Wednesday 7 January 2009

Childhood myths

Putting blotting paper in shoes would make you faint, by sucking the blood to your feet. This was a ruse supposed to be a sure-fire way of getting out of exams. Didn't work.

Chewing gum if swallowed would wrap itself round your intestines and kill you. Any accidental swallowing of chewing gum was followed by days of panic in anticipation of a gruesomely painful death. Luckily none of us died.

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