Most of us have heard and perhaps even used on our own children, some weird warnings – you know like you can’t go swimming until you let your food rest in your stomach for 30 minutes, or don’t sit so close to the TV or you’ll go blind. Well last Friday we asked our web visitors to share with us “the most outrageous thing your parents ever told you to stop you from doing something.”
Some of the answers were so funny we had to share. Enjoy:
Don’t touch toads, they give you warts .
If you don’t put your tongue back in your mouth, I’m going to make tongue soup for dinner.
If you keep picking at your bellybutton, your guts are going to come out of it.
Never slap someone older than you, your hand will shrivel up and fall off.
If you kiss your elbow you will turn into a boy!
If you stick your lower lip out, a bird will come along and poop on it.
My mom used to tell us eating dough would give you worms.
White milk came from white cows and chocolate milk came from brown cows.
If you don’t brush your hair you will get rats, that’s why they call them rat’s nests!
Eating burnt biscuits would put hair on your chest.
Don’t pick and eat a green apple off of the “tree” you will end up in the hospital!!
If you play with fire, you’ll wet the bed.
I was told if I was a bad child the gypsies would come and take me away.
Don’t swallow your gum because then you will fart bubbles!!
Have any more unusual ones to add?
Sandi Duncan is the Managing Editor of the Farmers' Almanac. 
If you notice a hole in the upper left-hand corner of your Farmers' Almanac, don't return it to the store! That hole isn't a defect; it's a part of history. Starting with the first edition of the Farmers' Almanac in 1818, readers used to nail holes into the corners to hang it up in their homes, barns, and outhouses (to provide both reading material and toilet paper). In 1910, the Almanac's publishers began pre-drilling holes in the corners to make it even easier for readers to keep all of that invaluable information (and paper) handy.
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Say ooh yuck to something you don’t like double helping doesn’t work with stuff you like, a nickel for every time you put your knee on the table
sties in our eyes were caused by peeing on the road
swallowed apple and orange seeds would sprout trees from our belly buttons
belly buttons are there to keep our bums screwed on
eating bread crusts would make our hair curly
Don’t walk under a ladder it will give you bad luck
then when I was grown nursing my children my grandmother made me a huge pancake to put around my breast for a clogged milk duct! It works!
we also made pepper relish and my hands got burnt from the peppers and she had me to put my hands in milk!
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