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Charming but somewhat feckless
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And swallowed bubble gum wraps itself around your heart.
Bubble gum is made from horses' tails!
And swallowed bubble gum wraps itself around your heart.
Very similar thing happened to me. "Dad, what are these bits in marmalade?" "They're worms, son." A few days later the same question asked in class by our teacher. Confidently, I put my hand up and informed her of the answer I knew it to be and was shocked at the laughter this was greeted with.When I was in Cubs I think, maybe 7 years old or younger, I was doing some sort of simple first aid....cub master asked us to find the answer to 'what do you do if you cut your finger ?'
I asked dad, who immediately answered...'you cut the next finger, then the first finger stops bleeding'
Next week, the question was asked....I flung my hand up
....and gave the answer.
Teachers face, I can almost see it now....
'So how do you stop the second finger bleeding' he asked.
I almost instantly saw the flaw in my answer
So, while we're on preserves, those blackish flecks in strawberry jam, I always understood them to be sawdust. Twaddle or true?Very similar thing happened to me. "Dad, what are these bits in marmalade?" "They're worms, son." A few days later the same question asked in class by our teacher. Confidently, I put my hand up and informed her of the answer I knew it to be and was shocked at the laughter this was greeted with.
As a youngster, watching the Wizard of Oz one Christmas, I wondered out loud why the film was partly filmed in black and white, and partly in colour.That the world used to be in black and white in olden times.
As a youngster, watching the Wizard of Oz one Christmas, I wondered out loud why the film was partly filmed in black and white, and partly in colour.
Quick as a flash, my Auntie, who never told "fibs" said, "It was because they were running out of money, and couldn't afford to film it all in colour", which we duly believed.
My mum told me that the icecream man made the icecream in their bath at home.I told my eldest that when the ice cream man rings his bell that means he's run out. She was 16 before she figured out the truth behind that one.