into the bushes below cured me of that dillusion. Little did I know at the time that that jump was a pre cursor to my skydiving adventures later on.

Deni, no chest flash I'm afraid She did reach 98 though.

Well, esp. if she was 98 it's probably as well that you never saw a hairy flash... it could have done terrible things to your development...

Yes, I ate many crusts of bread to make sure that my hair went curly....it already is, but I wanted it more!

When I was young, I used to squint a lot. So to stop me, my mother told me that every time I squinted, the sun would get further away!I then refused to squint, as I didn't want to be responsible for the sun disappearing!

I wrote a letter to God once. I wasn't sure if I believed or not so I wrote "Dear God, do you exist?" on a piece of paper and left it in the garden overnight. I picked it up the next morning but there was no reply. If my mum had found that piece of paper and written a reply on it my whole life could've been different....perhaps.

day-dreamed about having a horse like Mr Ed the Talking Horse....

I had got the idea, somehow, that copper was a *precious* metal. Not so much as gold etc. but still valuable and, since it was precious, must be costly. So imagine the joy when I found a bit of old copper loo pipe in the back yard...
"I'm rich! I have copper!" etc.

That's wrong?
I have a nice piece of copper pipe that I found where I used to work... I really like it... It's so shiny, and a very nice color and it's made of real copper, unlike those fakey coins.

Yes, it is *beautiful*... I prefer it to gold. Most of which, unless high-carat, is cheap and overprevalent.

those nasty coins which leave your hands grubby, and only buy small sweets. Start your own currency?