Twaddle you've told your kids, or were told when you were young.

[Gunk]

My Dad used to tell us that when the Ice Cream van played its music chime, It meant that it had run out of ice cream!

 

[snorri]

Looking down whilst driving along a coast road to a beautiful sandy beach my passenger informed me that these were sinking sands and quite dangerous. He had never been on the beach himself, but his parents had told him this. I thought it unlikely that his parents had ever been on the beach either but had just invented the story so that they would not have had to break what would have been a lengthy journey just to let their children play on the sands.
It took a little time, but eventually he admitted it was very likely that I was right.

 

[classic33]

Santa's not coming this year because of Covid.

That one I've already heard being used.

 

[Drago]

My Dad used to tell us that when the Ice Cream van played its music chime, It meant that it had run out of ice cream!

 

[craigwend]

The large cooling towers off the motorway were cloud factories...

 

[raleighnut]

My dad got his first pair of long trousers when he was 14.

And at 40 he went back to them with Sandals until it was snowing

 

[swee'pea99]

I'm surprised no-one's mentioned how if the wind blows while you're crossing your eyes, they'll get stuck like that for ever.

 

[raleighnut]

I'm surprised no-one's mentioned how if the wind blows while you're crossing your eyes, they'll get stuck like that for ever.

View: https://youtu.be/n-Fpq5NYCNQ

 

[CharlesF]

The hay bales in fields and wrapped up in plastic were cow eggs, my daughter believed it for a bit.

No! Dinosaur eggs, definitely

 

[Beebo]

A coconut is a bear egg

 

[Drago]

Told my long suffering niece that wind turbines make the wind.

 

[sheddy]

I guess the ‘swan broke my arm’ story was first told by a bloke who just fell over while trying to escape.

 

[FrankCrank]

My dad used to say you should never drink Guinness from a wet glass..................................have you ever tried drinking from a dry one?

 

[PaulB]

Ahem!
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Careful now, that swan could break your arm...... and here's proof in a song about bikes!

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWxUVGbArc8

 

[Blue Hills]

Used to tell my 5/6 year old daughter that if she didn't eat up her vegetables then she'd end up looking like Grace Pickles, her classmate. This spectacularly backfired on me when she was invited to Pickles towers for after-school tea.

i hope you've put a name change in there or you are going to have to petition the mods for another mass prune