Alan Frame
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The ice cream van chimes means he has run out of ice cream...![]()
My parents had double glazing installed for the sole purpose of making sure I couldn't hear the ice cream van.

The ice cream van chimes means he has run out of ice cream...![]()
I still tell my boys that they only play the music when he has run out of Ice cream.My parents had double glazing installed for the sole purpose of making sure I couldn't hear the ice cream van.![]()
If you don't go to bed by a certain time the bogey man will come and get you.
Not one I "believe" per se, but mum subscribes to 'If you wash on New Years Day, you'll wash a member of the family away'. She's not a superstitious lady on the whole, and I certainly don't normally entertain that kind of black cat/ladders mumbo jumbo, but she was so adamant with this growing up that its kind of stuck with me ever since.
Those pockets (or diverticulae to give them their proper name) are common in the over 50s, who are the main group to suffer from diverticulosis - but in themselves can be relatively harmless. They're also common in younger people with certain forms of inflammatory bowel disease (like me). I have to have regular endopscopies (complete with a visit from Agent Picolax) so this is something close to my heart*...
Diveticular appendicitis comprises about 1% of appendicitis cases.
*or rather my transverse, descending and sigmoid colon and rectum.
No but if you don't wear a vest you will catch a chill in your kidneysSo, will going out with wet hair give me pneumonia?
I thought that was radiators?No doubt sitting on walls outside will also give me piles.