| Mar 12, 2006 @ 11:34 AM |
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raykl
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We have all grown up listening to the elders passing on various cures or preventions for whatever ails you:
Carrots make your eyes strong- wear a string of garlic to ward off vampires- no swimming for an hour after eating- etc.
Yesterday a woman tells me, if you develop any pains, sleep with a bar of Dial Soap and the pains will go away!!!! 
She was very serious about this and became upset when I laughed (a few beers makes most things seem funny to me).
I love "spooning"- but I would go for a teddy bear before a bar of soap any day.
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| Mar 12, 2006 @ 11:42 AM |
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TiNkErGrRrRrR
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 I know a bar of soap will keep the deer out of your garden..but sleep with one?..Gotta be desperate.. 
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| Mar 12, 2006 @ 11:54 AM |
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JenRNinOhio
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I have heard the one about sleeping with soap...
Had to put it in the Nursing Care Plan...Part of her permenent hospital record:
"Place a bar of Ivory soap near her feet @ hs" (bedtime)
Just because she wanted it...Not medical advice. It's not about health care anymore...It's customer service...But that's a different thread topic.
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| Mar 12, 2006 @ 11:55 AM |
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Jankia
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Like I told ya Tinker...
Baby diapers will keep the coons out of your sweetcorn!
If cows lick trees you can expect rain.
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| Mar 12, 2006 @ 11:57 AM |
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Lovely1368
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"(a few beers makes most things seem funny to me)."
Which is why I need a babysitter if I want to drink beer, even just 2 LOL
The one old wives tale that always sticks out in my mind was the one my mother told me about not being able to conceive if you were nursing a baby. Poor woman ended up with 3 kids in diapers at the same time we were so close together. Told her straight up I would have slit my wrists.
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| Mar 12, 2006 @ 11:57 AM |
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JenRNinOhio
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The Full Moon....
Not so much an Old Wives Tale as one might think.
The gravitational pull can do strange things to a psyche.
And after working high risk labor & delivery for over 10 years... We always had an increase of women admitted with ruptured amniotic fluid on full moon nights.
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| Mar 12, 2006 @ 12:06 PM |
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Lovely1368
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I don't think all that stuff about the full moon is wrong. I know of a gypsy that either has very good moons or very bad. Have seen it myself. Wierdest things happen. Don't even need to read the statistics to know the moon affects things besides tides.
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| Mar 12, 2006 @ 12:17 PM |
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TiNkErGrRrRrR
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Like I told ya Tinker...
Baby diapers will keep the coons out of your sweetcorn!
no baby diapers here..guess i better adopt..
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| Mar 12, 2006 @ 11:48 PM |
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jazzy73703
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Lets see...
Wrapping a piece of raw bacon on a bee sting will draw out the poison and make the swelling go down.
Eating a Tablespoon of yellow mustard every day will lower your blood pressure (if its high.)
Making a paste of Adolph's Meat Tenderizer and water and putting it on a mosquito bite will make the itch go away.
A teaspoon of warmed up sweet oil in the ear canal covered up with cotton will cure an ear ache.
Pulling out a gray hair will cause 2 to grow back in its place.
Only pop a blister if its a full moon out.
That's all I can remember off the top of my head. I was born & raised in NE Texas and have very southern roots. I think we lived by Old Wives Tales...lol
Jazzy
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| Mar 13, 2006 @ 12:19 AM |
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kattsmeow
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Ok,,,,
Wrapping a piece of raw bacon on a bee sting will draw out the poison and make the swelling go down. Bacon has salt in it. Salt draws things out of you.
Making a paste of Adolph's Meat Tenderizer and water and putting it on a mosquito bite will make the itch go away.
Again, it is the salt.
Salt is a good thing to use.
[/QUOTE]Yesterday a woman tells me, if you develop any pains, sleep with a bar of Dial Soap and the pains will go away!!!!
She was very serious about this and became upset when I laughed (a few beers makes most things seem funny to me).
[QUOTE] This is suppose to help with leg pains. A lot of people do this. (I never have).
Only pop a blister if its a full moon out.
Wrong,,never pop a blister till the sun goes down!!!
Thanks peeps I really love hearing some of these. Oh I will be back, I come from a long line of story, wives tales,,,tellers!
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| Mar 13, 2006 @ 5:36 PM |
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SylvanDreams
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Making a paste of Adolph's Meat Tenderizer and water and putting it on a mosquito bite will make the itch go away.
Living on the Gulf of Mexico, we were always told to do this for jellyfish stings
Pulling out a gray hair will cause 2 to grow back in its place.
This was actually true for me. I used to have a small "stripe" on one side of my part because I always pulled the gray hairs from one spot on that side (used to have dark hair)
We used to like eating salt when I was little, and were told it would make our blood thin. No one ever said what was wrong with making blood thin, though....so we continued to eat salt.
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| Mar 13, 2006 @ 8:45 PM |
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bryan2992
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I have a friend who works in HR(human resources) she vows by the fact that more problems surface around the full moon than any other time of the month
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| Mar 13, 2006 @ 9:02 PM |
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kattsmeow
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Thats very true.
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| Mar 13, 2006 @ 9:07 PM |
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Jankia
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Wheres that wulfchild?
He is probaly bonafide on the full moon info.
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| Mar 13, 2006 @ 9:11 PM |
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Angel54214
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Growing up on a farm, you hear so many wives tales. One I remember;
If you have a wart, dig a potato from the ground, cut it and rub it on the wart. Then bury the potato back in the dirt. The wart will fall off, but must not wash that area for a few days.
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| Mar 13, 2006 @ 9:15 PM |
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Jankia
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I heard that same one to on the farm, Angel.
Wonder if anyone actually ever tried it?
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| Mar 13, 2006 @ 9:19 PM |
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Angel54214
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Yes! I did once, it worked for me. I had one on my left hand between my thumb and pointer. I was about 12 years old. It never grew back and have no scar. 
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| Mar 13, 2006 @ 9:25 PM |
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Lee_Danger
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My mom was seeing a doctor about having a wart removed and the nurse whispered to her "Oh, just put an asprin on it and tape it in place with a bandaid. Leave it there 3 days and your wart will be gone." I'm not sure if my mom tried it or not???
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| Mar 14, 2006 @ 11:18 PM |
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WickedWench
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I love "spooning"- but I would go for a teddy bear before a bar of soap any day.
........gets out here Teddy Bear costume and waves at Raykl 
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| Mar 14, 2006 @ 11:53 PM |
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raykl
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Where in the _____ did I put that Canada map!!!!
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