Drago
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- Suburban Poshshire
Of course he's real. Who brings all the christmas pressies to the devout christians if it isn't Satan?
Twaddle you've told your kids, or were told when you were young.
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My uncle and aunty went to live in America for some years.......they went when I was maybe 9 yrs old (1956).
I don't think anyone told me this but I somehow got it into my head that they had travelled on the Titanic and survived. I told all the other kids about it and seem to recall them believing me.
Very strange thing the imagination of a kid.
I don't think anyone told me this but I somehow got it into my head that they had travelled on the Titanic and survived. I told all the other kids about it and seem to recall them believing me.
Very strange thing the imagination of a kid.
Notafettler
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So you are saying they didn't survive?
Gravity Aided
Legendary Member
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- Land of Lincoln
I was told it was the dwarves bowling beneath the mountains. I live in Illinois, where there are no mountains. But my grandmother was Upstate New York Dutch in background, so I suppose the source material quite like that of Rip Van Winkle. My father and I once met a little person he knew, and I asked my father later if he was one of the bowling dwarves who made thunder. He told me;
"Sure and he is, but don't let on."
Well......as Titanic sank in 2012 and my schooling was 1956 I don't think survival was an issue
Profpointy
Legendary Member
Not necessarily fibs told to kids, but my Uncle had heard somewhere that sidewinding rattlesnakes could "move faster than a galloping horse". This stuck in his mind for years as an impressive feat until he was about to tell someone someone else and thought "hang on a minute. That's utter bollocks" and managed to stop himself before sounding like an utter fool
Beebo
Firm and Fruity
- Location
- Hexleybeef
It may be true over a very short distance.
I doubt they would win the Epsom derby.
Profpointy
Legendary Member
Horses are bloody fast when galloping. My ex-Mrs' horse, by no means a racehorse, could easily go a good bit faster than I could cycle flat out.
Beebo
Firm and Fruity
- Location
- Hexleybeef
I meant the strike as it bites you.
Bazzer
Setting the controls for the heart of the sun.
- Location
- On the edge of reality
You are Russel Grant AICMFPWell......as Titanic sank in 2012 and my schooling was 1956 I don't think survival was an issue
Seevio
Guru
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- South Glos
A quick google search didn't reveal the speed of horses on loose sand but I imagine that the surface would have a significant detrimental impact. Possibly even bringing the speed below the 18mph recorded for a sidewinder.
Profpointy
Legendary Member
18mph sounds awfully fast
I have actually seen a sidewinding snake -
it was on the main road in Ystradfynlais in west Wales. It was a green snake good metre long. Whilst I assumed it was a grass snake, it clearly wasn't an adder, I was wary of picking it up in case it was someone's escaped deadly green mamba so I used a piece of karrymat to scoop it into the hedge so it didn't get run over. It was barely doing a slow walking pace - albeit it wasn't a sidewinder even though it was undeniably sidewinding
Saluki
World class procrastinator
- Location
- ...Norwich over the water.
My dad told me:
The sparkly stuff on black fruit pastilles was coal dust. I wouldn’t eat them.
the red fruit sweets (wine gums, fruit gums, pastilles, jelly babies etc.) were made from crushed beetles to give them the colour. I looked this up in the library. Cochineal is exactly that. I wouldn’t eat those sweets either.
When it snows, elves put pennies under the snow. If I cleared all the snow, I could keep the pennies. I was 6. Dad lied
However. Years later, I was £40 light on the purchase cost of a pony. He ‘gave’ me the £40 and drew up a contract for which bit of the pony was his. I was quite smart at 14 years old. Businessman as a father and his legally binding contracts had taught me a thing or two by then. I suggested a tenner a hoof. He agreed. After that, every 6 weeks or so it was a case of ‘Dad, you know your hooves? They need shoeing’
The sparkly stuff on black fruit pastilles was coal dust. I wouldn’t eat them.
the red fruit sweets (wine gums, fruit gums, pastilles, jelly babies etc.) were made from crushed beetles to give them the colour. I looked this up in the library. Cochineal is exactly that. I wouldn’t eat those sweets either.
When it snows, elves put pennies under the snow. If I cleared all the snow, I could keep the pennies. I was 6. Dad lied
However. Years later, I was £40 light on the purchase cost of a pony. He ‘gave’ me the £40 and drew up a contract for which bit of the pony was his. I was quite smart at 14 years old. Businessman as a father and his legally binding contracts had taught me a thing or two by then. I suggested a tenner a hoof. He agreed. After that, every 6 weeks or so it was a case of ‘Dad, you know your hooves? They need shoeing’
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- Inside my skull
“If you don’t pick up your feet they will become stuck to the ground” was a saying of my nanna
Hover Fly
Lazy so and so
- Location
- Besides the lake, beneath the trees
Father told me the seeds from thistles were called “sugar stealers” and could bite.
Ruined my chances of studying botany when I told the interviewers that.
Ruined my chances of studying botany when I told the interviewers that.
