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floridachick
(181)
what old wives tale have you found to be so untrue?

well the majority of them are untrue, like.... if you step over a crack it will cause the umbilical cord to wrap around your babies neck. if you get heart burn it means your baby is going to have a...

Started by floridachick (181) in been pregnant • 2 responses • Last response by foxyfire33 (5547) • 4 weeks ago
Tags: old wives tale, pregnant, silly stories

surverymom
(362)
stye

Is there anything that will cure a stye....... My daughter has a stye in her eyelid. I have had them before I think they go away after a while, but I was just looking for something to go ahead and...

Started by surverymom (362) in health • 3 responses • Last response by RobinJ (1980) • 1 year ago
Tags: health stye, old wives tale, stye

binong
(2211)
What can you do to reduce salt in "too salty" soup?

I have always heard that adding a potato will work. I've never tried it though.

Started by binong (2211) in cooking • 2 responses • Last response by alanna_liadon (188) • 1 year ago
Tags: old wives tale, urban myth

Ruralchook
(360)
Old wives tales, do you believe in them?

When was the last time you heard 'Oh, that's just an old wive's tale'? Do you have a favorite family 'saying' that you use often that seems to ring true? When you spill the salt, do you find...

Started by Ruralchook (360) • 2 responses • Last response by Ruralchook (360) • 2 years ago
Tags: chocolate, old wives tale, old wives tales, sayings
 

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Vital Votes - Natural Health Articles by Dr. Joseph Mercola
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The Top 25 Undiscovered Web Sites

PC Magazine recently published The Top 100 Undiscovered Web Sites. Most of us are too busy, so I cut out 75 percent of them, and here are my top picks out of their finds:drop.io Drop.io is,...

Started in Vital Votes - Natural Health Articles by Dr. Joseph Mercola • 3 days ago • 0 responses
Tags: jobs, earnings, entertainment

The Cottage Smallholder
(3)
Sexing the bantam eggs. An old wives’ tale?

I stood in the bay window in Emma’s kitchen watching the bantams sunbathe like languid couples on a Greek island. I’d noticed that her bantams pairs tended to stick together whereas the Buff...

Started in The Cottage Smallholder • 4 days ago • 0 responses
Tags: chickens, sexing_chicken, _eggs

Confederate Yankee
(1)
Sam Jackson... Be Very Afraid

If he's superstitious about the old wives tale of deaths coming in threes, Samuel L. Jackson should be very afraid. Jackon's movie Soul Men is in post-production. Also starring in Soul Men? Bernie...

Started in Confederate Yankee • 1 week ago • 0 responses
Tags: culture

Spilling the Beans
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Adventures in Gender Prediction

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been on a quest to test out a litany of gender prediction techniques, both scientific and unscientific, in preparation for my 18-week ultrasound. We knew that we...

Started in Spilling the Beans • 6 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: baby, pregnancy

ReadWriteWeb
(7)
Web Site Attempts to Collect Every Rule of Thumb

You can stay in control of virtually any situation as long as you know where your towel is. That's a good rule of thumb to remember for anyone planet hopping around the universe. But how do you...

Started in ReadWriteWeb • 7 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: products

Shadowscope
(6)
New Year's Eve...

There is kind of an old wives' tale that says whatever you are doing at midnight on New Years Eve is what you will be doing for the rest of the year. If so then my year is going to... (...)

Started in Shadowscope • 8 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: work/jobs/careers

Random Encounters of We
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Myth Busting Monday - Seven Years to Digest Gum

MYTH: It takes seven years to digest gumThis is one of my favorite myths. I have believed this myth for as long as I can remember.Here is a statement about swallowing gum:While it may prove a bit...

Started in Random Encounters of We • 8 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: myth busting monday, swallowing, chewing, gum

Dumb Little Man - Tips for Life
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How to Spot Myths or Old Wives Tales from a Distance

An old wives tale is a politically incorrect term for a myth, disguised as wisdom. It has the sound of wisdom and the popular appeal of a good yarn, but it is not quite true.Old Wives Tales are...

Started in Dumb Little Man - Tips for Life • 1 response • Last response by zhenhe1987 (180) • 9 months ago

InsureBlog
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Coming Soon to a Hospital Near You . . .

No health insurance? Can't afford to pay your bill? No problem. The hospital will help you finance your bill.a growing number of hospitals, working with a range of financial companies, are squeezing...

Started in InsureBlog • 9 months ago • 0 responses

Unraveling The Spiritual Mystique
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Silence Of The Ostrich

My neighbor is knocking on the door. I don’t want to open it. Last night she caught be coming home and she just didn’t stop talking.I don’t like to cut people off, so I waited and waited and waited,...

Started in Unraveling The Spiritual Mystique • 11 months ago • 0 responses
Tags: silence, ostriches, neighbors, inner peace